Another Saturday night...

Coda makes a great pillow

What spoon?

One busy Bubba

Coda's so funny

Playing with the Frige Farm
Where's Calia??
Bathroom girl

The new Mr. Binks??

So, this morning, I made an alarming, yet fun discovery. Calia has always had 2 Mr. Binks, one light blue, one dark blue. This morning, there was a third Mr. Binks, light blue. Kevin and I are baffled. I'm not sure how they procreated, but somehow the 2 Mr. Binks have produced an offspring, which doesn't smell quite as bad as the elder Binks. Amazing!

Calia's new ride

Bubba Luva

Papa Mulcahy

Today, my mom and I took Calia to meet my Papa. When I was one and my mom went back to work, she took me to Nana and Papa's house. They were this older couple in our neighborhood, who watched kids. I spent 10 years under their care and they are like second grandparents to me. When Nana passed away in summer 1998, Papa sold their large house and moved to a retirement village. This man is incredible. He turned 93 in March and golfs 7 days a week, although he states he has to use the cart now. He has been featured in Sports Illustrated and in our local paper/news many times. One year ago, he hit his first hole in one at 92! Calia went for Papa's fan and he said no, and I laughed she had gotten her first "no" by Papa, something her angelic mother never heard (yeah right!) Unfortunately, it was close to nap time and Calia didn't have much to do, excpet crawl around and head for that fan again and again. She was a bit crabby, but Papa said he had seen worse. He got a kick out of wiping her runny nose stating, "I haven't done that in years!" It was nice to catch up with him and for him to see my little girl who is now the age I was when he first met me!

Matsui and the Sea Dogs game

Look at all the photographers!!

For Me???

Calia and Eli

Boo, Hiss

Last night, we went to Calia's second baseball game in 6 days, this time at good ol' Hadlock Field in Portland. We met up with my coworker, Andrew, his wife, Deb, and their little guy Eli, who is 7 1/2 months old. It was game 3 of the playoffs and the Sea Dogs (Red Sox affiliate) were playing the Trenton Thunder (Yankees affiliate). To add to the drama, Hideki Matsui was playing for Trenton while rehabing his broken wrist. Like the good Sox fans we are, we booed him everytime he stepped to the plate. Kevin and I have seen him before when we saw the Sox/Yanks game in April 2004, but it was cool to see him play in little Portland. Funnier was the hords of Japanese photographers at Hadlock. Apparently, the guy is the elvis of japan. Whatever. Sea Dogs won, now if only the Red Sox could do the same.... Oh well, we'll alwyas have 2004!

Hello

To further expand upon Calia's love of the phone...She now picks up the phone and says "hello", which sounds more like "ho." She carries the little plastic phone aound the house with her.

Typical girl

Calia loves the phone, any phone. She holds it up to her ear and says hello (or what sounds like hello in 13 month old speak). She has also started saying MAMA!! Finally. When I picked her up at school yesterday, she said it and kept saying it the whole way home. Of course we get home, she sees Kevin and it's all dada. But when I said, "say mama," she'd say it. Here is video proof, listen closely. She's also started walking...well, pushing things and walking behind them. Here is a clip. She's growing up so fast!

Funny Girl

I've got the Power!

Laughing at herself
Loving her new shirt

(It's huge at a 2T, but will fit for a long time)

So, after 2 marathon nights of sleep (13 and 12 1/2 hours each), Calia has been a hoot in the am. Eating monster breakfasts and telling some stories that she finds hillarious (too bad we can't understand her).

1st Red Sox game

Post game...new Papelbon shirt.

Is the game ever going to start??
Riding on the "T" with B
Is that "Big Papi"?
Mellow on Daddy

Yesterday Calia went to her first Red Sox game! I got these tickets back in Feb. Rick, Marcy, and Brynna went with us. First, the game was pushed back from 2:05 to 4:05, no biggie we knew about this ahead of time. So, we got near Fenway around 3ish, got a table and 2 high chairs at the Cask n' Flaggon (a miracle feat), and settled in for late lunch/early dinner. The start was pushed back to 4:20, then rain delay. We walked around loaded up on Sox gear, then heard start time was to be 5:10.

Calia was energized by all of the excitement and clapped for everything that happened for the first 2 innings. She got a little crabby, then noticed about 5 20-something boys sitting behind us. She spent the next couple innings smiling, waving, trying to steal their beer, pizza, whatever they were eating. She then settled in on Kevin's lap and we made it to the 7th inning. When the Sox were losing 6-0, we were all a little tired and anxious to beat the crowd out, we left. She was very mellow on the T back to the car. We got her out of her sweaty, smelly clothes, put her in her new Papelbon shirt. With Mr. Binks and blankie in place, she was out like a light (8:00pm). She slept the whole way home, into bed and until 8:40 this morning. We should go to a game everyday!