birthdays are great!

this weekend we celebrated my friend dixie's 2nd birthday with a nice little party! we had lunch and some yummy chocolate cake! i was so excited to sing the HAPPY BIRTHDAY song for dixie that i was jumping up and down! dixie got some nice gifts, including a toy golf club set. daddy tried to teach me how to play golf with them and i did pretty good! i also got to play golf with my friends dixie and maggie. we had fun running around being silly. dixie gave maggie and i magic wands for attending her party and it sure is special! i love to wave it around and put magic spells on my doggies!
daddy got enough done in the basement to move things back to where they used to be! this means that my kitchen and other bigger toys got to go back downstairs and i can play there again! there is so much more room for me down there and i also love having a change of scenery, especially since we are getting another dose of winter these days and it's way too cold to play outside. in this picture, i am feeding froggy a very nutritious meal of hot dogs and corn on the cob!

i'm still doing great on the potty! just a few accidents in the past week! i'm not even shy to poop away from home! i went at church yesterday. mommy felt like she spent more time in the bathroom than she did participating in mass, but at least i didn't have any accidents! saturday we took a road trip two hours each way and i did great then too! i'm really a big girl now! i just turned two and a half yesterday! here are some pictures with my froggy and my pookies!

1st day of school!!!

yes, today was my first day of mom's morning out and i had a great time! we got up this morning and got out the door right on time. i was very shy when we first arrived and had a few tears when mommy left me, but i sat on the teacher's lap and we read a story to distract me a little bit. i made a zoo picture with big animal stamps to bring home for mommy and daddy! i also got to play with some toys and go outside on the playground. mommy packed me a yummy lunch even though i didn't eat too much of it at school. i finished it on the car ride home though! i even used the big girl potty at school and didn't have any accidents this morning! when mommy came to pick me up, i just smiled big at her, but i really wasn't in a hurry to leave. in fact, when we got home i told mommy i was ready to go back to school! she told me on wednesday, so i'll keep bugging her about it till then!

today is day four in underwear and i've made tons of progress. i only had two accidents yesterday. i am getting better at telling mommy when i need to go and holding it until i can get to the potty.

mommy caught me on video singing with my elmo karaoke toy this weekend. she says she's going to save it to share with the whole world when i become a big star on american idol one day!

POPS are AWESOME!

well, i start my first day of school on monday morning! it's actually a mom's morning out program at a church and i will go twice a week. i have been there twice to look at the place, and i really like the outside playground there! i have met my teacher and she seems really nice. she asked me if i was excited to come to school next week and i shouted YES and starting jumping up and down! mommy keeps trying to prepare me for monday, saying that she will drop me off there to be with the teacher and play with the other kids. i say OK now, but we'll see how i react on monday morning when she leaves! we're also in a pickle about lunch since i have to bring one with me. my favorite lunch is a peanut butter sandwich, and we can't take anything that contains peanuts inside the school due to allergies. mommy does have lunch meat and cheese though so i'm just going to have to broaden my horizons with my lunch menu a little bit!

yesterday daddy brought home a HUGE thing of bubble wrap and rolled it out on the floor for me to hop around on. i call them POPS! it sure was a lot of fun!

today is the first day wearing my new underwear! i have been potty training for almost two months now, but mommy thought it was time for me to step it up a notch. i had my first accident and it definitely felt different than going pee-pee in my diaper. hopefully that will help me to remember to tell mommy or daddy when i have to go! mommy is prepared to keep the washer and dryer going to get my undies and pants clean and dry again when i do have those accidents! learning takes patience, but it sure has it's rewards!

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!

i really like today! shamrocks are pretty cool, although sometimes i call them snowflakes or flowers. we went to the library for storytime today and i made my own special shamrock there! i put some pretty confetti on it and i love to hold it and wave it around like a magic wand! mommy and i are also wearing our lucky socks today that we got in a package from grandma and grandpa! i sure thought it was silly that mommy was taking a picture of our stinky feet!

yesterday mommy and i made shamrock cookies. i did a really great job helping and once again, the cookies were very yummy!

i would like to share one of my favorite prayers with you in honor of st paddy's day:

"may the road rise to meet you

may the wind be always at your back

may the sun shine warmly on your face

the rain fall softly on your fields

and until we meet again

may God hold you in the palm of His hand."

fun at the tot lot

yesterday was a nice day so mommy and i headed up to the tot lot to play and enjoy the sunshine. my friend dixie was there too so we had a great time together! here are some pictures of us being silly!

