Sorry we Phamsters have been so quiet on the blogging front lately, we’ve been busy busy. I can’t possibly remember everything I’ve been wanting to post about, but I’ll try.

Two weeks ago, the Noonans came all the way out from Rhode Island to visit us and it was so great to see them. I just love my Auntie Leigh, Uncle Jim and my boyfriend Blakey. I miss them so much now that they’re gone and ask mommy about them all the time.

While they were here, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Pastorino’s and Lemos farms in Half Moon Bay. We had close encounters with all kinds of fish and farm animals. I especially liked meeting the penquins and going on hay rides.

Everything was so much fun until poor Blake had a too-close-for-comfort encounter with the H1N1 virus. After that, he spent the next 5 days cooped up and miserable in our house.

That was no fun because mommy and daddy wouldn’t let me play with him hardly at all and kept telling me to give him space and not wipe my runny nose all over him to make things worse. I think we heard “Catch your cough/sneeze!” about a gazillion times from the grownups. I guess it was all for the best, because so far Hayden and I seem to have steered clear of that nasty nasty flu and now Blakey is all better.

In other news, I’ve enjoyed cheering for the Yankees in the playoffs and wear my Yankees hat for every game.

I also squeezed in a visit to Ardenwood farm with all the cool Yahoo! kids – Gavin, Sydney, Sierra, Lilly, and Sienna. I wasn’t too fond of the peacocks I saw there, but I was so excited about these little pine cone-like things I found on the ground. Mommy let me bring them home and I’ve been carrying them around in a disposable diaper wipes container ever since.

Oh, and I did a great job of singing Happy Birthday to my mommy on Sunday. Daddy helped me make her a really neat card with a drawing of our family – we even put Hayden’s mohawk and everything on there!

I’ve also been Skyping a lot with my Ba Ngoai (Gramma Anne), who’s working in Afganistan right now. We keep reminding her to stay safe.

- Maddy

Lately, I seem to go from this Hayden to……….. this Hayden in the blink of an eye.

I perform my psycho screaming baby impersonation before every nap, and all day yesterday I kept things interesting by waking up 20 minutes into each nap to go nuts.

I do stay relatively calm at night, waking up twice to nurse and going right back to sleep – unless daddy has kindly offered to take a nighttime shift for mommy, in which case I make it really fun for him by having a 2-hour screaming session.

I think it’s important to test my parents and see how smart they are. Let’s see how long it takes them to figure out which of the following issues are contributing to their sleep deprivation: acid reflux, over-tiredness, under-tiredness, growth spurt, early teething or colic.

They’re making me try this reflux medication now, which tastes kind of weird. And I’m a little concerned that I keep hearing them talk about some thing called “sleep training.” That doesn’t sound fun at all.

Wish me luck.

- Hayden

P.S. During one of my calm awake moments, I actually enjoyed tummy time the other day:

I love bouncy houses now! We had one set up right on the street in front of our house Saturday for the neighborhood block party.

Mom and dad let me check it out even though I was just barely recovering from the Roseola virus, and it was so fun. I wasn’t scared at all, even though all the other kids bouncing were way bigger than me and I kept falling down.

I wonder when I’ll get to bounce again?

- Maddy