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Well, I have discovered that while I still prefer to be in the same room as mom or dad, I can leave for a few minutes at a time.  In the past few weeks I have found that I can go all the ways upstairs to my bedroom and get my blanket WITHOUT needing mom or dad to come with me.  It also allows me to get into some trouble. Last week I found my mommy’s lipstick on the stairs.  She thought I was going up to get my blanket, but instead I sat on the stairs and put her pretty lipstick all over my lips!  Now, I did miss a little bit and got it on my cheeks and teeth, but I was VERY careful and didn’t put any on the carpet or the stairs; then I brought the tube to mommy so she could help clean me up. 

Today after my shower with mommy I went to my bedroom while she was drying her hair.  I picked out a skirt and put it on and came back to show mom that I can get dressed too!  She told me I needed a shirt, so I went and found one and put that on too.  I did need a little help to turn it right side out, but I got it over my head and my arms in all by myself!  Then She said I needed socks, so I went to the pile of clean laundry and found two that looked the same.  I was so proud of me.

Yesterday while mom was folding laundry I was playing with the doors in the hallway, using my stool to turn all the lights on and off, and generally just staying out of her way.  I took my stool into mommy’s room, shut the door and stood on the stool to turn the light on.  And do you know what else I found?  A little knob in the middle of the door knob that turns when I twist it!  Turns out it makes it so mommy can’t open the door!  She wiggles it a lot, tries to get me to turn it back, but I am smarter than that!  If she can’t get in, that means that I can play with the money in the drawer, get her hair brush out of the bathroom, climb up on the bed, take things off her dresser, and generally do whatever I want while she tries to find the keys to into her own room!  I thought it was hilarious, but I think I had mommy a bit worried when she couldn’t get in to get me!

The one thing that I haven’t been doing is going tinkle or poop in the potty.  As much as I want to wear those big girl panties, my diaper is just so much EASIER!  I have been sitting on the potty at bedtime, and will tinkle most nights before we put my jammies on.  Mommy and daddy get so excited.  I try to show them how silly they look; when mommy goes tinkle I clap my hands and say “yay mommy tinkle!” but she just thinks it’s cute and giggles at me.

I sure am talking more.  Mommy seems to like it, and has started saying some words really funny.  She tells Ammie that she’s just copying what I say, but it sounds totally different!  Now, she used poke fun at me when I said “aye” instead of “yes”, but I’ve figured that one out, and say “yeah” or “yup” or “yes” instead of “aye”.  Right now mommy’s favorite word to mess up is “mung”.  Now, I say “come mommy”, and she just can’t get it right!  She keeps saying “mung where?”  Then there are those words where I just don’t like to say them, so I use a different word.  Some of those are “eyes” for glasses or sunglasses, “hello” for the telephone.

Okay, I would write more, but mommy is starting to look at me funny cuz she thinks I’m ruining her “puter” again (I do have a knack for that).  So I better go find my shoes so we can play outside.

As most of you know, I had a bad experience with water not too long ago when my Daddy tipped our kayak over and we went for an unexpected “dip”.  Since then, I have shied away from all water outside of my VERY familiar bathtub.  My hands can get wet, but you can forget taking me near a lake, river, or pool.  Even unfamiliar tubs have been out of the question.  Sprinklers?  My silly parents have tried more than once to get me to run through them, but little do they know that I am smarter than they are, and I just want to avoid them.

This past week, however, it was quite hot and mommy was really tired of being inside, so we went out and daddy turned the little sprinkler on.  Mommy put on her swim suit and started kicking the water, and walking through the spray, and jumping over the sprinkler.  It didn’t look TOO bad, so I tried it too.  Turns out that if you cup your hands you can take water all the way over to daddy and splash him!  I really liked splashing people, especially when they squeal; mommy squeals a lot.   After a some splashing and stepping on the sprinkler, I figured out that I can pick the sprinkler up!  Did you know that if you hold the hose you can point the sprinkler at mommy and get her hat wet?!  It was really funny, until the sprinkler turned around and got ME wet on the head, and even though I ran away, the water kept coming with me!!  (Until I dropped the hose anyway).

Well, after a lot of playing in the sprinkler on Thursday, I was much more brave in the shower with mommy this morning.  Turns out that getting water rained on my head isn’t all that bad!  I kinda liked it.  Mommy got me my own loofa, and I washed my own tummy, and rinsed the shampoo out of my own hair, and I LIKED it!  I think I may try it again.  And if shower water isn’t so bad, then perhaps I may try a boat again at Ammie’s pool house next weekend, though mommy says she can’t go with me.  Man, this new baby in her tummy makes her all sorts of not fun, but that is another story for another day.

