tricksy toots and tainted tongue

Guess what, I'm now pottying standing up! I'm doing great with my potty learning and hardly have any accidents at all anymore. Except the poopy kind. That's a tough one, 'cause toots can be tricksy.

And I learned a new word! Well, I learn new words all the time but this one has mama kind of excited. Not in a good way, though. About a week ago I walked into mama's office while she was looking at the computer. I wanted to get on Ian's blog but she wouldn't do it right then. I blurted out oh, dannit! except it was definitely not n's in there, if you get my drift. I've said it again since then and mama keeps asking where I learned that word. But I won't tell her. It's my little secret...

Parking.

Went to the park with Carson the other day, here are some nice pictures of us.



Also a video of us before we headed out.

We had a really nice time but I got really hungry and cranky by the time we were ready to leave, so poor Carson had to listen to me yell and scream the whole way back to our house.

Lately I'll take any excuse to dance...

(as usual, need to come to the blog to see the video)

my birthday

is coming up! I know because we've been talking about it for a little while. I love to look through my baby book and we look at the picture of my first birthday, then my second birthday. Then we see the blank page for the third birthday and mama and I talk about when I turn three.

Here are my expectations for my birthday. I tell these to mama and daddy a lot so they won't forget. (mama has only agreed to the first two)

1. I will get a new big boy bed for my birthday.
2. I will have lemon cake for my birthday.
3. I will get a ride in a helicopter for my birthday.

Busybody

It's been a busy weekend. Yesterday mama had class so I spent the day with oma and opa (yamma and baba R). Then after mama picked me up, we went home for a few minutes and then mama and daddy took me over to yamma and baba D's house. I got to spend the night there because mama and daddy had a party to go to that night.

Then mama and daddy came to pick me up this morning and we all had breakfast with yamma and baba and then went out to mama's friend's house for a playdate. Mama took her camera with her because I guess she's the official photographer. After we were there for a while she started taking pictures of the other little girls but I asked her to "take a picture of me too".



This is Ella.



And this is Emmeline.




I have fun with the girls and we had a nice time this morning but it was a long weekend and I was happy to go home and take a nice long nap.

Thomas overload

I got another wonderful surprise lately. Mama came home last week and opened the back of the car. Daddy and I peeked in and mama had brought home a B-I-G box of Thomas the Train stuff! Another one of mama's work friends had passed it down to me. There was a roundhouse and lots and lots of trains and tracks and bridges and tunnels. There was even a Henry train! Yey! Good thing I didn't pick Henry for my potty learning reward.

Here's a video of daddy and me unpacking things. All I could say was "wow, wow, wow!"

Random musings

Several weeks ago, mama and daddy took me to visit a school. The lady in charge took us for a tour. I walked through the classrooms and saw all the other kids and I was just so excited. It looked like so much fun! I tried dragging mama into the different classrooms because I wanted to go and join in. By the time we got to the two-year-old room I was in heaven. I tried dragging mama in again and she just said to go in and check it out. She sure didn't have to tell me twice! LOL.

Anyway we really liked it and I went to my first school day there this week. I took a backpack and everything. In the two-year-old class I have to have a grownup with me and yamma D went with me this time 'cause daddy was off playing at the dentist office. This year will be fun, but next fall will be even better...I get to go all by myself three days a week! I can't wait!

My school backpack



And me on my first day!




We were reading the Thomas Train book and there was a nice big head-on picture of Henry. Mama was reading the page and I took my finger and covered up one of Henry's eyes. I let mama finish reading the page, then I said, "He's a pirate!"
YARRRR!


Mama has been teaching me about coins a little and we've been reading the "money book" a fair amount. Recently I started holding nickels up to her and telling her what was on them. At first she thought I was saying "mr yellow" and she was correcting me, that no, it was Thomas Jefferson. But then she figured out that I was telling her it was "Monticello" on the back of the nickel. She thought that was great. I do it all the time now when I've got a nickel.

Mama and daddy went to a grownup party a few weeks ago. I got to have a real live babysitter. It was Emily from next door. She played with me and read me books and put me to bed. So cool! We had a good time.