Merrick

Playing with the cash register

Looking at the box and trying to get it open

Looking inside the box to see that there were cards in the box

Using the cards as the credit cards

Playing tug with Annie

Sitting in a "just right" chair for him

Doing a puzzle

Morning with Merrick

Phew! Watching a baby is hard work. I went to see Merrick and Ms. MaKayla on Monday morning at their house. As soon we got there we waited for Merrick to wake to get up from his nap. After Merrick woke up he played with a toddler table. I sat behind Merrick so he did not tip the table on him self. Merrick also played with stacking bowls. Photo time! Ms. MaKayla put Merrick's skeleton pajamas on him and I put on my skeleton costume. His real costume for Halloween is a giraffe. Lunch time for Merrick - he ate baby cereal and he went ahhhh when Ms. MaKayla set the green beans down for a minute. Merrick thought he wasn't going to get the green beans but he did. It was an awesome day.

A Poem for Ms. MaKayla and Mr. Philip

Merrick is cute and cuddly
Anything you could possibly be
As a baby boy.
He gets really mad sometimes but
His Mom and Dad fix it up.
I know his Mom and Dad work very hard
But sometimes it's hard.
Everybody gets to hold Merrick.
Merrick really likes being held.
So sweet.
He doesn't stay awake very long.
But now he can stay awake much longer than he could do when he was just born.

July 24, 2007

I went to a store called Pacific Ocean. I saw live crabs, live snails, and live frogs. There were a lot of them. It was a Chinese market. Then I went to lunch at a Chinese restaurant. It was good. It was a big restaurant. We went there because my Mom and Ms. MaKayla might want to take their class there on a field trip. We went to another store but my Mom and Ms. MaKalya aren’t going to bring their class in this store because there’s breakable stuff in there and there is already lots of stuff broken and there is lots of fragile stuff there. We bought some Chinese food – panda cookies and candy and seaweed. I also bought a soup spoon.

I went to the rec center because I wanted to go swimming and I got my own rec center card. Because I’m seven now and they keep track of how many people there are so that’s why I had to get one.