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July 16th, 2001 -
The Booger Boy
Hits 1.0!

First Step:
June 30

Took more than one step:
July 17

First Words:
mama, dada, no, bye-bye

First tooth:
lower left, Feb. 2001

First Crawled:
March 2001

First Rolled-over: Feb. 2001

Waved bye-bye:
9 months

Birth Weight:
8 lbs 12 ozs.

Birth Height:
21 inches

Arrival:
2:55 p.m., Sunday, labor (back labor) began at midnight the previous night.

Location:
Lincoln, NE

Manufactured by: Sandra & Todd

Blake Giggles

Blake "Ahhs"

Excited Gurgle

Welcome to this special addition to our Photo Album - celebrating Blake's First Birthday! This page will have a ton of stuff on it, so please be patient while your browser loads everything.

Facts about Blakey

Name:
Robert Michael Blake
(sorry Antoine!)

Birthdate:
July 16th, 2000

Height:
2 feet, 5 inches

Weight:
Like a lead brick

Eyes:
Hazel, sometimes Brown, sometimes Green

Hair:
Not much, but what he has likes to stand up like a mohawk on top somedays. It's light brown, edged with curls over his ears and on his neck.

Inny or Outty:
an Outty.

Education:
Mama's Rules 101

Occupation:
Being a little booger.

Personality:
Stubburn. Blake is his own little individual person . He's no wallflower and overpowers the older kids with his rough friendliness.

Likes:
Blake loves his grammas and grampas, aunts and uncles. He'll eat literally anything. There's nothing he won't try. We dumped out the sand from his sandbox to use it as a pool because he was swallowing it by the handful. The next day we ended up changing 100-grit diapers. As long as he can swallow it, he's happy for more. But chocolate is his ultimate favorite. He will break down into tears after he's finished off the last bite. He also wants mommy and daddy's ba-ba (bottle): which means we can't leave any soda pop can in his reach :) He loves music and to dance to it, bouncing and singing. He'll even sing along with us or the radio. He goes wild in his jumper seat that we attach in the doorway. He loves huggin, slobbery kisses, going "thhhhhhpppppp", brushing his finger up and down over his lip, going "bb-bb-bb-bb-bb", and rough-housing (which includes pulling hair, scratching and biting with those new toothies - ouch!) attacking everyone with glee. Blakey is wild for water and baths. He waits for every opportunity to charge through the open bathroom door and climb to the tub. He'll splash and drink the water from the shower nozzle -- and we've ended up using his sand box grampa got us for a Blakey swimming pool.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that he had lots of fun when he discovered the toilet bowl had water in it too... Blake climbs onto everything, over anything, through anywhere and charges up stairs without fear. He's got a passion for our butterfly chair - jumping and standing and wiggling around in it, playing peek-a-boo and squealing in it. He also takes special glee in running around 'au naturale.'

Dislikes:
Naptime and being told "No." He wants to do what he wants to do and is very determined. He's into his own thing.

Accomplishments:
Blakey can say 'da-da', 'ma-ma-ma-ma', 'no', 'ba-ba' (for his bottle). He'll say 'bye-bye' to everyone and wave up and down at the wrist with either or both hands. He'll mimic words he hears from us too, like 'uh-oh'. Of course he has his own language of a hundred words. "doggey-doggey-doggey" is his fave. He stands unsupported often, but still prefers to walk while holding onto furniture, otherwise he has no fear. He'll use boxes or any object for a stepping stool to climb onto something too high. He's beginning to pick up his toys from the floor and carefully place them on the table and try to brush his own hair (all on his own without ever being prompted). He tries to use his toy keys to open locked doors. He's figured out how to open his baby gate. Once, while in our truck, we heard a squeal of laughter from the back seat - Blake had somehow undid the belt latch and was standing up in his car seat facing forward. He claps and sings and has an infectious giggle. He wants what the grown-ups are drinking and eating... and he doesn't want anybody helping him, he's a big boy and he wants to feed himself! He's got 5 choppers - now two on the bottom, three on top with a fourth on the way.

Favorite Color:
Red.

Favorite Food:
Anything that can be fit into his mouth.

Favorite Music:
This Little Piggy.

Favorite TV program:
Used to be Teletubbies until we outgrew that, now we like Seseme Street

Favorite Toy:
Seseme Street sing-along radio

Favorite Vehicle:
a sweet ocean blue 2001 Push 'n' Go Racer, with a high spoiler for walking.

Hobbies:
Painting with his diaper early in the morning, tearing off wallpaper, dumping everything within reach on the floor.

Ambitions:
To ween himself off his bottle and raid the 'fridge while mom and dad ain't watching. Also to find out what really happens to all the pretty blue water when the toilet bowel is flushed.