Big kid!

I'm a big kid now!
Take a look at the picture below. See anything different about my bed?


Yep, it doesn't have four sides on it anymore! After my nap today, daddy took off the outside part of my crib. When I saw it I was just blown away. "Wow" to the max.

I had to try it out.

Again and again. In and out. In and out.


And then, it got better. Mama brought in the big boy comforter that she bought for me a few months ago. It's orangey and yellowey and red(dey). It also has monsters on it.


It was a really big step so mama brought in one of my stepstools.






Then to make things even more spectacular, mama brought in the matching pillow. She and daddy weren't sure I would like it, but I do! I do!





I was so excited about my bed this afternoon that I was practically shaking.

Uncle dodo came over for dinner and we had fun. And mama made homemade popsicles for dessert today. With berries and grape juice. Yum! The ice pops are too cold for my teeth, so I make mama bite off pieces and feed them to me like I'm a baby bird. Only they're not regurgitated and coming out of her throat, they're bites that I eat out of her hand.

Right after dinner I announced that it was "night night" time. It was pretty early so mama wasn't quite sure that I should go to bed so soon but I needed a diaper change so we went upstairs. I made mama put my jammies on and then I only let her take me downstairs so I could say good night to daddy and dodo.

I wanted dodo to read me my new book "where's the poop?" so he came upstairs with me and he got to see my new bed too. He was very excited about it and happy for me. After he read the book two times I told mama it was time to brush my teeth. Then I wanted to get in bed. But first I had daddy read me my book a third time. Then I climbed up all by myself and mama pulled up the covers. I snuggled myself in bed and mama and daddy both gave me kisses.

I can't believe how great this is. I can hardly sleep. Maybe I should go downstairs and see what mama and daddy are doing...

Happy Birthday Carson

Carson's second birthday was last week. He got really sick though so we didn't get to go to the big party. He has something called hand-foot-mouth-ankle-bellybutton-earlobe disease. Or maybe it's just the first three.

We're playing the waiting game now to see if I get it too. I've got to say, the waiting game is nowhere near as much fun as ring-around-the-rosy.

So your great grandma thinks this is your best birthday ever, huh? She sounds like a sick cookie.

Counting to Four

After my last blog, aunt ninny sent us a link to a wonderful Sesame Street video about counting. It's lots of fun, you should check it out. The pretty lady's name is Feist.

Count on me.

I wish mama had a blog.

Carson's mama has a blog.

If my mama had a blog, she could brag on me and talk about all the brilliance that oozes from me each and every day.

She could mention things like my excellent counting skills. For example, we were out front tonight and I was counting the chairs. There were two of them and another two of them. I counted "mun, dew, wee..." and mama said "four..." As though I didn't know.

So I decided to continue the game. "Pie".

Mama said "Six"

I said "yemen"

and then "eite".

Wouldn't that have been a great thing for mama to post about, if she had a blog?

Things that go boom.

Would you like to see what I did for the 4th? Yeah, July. You know, celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it...

I'm told this was my third Independence Day, though I don't think we did anything the last two years. I'm sure I would have remembered.

This year, yamma and baba R and uncle dodo came over for dinner and then we started lighting things on fire.

Here's my first sparkler. I wasn't too impressed.









But when we started making noise and smoke, then I was totally into it!







Yeah! More! More!

















Loving it.





Here's my second sparkler. O-ay, I'm starting to get the appeal.



Enjoying the neighbors' fireworks. They had lots of smokey things and things that crackled.



After dinner, I helped yamma get the strawberries ready for strawberry shortcake. Which, by the way, was the highlight of my year. Strawberries? Good. Shortcake? Good. Whipped cream? GOOD.

Helping

Every day I'm getting more growned up. Today I helped mama make some banana and chocolate chip bread and told her I was "helping". Just to be sure she knew what I was doing as I stuck my hand in the mixer.

After we baked I did the dishes. Well, I played in the sink with my dishes.


Daddy is doing a lot of work on the back yard and during my last nap finished taking apart the patio. Mama helped yesterday and Baba D came over this morning and helped. Pretty soon we'll have a really big patio with lots of room for many more toys.

There's a big step down from the yard to the path right now. We have to get down to the path if we're going to get to the blueberry bushes. So we went outside this morning and I asked mama to "help me" down the big step. She thought it was very cute.

Um

Um what else?

Mama and I went to Target the other day and got me some diapers and another little box of Legos. Now I have just enough Legos to make it through for another few weeks. Rolando really enjoyed playing on the structures that we built today. He got worn out from all that playing so I shared my juice with him.

Then Rolando went for a ride on the car that mama built for us.

Mama's helping me with this blog post (I'm just dictating this one) and I just came and sat down to check it out. "Help you". It was all good and nice until mama said "Ian, I love you". I turned and looked at her and said "bye bye mama". It's time to go tell daddy to get me more juice.

Pool Boy

It's been really warm lately so I've been enjoying my pool regularly. I've got a few toys in there, and I also just like to splash and play with my orange bucket. Last weekend I had an audience. Yamma and Baba and Mimi were here for dinner and afterward everyone circled around my pool while I played.

YEEEEEEEE THAT'S COLD WATER!!