Last weekend, Daddy took me to a Seawolves baseball game.  We got to sit right behind home plate!

It was too bad they lost, but it was fun to see the game right up close!

I got my new glasses. Turns out you can still eat pancakes with ’em.

And Daddy still shares his berry smoothies with me, and they still taste the same!

Soooo… so far this is working out!

Ed Note: Some interesting information about how vision prescriptions for non-verbal kids are made, and a bit about Accommodative Esotropia.  Andrew is so far (1 day) taking very well to his new glasses.

It rained the other day, and I got to get some official umbrella training.

There was also official rain boot training, though I didn’t need much teaching!

Just jump right in!

Daddy finally let me go down the big slide by myself.

Weee!!!

Today is my birthday – or at least that is what M&D tell me. I’m inclined to believe them since yesterday everyone sang the song and…

I got to eat a piece of yummy cake!

When can I have another birthday, M&D?

First we went sledding! Awesome!

The next day I went to ski school.  It turns out that you can start and stop ski school any time, unlike regular school.  Cool!

At ski school, they have a Magic Carpet that takes you up the hill:

I learned to make a pizza so I could stop and turn.

Maybe I’ll be ready for the big slopes next time!

At Train Town, I guess the first thing you do is ride the train. All aboard!

You stop along the way to feed the animals.  I think they were happy to see me.

Then there were lots of other things to ride on, like this car:

And I went waaaaaay up high on the Ferris Wheel with Daddy.  Woah.

Of course, Avery and Ben went, too.

And we went on the Merry-Go-Round, too.  Daddy was my helper again.

I think I’d like to go back again.  That train was neat.

Well, Daddy said it was time for my tooth to come out since it had to get out of the way of my shark tooth.  So he tied it to the doorknob, and 4 tries later (the string kept slipping off!), it popped right out!

Yay!  My first lost tooth!  And we almost really lost it, too.  It shot out of my mouth, bounced off the doorknob, left the floss behind and disappeared.  Forty-five minutes of searching later, Daddy found it 15 feet away on the bathroom sink!  By then, I’d already written an explanatory note to the tooth fairy.  Good thing I didn’t have to use it!

The next morning, I found a gold dollar coin under my pillow!

Thank you, tooth fairy!

(Ed. Note: While the woven floss held on to the tooth better than the waxed, it has a much larger spring coefficient, which I believe responsible for the extraordinary trajectory of the tooth which caught us all off-guard.  Let this be a word of caution to parents out there.  Oh, and way to go, Ben!)

That’s how many teeth I have right now… since my first big tooth is coming in and my baby tooth hasn’t fallen out yet!
Check it out: Shark Teeth!

(Ed. Note: Look behind left front tooth.)

If I get fins next, maybe that will make me a better swimmer?

Ben (and Daddy) did most of the carving, but I got to help scoop out the stuff inside.  It’s all gooey… but Mommy will wipe it right off your hand if you want her to (I did!).

I also got to practice saying “Trick-or-Treat” and “Happy Halloween” today and Ben and Daddy would put cars in my pumpkin basket.  What does it all mean?