War Wound

So I was stabbed in the arm after school yesterday. Stabbed, I tell ya. And my site reaction to the flu shot was bad enough to warrant school calling Mommy in the middle of the day asking if I'm dying. But enough dwelling on my pain.

When I got ready for school, I broke out my sunglasses and chomped away on my super tasty waffles.
I'm almost too cool for school!
Yes, we are totally dorky enough to pose for self portraits during breakfast.
And we take lots and lots of pictures and then go through them on the computer at night and point out ourselves in each shot. We are easily self entertained!
Yes, that is orange yogurt. Can you believe Mommy sneaks carrots in my yogurt since I still refuse and sort of fresh fruit or vegetables. Mommy is super annoyed at the fortune she spends at Target every week on baby food jars.
And I simply refused to get out of my chair until Mommy slapped on two band-aids. I win. Always!

After school I totally needed a bath and ran immediately upstairs to scout out my fizzies. Today I was totally feeling a super green bath courtesy of blue and yellow fizzies. I'm getting pretty good at flinging fizzies into the tub.

Daddy's flight was canceled in Boston and the Amtrak option was a bust (train track caught on fire!) so he snagged a ride back to good ol' Mayberry with a co-worker and ended up getting home right around 8pm, which is about the time I was sent to bed as punishment for sassing Mommy. Thankfully, he swooped in and hugged and kissed me and made me feel all better for being called on the carpet by mean Mommy. Hooray for Daddy!

Boo-Boos

This just about sums up our morning.

"Mommy, what are you doing?"
"Trying to rationalize my point with a toddler."
"Mommy, no."



After school we headed home and I entertained myself while Mommy cleaned up and made us dinner. I am a huge fan of stickers, especially ones I can take off the backing myself. I know where the art supplies are and help myself all the time. My creations? Priceless.

My attention to detail is astounding, for a toddler.


After a great dinner, my did the dishes and when she was finished she looked up and found all the lights on the main floor a glowin'. She was puzzled because she didn't remember turning any of them on. I decided not to tell her my little secret. The benefit of hardwood floor? I can slide my stool to every light switch and turn them all on, all by myself!


Then we read one of my favorite stories, Curious George and the Dump Truck. Then we headed up to bath time and I grabbed the fizzies from the cabinet. I chose red this time. Mommy lined up ten fizzies and then I threw them in the water one at a time and watched the water turn a brilliant red. I hopped in got all cleaned up and then attacked the second agenda of baths- splashing. I love to close the door and splash away, then I open the door and say hi to Mommy, close the door and back to splashing. Repeat this sequence a million times and that's bath time in the K-B house!


My great accomplishment today was learning how to go to the hall closet, open a box of band-aids and unwrap the band-aid myself. I then put them on my 'boo-boos'. Did you know I can have up to three boo- boos on each leg before Mommy puts her foot down. What's with three? Why can't a toddler have four boo-boos on her leg? Stranger things have happened!

Dancing Robots

Mommy and I are working our way through our recipe collection and this morning did not disappoint with sour cream banana pancakes from scratch. She took the lead on cooking and I took the lead on being a little robot just like I saw on a recent Barney episode.

Here I am in full on robot mode.

I've been practicing for a sibling and figured out how all the Mommy's do it, so I've decided to have my own baby. Baby in my belly!

What's all the fuss about delivery? That was super simple and super fast. Ta da!

After my quick medical adventure we left Daddy as he headed off to work and we went to the grocery store and park. Then we had a great nap and woke up to find Daddy back home.

I entertained myself with play doh. I like making meatballs in all colors.

It sure is hardwork making creations but I think I've got it.


Mommy had to work for a bit and her boss came over to get some stuff done. Audit work sure sounds boring if you ask me. I hung out with Daddy and decided to entertain everyone with ne with a lively 'row row row your boat'

Then we decided to go for a nice walk. I didn't want to go without baby. Where did baby go? I started calling, "Where at baby?", "You okay, baby?", "Baby upstairs", "I come get you, baby" and then I went upstairs and rescued baby from the crib and we headed out for our walk.

