Standing at attention at my red belt testing!

Crescent kicks, knife hands, and reciting that when I get mad (like at my little brother) I'll count to ten.
Red is so much more my color than brown.
Proud Dad.

When we were in Florida,

Bear was lost. We think he went out with the sheets for laundry and just didn't come back. Mama said that someone else must have really needed Bear, but I still miss him. Santa left me a "lamb-y", which I like, but it's not the same. Poor Bear.

Happy Valentine's Day! Ga made a delicious red velvet cake from scratch, buttermilk and all! She'll do anything for us grandbabies.

I am six days short of my 19 month birthday. And I am all words. All of a sudden, I started saying words, my own version of a lot at least. My favorite words from the start were "bye" (bah), and definitely "hot". Everything was "hot", but I recently learned "cool." I've always been a fan of "ice", and can now beg for it from Ga, if I'm good I'll add "peees", and I steal ice from dadeee - I love to eat ice. I ask for help from "Maaaam" (mom), and chase after "Maaaac". I ask for "mo-ah", especially "cannee" (candy), I say "ball, shoe, ock (sock), GO, beeby (baby), nana, baaa (bath), book, car, cat, cookie, eye, nose, hat, jooooose (juice), and milk." I do not say "yes" or "thank you". When Keegan has something that I want, I yell, what sounds like "ICE SHOE" "ICE SHOE"!!! No one knows what I'm saying: "I do I do" maybe?

My brother and I have moments of pure sweetness, and times where we make each other crazy.
I like to color sometimes. Keegan didn't until he was much older, but I watch Keegan coloring Ninjago coloring pages all the time, so I give it a go too. We like playing with our Byman Christmas gift - tub 'o crafts!
Wouldn't you figure the ice cream man would come while I was napping! Keegan gets all the treats!
Just kidding, don't be fooled, mama hooks me up with treats too, like drinking my milk out of a bowl of cereal. "Messy", that's another one of my words. I love to get messy. I'm a much pickier eater than Keegan. I may like it today, and push it away tomorrow.
I clean up pretty good.

Happy 18 month birthday to me!

There's a rumor that Keegan got a cake every month, but Ga's got her hands full with me. I keep her on her toes!
Failed attempt at a family photo.
Ba-loon. One of my new words.
Cake! Sprinkle cake with sprinkle frosting.
Oh yeaaaa.

Weekend adventures. Here, hangin out with Dad (Keegan) / Dadeee (Finnegan), at BWW, on a Friday while mama works.

On Sunday, we went to a Superbowl party. Mama made her salty chocolate brownies, so we got out of the house for a bit. Dad took us to Bass Pro to see the giant fishtank.

We have the best adventures with Dadeeee. "sheees" is fish.

Reaping the goods when we returned from shopping.

Nothin better than licking the spoons!

We are totally out of order here, but mama is playing catch up with pictures emailed to her from dada and Ga. First up, a lovely pic of me and my best bud Thomas as Shepards in the Christmas play at school. We are all going to miss Thomas next year! He keeps me in line, except when I convince him to behave badly (and get on red, oops).

During the holidays when Finn and I were pretty jazzed up, Ga read Finn and I Christmas stories on the Ipad. It kept us still for a half a minute.
This is Christmas Eve - Finn and I wore our best outfits, and suspenders from Ga, to welcome Santa.
A pic of me and Brenden. He puts up with a lot from me, and we all love him for it.
Finn on Christmas morning. He loved, and still loves, this rocket ship from Aunt Peggy.
Another pic of me and my buddy.
Evidence of how bad poor Finn felt. Poor baby.
The Martins!
Ga, Papa, and all their grandbabies. Has anyone ever seen Ga so happy?
Merry Christmas, again!

Although the family would have liked to have seen all ones, dada thinks that one "2" for skipping is just fine. Hooray for Second Baptist. I'm enjoying my last semester there, and think I'm just about ready for Kindergarten next year.

Dada flew in grandma and grandpa for mama's surprise partner party. Keegan and I were super glad that we got to hang out with them -- we even got to see them on Friday and Keegan kept that surprise from mama!

Grandma was very impressed that I am good with eating with a fork. She made me french toast and I gobbled it up.
I think the french toast helped me to keep healing up from this nasty bout of hand, foot and mouth disease. It's been horrible, and was responsible for my first trip to the ER. Thankfully I'm on the mend. Now we just need all the nasty sores to clear up.

Look! Santa came! He left his boot prints at the beach and Ga didn't even get mad.

This was the Christmas of Ninjago. I think almost everything I got was Ninjago. I was excited to get lots of new ninja books too, including "chapter" books that don't even have pictures.
Kai is my favorite ninja, so I love my new Kai shirt.
We were all sick for Christmas, every last one of us. Finn especially. He felt super rotten. He tried to rally to open his gifts, but he wore out about half way through.
All these toys, and I just want to sit here.
It helped that Ga gave us so much loving.
2011 was the year of sick-o Christmas. We did have fun too, but we all hope next year is more, well, ...well.

Christmas tree 2011

While we were in Florida, we had a photographer come out to the resort to take some family pictures.

We did some of our little family too.
The Hochmuth clan.

How gorgeous are these girls? It's hard for mama to believe they have grown up so much.

Happy 50th Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa!