Blake's catch up post

I'm really behind.  What else is new.  LOL  

This is a catch up post for Blake.  Blake is a never ending source of laughter and silliness.   So much so, he almost can't believe it when he gets disciplined.  He looks up at you with those wide eyed baby blues and laughs at you....saying, "Naaaaaa.  You're silly Mama".  It's hard not to laugh along with him.  He also has amazing awareness of his feet and a great sense of balance. What do these things have to do with each other?  Well...Blake loves wearing our shoes.  He proudly clomps around in Mama's and Dada's running shoes, dress shoes, slippers, work shoes, etc.  The only time Blake voluntarily looks at the camera is when he's wearing our shoes and being silly.  All the other times, he's shyly looking away.  

Here he is modeling Dada's shoes.  In the next picture, he's showing off his super large spongebob slippers.  Well...they were Cedric's and now Blake has adopted them.  Blake has also taken easily to the sport of snowshoeing.  Last year, he would take 2 steps then ask to be carried.  This year, he walked all the way to the "pond" and proceeded to attempt to scale every "hill" of snow.  He has such a good sense of balance even when wearing large shoes or snowshoes that he was mostly successful.....mostly.   ;-)  

Blake is THREE!  Ok...his birthday was Sept 24th, 2007.  We were really busy this fall and of course Christmas is just crazy isn't it?  So anyway....Blake is 3 and totally into anything related to cars and the cars movie.  He could play with his cars all day and all night....most nights he tries too.  We sometimes find him in the morning sleeping on the floor with the light on and his cars all around him.  

Blake's birthday party at school. 

Blake's car birthday cake.  His friend Ethan is in the picture.

Pop Pops put frosting on Blake's nose.  He doesn't know quite what to make of that.   Oh man...Blake finally looks right at the camera and smiles and my hand is in the way.  Ah well...you can still see him...mostly.  Isn't he beautiful...errr handsome.   Here is Blake testing out his cars umbrella.

Playing with one of his Cars cars....Mack. Hmmm.....playing with his Cars cars some more....

Here plays with his really big Lighting McQueen balloon from his birthday party.  

Here Blake is opening a present....cars theme, of course.  

Blake and me at Blake's birthday party.

Blake also has a strong shy side.  Awwww.   Here is a picture of the kids getting ready to race.  All the kids decorated their own car puppets, then we set up a race course in the backyard and timed how fast the kids could run around the course.  Some of the kids were really really fast.  Everyone loved this part of the party.  The parents (whom you can't see) lounged on the back deck, while their kids were totally run into the ground.  You're welcome!  :-)

Here is video of Blake being a coach.  We have no idea where it came from.  All of a sudden out came this deep, hard to hear voice telling everyone when to throw the ball and to whom.  LOL  He totally cracked us all up.  

Well...there you have it....Beautiful, Bouncey, Blake.  Oh yea....Blake's favorite sport is jumping on his bed, so we got a twin sized mattress and put on the floor.  Jump away Blake.  

Sometimes we parents have to know when we won't win the battle, how to cut our losses, and when to join em, etc etc etc .  At least I know they are safe now versus jumping on beds high off the ground.  Aaaack!   LOL