Picking up chicks at the park...AGAIN

So there I was, playing at the park, sliding down the slide, swinging on the swing, transporting sand from one end of the park to the other with nothing but a shovel, you know...just minding my own business, when this crazy chick showed up. Her name is Chloe. Chloe is nice enough, I guess, but she's just a baby so she doesn't do much but try to steal my sand shovel. And I didn't like that she kept trying to steal my sand shovel, not one little bit!

And there we were, just Chloe and I, me playing with my sand shovel and Chloe trying to steal my sand shovel, when this chick showed up. AVERY! Avery lives next door, as in four steps away next door. Isn't she cute! Whenever mommy and dada take me outside, I go straight to Avery's house and knock on the door. I like playing with avery...and her toys...and her dog...and her daddy, Todd.

FRIDAY NIGHT

Bet you're wondering what a guy like me does on a Friday night. Normally I'd answer nothing special, but last night I had a blast! First mommy and dada took me to eat Mexican food where I had tortilla chips dip dip dipped in guacamole, and then I dipped dipped dipped my chips into mommy's enchilada sauce. Who knew enchilada sauce was so yummy! I dipped so much mommy's enchiladas were sauceless. I also ate 4 bites of a bean and cheese burrito. After dinner we went to daddy's office to visit his new toy....

I love going to dadas office because I get to play with the water cooler. Did you know the water cooler is one of my funnest toys. I know where dada hides the cup and I know how to make the water go into the cup and I know how to sip out of the cup and when I sip I go AHHH. Refreshing I tell you.

Drinking out of the cooler isn't the only thing I do... I also bissel! Cleaning is fun. I'm just like dada, I get way down and make sure to get those hard to get spots. No spot is too hard for me to get! I'm the hard spot getter!

Hamburger Cheeseburger?

You'll never believe what I found in my drawer this morning, my swimming trunks! Of course the first thing I did when I found my girly trunks was take them to mommy and say THIS THIS as I bent my head forward so she'd get the hint. Mommy put them on my head and laughed. I laughed too, and clapped my hands and danced around the room. This completes my new look, the lunch lady look. Hamburger Cheeseburger anyone? For the record, I HAD to wear the girly trunks. To keep certain foreign objects from contaminating the swimming pool. Thankfully Dada made sure to cover those girly trunks by a pair of masculine board shorts.

Hats, Teletubbies, and Chinese Soup

After I woke up from my 4 HOUR nap, I was feeling pretty good, so mommy took me to Old Navy, and then we went to REI, and then we went to The Gap, and then we went to Target, to find a winter coat for my long trip to New York. Would you believe there are no coats, or sweaters, in California? For real! But at Target mommy found that hat I'm wearing in the picture. By the way, I'm watching my favorite show in that picture - TELETUBBIES! I can even say TUBBIES, and when the sun comes up over the mountain I smile so big because i'm the most excited guy in the world. Okay, back to the hat. As you know, I am a hat guy, and that hat is actually a $1.49 Ladies scratchy knit hat from Target. I loved it the moment mommy put it on my head. When we found the boy hats, Mommy tried to put on a red and black striped hat on my head, but I said, NO! And this I said, THIS, and put the ladies scratchy target knit hat back on my head. Mommy then tried to put a really snuggly soft grey and black hat on my head, but I told her NO! again. I don't know what's wrong with mommy. Doesn't she know I'm a guy who knows what he wants? So then she tried this hideous Spider Man hat, and I had to tell her NO! again. And so mommy FINALLY got the hint and bought me a scratchy knit ladies hat. I love it. Tonight we're going to have Asian soup. It's super yummy. The broth has ginger in it and there are these really good carrots floating around. The only time I ever eat carrots is when they come from the soup. Mommy is also going to get me some veggie lo mein in hopes that I actually eat a veggie - for once. I'll eat those noddles, and only the long noodles, but I will not eat those veggies, only the carrots in the soup. Mommy wonders if they can make a soup chock full of those carrots. We're ordering in because mommy can't cook, she's too sick to cook and the thought of even opening the fridge might make her barf. At first she thought I might have a baby brother or sister coming soon, and she got really excited and started imagining ways to change the house around, but it turns out it's the same bug I had that's making her sick. Poor Mommy.

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I haven't been eating and I've been sleeping a lot more than usual this week. In fact, I'm sleeping right now and have been sleeping for over three hours. Me sick. No feel good. Even so, I've managed to learn a few more words...

