"Give me goldfish!"

Theo has taken to goldfish crackers like nobody's business! Andy and I now have to refer to those fun orange crackers as "koi." I'm sure he'll learn soon enough that koi means goldfish so we are prepared to move onto other fish of reference such as trout, blue gill, and carp. What does this really all mean? It means Andy and I have made our first venture into code talking in front of our kid. Ah, the bridges we cross...

The last few weeks have been busy! Theo attended his first street festivals, Swedish Days in Geneva (where he ate lunch with the mayor ... seriously!) and the Custer Street Arts Festival in Evanston. Rest assured there were corn dogs involved in both outings. He also got to meet his great grandma, Grammy, for the first time who was in for a visit from New York. She was in town for a long weekend and we had all kinds of fun together. Her visit included a trip to the Morton Arboretum where Theo encountered big bugs (What a neat exhibit!) and had a blast wading around the frog pond.

Theo has also had a chance to spend time with many new friends! He finally met his destined-to-be good friends Bobby and Emma, with whom he shared his first swimming experience - he loved it! He and Bobby are only 5 days apart in age so we are positive they will have oodles of fun together as they grow up. Theo and I also spent an afternoon with several Storm staff families where he again had way too much fun swimming. Even though he's only a year old, he's already quite the social butterfly!

Much to Andy's chagrin, Theo is also a contestant in a contest where he is sure to be the winner - he has been entered in the "Cutest Kid in Kane County" contest sponsored by the Kane County Chronicle. I promise I will not sign him up with a talent or modeling agency, but this fun little contest was too much to pass up! So please vote for him at

www.kcchronicle.com/cutestkid Theo is #60

The site is messed up.... here is the link to where you vote: http://www.kcchronicle.com/cutestkid/vote/

As always I will leave you with some images of Theo. Below is a link my Flickr account and a short video of our little man!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68847421@N00/sets/72157605889162065/detail/