Yay for not totally hating water anymore!  Ask me in a about 10 days if I braved the river or a boat. 

Now, I could tell you the WHOLE story of what happened to me on my kayak trip with my daddy over the weekend, but if you want ALL the details you should just go to daddy’s website and read it.  I want to tell you the story in MY words….

Water water water, coooold, owe owe, kick kick, water water, boat, cooold.  All done, all done, all done, out out out!  Mommy!

I think daddy even posted some pictures……

Now many people have different ideas as to why parents seem to think kids need night lights in their bedrooms.  I’m here to tell you that it has NOTHING to do with being afraid of the dark.  Today I played outside for lots and lots of time (Mommy told Ammie it was for three hours).  Anyway, I had burritos for dinner (Daddy even rolled up my own shell with beans and meat and cheese inside), and then I got to play for a bit before I got cranky enough that my parents made me get ready for bed.

So I fuss while I get my jammies on, cuz that’s my job.  And I got in bed and I took my bottle and I went to sleep like a good girl.  I even was enjoying my time there, but like usual I moved around a lot and tried to find a more comfortable spot.  Only tonight my nightlight wasn’t working, and so I didn’t see where the edges of the bed were when I got close.  My Mommy and Daddy were smart and put rails on the sides of my bed, but they weren’t as smart as they thought, cuz they didn’t put anything on the END of the bed.  Well, without the light I didn’t notice when I got to the edge, and when I threw myself over one more time, I woke up suddenly and found myself staring up at the bottom of my bed!!

That’s the last time I trust my parents to make sure that all my gadgets are working at bedtime.  That night light is a MUST to keep me in my bed!  Man, parents aren’t good for anything!

I think not!!  I know my mommy and daddy say that the tulips are supposed to be oh so beautiful, and they kept trying to get me to smell the flowers, but why?  Flowers after a car ride aren’t any better than the flowers in the yard I played with yesterday!  So I had to find my own fun up at the festival.  Well, it turns out I didn’t have to look very far!  My Aunt Carrie was afraid of a little rain so she brought her umbrella with  her.  But she didn’t get to hold onto it for very long, cuz I wanted it, and I have what they all keep calling “only child syndrome”.  I think it means that I get whatever I want, all I have to do is whine a little bit.

Anyway, I wanted the umbrella so she gave it to me, and I carried it around, even when the wind tried to take it away from me!  I found that I am so very cute that I make friends where ever I go.  I had random ladies taking my picture, foreign people oo-ing and aaa-ing over me, and I even made friends with a little girl who was just my size!!

But the lela (aka umbrella) wasn’t the ONLY fun thing I found to do at the festival.  I also got to enjoy MUD PUDDLES!  My mommy didn’t let me stomp in many of the big ones, but she did let me jump in the little puddles and slip and slide around between them while holding her hand.  I really love puddles.  All I want to do is point out the water, and then step in it over and over until my white boots are brown and my pants are all wet.

It really was fun!  It was so fun I forgot to take a nap, and waited a LONG time before I wanted even a snack.  Maybe next year they’ll forget the tulips and  just have fields of mud puddles that I can play in while keeping my hair dry with my own umbrella.

Sugar covered marshmallows……I love peeps.  more! more! more!

Forget chocolate, sugar!!!!  Peep for pre dinner snack, mid dinner sugar rush, after dinner mint and  dessert, I sure do love when we’re at Abby’s house and he can give me treats without mom saying “no!”

Today was a really pretty day outside, so I got to go play with some of my neighbors.  My mom came out with me, and eventually dad came out to play too.  I met a new doggie in the street, but I didn’t like him much.  I did find Arrow, a very hyper lab puppy, and he made me giggle.  I even got to color and make dots on the street with the chalk.  I love chalk so much I tried to share it with Arrow, but when I dropped it over the fence for her she didn’t really care.  My Mommy brought out some bubbles, and I LOVE bubbles.  She blew some for me, and then Emma the neighbor girl blew them until she had to go inside.  Then the COOLEST thing happened!!  They let ME hold the bubble container.   I couldn’t quite get the bubbles to blow, but I know how to take the wand out and blow on it.  Daddy says it will take some practice until I get it right.

But then they told me it was getting cold and dark, so we had to come inside.  Daddy took the bubbles and put them up on the counter and that made me MAD!!!  And apparently how I react when I get mad isn’t the right way, cuz they didn’t give the bubbles back.  I tried to scream really loudly, and I stomped my feet and threw myself on the floor.  Even turning on the water works didn’t work, and all I got was Daddy to sit on the floor with me and get out the toy box.  So not fair.   I just want the bubbles, but mom says I’m practicing for my “Terrible Twos”, whatever those are…

Maybe I’ll get more bubbles tomorrow.

