Fountain Head

The Summer was hot so I spent most of it in water, either at the pool, in the sprinkler, or at the fountains down by the capitol. Actually, I only made it to the fountains once, but once was all I needed.

Here I am inching my way toward the powerful spray of the fountain.

I feared that the rush of water was going to somehow capture me and toss me up into the air.

A huge gust of wind came from nowhere and completely drenched us with the freezing water. In this picture you can see that the wind has just started to blow the water right toward us. If this picture would have been taken just a split second later you would have seen two very wet, and very surprised looking people!

 

After surviving our hypothermia and embarrassment we hit the road and let the sun slowly dry us. My hair twisted and twirled its way into odd snake like shapes and patterns (similar to Mama and Grandma's hair).

Eventually it crinked itself into this mass of writhing snakes. It reminded me of that one techno band from the 90's. He had odd little spiky hair and the lyric (hell, I think only lyric) was "I'm a fire starter, terrific fire starter!"

A view from the front, not as cool as the back, but still pretty stylin'.

The Great And Wonderful Blumes!

So my Aunt Phoebe and her two boys, Nolan and Wyatt, came to visit the other day. It was cool to see them. We went to the park and played, and I ate some (all) of their snacks!

Nolan and Wyatt are giants compared to me. Imagine you are standing there and all of a sudden Yao walks up next to you. Even if you are six foot two you have to crane your neck to get a look at his face, and then all you see is his chin anyway. I don't care how tall you are, around Yao or the Blume Boys you feel very very short....



This is my expression as I looked up at the giants..."how old are you guys?"

The one on the left is Wyatt, the one on the right Nolan... Can you tell which one is older? Or which one is taller? And would you believe me if I told you that Nolan is at least a year and a half younger? Yea, me either.




















Auntie Phoebe!  Actually she will probably kill me for this, but we get a lot of visitors from all around the world here so the blog is a good place to give my friends out there a plug for whatever they happen to be working on. My auntie is releasing her first album. Check her music out on her website at Phoebe Blume.com
and if you like it pick up her album "The Homing Beasts"

For some reason I get a lot of traffic from Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and Italy (and of course all around the US) so I hope you dont mind being an international superstar!

Cheers!!!

Surgery Update

So I wanted to update everyone on my second surgery, which is a week from Friday. It turns out that I will, in fact, be getting two of the new processors from Cochlear.

I mentioned these in passing a few posts ago and basically, at the time of that post, we weren't sure if I was going to get only one of the new processors or not. But the FDA approved them so now I am getting two for sure!!!

These babies are 40% smaller and have better speech recognition as well as a remote and better resistance to water.... I can,t wait to not have that huge thing on my ears... although lets not kid ourselves, these big ol' ears could hold anything. It will just be nice to not have all that weight.

Oh, and I guess the new internal implant is supposed to be easier to implant with a lot less possibility for damage to the ear.

Here is a link to quickly read about the whole thing, only a few paragraphs long and some closer pics of the processor and remote.

Check out this link for information about the New Processor

Here is a pic of the new one verses the old one. The round coil that sticks to my head is the same size in both pictures (at least I believe it is) so you can definitely tell the size difference.

Happy Birthday Wishes

I just wanted to take a second to wish Jack's mommy, my Auntie Allisa, a very Happy Birthday! Thanks for always being so nice and for sharing snacks with me. I hope you have a fun day and that you get some yummy birthday cake!

Oregon Aquarium

A few weeks ago, during the million degree weather, we left my dad in Salem to burn up in the heat and we escaped to the house in Waldport. While there, Grandma and Mom took me to the Aquarium in Newport. It was amazing to say the least.

Grandma and I in front of a tank with fish that zoomed around in circles around the tank...almost like the merry-go-round at the park.





This is a sea otter, he was carrying a clam on his stomach and cracking it open with his powerful jaws. I asked if we could take him home because he kind of looks like my cat Ripley and I thought they would make good friends.....

Mom told me no.






Along one of the trails I found this spot with all of these sea creatures you could ride!






"Excuse me, are you thirsty Mr. Dolphin?"
This one seemed a bit dried out.... I felt bad for him.




If you have spent any time with me in the last... oh, I don't know, ten months of my life, you know that I am obsessed with three things. Cars, Planes, and Birds. So you can imagine my delight when I found out that there was a bird area at the aquarium. They didn't have many different types of birds but enough for my taste.




