Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Today is Jimmy's big birthday complete with homemade "hostess cupcakes", presents and dinner out with me and Danny.

Fishies

I know first-hand from when I was kid that fish are a volatile pet, but when the owner of Jimmy's company offered us a free tank set-up, we said what the heck. Danny LOVES the aquarium - he'll love to have his own personal tank at home. Meet pink, green, orange, thing 1 and thing 2 or as Danny calls them all "turtles".

I'm delayed on this post - sadly we've already lost thing 1 and thing 2, but pink, green and orange are still kicking. And we were right, Danny does love having his own thank. He never passes by without acknowledging their presence and never goes downstairs without saying goodbye. And watching them swim with daddy has become a post-bath ritual.

First Shoes

Danny has been walking for some time now, but had refused to wear shoes. Well just the other weekend that changed when we went shoe shopping in this awesome taxi cart at the mall and got him his "monkey man" Vans.

Still walking a little goofy at this point...

I had gotten him another pair of shoes at Target a couple weeks prior but he wouldn't wear them. Now he requests I put them on him!

Looking like such a big boy

Another cute video of him running around in shoes...

Spider-Man

Pre, not ready for bed antics:

My First Jersey

This awesome new addition to Danny's wardrobe came in the mail on Friday just in time for me to put him in it before daddy walked in the door from work. Thank you Grandma Martha and Ron! Now hopefully Danny can bring the Redskins some good luck!

Plumber Butt

No, Danny isn't in need of a change in these pictures. He has just decided that he likes trying to remove his diaper which resulted in some serious plumber butt.

So proud of his subtle nudity

More Aquarium Fun

Having a membership to the Fort Fisher Aquarium has been awesome so far! Danny's attention span is pretty short these days, so it's great that it's only a five minute drive to get there. We either go for the 10:30am dive show or at the very end of the day if his afternoon nap was a little short - either way we only stay for 30-60 mins. Perfect just to burn some energy.

He loves the playground outside...

Playground video:

And, of course, loves all the sea life in the various tanks...

Hello turtle!

Dive Show

"Front of the class" in a semi-circle of 50 people

At the bamboo shark tank

His favorite thing to do, however, is just walk all over the place. They want kids to wear shoes, but he refuses, so barefoot it is!