Andy Zumsteg's Adventures: December 2007

Christmas Friends

If any of you are stopping by after reading Mom's Christmas card, enjoy my adventures from the past year. Dad recently just did a big update of pictures, and he apologizes for taking so long. Since I keep him up all day and night, he doesn't find much free time to work on this. In fact the little free time he does have, he likes to spend hanging out with Mom. It's been a great year, as you can see we haven't really cut my hair yet because Mom can't part with my curls. Working hard on talking, totally figured out walking and I eat real meals these days. My favorite is fajita skirt steak, grandma's cookies, yogurt and etamame. That's just a brief recap, feel free to look at the pictures and stories and you should be all caught up!

Elmo's world

Grandma Evie dropped off my belated birthday present, and to my surprise it was a talking Elmo. He really makes me happy, even though for some reason he has a technical glitch and all he ever talks about is Bananas. When not playing with Elmo, you can find me hanging out on the couch with Mom.

How to not decorate a Christmas Tree

Mom and Dad wanted to see if I wanted to help decorate the tree. Actually, I am much better at taking ornaments off the tree. You can see that what I like to do is grab the ornament, then throw it across the room (like it's a baseball). Then once I roll it around for awhile the next logical thing for me to do is load it up into my dump truck and drive it around the living room.

Christmas Tree Lot

Last weekend we went out and bought a Christmas Tree. This is the biggest one I have ever seen Mom and Dad get! I tried to help out put up the tree as well, I was in charge of the tape measure. This was the first year Dad put up Christmas lights as well which look really great in the window.

I can hit better than Bobby Crosby to.....

Dad says the A's shortstop stinks, he can't hit and he is always injured. Dad is working me out hard at short, I can field everything and I don't even use a glove. My throwing is getting better and better every day.

Preben's Birthday

Great Grandad Preben recently had his birthday, he's is more than 2 like me. But he still likes Birthday's so we all went over to visit him. I played with him and Great Grandma Claire at Villa Marin. They also have a very nice tree there. Dad was very excited about the photos we took of the Jurvig part of the family.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving I saw quite a bit of family. First we started the day visiting Great Grandad Zumsteg at his place. He has not been feeling well lately, but he looked good and I ran around his room showing off what I can do. Then later we went to Grandma Julie's for Thanksgiving and I saw all Mom's family there including Great Grandma Evie. Check out my new holiday dress outfit!

Arboretum Shots

The day after my birthday was a little strange. It started out when Dad gave me my birthday present, a new tricycle. It was the same one that I always loved to play with when it belonged to other kids at the park

But for some reason I hated it, and still do. Haven't come within 10 feet of it since Dad tried to give it to me.

So instead we went down to the Arboretum, and you can see I still had a good time down there. It was a really spooky foggy day

Some nice pitcures of me

At my birthday, Grandad Ward took some really nice pictures of me in the back yard that we wanted to share.

I'm 2 !!!!

I had a great 2nd birthday party, as all my friends and family came over to celebrate with me. Dad said it looked like the opening scene to Mrs. Doubtfire a little bit at the beggining, but we all had lots of fun. Aunt Charlotte made great Cupcakes for everyone, I think I had 2 or 3 as they day went on! I also recieved all kinds of great gifts from the Grandma's and my friends. Thanks to Grandad Ward who took most of these pictures because Dad was to busy throwing a party.