If you are a research fanatic like my mommy..

Then you'll really like this website: www.safemama.com

Here's a blurb from the About page:
I found it completely overwhelming spending so much time researching safety issues for my child. I spent hours looking up Bisphenol-A or looking for the latest toy recalls. I had an “a-ha” moment and thought that I must not be the only parent scouring the Internet for information about things that affect our children. So I started this website to keep it all in one place.

Thank you safe mama, now my mama doesn't have to pretend I'm still napping so she can keep on reading her computer!

Look at me here.. Just petting Blue Dog's ears waiting for mommy to realize I'm not napping anymore.

McLovin here!

Thanks for coming over to see me cousin Missy! We had so much fun. Mom says I'm such a flirt. I don't know what she means, but she always says it when I'm around pretty girls. Dad says "that's my boy."

Say it like you mean it.

Well folks, 10 months old and mom and dad agree my first word has surfaced. I've always known the cute funny guy is my dad, but I liked saying 'da da" so much I said it to everyone and everything: the doorman, the checkout person at target, my bear, Brian Williams (mom swears she never met him).
But today I looked him square in the eye, the theme from Chariots of Fire playing, and I said it with conviction - "Daddy!"
Mom and Dad looked at each other and declared it official - Daddy is my first word. primogeniture is next.

Clean up in isle 5

I turned 10 months today and I sat in the shopping cart for the first time! I have a whole new perspective of the supermarket. It's a wonderland - the lights, the people, the balloons by the check-out (and mommy and daddy really like the freebie snacks). I think we'll come back to this fun house soon!!

Happy Birthday Maddy!

The first of our gang turned one! Maddy had a rockin' party this past weekend.

That's me and my boys deep in playoffs talk.

I loved the pink and purple boxing bags strategically placed throughout the room. Check out at my left hook.

Never too young to practice good hygiene folks

Happy Birthday Dada!

Daddy's birthday was 12/28 - and we had so much fun! We stayed in the city - right near mommy and daddy's old apartment. I went to see the tree at Rockefeller Center. It's big. Mommy and daddy had dinner w/ the Dello-Iaconos at La Esquina. They keep talking about the corn.

I really like people watching in NYC.
Happy Birthday to the BEST daddy in the world!!

Happy 2008!!!!

That's Maddy's mommy,
Mikey's mommy,
my mommy
and Manny's mommy celebrating New Years Eve last night!

I don't know why, but mommy was holding her head and saying ouch all day today.


White Plains was like a mini-Times Square. That's the view from our living room!

Happy New Year everyone!

Happy Christmakkah!!

I took my first airplane ride to Florida to see SOOO much family for the holidays: The Manns, Nonna, the Antin's, Aunt Marie, Aunt Ginny, Aunt Josie and Cousin Lee!



I'm so lucky because I celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah - Christmakkah! It rocks. I got so many presents!



Oh and I met Santa! He was just sitting there at the mall. I couldn't believe how relaxed he was. You'd think his stress level would be through the roof with all those toys to make.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmakkah too!

Look What I can do!!

A few days shy of 9 months and check me out! I'm pulling myself up on anything I can get my hands on.

And the environmentalist in me discovered a great way to reuse a diaper box. Look at me walking with it!!
Check out this video - and notice how I listen to mommy's command when she asks to see my cute face.



Some other NEW things I'm doing:
- eating finger food!
- saying mama! (not really to her, but I do make the 'm' sound now and you should've seen the floodgates open when mommy first heard it)
- drinking from my sippy cup! (the straw thing was tough to nail, but I'm getting it)
- and finishing the New York Times crossword puzzle

Feeling Strong Now!

I think my mom is confused about my crawling technique. I hear her telling people that I'm definitely crawling because I'm all over the place, but it's not so much the standard on-your-knees crawl, it's more of a military-style crawl. She knows I can do that knee thing because I sometimes fake her and daddy out and do three or four knee crawls. There's just something about pulling all my weight with my arms while sliding on my belly that just really appeals to me. I've been doing it for months now and before you know it I'll be walking - so why bother switching it up now? Check me out (and turn your volume up.)

Happy Birthday G-man!

We just celebrated my cousin Grady's 1st birthday! It was so much fun.
Aunt JJ's birthday is the day after Grady's (Nov. 28th and 29th). Aunt JJ is in China so we celebrated early.

Then we all celebrated Thanksgiving the next day at Aunt JJ's and Uncle Peter's house. My Grandma Helen and Ed and my Nonna were all there!! Mom is still thinking about the sweet potato pie. She says it was delish, but still not as good as Grandmas.

Did you know the average American consumes 5000 calories on Thanksgiving?

yo yo yo baby pop yeah you come here give me a kiss

Kissing Bandit, Play-a, 2-timer, Loverboy - call me what you want - that's OK. There's so many cute ladies all around and only one T-man. I'm just not afraid to spread the love.That's me kissing Maddy (left) just a few hours after Noa (right). Mommy says I'm so sweet, but she's wondering how long it's cool for me to kiss all the girls. I don't think dad is too worried though. When he read Baby Noa's blog about my kiss he said.."that's my boy!"

Look out Phelps!

I started training on Saturday mornings with my future team USA. In just a few weeks I'm doing the hokie pokie, the wheels on the bus and even the motor boat motor boat song where we blow bubbles! Despite some apprehension from my coach and dad, I put my head under water! OK so he held my nose, but that's ok - mom still holds her nose when she goes under. (oops I wasn't supposed to tell anyone).

Mom's bedtime book

I'm reading my mom a bedtime book. We take turns. I try and get her to taste the pages with me, but she says she's saving her appetite for her skinny cows. Oprah's even on the skinny cow kick now. We started to go to story time at Barnes and Noble where this man who looks like Chris Elliot, remember that old sitcom 'Get a life'. Anyone? Well, you know him from 'Something About Mary', anyway he reads to us and he sings and let's us yell out animal sounds. I'm not quite there yet, but I laugh when the moms start chirping and oinking. Good stuff.

So Grady, what do you think of this Girardi?

Go Aunt Jenny!!

Mann oh Mann!!

I had some weekend! My Aunt Jenny came to New York to run the Marathon. She's an incredible runner. This was her 12th marathon!! SO I got to hang out with my 3 cousins (The Mann Family); Reuben, Matthew (the one w/ that crazy hair) and Ilyssa. We all played at baby Riley's house in Chappaqua. No Bill or Hill sighting unfortunately.

My Uncle Bruce likes playing this game where we touch foreheads and laugh.
I hope he doesn't do that with his patients, but then again they say laughter is the best medicine -maybe that's what he does to make them better. Hmm I can totally be a dr. one day too..


You can see all the pictures of my day with the Manns and Grandma here. There are also two shots of the amazing view from our apartment. The sky was all shades of orange.

Tanner the Turtle! Oh the Irony...

Yes a Turtle! I know what your thinking.. He must be playing up the irony. We all know my military crawl is more representative of a Hare, not a turtle. But isn't that what Halloween is all about - being something you're not? I mean my buddy Manny went as a chili pepper and unless he replaces Anthony Kiedis one day I don't see him actually being a pepper.


Anyway, we had a really fun party with all my friends in the building. Check out the festivities here.

Bonham, Lee, Ulrich got nothing on T!

You should hear me rock out on my brand new drum. I'm starting to put it all together now. I bang the drum. I bite the drum. And then I move onto something else.

Here's a sneak preview of my latest drum solo: