Rudy against a bee
Dear Ava,
You are almost 1 year old! I can’t believe its been so long since mom and dad brought you home from the hospital. Here I am on the day you came home.
It is also your first Christmas coming up in just about a week. It is so exciting for you to do all these things for the first time. I was also just a little baby when I spent my first Christmas with mom and dad at the garage house 10 years ago. Here I am with mommy who wore glasses back then.
We had a lot of fun back in those days. We had a barbecue every Friday and mom and dad’s friends came over. Parties are the best since everyone wanted to feed me a piece of food from their plate. See how little I look here in this picture. I’m sure you know very well what its like to be a cute baby 
I was always looking to get into trouble and there were plenty to be had. Mom and dad go to work all day and I just roam around the yard and sometimes play with my friend JoBear in his big yard who’s parents were renting us the little house we lived in.
One day, I got myself into more trouble than I bargain for. In the little yard that we had on the side of the garage house, there are some plants and flowers. I always loved chasing the birds away and sometimes run around biting at the bugs that play around during sunset. I finally got a hold of one with my teeth one day. Little did I know, it was a bee who had left a stinger in my lip. In no time, my face ballooned up and eyes turned red and became hard to open. Mommy and daddy saw me and didn’t know what to do. They called the doggy doctor and he told them I would be okay and the swelling will eventually go down. They just needed to make sure I didn’t swell up too much to be unable to breath. To be on the safe side, I had to take some tylenol to help with the swelling. Look how sad I was in this picture. I looked like a monster!!! No so cute anymore.
I eventually got better the next morning after mom and dad worried about me all day and barely got any sleep. This also wouldn’t be the first time I got into something I wasn’t suppose to.
“Sorry mommy and daddy, I promise to never bite a bee again…”