I'm baaaack

Where have I been? We've been super busy and mama has been studying for a test so I haven't had any opportunity in the last two weeks to get at her computer without her looking. Mama's talking about going back to school. I guess she had to take a test to see if she was smart enough to learn. Or something like that.

What else has been going on?

We've done landscaping in the back yard and we've put in new carpet in our upstairs.

I got a new wagon. Red in color. Good for sitting in while someone pulls me down the street to the park.

"Yay!'

I'm still playing with Carson a few times a week. He's my best bud. He has a ride-on tractor that he drives around. I cheer him on, helping him, telling him when to go. I say, "mun, dew, wee...doe!"

Yep, that's a sheep.

Speaking of helping, when mama has to potty, sometimes she lets me come in the bathroom with her to help. And I do help. I tell her, "mun, dew, wee...doe!" "Yay potty!"And "Bye bye potty" when it's flush time. And when I'm at Carson's house, sometimes his mama lets us both come in and cheer her on when she's going potty. Mostly, daddy doesn't let me help him because a couple of times I've almost got my hand right in that stream.

Our berry plants in the backyard are very happy and I've already eaten two big handfuls of blueberries "bee!" and strawberries.

Gotta keep an eye on that garden.

Mama sings a lot. But usually it's a song that I don't want to hear. So I yell "NO!!!" until she stops. Then I move my finger around in a circle so she knows I want to hear "wheels on the bus go round and round".

I'm getting really big and doing a lot of counting and helping. I love to count EVERYTHING. Mun, dew wee birds. Mun, dew cookies. Mun, dew doggies. And I love to point out circles! And say letters! There's an "A"! There's a "Z"! And, look! There's an "O"! In the bath tonight I showed mama letters like the "M", ("aym") and "N" ("en-huh").

One of mama's friends gave her a bag of little plastic insects for me. I really like them and play with them a lot. They are nice colors and I like to line them up on the table.

My diapers were not working too well at night and mama and daddy were tired of washing the sheets so mama bought me night time pull-ups. They work really good! But when she first tried them, they were different than my usual diapers so I was not interested. Mama told me, though, that they were big boy underwear and they were like the underwear that daddy and baba and Dodo wear. Well, if Dodo wears them then how can I say no? So ever since then I refer to them as my "dodo pants". I can't say "pants" though so mama pulls them out and I say "dodo".

Mama's friend sent me a present for my birthday. She had heard I like money and putting it in my piggy bank, so she sent me a coin sorter. It's fantastic, the coins go around and magically stop and the right slot.

Tonight at dinner we were having a great time. We were making faces and funny eyes like we usually do. Then it was dessert time and mama brought out some apricot and vanilla yogurt for me but I said no I didn't like it. So she ate it and gave me some animal crackers. And then she had some animal crackers. And then daddy had some animal crackers. So we started playing with the animal crackers. They were walking around on the table and mama's were charging at me and I was laughing. And then daddy's animal cracker took off across the table toward me. Then out of NOWHERE another animal cracker came out and attacked that cracker and ate it and crumbled it and I got very upset and started crying. Mama was able to distract me but for some reason they thought that nature lesson was very funny.