Gah-gah, is now Ga-be, which is how I say Gatsby.
Circle, when i draw a circle.
Ouch, when I lightly pull mommy's hair.

And in the middle of the night when I wake up, I no longer cry, I just scooch out of my big boy bed and my feet pitter patter as fast as they can down the hallway to mommy and da-da's room where I stand beside the bed and say Up, Up, until da-da grabs me and throws me in bed beside him.

GO GO GO

GO GO GO, that's what I say when I've got my OOS on, because I'm ready to Go! Where am I going? To school of course. Today mommy is flying to New York to work, and in the spirit of Mommy, I'm wearing my fly guy coat. I'm Captain Cosmo...and don't you forget it.

Yeah, that's right, I'm a hat guy. I have sevaral hats that make up a few very fun and unique looks. There's the wrap the towel on top of my head like mama does after a shower hat, but I don't really like that hat. I like to make that hat fall off my head, though. That's fun. Then there's the Prince Cosmo of Arabia look, pictured above. Now this is a great hat, because if I run real fast, it flies out behind me like a cape. Again, this hat is most fun when it's falling off my head. Then there's the Charlie Chan hat, which I make by putting my favorite clear plastic bowl on top of my head. Now that's a great hat, and I like to wear it all over the house. In fact, yesterday I found ANOTHER plastic bowl outside, and I put that bowl on my head and walked around until mommy took it off because she said it was dirty, that it was Kitty Kitty's bowl (the stray outside). Then there's my Halloween pumpkin candy holder hat. That's a great hat because it covers my eyes and I walk around the house like a blind man running into things. And of course, there's my old favorite, the china man hat. You may remember seeing it before, because I've had this hat since I was a teeny tiny baby. Steve and Jane brought it back all the way from, you guessed it, China.

Enough about hats, how about a few new words. Now when I put on my oos, I run to the door and say "Go go go go," and if mommy doesn't go fast enough I'll cry and I'll scream GO GO GO until mommy can't take it anymore and then we go. Preferably to the next door neighbors house where I knock on the door so that I can say hello to the dog, a little white thing that yaps at my feet. When the neighbor opens the door and the little white yappy dog barks at me, I bark back. I'm a good barker. Then when mommy says it's time to go, I fall on the ground and cry and cry and cry, and I say "NO NO NO!" because I like barking at dogs. Another new word is Yummy. I say mmmm....yummy whenever I eat something yummy, like Puffs (Cheetos). Dada is out of town today, but mommy had to stop by his office for something, and when mommy said it was time to leave, I fell to the floor and cried, Dada, dada, dada, because I wanted my dada and I knew he was supposed to be in that building! Tomorrow daddy is coming home and mommy is flying to New York, so it's going to be just me and daddy over the weekend until late Monday night. You know what that means...PUFFS for dinner! MMM...YUMMY

A few more words...

Ball, Bubble, Pizza, Ooos, Uffs - just a few of my new words. Don't forget, I also say, Hi, Hello, Bye (with a wave), yeah yeah yeah, OK, Gah Gah, Mommy, Dada, Coco, Baf, Boo, Kitty Kitty, Bobble, and this (and I point). So that's 19 words for me!

Yesterday mommy (it's mommy now) and me went to the grocery store. I got to ride in the cart. One of my favorite things to do while riding in the cart is to chuck things into the back. Or chuck them on the floor. While mommy was pushing me around, I saw something I wanted when we entered the produce section, so I said, "ball!" and pointed. Mommy looked around and said, "No, that's an orange." But that's not what I meant, so I pointed again, and said, "Ball!" Mommy looked around again and said, "No, that's an apple." I knew that was an apple, and that wasn't what I was pointing at, so I pointed real big and said, "Bubble! Bubble!" And finally mommy got it! "That's not a bubble, that's a balloon!" I wanted that balloon. Then we went down the frozen food aisle and mommy threw a few frozen pizza's in the back of the cart and said, "Pizza!" So I said, "Pizza" and that's pretty much all I said all night, "Pizza, pizza, pizza!" And then I ate some.

Last night my ears and teeth hurt, so I didn't sleep so well, which means mommy didn't sleep so well.

This morning I brought mommy my shoes and said, "Oooos, Ooos" and mommy knew exactly what to do. She put my shoes on me! After mommy put my shoes on, I was ready to go, so I stood by the door and said, "go!" And then we went.

