May Day

We had our first day at the cabin on May Day!  This is always a favorite day of our families, even though it's more work then play at the beginning of the year.  The son-in-laws were helping with the pontoon to get it cleaned and into the water and I gave the cabin a brief sweep/wipe down and a promise to do more this coming weekend.

It's always fun to have that first pontoon boat ride of the year around the lake, at least for the adults and dogs.  Otty was none too thrilled with the new life jacket he had to wear.  With his big cheeks he looked like that little boy in the snowsuit from the Christmas Story.  We had some donut holes and his poor little arms couldn't even get them to his mouth thanks to that lovely floatation device.  It's not always easy being Otto!

Of course I have no photos of the day at the cabin because we were all so busy, but I do have a funny video of a 13 month old with quite a toddler attitude.  As his momma said, "It's funny now, but it won't be in 6 months."  For Gram I think it will still be funny;)

Can you say, Stinker?

Otto is having a vocabulary explosion.  We are hearing quite a lot of that Ah,ah, ah noise lately but there is also much more.  Otty is  communicating with us in several ways…  He uses sign language for 'more', and can say the first syllable of many words now.  All dogs are now Neeee or Lilllllllll, and anything in the sky is a birrrrrr.  All the Grandpas are now included in the Daaaaa with Dada and there are very adamant head shakes for 'yes' and 'no'.  We have also realized there are many, many B words in his life.  There is the blankie, broom, bottle, baby, bear, etc and each of these has their own enunciation as well…, broo, baaa, bae and bu, etc.  You get the idea.

My pant leg or shirt are also often grabbed to move my body in a direction Otto would like to go.   Usually this is towards the door to outside.

Otto says, "Hi," and will blow you a kiss, give you a high 5 or wave bye…which ever you prefer.  He's got things figured out and has trained us all very well.   We also now have to spell B-a-r-n-e-y, (that lovable purple dinosaur) so he can't understand it.  He LOVES to watch Barney and Friends on my phone (this may or may not be Grams doing).  I let him watch it while he's in the car with me so he's happy…a logical reason.   So, I have to hide my phone all day or we have a crisis on our hands.  Fun stuff!