I chose the stroller route for our walk and I snuggled with baby until we tripped on the sidewalk and I dropped baby and then gave it big hug and asked if baby if baby was okay, then I "You okay baby?" Mommy and Daddy thought that was super cute. I was just being a good Mommy to my baby, right?


When we got home Daddy drew the short straw and got to change my diaper. Daddy called out for Mommy and I had to correct him yet again, "No, Daddy, you call her Vanessa. I call her Mommy."

Since I was still recovering, I swindled a few extra barney's out of mommy before bed time. Daddy helped out with my recovery. I donned my hat and sunglasses as my standard Barney watching atire.

I'm totally focused and Daddy was annoyed with Mommy and her camera.
Here I am in my favorite indoor garden.
I am super pretty and starting to feel all better again. I'll be totally ready for school in the morning.

Nationa Alpaca Day- I'm There

As soon as I get dressed each morning I wiggle free from Mommy's grasp and run to my reading chair and hide out for as much alone time as I can manage. Mmm, wonder who's side of the family I get that from, wink wink.

This book is great, I can move the parts all by myself.
Here I am on my throne. I am half heartedly attempting potty training. I usually want to go pee pee on the potty when someone else needs to or right after Mommy changes my wet diaper. So, I sit on the potty until my heiny is super sore. Here I am hunkering down for a super long session.
Daddy sets up the ipad with pictures of me and sets the slide shows to music. Life is potty good!
After all that fun we headed for a morning walk on Main Street and were super thrilled to find the fire house buzzing with activity. Mommy tried to get me to just wave but that didn't fly with me, of course. Even baby wanted in on the fire house action.
I sure can't wait until I'm old enough to volunteer. I'll drive!
After the great walk we headed home for lunch and a great nap. When Daddy and I awoke we were proposed with an unusual idea and we didn't have the heart to turn Mommy down. So, we headed out to an alpaca farm. And it turned out to be a great idea!

Yummy alfalfa. Eat more, please.
After feeding the boys, we headed into the pen to pet the babies. Even the babies are bigger than I am.
I was a little intimidated, but wanted to pet them. Oh, the conundrum.
Ack, they're a comin' for me!
Much better with a fence between us. Wondering why they are all looking at me? Check out my clenched hands. They're full of alpaca food.
And suddenly the alpacas are interested in my every move. I'm super popular today. What a great family adventure!

Under the Weather Parrot

Well, not really. But, sure got your attention, right?


I still had a mild fever this morning, so Mommy kept me home from school today. She had some audit work to get done so I was in Barney heaven all day. I watched about eight hours of pure purple dinosaur bliss under the guise of 'resting'. Life is great!


I'm getting super picky about Barney. I don't like the tv station's intro or the commericals at all. Every time they pop up, I hand the remote to Mommy and say, "More Barney now, please." She shoots back with something silly about cooling my jets because she grew up with just live tv. What's live tv?


Mommy slept about 4 hours last night. She had trouble going to sleep and I woke her up at 3:30am to give her a great big bear hug. I went back to sleep no trouble. Mommy watched Three's Company and then went right downstairs to work. Loser. I tell you all of this so you understand why she plopped on the couch at 5:30 and Daddy and I headed out to pick her up some Wendy's. I, of course, wanted to score my own fries and make sure he didn't eat any. Mommy warned us not to forget salt. We did and Daddy, right on AD Road, said, "Oh, Sh!t". And you know what I did? I said, "Oh, Sh!t". This is my first official bad word experience and Mommy and Daddy were none too thrilled. Guess we all could use some bar soap....


Mommy went to be at 7pm. Daddy and I watched Old School Sesame Street. No joke, that's the name on the DVD cover. They ran around in circles, which gave me a great idea. I asked Daddy to lift me up and I turned on the lights in the living and dining rooms. Looked up at him and said, "chase me". Mommy didn't fall asleep until closer to 8pm. Wonder why?

Boundaries

At bath time today I threw in ten bath color fizzies. I can count to thirteen, but Mommy said ten was my cut off. The water was super red and I think that the tub and I needed a cleaning after the bath. Oh, well. It was lots of fun and super worth it.


