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Bex has had some pretty bad diaper rash so we have been following Huck and Duke's example and having him go sans diaper sometimes in the house. The other day Bex set a decoy by peeing in the hallway (pretty standard) and while Topher was cleaning it up Bex pooped, stepped in it, and tracked it all over the house. I was out of the house during this adventure :) Bex tried to make up for his bad behavior during bath time.

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Bex had an awesome time in LA with his cousin David. Davis showed Bex a lot of things- like how to play croquet and fly these fun little plastic discs. Bex was very impressed with everything that David did! Bex's next favorite thing was going to the very very hot LA zoo. It was crazy hot but we still had an awesome time seeing the elephants getting a pedicure and hearing the monkeys go nuts when Topher walked into the exhibit. Despite having a great time- he was happy to be home. 

Stay Awake!

Here is a gem of a movie with aunt Katie doing her very best to keep Bex awake on the way home from the LA zoo. He was so exhausted that he didn't even know what to do with this...

LA baby

I'm still in the process of re-capping our fab vacation. I'm still on the LA portion of the trip and in fact still on the beach-part of the LA trip, hence the beachy pictures. Topher's best friend, and Bex's godfather/uncle Colin lives right on the beach just south of Venice so we spent a ton of time on the beach. Bex's favorite thing was to chase the birds on the beach- he got a huge kick out of this. I should have gotten a video, but I was too busy chasing him around. He is at a very fun and very crazy age!! Turns out that a 14 month old has no fear and will run straight toward a downward flight of stairs, at full speed. In LA, we woke up very early due to the time change and ended up eating breakfast at this little place in Venice every morning- with Selma Blair! Yes, she was in Legally Blonde (the bitchy brunette). Her son Arthur is very cute but sounds like a bit of a nightmare baby. I always say- bad fetus = easy baby, good fetus = hard baby. We also hung out briefly with Pink and her baby Willow. Turns out that celebrity babies don't sleep in either! Ha!

Back to Cali

We all headed back, back, back to Cali last week. We had the most amazing trip and are frazzled and exhausted but at last sleeping in our own bed again. Bex was, as usual, an amazing traveler and good little boy. He really loved walking (actually running) all over the airports and in particular loved the moving walkways that we had to go back and forth on countless times. He didn't mind the airplane but didn't quite understand why the person in front of him didn't want to play with him (I didn't understand either- he was trying to blow kisses and play peek-a-boo!) We got back at 1am and I had to be up and at 'em at 8:15am for my first day at Quinnipiac University. We are all very tired but Bex was great with his first day back to school and seems to be pretty much already back on his regular schedule. Here are a few pics of the trip. More trip deets to follow...

Thanks for noticing me

The Keller-Carroll family has been incredibly busy lately with no sign of easing up. I have been at a teaching workshop at Quinnipiac all last week and into this week and Topher has been working like crazy in lab. I think that two assistant professors living in one household with one toddler and one super annoying cat will be an interesting experiment in itself. Here are some pictures of the QU campus (my favorite part of campus is the walkway through the woods). Included also are a few pics of Bex, who has recently been obsessed with his pet donkey from his auntie Mary. He wants to hold it while going to bed every night. It is pretty darn cute.