Thursday, September 29, 2005

Tobis is 3 Months Old!


Here he is, the sleeping angel. He's learning how to hold on to toys and as you can see here, he's fallen asleep while working hard trying to hold on to those rings.









Here is a picture of Tobias' new head holding up skills.










and another one of the head holdng up skills. Hopefully next time, we'll have a picture of his bow huting skills and his computer hacking skills :)









Here's an arial view just so you can get an idea of how big he is now.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

And now a word from our Sponsors

We’ll now catch those viewers up, who are just joining us from another program. We've been going deep in an interview with the latest phenom to hit the scene, Tobias.

As you well know, he's on his way to being the biggest thing this town has seen in a long time. His fantastic action moves, along with his insatiable wit, unending hilarity and endearing charm have made him everybody's favorite.

This duo, ever recognizable by most people in the biz, is Tobias with his Agent and general assistant: Mommica Amazingly. The saying holds true with this pair, behind every successful man, is a strong woman. Mommica has managed to coordinate and organize a series of encounters and roles that have always allowed Tobias to be featured in his best light. She really lives up to her name: Amazing!

But with such a versatile guy like Tobias, how could anyone go wrong with this leading man. Here, as you can see, he's re-enacting one of his most well known roles: Babysaurus Rex. This feature, which grossed over $3 in its first month, was one of his early successes, and paved the way to stardom.

(never mind the man behind the curtain... err.... I mean hat)
The greatest thing about Tobias is that even though his style is so unique and genuine, he won't change it to fit in with the crowd. He's comfortable being himself. Confidence is so sexy.
And so is he!
Here, you can see a flashback from a few years ago, where he created the dance sensation that Will Smith "borrowed" (Tobias was able to settle out of court with Will, who admitted to a little dancing plagiarism) for his hit song and video: "getting jiggy wit it." If only Tobias had been allowed to shake his stuff, he probably would have given the moves to Will for free.

Part of his daily exercise regimen involves strenuous martial arts, which of course has enabled Tobias to do most of his own stunts, a point which he takes great pride in.

Tobias has been known to work out for 16-20 straight hours, you can spot the ferocity in his eyes as he puts on his radical-badical-tactical pose that earned him the leading role in "Enter the Return of the Chinese Connection Dragon" (the extensive make up required for this film meant that Tobias had to wake up 4 hours before he went to sleep each morning, and sit in makeup for 72 straight hours).

"This was the longest I've ever sat still in my life," Tobias told us. A true professional. He's so professional in fact that he's begun taking on protégés who want to learn the "Tobias-way."

Here, in a candid "post workout" shot, you can see Tobias, with his workout partner, Alexander Mays.

The grueling years of practice have created in Tobias a spirit that can't be quenched; he doesn't know how to quit. Here, even while lying down, he's still trying to land a haymaker. As you can clearly see, Alex has had enough.

Tobias explained the matching outfits, "basically, I like us to wear the same shirts, that way it’s like fighting yourself. It’s a real "mind over matter/inner chi/fighting coach roach" type of thing. I never know which move I'm going to make, so when we spar, I like to keep on my toes. My old boxing coach, whom I lovingly referred to as 'Old coach guy', used to hit me in the head all the time and tell "[me] to keep my mitts up and keep fightin' them 'paches, 'cause they's gonna scalp ya. Arrrr!"' It turns out old coach guy was insane, and spent too much time focusing on his yearly birthday celebration of talk like a pirate day.
Like everything else, Tobias does at 100% - full steam ahead, he's also an avid sleeper. He says that he learned this skill from years in a Tibetan cave, where the yearly temperature drop was 200 degrees below 0 Kelvin. He used these techniques to maintain stasis while encased in blocks of solid ice.

He's been known to drop into a deep sleep wherever he lays his head, and often, he doesn't even need to lay his head anywhere.

Here's his "Full Throttle" sleep mode. This has actually been patented and will be coming out in the fall as part of the FT Tobias Action Figure. Stores are already selling out and its three months from being delivered.


Here he shows off his "No Fear" relaxation pose. Tobias, in a daring operation as a child, replaced his spine with a full action slinky.

The added flexibility is amazing.




