I like to color my airplanes and give them fresh designs.

I like to color my airplanes and give them fresh designs.

Yesterday, I went back to Doernbecher for a Modified Barium Swallow study. I had to eat and drink weird white stuff that shows up on an x-ray. After a slow start, I did it! Yay, me! (Oh, and there was nothing wrong. I swallow great. I just don’t like food that isn’t goat cheese or chocolate. Is that so hard to understand???)
After the swallow study was done, but before the dreaded NG tube was replaced, we went on the tram again!
Tram!!! 2 from the Dexter Video Collection.
Daddy and I made our very own Portland Aerial Tram. LEGO minifigs now have a way to travel from the dining room chairs to the Christmas tree.



Me, Mommy, and Daddy went to my favorite place on earth, the Portland International Airport, to watch airplanes take off and land. It was my favorite day in quite a while!


Alaska! from the Dexter Video Collection.
Well, Hanukkah is all over now. And I made a KILLING on airline planes! Here’s Night 3: Boeing 787.



Then, Night 4: United Airlines.



Nights 5, 6, and 7 all followed the same pattern. But now I bring you to Night 8…


Whaaaaat? A bike??? Well, I loved that, too, and will practice inside until spring so I can Skuut my heart out once the sun comes back. Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa, for a fun Hanukkah!




Today, Mommy continued her quest to take a family picture every New Year’s Day. I was incredibly cooperative and allowed two takes. That’s it! How do you think we compare to last year?

Here I am as my own body double so Mommy could set up the tripod right.


I like making stories about planes! This is one about the “Explorer Plane.”
No Paparazzo from the Dexter Video Collection.
Yesterday, I went back to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital to get my nephrostomy tubes removed. I spent some time traveling through this hall while I was in the hospital, but this was my first time walking it on my own two feet. Victory lap!

But first…we rode on the Portland Aerial Tram again!!!

Tram!!! from the Dexter Video Collection.
With Christmas and Hanukkah happening at the same time this year, the world is raining down presents! (And I’m totally okay with that.) I started the morning by just diving right in.








After a while, I decided I wanted to open presents in the kitchen…







Opening a ton of awesome presents is HARD WORK.

Chubs got a couple of presents, too. But he was most interested in the rare Oregon sunbeam.

Then at sundown, we lit the firetruck menorah. (Remember when I liked firetrucks??)




Thank you, everyone, for all of the planes, plane books, plane stickers, plane paraphernalia, and money to buy more planes! You know me well.