Mismas is coming!!

I'm told that Mismas is coming and I am not allowed to open the presents under our Mismas tree! Oh, golly, it's hard not to peek! I've been having such a fun year.......we have done so many fun things some posted on this blog and others not posted. Let me try to remember....

I started the year off having surgery - tubes put in AGAIN and my adenoids taken out. Then, that night I stopped breathing and got to take a cool ride in an ambulance to the hospital! I was ok.....I think mommy has paid off the medical and ambulance bill by now. The good thing is, I'm a healthy boy! I only got one cold all year and my babysitter, Colleen, gave me that cold! That was just a couple of weeks ago - but it wasn't even that bad!

I had my 2nd birthday where Elmo came as the guest! My friends sure liked him - well, at least the boys did. The girls were scared!

When it began snowing last weekend, I asked mommy for my elmo boots to play in the snow. I haven't had my elmo boots since last winter and I sure do remember them!!!

I got to see Elmo live two times this year - one time on Mother's day in Portland we took a plane to get there! It was fun! Then we saw him here in Boise the first weekend in December! He mad music at that show - I love music, so it was neat to see him again! When we were in Portland, we went to the zoo there!!! Neat zoo.

We went to McCall for the fourth of July - I wasn't so much fun to be around on that trip. I think I was sick or something. We missed the fireworks and went to the hotel early to go to bed.....maybe I missed my nap.....or ate too many suckers from the hotel lobby!

I went on two train rides through the mountains - those were the best trips ever!!! It was fun when we went to the North pole on the train. I saw Santa, too.

We went to the zoo so many times I can't remember, but we got giraffes and lions which are new. Sadly, one of our new giraffes died shortly after he arrived to our zoo. I got to see him two times before he died. I miss him.

We went to Kansas City to see my family and friends! That was the best trip ever! I got to see dinosaurs as we ate dinner and got to go to two football games. One of them was very special. They dedicated the football field to my mommy's daddy....so, my grandpa! That was neat to see! We also went to the Zoo in KC! WOW - what a zoo.

I changed daycares in July and now I love my new daycare!!! It was a hard change to make, leaving my friends since I was 6 months old....but, I get to see them a lot so it's ok now. I have a new friend at my daycare too!

I starting peeing in the potty just after my trip to KC - I was about 2 1/2 years old when I decided, without giving mommy any notice, that I wanted to use the potty. After it was a sure thing that I was really using the potty - mommy gave me a big party at Chuck E Cheese! That was fun! The only thing I have to do now, mommy says, is give up me binkie! I only use it at night, and in the car when we travel.

Well, that's all for now. Maybe I'll think of more later........I do know that it was a fun year!

Merry Mismas and Have a Happy New Year!!!

Snow Fun

The Beginning of the END OF DIAPERS!!!

I started using the "toilet" as I call it on November 5th, which is the date this picture was taken of me! By November 15th I was a sure fire, FULLY, potty trained big boy!!!!!!!! We had our party to celebrate my success last night! Yeah and it was FUN!

Halloween night!

Trip to KC Zoo!

Grandma ran over a nail!

Hi Everyone!
I stayed home with grandma all week 'cuz Colleen was out of town! I had lots of fun with her. Today she ran over a nail in the neighborhood and I got to help her try to fix the tire! We walked back to our house and I got my tools and she got a bigger tool also, to help me, and we walked back to work on the car. It was fun. We weren't able to get the nail out, so we drove it anyway to get it fixed. Then when mommy got home from work we went to a neato park!!!! BIG slides! I'm not sure why mommy, just thie week, started taking me to this park instead of the park on the other side of our house. Maybe, it's because of the BIG slides and the CLIMBING WALL!!!! Maybe she didn't want me playing at this park when I was little! Now that I'm getting big, she doesn't even have to catch me going down the slide!!

August Pictures!!!

New things..............

Mommy went out of town over the weekend for work. I still saw her on both days she was gone, we spent time together in the morning before she left and then she got home the next evening and we played together then. I sure had fun playing all day when she was gone.....grandma got out alllllllll my toys - even the ones mommy hides from me!!! I got to put puzzles together, I'm really good at that, build towers with legos and played with all my cars. When she got home, we played and went to Wal-mart to buy groceries.....no fun! But, she got me blackberries, clementines, bananas and Dora yogurt (which are my favorites.) When mommy picked up the yogurt, she picked up a different one, but I told her "Dora milk!!!" she was surprised I knew who Dora was. I sneak in the new things I learn, without her being aware, every now and then!

I help

Mommy mowed the lawn last night and I helped her!!! I got out my lawn mower and followed behind her. It was fun, but hard work. We then went for a walk and she let me walk all the way to the park!!! It was so much fun! I can't believe how far I walked! We played at the park and wondered all around. I saw the mountains and pointed them out to mommy.....the mountains have been hiding for a long time from the fires near by....too much smoke, I think, is what they say.

Daycare update!

Well, I've been at my new daycare for one month now and I love it! I've learned to pick up my toys, be even more polite than I had been, throw my lunch into the trash can when I'm finished, learned to eat bread, take naps on the floor with my blanket and Elmo/tigger pillow (depending on which one I take that day,) keep my shoes on ALL day, and I keep clean.

Colleen, who I refer to as Clean, is the wonderful woman who takes care of me. I love my new friend Dillon and there are younger baby girls with whom I like to flirt. I still miss my friends Stella, Reecie and Braeton, but I get to see them every few weeks or so.......to play!!!

July fun......

I love giving mommy massages!!!!! I'm really good at it too!!! Check me out sitting with my BSU hat and my peanut butter and jelly sandwhich - another thing I'm now eating!

Cereal time!

I'm finally eating cereal!!! It's fun and yummy to eat!!!!

Missing my friends

Here I sit infront of pictures of my three best friends from the daycare I've gone to since I was 6 months old! I started my new inhome daycare on July 1st and by the 6th, I asked mommy, "Where my friends go?" She asked me which friends??? I told her "Stella, Reecie, Braeton." Mommy started crying when I said that - I think she felt bad for taking me away from my friends! I sure gave her a hard time this week!! I was mad that I don't get to go back to my old daycare!

The Ice Cream Cone!!!!

Fourth of July in the Mountians

We went to McCall this year for the fourth of July! Here are the pictures of me on the train ride we took!!! It was 2 1/2 hours long and sooooo much fun!! I also got to have an ice cream cone that was the biggest "kid size" ice cream cones in the wourld - it shocked mommy and grandmommy when they saw how big it was!!! Mommy was sorry, later, after I ate it.....I was quit a handful! :-)

I pee peed in my potty!!!!!

Here I am after going pee pee in my big boy potty!!!! Look at the smile on my face!!!!!!!

Elephant Gone!

Well.....I sure made mommy laugh! I asked her if I could hide a toy elephant down a vent in my bedroom. But, being 2 - she doesn't always understand what I'm saying. When I asked her she said, "sure." So, being the gfood boy that I am - I went promptly into my room and pulled the vent cover from the floor, because I'm that strong!! :-) Next I dropped the little people elephant I had down the vent - it went bye-bye. I ran into the next room to proudly tell mommy that "elephant gone." She again, wasn't sure what I was saying so she followed me into my room and I pointed to the vent "elephany, gone" I proudly told her. She said, "oh, no. what did you do?" She looked down the hole in my floor - I said to her, "elephant gone." She started laughing so hard I started laughing! It was a funny moment at my house when the elephant went bye-bye!!

When Elmo Grows Up - Portland, OR - Mother's Day Weekend