And at the end of the day, all Tobias really needs is a nice place to lounge on his private beach, and listen to sound of waves crashing on the shore. Here he's fallen asleep to the rhythmic sounds of nature, the wind tussles his hair, and the afternoon sun warms his face.

Talk about the life...

Until next time... This is "Life, the show."

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Grandma Proulx's house

So the family went up to visit my mom in Grass Valley over Labor Day weekend.

Tobias was acting so strange. He was sleeping for very long periods of time, and then would wake up and eat again. During our trip he had his first 6 hour night of sleep.

Christina was very happy.


My mom, however, was not. She wanted to play with her grandson, so him sleeping and eating all the time, meant that she couldn't hold him that often, unless she wanted to be his pillow.
So that's what we find here. This was fairly common during the weekend.

He was sleeping everywhere. It was pretty cool.





Here's Tobias's older cousin Emily Jeanne Cutler. She's 8 months, to the day, older than T, and you can see how much bigger she is. I think he's going to have a blast having a cousin who's so close in age.

Here's another shot of my out of control poison oak rash. Man that stunk. I couldn't play with either of the babies, nor even give anyone a hug.
Sorry Niki.

So my mom was the baby's play thing, which was perfectly fine for her.

Back in the saddle

Christina mentioned to me that its been a long time since I've actually had time to write one of these posts, so I'm back. She claims that a large quantity of people really miss my sardonic wit and amusing "facts" about Tobias. I'm not too sure, but I'll humor her regardless.
I've had a hard time with my poison oak (notice big red spots on my arm), since I wasn't able to hold little T for so long. You can see how happy I am here. I swear, the smile is truly authentic!

Tobias has the Gangsta Style head cocked back lookin' away posin' with the bling bling fingers in the air! Playa!

And this picture is just me making a funny face. Its hard to tell the difference, I'm such a looker? No?















This one is priceless! Little boy, in little boy clothing, on little boy blanket, on the little boy floor, with his little boy hair and of course the little boy smile.

So Tobias has started to laugh now. This is his smilaugh (Official pronounciation: Smee-Laf, similar to pilaf, only without the rice), since he can't really do them by themselves.

He also laughs, in what could most similarly be described as a "Chipmonk/woodpecker/antelope/zebra" style. It starts out sort of like a cough that didn't happen, and then turns into an undulating chortle, with self induced hiccup sounds, and he closes out with a long moaning noise. He's having a blast of course, and Christina and I pretty much double over whenever he does it. What an awesome little baby.

... we return to our scene as Grandma J is recovering after having been attacked by the vicious beast, unable to hold off the onslaught on our brave and valiant hero, she's tricked into introducing our story's arch nemesis:
Canis familiaris Nikitas (CfN) to our Hero, the world famous Kung Fu Master, known only as "T".

CfN began the attack with her usual opening, but our Hero strikes up his Power pose, feigning weakness, but only to lure the vicious dark one in his clutches. Oh, the horror of what the black dog is capable of. Our hero is so brave!

The fighting was intense. There was fur, slobber, yelping, it was amazing. The whole time, the Amazing T was protecting his Grandmother from the CfN. Oh, what a powerful fight our Kung Fu master put up.

If you'll notice the lightning fast transition from Power Pose, into Dead Bug attack mode. The CfN has no idea what's about to happen.

As we've seen so many times before, our Hero is about to finish the fight...


And our final scene. The attack fist of fury! The cocked leg of vengence and of course his camoflaged starfish pants (can't forget those).

Victory once more!

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Tobias is Two Months Old!!

I can't believe he's Two months old already! We just took him to the doctor for his checkup and we found out that he has gained 5 pouns in the last month. So he now weighs a wopping 12 pounds 7 ounces! and he's a little over 22 inches long. He's in the 30th percentile for height and the 75th percentile for weight, so he's quite stocky :)










We just took a trip to Grandma Proulx's house over the weekend and Justin's sister, Niki, and her beautiful little girl, Emily, came to visit too. Emily was very curious about Tobias and wanted very badly to pull off his hands and feet, but we restrained her :) Justin had poison oak really bad, if you're wondering about his bandages.









This is just a great picture of Grandma Proulx with Tobias.