I really like going to school now.  I like seeing Miss Monica, I like my friends, and I really like the snacks and books.  Today I was playing in my favorite place in the room; the book shelf!  It’s like the kind at mommy’s doctor’s office where you can see part of each book and looks kinda like a ladder.  Well today I was doing my normal thing, trying to climb the shelf and a little boy came over and tried  to push me off!  I told him “No, Thank You!” but he didn’t listen.  So I did what all of the other children in the room  do, I bit him!  Then he cried and ran away and ANOTHER little kid came over!  Didn’t she see what happened to the first  kid?  So I told her I would bite her too, but she kept coming.   So I climbed down and started to try and bite her, but my teachers got in the way!  They told me “No Thank You!” and pulled me away.  They sure didn’t seem happy, even though I DID get the kid to stay away from my shelf.  Then, when daddy came to pick me up, they told HIM about what happened, and HE wasn’t happy.  He kept saying “It’s not nice to bite” and other “blah blah blah” stuff.  Then when we got home he told mommy what happened and SHE kept saying “It’s not nice to bit our friends; biting hurts” and other “blah blah” stuff.  I can’t believe they all seemed so unhappy!  All I did was stand up for my play space, and tell the other kids to stop trying to take it away!  No Thank You indeed!

Some days, I feel like I don’t get enough attention from my mommy.  I try very hard to make sure I see a lot of her, but it seems to not always work.  Yesterday I got up at 530am so that I could have some good time with Mommy before I went to school.  So I got up, and we snuggled, and I drank my bottle, and tickled her toes, and she smiled and seemed to really enjoy it too.  Then it was off to school!  You know, I don’t think that I really mind that place too much.  Mommy or Daddy (and even Ammie sometimes) always come back to get me.  So yesterday I fussed for only half a second while I remembered that mom would come back, then I nicely put my arms out to go see Miss Monica, and then I waved “byebye” to my mom.  She had the biggest smile, maybe saying “byebye” is better than crying when she has to go.  Anyway, Mommy came back early and picked me up after nap time.  She said she wasn’t feeling well, so we came home and went for a little walk.  But I got tired pretty quickly and decided to take another nap.  Well, I pretended anyway!  I took the bottle she offered me (even though I think they changed something, cuz the milk at nap times isn’t as yummy as the milk at bedtime), and I went up in my bed for an hour.  Then it was back down to play with Daddy who came home while I was upstairs.  So last night was Daddy’s turn to put me to bed, but I really wanted more Mommy time.  So after I finished my bottle, I called to Mommy.  But Daddy came back upstairs!!  I told him “no” and called for “Mama”, and FINALLY she came up.  I stopped crying and put my head down.  What I really wanted though, was to snuggle with her more, so when she asked if I was ready for bed, I told her “no”  and pointed out the door.  She was so smart!  She asked if I wanted to sleep in her bed so of COURSE I said “yeah” and Mommy took me into her room and I snuggled in her arms and fell asleep.  When I was totally asleep I got up and put myself down on her tummy and just started snoozing.  Mommy must have put me back in my bed though, because when I got up this morning I was in my bed.  It was nice….All I wanted was to sleep with my Mommy, so I practiced the snuggling.  What a good night. 

Today was a strange morning!  I got up, and Daddy was still at home!  Usually on Monday mornings it’s just me and Mommy, but today I got to wake up with snuggles from Daddy.  I got to have oatmeal and peaches for breakfast, but was STILL hungry.  Then after I played for awhile, Mommy said it was time to go byebye.  I love to go byebye, it’s a big treat, and I usually get to go someplace fun.  Today we went to this building that was full of lots of other little kids.  There was this baby today, and her mommy knew my mommy a long time ago, so I got to say “hi” to the baby and smile at her, which was nice.  Then my mommy and daddy took me to another room and took all my clothes off!!  Things weren’t so bad, a nurse lady came in and talked to my mom and dad, then the doctor guy came in and showed me his funny toys.  He had one with a light that he put in my eyes, and a pointy thing he look in my ears with, and then this weird tube thing that he put one end in his ears, and the other end was a big circle that he pushed against my tummy and my back and listened to all my parts.  Then the doctor left and Daddy put my pants and socks back on.  Then came the part that is going to keep me up at night.  The nurse with the colored hair came in with the sharp things that always hurt, and my parents let her poke me with them!  I told her though!  After she was done poking and I finally got my Daddy to pick me up, I told that nurse what I thought of her!  I told her “No thank you!” and she stopped trying to poke me more, that’s how powerful my words are!  Man, such a long morning, but now I just get to play with my mommy this afternoon, then go see my Aunt Shelly for dinner tonight!