sha la la la la la live for today

today, panzer counted out four blocks.  1, 2, 3, 4.   !!!

maybe i'm overenthusiastic, but that seems pretty advanced for 1 1/2 years.  soon he'll be counting out the beats to your favorite song.

bros

today, panzer met his little brother for the first time.

there was a brief stare-down, and then appropriately gentle patting of heads and hugs.  and that was even before p found out that his little brother brought him a hippo bus full of little bugmobiles! 

then p tried to show me where the babies eye and nose are ... and i got to separate them for the first time!  the next year or so will be tough (for panzer and mommy and daddy) but i know they will be buddies.

buckle

today, panzer got a new toy from daddy ... after much long laboring (and one lost shoe) in the hardware store -- a homemade buckle/hook/strap contraption. 

p loves all of those things, so it's a hit!

zdrastvootye

today, panzer dug into his borscht... good little hot pink russian eater.

hot diggity dog

today, panzer threw a fit over a hot dog.  as in "i need more hot dog in my mouth right-goddamn-now."

in other news, p has a weird habit of saying only the last syllable of words.  hot dog is just "dog."  excuse me is "me."  banana and tuna are both "na."  this makes his speech a little ambiguous ... there's a big difference between uncle tuna and a banana.

hurt

today, panzer got his finger smashed for the first time by the display case in the bike shop.  poor dude had no idea what got him -- now he's got a sweet green bruise under his right ring fingernail. 

it was sad, but a good opportunity to learn what "hurt" really means, since p's head seems to bounce off of everything.  maybe now i can convince him to stop cracking me in the face with his head and trying to gouge my eyes out with his little fingers.

in-n-out

today, panzer decided sitting in the bath is no longer fun.  instead, he will tolerate minimal washing, then climb in and out of the tub repeatedly.  i foresee stitches in his slippery little future....

fair fun

today, panzer went to the verde valley fair.  he's too short for the rides, and has no patience for the animals (and he called the turkey a duck :), but he enjoyed running around in the dust and eating meat product on a stick. 

all in all, a success.

smuggler

today, panzer made it from the bike shop to his crib with a skewer and a wrench.  aaron found him after his nap with the skewer in his hand ... and discovered the wrench still down the front of P's onesy, where both had apparently been stashed for quite a while. 

and if there were any doubt -- aaron is the one who taught panzer that your shirt can actually be a pocket by sticking the fart machine down there.

bribed

today, panzer chose fruit snacks over mommy.  when i handed them to him, he waved bye and shooed me out the door.