For lunch I stood by the snack drawer and said "Uff, Uff" which means puffs, not cookies. Now I know the difference.

(pictures later)

Look what mama found. When she saw that she said she doesn't want to know...

Here I am, the big boy in his big boy bed. I love my big boy bed, but only during the day when I'm wide awake. I have the best time climbing on it, standing up and falling down, and then climbing down, just to do it all over again. See my new bed rail. Mama thought that would be a good idea, so I can sleep in the bed, but guess what, it was a bad idea, because I won't sleep in that bed. Just play in it. So last night mama put the mattress back on the floor and I slept through the night. Big beds aren't the only thing this big boy got, I also got the big boy potty! When mama put it together I sat right on it and said, "Pee, pee," and mama said, "pee pee is right!" I love to sit on my new toilet - fully dressed in my spiffy Hugh Hefner Pj's.

Playing outside

Just playing with my squeegee and checking out Coco and Molly, the dogs next door.

Here are photos of me with my three favorite toys...My first favorite toy is my cat ga-ga. He's not the nicest cat in the world, but I do like him a lot. In the mornings he lies on top of mama, and since I'm sleeping next to mama (she rescues me at 5am) I get to pet him, and I get to kiss him, Ga-ga is the only person I kiss with the kissy noise. I do a mmmmm-wah, when I kiss him. And I give him about twenty kisses in a row. I'm not so sure he likes my kissing. My second favorite toy is that piano in the background. I'm a good piano player and when I get a good beat going, I bounce my head up and down to the groove. Look at me playing piano down below. And notice the megaphone....Aunt Holly gave me that megaphone for Christmas and it's one of my most favorite toys in the whole world. Next to Ga-ga. I still haven't quite mastered the turning it on part, but I know I'm supposed to talk into it, and I can make it work real well when mama pushes the button for me.

Look at me showing Ga-ga how to use the megaphone. For some reason he doesn't really like the megaphone. I can't figure out why. I think it sounds really cool when I bang it as hard as I can on the table next to him.

So guess what...the mattress on the floor idea is still a good idea, but I'm still waking up every three hours. When mama comes into the room at night she tells me to lie down, and I do lie down, and then I fall asleep real quick...for three hours...and then I cry all over again.

Today I patted mama on the shoulder and said, Mama. And that made her really happy. Then I said Bobble, bobble, and mama got me a bottle. And then I said BAF! over and over in the middle of the day today. I even ran as fast as I could into the bathroom and stood in front of the tub and said BAF BAF, but mama didn't give me a baf. I also know where the cookies are, and when I want one I can crack the drawer open, and get my arm through the teeny tiny crack, and when I find the right bag, I cry, Cookie, cookie, and then mama will give me the cheese puffs. I call the puffs cookies. Cookies are good. Tonight I had tomato soup. Soup is good too.

Look at me playing with Ga-ga! Ga-ga loves my glow in the dark sword. In fact, he loves it more than I do. And check out my buck teeth. Mama bought that funny pacifier for me when I was just a little baby, but I didn't like them when I was little, but now that I'm all grown up I love it, and when I see myself in the mirror I crack up. Which makes the funny teeth fall out. But then I put them back in my mouth. So I bet you're wondering how mama's sleeping experiment went last night. It was a HUGE success, because I slept almost all night - until 5am! Okay, so I may have woken up at 11:30, like I do every single night at 11:30 - like clockwork, but all mama had to do was lie down beside me, pet my head a couple times, and I was fast asleep again in less than a minute. The mattress on the floor idea was a very good idea. This weekend dada will make my crib until a real bed. A real bed for a big boy.

NO MORE CRIB!

