Canton shows his jazz hands and balance skills in a new video. Enjoy! 🙂

Jazz Hands and Balance from Mike Murphy on Vimeo.

Playground from Mike Murphy on Vimeo.

I had a Friday Date Night with my girl Lilamae. I did pretty well with the whole sharing concept, except for my trains, I did NOT want to share Thomas and Percy. Speaking of, we bought a Percy at the Farm starter track set which I just LOVE!!! Percy goes round and round the track and I quickly learned how to pull the lever for him to stop and go and how to turn him on! Then today when we were driving to the store (which is right across from the library) I said “library, choo choo, library, LIBRARY”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So needless to say, we had to make a pit stop.

Today was the first day I’ve been outside for an extended period time in months!!! We went up to mom’s school and I played on the BIG KID playground. Those huge slides didn’t scare me one bit!!

Oh, by the way, I’m totally refusing to sit in my high chair/booster, I’m a BIG MAN!

I have found a new obsession: Thomas! I sure do enjoy reading about Thomas and Friends, picking out Thomas undies to wear, and drawing trains. Aunt Rhonda sent me some new underwear, books, and an actual Thomas train and Percy train! Yay!! I walk around all day saying “Thomas choo choo” and asking to read my books. Guess we know what the theme for my birthday party will be! 🙂

Mom and I have enjoyed our two days off together! We’ve had lots of fun playing, dancing, singing, learning, and cooking! We made some muffins this morning. My favorite part was putting the cup liners in the pan! They were pretty tasty if I do say so myself!

I attended my first wrestling match on Saturday! I had SOOOO much fun! I liked cheering for all the guys to do well in their matches, I liked yelling “Go Bradley” the most. I gave out lots of high-fives. I even asked to used the potty in the middle of cheering. The night dragged on and I got a little fussy toward the end, but overall I had a great time. I showed off my headlock skills and talked about my favorite move: the powerbomb! Look out, wrestling is probably in my future!

Let me tell you about my favorite shape, the oval, and one of my new favorites, the rhombus.

Shapes! from Mike Murphy on Vimeo.

Sorry it has been a while since we’ve posted. Mom has been pretty busy since we haven’t had any snow days and Dad is always wrestling…so we try to make the most of our evenings and Sundays when we are together. In addition, we got a new camera everyone is trying to figure out AND our desktop broke, so mom is trying to get more efficient on this Mac.

I done a lot in the past week or so! I can catch a ball most of the time (you still have to throw pretty slow but that’s okay), I love to shout “make” or “miss” when mom, dad, and I shoot hoops. I’m soooo funny, I’ll even shout miss when I trip and fall when I’m running.

I can officially count to 10 and can identify most colors. I tend to get green and blue confused, but I guess I still have time right? I’ve been able to identify circle, square, triangle, and oval (my favorite) for a couple months, now mom is making me learn new ones–I’ve taken quite a liking to the rhombus!

Mom and I have spent a lot of time dancing, but also drawing and writing. She drew an AWESOME Elmo that I love to drag around with me everywhere! I’ve also become quite a helper around the house, my favorite helping chore is to carry in groceries!

I’ve also developed quite an interest in trains. Aunt Rhonda bought me some Thomas the Train underwear and they are my favorite!! So Dad bought a couple Thomas apps for the IPAD and I just LOOOOOVE them. There is a great train table at the library which I have discovered, when we went on Thursday I played for over 30 mins on that thing!! That’s a pretty long time for me to be engaged in something!

I’ll try to get mom to be a little more active on the posting…I’m pretty much in charge here, shouldn’t be a problem.

Mom and Dad FINALLY took me outside to play in the snow! Mom said since it was actually in the double digits (up to 27 today all you FL people!) I was allowed to go out. I had a GREAT time sled riding! I kept saying “sled please….sled…sled” I went soooo many times! I didn’t really like the whole walking back up the hill thing though…I asked to be carried. The funniest thing was when Roxy chased us! I just laughed and laughed! I sure do enjoy all these days off with mom!

Mom and Dad think I’m hilarious. My taste in music is quite diverse, some current favs are: That’s the Way I Like It (KC and the Sunshine Band), C’mon and Ride the Train(Quad City DJs), Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin), Dueling Banjos, and of course anything Elvis. You can definitely see my Floyd roots in my move Mom and Dad have coined “The Stomp”. They’ll have to put me in dance classes soon!

Dancing Man! from Mike Murphy on Vimeo.

Busta Move from Mike Murphy on Vimeo.