During the bath we heard some rumbling downstairs and Mommy called out, "Daddy" a few times. I looked up at her and sternly said, "No, Mommy. You call him Jeff, I call him Daddy."

Stars And Stripes, Minus The Stars

When Mommy picked out my clothes this morning she chuckled a bit and I shrieked in horror. Daddy got a little huffy with Mommy about her nasty streak. Not sure what all the fuss is about?

Check out this outfit, complete with a stained cleaned up without ever leaving my body.

And my hair was in all too normal form.
So I did what all toddlers do, I strutted my stuff on the catwalk. I'm pretty!

Zootastic Adventures

My super amazing Auntie D sent me a zoo full animals for my birthday this past summer and I've been entranced ever since. Did you know that there are at at least 26 animals at the zoo that each have a letter on their bellies? And, did you know that there are 26 letters in the alphabet. Coincidence, I think not!

Since I'm just about obsessed with animals I bring them out almost everyday for some lovin' time. I feed them, give them water and make sure they have plenty of exercise. Their favorite is the swing because I always sing to them while I push them and catapolt them across the living room.
See how nicely I get the animals to play together. I'm kinda a zoo whisperer! A naked zoo whisperer it seems....

And I'm gosh darned proud of it!
Mommy decided it was high time for clothes and people exercise so we dressed and drove to Tyler State Park, our super favorite walking path to see dogs, people, duckies and horses all while working off the budha belly. Doesn't get much better than this. Airplane arms!
I have to let you in on my little secret. Have you ever heard of shadows? I bring mine where ever I go, but sometimes I keep it to myself and other times I let others see it. On this super sunny day my shadow was out in full force.
Daddy took his turn in the bathroom so Mommy and I entertained ourselves with self portraits. I think we did a jim dandy job, don'tcha think?

The Little Gym

Again with the picture rotation issue and it's a rare photo with Mommy. This blows bubbles!

Mommy won't pick me up for running, but Daddy will and I'm all about being fickle.

Parachute time is awesome!
But it gets even better when we hop on for a ride.
Yeppers, there's enough time to pause for a camera moment and even smile.
I'm getting super awesome at hanging on the bar, which comes in super handy when I slip on the climbing bars at the park. I hang until Mommy realizes she's been a bad parent instead of falling to the ground and hearing the first-aid sirens signal a rush to this damsel in distress.
Upside down girl!

Dinner For Two!

Mommy picked me up today and found my beautiful face all scratched up from a cat fight at school. I think it stinks that there aren't enough of my favorite toys so that I can have one of everything and the other kids can fight for the second set of toys. So, excuse the closeups where it looks like Mommy needs to learn Photoshop in a bad way- hint, hint.

We rushed over to dinner with Emmy and had our normal pizza. We had a new server, which is always tricky for our order- one slice of cold cheese pizza cut up for me, one slice of cold cheese pizza not cut up for Mommy, one slice of warm cheese pizza cut up for me, one slice of warm cheese pizza not cut up for Emmy's Mommy, one small diet coke and one apple juice with two to go cups with ice. Yes, I can rattle this order off in my sleep!

Then we headed to the fire house. I get a boost up and press my face and hands against the window, drool a bit and then say, 'next, please'. Repeat for all six bays and that's how is goes. Then we walk to the benches for diaper changes, out in the open but not quite the same as being smack on Main Street and finding ourselves on Mayberry Info or Mayberry Sauce. Yes, our tiny town has many websites, including our own version of The Onion.

Look closely and you'll see my new teeth, all four of them. Oh, and I'm cleverly distracting you from Emmy's pull-up change. Tricky toddler I am!

Fresh as a daisy in my super cute, pink sunglasses.
This is right about the time that Mommy asked us to turn around and shake our tushies.
We happily obliged!
And then ran hand in hand to ice cream. Yay!
See my scratches. Yikes! Good thing ice cream is the best Band-Aid around.
After my ice cream I hunkered down for art while Emmy finished up her enormous cone. Next year, baby!
Emmy's Mommy brought us stickers and notebooks and Mommy now brings my purse to house all these cool treats. I'm one happy camper!