May 2006
	Happy May everyone!  Thanks for all of the well-wishes and birthday greetings back in April.  I've grown a lot since then, and I have a bunch of new pictures to show you! Let's start out with a standard cute pose.
	As you can see I'm a bigtime walker now!  I can go anywhere, shoes or barefoot, and I can even run when I see something I really want (which is anything breakable and/or expensive).
	The downside to all that is that I'm sorta dangerous to myself and the furniture.  This is me after two large crashes in a 15-minute period.  I whacked my eyebrow on the corner of the coffee table, and my cheek on the high-chair.  Mommy and Daddy wisely kept me out of the public eye until the swelling went down.
	At the start of May we went to Washington D.C., did some sight-seeing, and hung out with Diego! This is me in front of the D.C. landmarks looking patriotic!
	Here we are at the National Zoo!  There's my Uncle Gil and Cousin Diego and we're cruisin in style.  Love Diego's shades!
	Everyone thought my favorite animal would be something big and dramatic.  Little did anyone know that I'd meet the Giant Elephant Shrew!  Not only is it giant, but it also has an elephant nose, and a ratty tail.  Most importantly, though, it ran back and forth and back and forth right at eye level, so I got to chase it for a loooong time. Thanks dad for putting that close-up of the shrew in the picture for everyone else to experience!
	Look how cute Diego is!  I'm muuuuuuuch more gentle now with my cousin than I was before.  See how gently I'm trying to poke him in the eyeball?
	Here we all are.  This is a pose that the four grown-ups did in front of the same display (see small picture below) in 2002, long before Diego or I were born.  I think everyone looks much happier now.
	At the end of the month my Grandma and Grandpa came down to visit.  As you can see, we went to Mt. Sinai beach and I got to pick up rocks!  I love picking up rocks, and there were a TON on the beach.  I kept trying, but Mommy wouldn't let me eat any.
	Isn't this a great shot of me and my Grandpa?  He's got some buff calves, don't you think?
	Here I am in my backyard pool nekked.  Can you see my big balls?  They float! Hahaha aha  aha hahaha hahah...I'm one funny baby!
	Here's Mommy giving me a shower with a flower-pot.  I never get to stand up in my tub, so this was great!  Fortunately for me, we have big thick hedges all around our yard, so nobody else got to see...well, nobody except all of you...
	Aaaah, domestic bliss.  Can't you just hear the birds tweeting in the background and imagine the butterflies flitting around?  Yes, the yard really is that slanted, so I have a deep end and a shallow end in my pool.
	So now that I'm all grown up, I can drive a car, stock up on beer, and wear my cool denim.  Watch out ladies, here I come!
	My favorite toys now are my push-toys!  I got a great car from my Uncle Michael and  a train from my Mommy's friend Kurstin, but I've discovered that anything can be used as a push-toy if you push hard enough! Here's a video of me taking off down the street with my train.  I started out playing with my Daddy in the carport, and then I took off down the driveway, turned left, and shot off down the road without ever looking back!  I'm Mr. Independent!
	This is my new bathtub trick.  I like to blow bubbles (with my mouth...been able to with another body part for months).  Ain't I a ham?
For my birthday I got to go and have my formal pictures taken.  Here are the four highlights from that session scanned in by my Daddy.  Not sure why I'm naked in a pot in the first one.  Don't I look like an inquisitive spy in the second?  Look at what a pretty Mommy and handsome Daddy I have!  Enjoy, and see you next month!