Yesterday I said Diaper, and then I said bobble, which means I want my bottle. And another thing I say, and I say it a lot, is No, no, no! That's what I say when mama tries to put me in my crib, and then I cry and I cry and I cry - FOR HOURS, and when that doesn't work I yell, Da-da, Da-da, Da-da! At the top of my lungs, which brings Da-da to the rescue. Da-da can't stand to hear me yell his name, which is exactly why I yell it. Why all this crying? Because I hate my crib. I haven't slept in it for weeks. Where have I been sleeping you may be asking yourself? Right smack between mama and Da-da - where I belong. Mama can't take it anymore, because when I'm in bed, I spin around in circles like a tornado - all night long. So mama went to my school this morning and asked my teachers what they do to get me to sleep. At school I sleep on a cot. Mama can not believe I actually fall asleep on a cot. In fact, mama pictures all the other kids sleeping and me running around like a wild animal. So...wanna know what my teacher said? She said she does nothing. That I just go to sleep on my own. Mama couldn't believe it. So mama is going to try a new experiment. See me sleeping in the picture, that's what I'm doing RIGHT NOW. I'm sleeping on my mattress, but my mattress is on the floor, not in the crib, and guess what...IT WORKED! I fell asleep on the mattress, not on mama. Tonight will be a big night. Mama is going to let me sleep on the floor, on my mattress, with the baby gate blocking my bedroom door so that I don't escape my room. I'm not sure how I'm going to like this, but if I don't like it rest assured I'll be yelling Da-da, da-da, da-da! until I find myself right smack dab between mama and da-da, spinning around like a tornado...ALL NIGHT LONG.

my car

Little Man

That's what mama's been calling me the last two days...her little man - ever since I got my mullet chopped. With my new do I've started doing all kinds of big boy things. Like wear a pancho. Da-da brought it home from Mexico. I'm wearing it with my checkered Vans and my cool jeans that came all the way from London. I'm such a big boy I ate my first burger from Fatburger. And I ate an onion ring. Today da-da and I hung out together while mama went shopping. Mama did her hair real big and curly and when I saw her coming down the stairs I said "WOOOOOW!" real loud. She looked so good, I ran to her and jumped in her arms and played with her big fat curls.

Look at me this morning...watching cartoons like a big boy. Teletubbies are by far my favorite. Teletubbies and the Wiggles














And this little guy is my new pet. He came and visited me last night. Doesn't he look like Ga-ga? When I saw him I knocked on the door and said, "Kitty Kitty." And then I grabbed my popcorn popper and banged it into the wall until my new pet ran away.

NEW WORDS & A NEW DO

Kitty kitty - when I see the outside cat

Cookie - and then I can switch it around and say Kiecoo, either way, mama knows what I want

What are you doing - That's what I said today while lying on my belly on the floor, trying to look under the bathroom door when da-da wouldn't let me in.

Okay - after mama says okay.

Purple - when I use the purple crayon.

And then I do this new thing over and over. I make my mouth round, like a fish, and then I burst out fake laughing, and I do this a lot. Mama has not yet figured out who I'm trying to imitate yet, but I'm definitely imitating someone.

Oh, and I got a haircut today. Da-da told mama not to cut off my mullet, and mama told the lady with the scissors not to mess with the mullet, but the lady with the scissors chopped chopped chopped a little too much.

13 inches of rain, 7 foot waves, 3 storms in two days, that's what the news is predicting for this weekend. And so we headed to the beach....before things got ugly. Mama, who was ma-me, but is now mama, took me for another one of her looooong and borrring walks. I'm getting a little tired of these walks. I've been doing them since I started growing in her belly. They're just a bit too long for a fidgety guy like me. Speaking of me, there I am in the stroller, getting a little figdety. And I was just getting started. Only four more miles to go....

So what did I see on the walk. Besides the volleyball nets that didn't have nets, I saw balls without volleyball players. There were lots and lots of balls, and when I saw those balls I said "Ball!" and pointed. And I also saw dogs. Lots and lots 0f dogs, but I can't say the word dog yet, so I just pointed and smiled.

See this big house. It's mama's dream house. Whenever we pass this house she sighs and says, One day. And then she leans over and asks, When you make it big, will you buy your mommy a house like that? And I smile. Of course I'll buy my mama a house like that. Oh look...I guess I fell asleep on the walk. I'm glad I fell asleep, because there is too much walking on that walk...

After the walk mama took me to the park. Look at all the little kids at the park...

These are my favorite steps. I go up and down. Up and down. Up and down.

See this big blue slide, I rode it! With mama. We went down it over and over and I said, "weee!" That's me climbing up the big blue slide. It was a really big blue slide. Mama couldn't believe when she saw me climbing it. And she couldn't believe it even more when she saw me get to the top. Of course she was behind me. But she didn't help! I didn't all by myself.

After about ten minutes of sliding, I saw something I couldn't believe...KIDS! And lots of them. It was a school of kids. After the initial shock wore off, I ran after them and guess what, they played with me!

Here's one of the kids. She's a girl. And look, there's another kid. And she's a girl, too

It was crazy, I was surrounded by them, all these girls! And you know what...I kind of liked it.