ham & cheese

just a few updates of our little ham:



who never fails to brighten our days with a lot of laughs and saying "cheese" for the camera...


when i look back at his baby pictures and realize how much he's grown (or actually lost - he's a heck of a lot skinnier these days - but taller), it still trips me out. here's a few things we've noticed about our little big guy lately:

• he squeals with delight during hide and seek sessions - so he's not very effective at hiding.
• "deedoo" can be translated as "thank you", and "the" is the exact same word as "star".
• sentences consist of a single word in ahonui's "book".
• he has memorized the streets we drive...according to ahonui, if we make a left on kam hwy., we're heading to "mamas" (that's grandma's - not me). if we make a right, we're getting "fies, fies, FIES, FIIIIES!" (that's fries - at mcdonalds - i'm not too thrilled about that one).
• reading is overrated when you can play games on an iphone without the aforementioned skill.
• bread has been categorized as being inedible, but broccoli and lettuce is very well accepted.
• the curse of the terrible twos rears its ugly head -- most often when there's people on the sidelines "tsk-tsk"-ing about my inability to control the tantrum thrower.
• elmo's "potty time" is his number one movie at the moment...unfortunately, he's not taking the instructions from the dvd very successfully yet.
• bare feet wins over wearing slippers or shoes any day. lucky for us we live in a state that equally accepts all shoe-less people, even at the mall.
• everything is g-double O-d good when sitting in his elmo chair or "cuddling" with his blue "bit-et" (blanket) as you can see below.