A Christmas Visit From My Cousins, Kolby & Kylie Gardner

My cousins, Kolby & Kylie Gardner came down to stay with our Grandpa & Grandma Gardner for a few days this week! We sure had a great time playing together and I was very sad to see them go....but I know they had to get back home to Ogallala so Santa could come to visit them tonight! Kolby & Kyle, I hope you get everything on your list!

Kolby is so silly! He made me giggle a lot with this little game of "peek-a-boo!"

Kolby and Kylie are so much fun! I consider anyone a friend who will play "BLOCKS" with me! They are my favorite toy!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone has a safe, happy and merry Christmas tomorrow and that Santa brings you everything you've wished for....as long as you've been a good boy or girl! ;) I know I sure have! And for your Christmas entertainment, please enjoy this video of me "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree!" ~Happy Holidays! Love, Gus~

Vroom, Vroom...

Boy, oh boy! Thanks to Grandma & Grandpa Gardner, now I'm mobile! Grandma & Grandpa got this sweet four-wheeler for me for Christmas! They are the best! Thanks Dramma and Drampa! I love you!

Christmas Snapshots and Sickness

Merry Christmas to all my loyal blog followers! There are only seven more shopping days until the big man himself, Santa, makes his appearance this year! Hope everyone is having a great time of year. My holiday season seems busier than ever but for the WRONG reasons. My daddy still isn't feeling the greatest (and they still haven't really figured out what is wrong with him). My mommy has a dislodged disk in her back which is pinching her sciatic nerve and causing all sorts of problems. She has been doing physical therapy everyday. She does something called traction everyday and then also, electro-shock therapy, throughout the day. It was getting better until this morning, which leads us to my problems. Mommy and daddy got up this morning with me to find that I had a temperature of 105 degrees. I was limp as a noodle and shaking. So they got dressed and rushed me to the ER. While in the ER I got ice packs under each arm and some sort of thing that measures blood pressure and hear rate wrapped around my big toe! The determined that I have a bad ear infection (my first one) in my right ear and also bronchial inflammation in both lungs! So I have to take a powerful antibiotic for five days and do breathing treatments for the next ten days. I do not like the breathing treatments one bit...but I guess I will tolerate them if they make me feel better than I did at 6:30am today (12-17-2009). So I had my first ER visit and my first ear infection all in the same day! WHEW! Well I hope everyone else is doing good and feeling great. I hope to be in tip-top shape by next weekend because that is when we leave to head out to Grandma and Grandpa Chinn's house in Missouri for Christmas. Oooooooo, I cannot wait to see them. I miss them terribly and I know mommy and daddy do too! We also get to stay for a week, which is longer than we have gotten to stay since March of 2009.

I also found out some news today that is SO exciting. Mommy is ecstatic! I'm going to make my debut in the Saint Francis Herald next week! Yep, my first appearance in the local newspaper. I sat on Santa's lap on November 27th, 2009, at First National Bank, after the annual Saint Francis Parade of Lights. I took such a good picture, that the nice lady at the newspaper, Karen Krien, is gonna put me on the front page of the special Christmas edition of next week's paper. I will be in full, color print article! So exciting. Mommy can't wait to give the MO folks copies of the paper and also, cut my picture out for my scrapbook. It's the little things that excite mommy! :) So that's the news of the week from this neck of the woods! Oh and the picture in this blog, is the picture that will appear in next week's paper!

Mommy and Me

There aren't too many pictures of just me and my mommy together so daddy decided to take these pictures of us!

I love goofin' around with my momma! She's so fun!

The Importance of a Healthy Smile and Minty Fresh Breath

Look at how nice my smile is! That's because my new favorite thing to is......

Brush my teeth before bedtime! First mommy helps by brushing my gums, teeth and in behind my teeth, then................

She turns the toothbrush over to me to finish the job! I really enjoy brushing my teeth with my Elmo toothbrush! So much fun! And it makes me have a pretty smile and fresh breath!

Here I am again getting my teeth brushed! I can't wait until I do not need any help from mommy and she lets me do it ALL by myself!

Look At All The Things I Can Do

Think I'll clean this sink up all by myself! Mommy shouldn't let it get so dirty!

Standing on the dishwasher is a lot of fun! Everyone should try it every now and again!

Daddy showed me about standing on stuff all alone. Mommy says, "what has he started?"

Weeeeee-Great-Grandma Ruth is so much fun!

The Sunday after Thanksgiving, Grandpa and Grandma Gardner and Great-Grandma Ruth came over to help us eat some of the leftovers! While they were at our house, Great-Grandma took me for a spin on her walker! It was so much fun! I love riding on that thing!

Daddy took me for a spin on it too but he's not as much fun as Great-Grandma!