my daddy and i

i had a fun weekend with my daddy! mommy went out of town on saturday and came back sunday so daddy and i got to spend some one-on-one time together! the weather was so nice and daddy took me to his work where some of the guys met to wash their trucks. i was a little shy when we first got there, but daddy gave me some crackers and got out the pressure washer. i sure had fun with that thing! daddy let me pull the trigger and we gave his truck a BUBBLE BATH! on the way back home, daddy stopped at mcdonald's and we had lunch together. i also did very well going in the potty while mommy was away! he sure spoiled me...i got eggs two days in a row for breakfast! i love eggs!

mommy and i spent a few hours at the tot lot yesterday. it was sunny, but quite windy so it didn't seem as warm as it should have. it was still so nice to be out in the fresh air, especially since we might see some snow again later this week. we are planning to go to the tot lot again today after my "nap" so maybe mommy will remember to take the camera this time! my favorite things to do there are swing and teeter totter!

mommy and i took murphy to the doggy doctor last friday and morgan today. i was a good girl while we were there, spending a lot of time coloring. they have a green parrot there in the waiting room who talks. he said "i love you" to me while we were waiting. (actually, that's not what he said, but that's what i told mommy he said when she asked me:) both doggies are fine, just a little on the fat side so they are going on a diet. guess i won't be giving them treats for a little while now.



reading is always fun!

this is my famous whine face!


i put froggy and bunny in time out! they were being bad!



stirring up my oatmeal


i love my playdoh!

in like a lion...

we had a super first day of march! there is about 8 inches of snow outside and it's not done yet! the southeast was hammered with snow today, us especially since we are in the mountains, but it has even begun to snow in places like charlotte, where they rarely see the white stuff!

mommy and daddy came outside with me and the doggies this afternoon to play! the snow was so high that i had trouble walking in it at first, but morgan and murphy's tracks helped to clear some areas for me. daddy helped me build a snowman and i had a great time making snowballs. after about an hour out there, i was pretty wet since it was snowing the whole time. i still wasn't ready to go inside yet, but mommy persuaded me. maybe we can go back out tomorrow if it's not too brutally cold.

check me out!

yet again, we are a little late getting the blog updated! so sorry to you loyal readers! we have been quite busy but things are slowing down so that we can catch up on what we fell behind on!

if you didn't look close enough at the top picture, look again! the latest news here is that i'm sleeping in a BIG GIRL BED! on thursday i climbed out of my crib during naptime and mommy ran up to find me crying in the middle of the floor. i didn't break any bones or REALLY hurt myself, but that made mommy scared enough to go out and get me a toddler bed. it's the same color as my crib and it looks great in my room. i love sleeping in it too! i think that mommy also likes that i can climb into it myself instead of picking me up and putting me in there (i'm getting too heavy to be picked up all the time). i haven't left my room yet while i'm supposed to be sleeping, and mommy is trying to drill it in my head not to get out of the bed until someone comes up to get me. i stay there at night time, but naptime is a different story since i don't really sleep then. mommy gives me one book though since she knows that i don't do naps and that way i'm not completely bored for two hours while i rest.

last weekend was very fun and crazy here at our house. our friends from georgia came to visit. leah and her kids colby (4) and kylie (2) and megan and her kids brennan (2) and brianna and blythe (12 wk old twins) all crammed in one mini-van and made the long drive up the mountain to see us! we didn't leave the house so we always had some kind of fun activity going and we were cleaning up toys a lot! we had the great idea of putting all my little chairs in a row and making a choo choo train! everyone blew their pretend train whistle and our mommies could finally get some pictures of the four of us together. we all napped at the same time on saturday afternoon so our mommies had a chance to visit in peace and quiet for a couple hours.


i got a nice package from my great aunt velda last week! inside were two monkies, one green and one hot pink to match my room! i bonded with them right away, carrying them around like a purse or putting them around my neck. i then got a brilliant idea! i put them around my pookies' necks! they didn't seem too amused by it, especially since mommy was just laughing! but they were good sports since they really love me and they knew that i just wanted to play with them.

i really love to sing and i know so many more songs by heart now! my faves are jingle bells, wheels on the bus, itsy bitsy spider, old macdonald, and 10 silly monkies. i'm also getting better at coloring and drawing. i drew a really good face the other day on my aquadoodle. reading is a favorite of mine as well. i have memorized many of my books and i love to read them out loud.

potty training has been coming along. i went #2 in the potty for the first time last friday and i have gone about a half dozen times since. last night was the first time i told mommy i had to go pee pee in the potty before i went in my diaper! i'm still learning, but when i'm ready i think that it will be smooth sailing and no more diapers!