As I climbed up the rocks to get a better look, I spied the coolest bird ever.





This little guy who looks like a puffin (and for the life of me, I cannot remember what he is exactly) but he is not. He was crazy in the water, dipping his head under splashing around... almost like he was imitating me when I take a bath....





The best part of the whole thing was the tube that went under water and you could see fish swimming all around you.






This shark was gigantic.... really.....I mean look, it's so big it spills out of the frame.




This is the end of the day. I am worn out and getting a ride from Grandma back to the car. I have my milk, my belly button

and my.....




PENGY!!!!!

It's sad but this may be the last pic of me with Pengy, unless we find him...*sob*





When we got home my dad was there and we headed down to the beach... and off into the sunset! Returning to the waters that we crawled out of zillions of years ago.

Isaac Tries Out for AC/DC

Many of you probably didn't hear that Angus Young from AC/DC is hanging up his horns and SG and enjoying Rock God Retirement. Brian and the rest of the band are still hungry for the spotlight so I figured I'd head down to show Brian and the gang that I am by far the best and most qualified person to slide into Young's spot unnoticed.

First off, we are the same height.
Secondly, I have very little hair (and so does Young currently, but i digress) so I can easily wear a wig until my sweet curls come in which will look exactly like Young's (with a little dye job).
Thirdly, I can rock as hard as Him. Been practicing everyday on Guitar Hero.

And Fourthly, look at me, we have the same style! I mean almost...




I have also been working on the accent!
"'Ello I'm Angus Young"

Now tell me that wasn't spot on.





Every successful and amazing Rock Guitarist has three moves that he must have mastery over before he can ever become a "Rock Legend". I am pretty much nailing them all.



Rock Move #1: Jump and Strum!
If you listen closely you can hear the sustain of the cord still ringing in the air!

"For Those About To Rock!"

BAAAAAAHHHHHHHH <----guitar cord sound





Rock Move #2: Rock 'n Mobility
If you are rockin' on stage you can't stand still for one moment. If this were a stage right now I would be running around it like this, serving up some awesome rock licks for millions of fans....

"WE SALUTE YOU!!!"









Rock Move #3: Rock Stance
Every good rocker knows that you must have a rock stance to be any good at shredding people's minds with your rock awesomeness... and I think I have it down

"FIRE!!!"







Look how natural I look next to Brian!

Salem Art Fair or Belly Button Power

Last month was the Salem Art Fair, which is held in Bush Park every year. There is a ton of art work, music, and food. This is my second art fair. Here is a picture of me at this years art fair.




And here's one from last years Art Festival. Killer Hat huh?




Here is an artist's rendering of "The Count". This guy's tent was way at the end of the fair, which is where we entered from. By the time we had walked to the beginning and back, this guy's art work was almost all gone. He must have made a killing.




We also saw artists like this guy who was.... well very interesting...





We also saw Judge Judy... at least I think it was her... a lot taller than I ever imagined though.





The biggest highlight of the day was when we found the swing set! My parents put me down and I hit the ground running.... WOOOOT SWINGS!





Here I am using the powers of my belly button to persuade one of the kids to give up their swing to me. "I have one question, which one of you guys is giving up his swing and pushing me?"





After burning up the swing set with my outstanding swing skills, I took off running again. Eventually my legs ached and burned, and my head swam with fun overload, and I collapsed only able to drink milk and regenerate my powers.





Mom helped me up and I checked the belly button for additional back up power.





and I was off, the belly button once again fueling me for a bit longer.





Until finally there wasn't any energy left anywhere... and I rode home in the back pack, exhausted.

Grandpa's Birthday

My Grandpa's birthday was last month. We went out to the farm house to celebrate. I wore this sweet shirt and when I got out there they had presents for me!!!! Well, it was more for the house so that when I go out there I have some cool toys to play with.. .but still, I am definitely attending more birthday's!!



Here is my shirt and the cool new car toys out at Grandpa and Steph's house.




My grandpa opening a gift and me with a light mustache!




Ummm, can you say handsome studs?

Coloring!

My grandma bought me some crayons the other day, which I love... sometimes I love them so much I attempt to take a nibble out of them...


Here I am coloring with my dad!






It is pretty obvious the amount of talent I have by the drawings here on this page.






I was trying to teach Steinbeck to color but he has issues with holding the crayons... perhaps I can create a device to facilitate Steinbeck's passion for color.