Can you guess what I am going to be for Halloween?

Mommy is working hard making costumes for Jack and I. She says I am going to be a chicken and that confuses me because I thought chicken was a food group? When she asks me if I know what a chicken is I respond "Eat?".....apparently before it shows up as bites on my plate it is a feathered bird that lives on a farm. Am I supposed to be excited about this? Next year I think I will pick something because my mom seems to be stuck on farm animals. 

First Hair Cut

Aunt Lindsay, Mommy, Jack and Elmo all came with me to get my first haircut. We went to a place called Cool Cuts. I sat in a car and it had a little TV for me to watch the movie "cars" and the lady trimmed my hair in about 5 minutes - not even enough time for me to get scared or squeamish. I look a bit more polished. Just in time too because I have picture day at school this week!

Warm Fall Days

It could not be nicer outside. The leaves are all bright yellows and oranges and the temp reaches low 70s each day! Mommy and I played in the leaves and I am spending every last second outside.

Playing Quietly

On Saturday we had the house back to ourselves after a very nice visit from Yaya and Bopee. It was a great fall day - in the 70s - and Mommy had raked up some leaves for me to play with. So I stayed busy for almost an hour by myself outside doing very important work.  

Open Arms

Tonight is Yaya & Beeba's last night. This is very sad news! So to show Yaya how much I will miss her I got a running start and ran full speed into her arms over and over again. 

I was put on this Earth to make you laugh!

A week off from school!

This week I get a whole week off from school!!! Jack still has to go to school so I get Yaya and Beeba all to myself until Thursday when Mommy and Jack will be home. On Monday Yaya and Beeba strollered me all the way to Barns & Noble and I played with the choo choo trains and we brought home "The Little Engine that Could". AND we got ELMO!!!! Elmo is so fantastic and I carry him around like a baby and I pat his back the way Mommy pats Jack's back and I cover him with blankets and help him go to sleep and I share my crackers with him. Then on Tuesday Aunt Lindsay came with us to Red Rocks and I went on my very first hike. It was 4 miles long! Yaya and Aunt Lindsay took turns carrying me in the back back. I loved it in there and I tickled their necks as they hiked. I wonder what we will do Wednesday!!!! 

Very Busy Bee

This weekend I was very busy. I had a play date with my school friend Olivia at the park. It was really fun to see her outside of school. We played well together until she snatched my pumpkin that YaYa got me - I named it "Claire's Pumpkin" NOT Claire and OLIVIA's pumpkin.

I also went to the playground with Yaya and Beeba. We took my pumpkin and sent it down the slide and I died laughing each time. We did it again and again. Then Beeba and I found these red berries that we buried in th sand and then dug them up and then buried and then dug them up...and Beeba showed me how you can color on crocs because they are plastic. So I colored on Beeba's shoes with chalk and then on my shoes. And Mommy colored hearts on my crocs with crayon...so now my crocs are very cool and colorful. 

YaYa & Bopee

Look at this fun Hop Scotch that Yaya & Beeba brought me!!! It is so fun and has a lady bug on it. YaYa and I are besties already and Bopee sure is trying. He has this little man that lives in his fingers and I am not sure how I feel about that. Bopee is going to work with Daddy so each morning I announce "Daddy WORK and Bopee WORK". While they were working Yaya, Aunt Lindsay and I went to the zoo. Uncle Dylan comes over every night now while they are visiting and I give him hugs and kisses and high fives. Not all at once! It is nice to have Aunt Lindsay over each day too, what a treat! Also I visited my old nursery school and saw Jenny. Mommy explained that we were going where I was when I was a baby and sure enough they still had my picture up in the infant room. I warmed right up to Jenny and gave her hugs and kisses. I hadn't  seen her in 6 months! It really made her day and I will go back soon to visit again. 

Learning my colors and testing Daddy's patience.

YaYa and Beeba have just arrived for their visit! But more on that later....Daddy and I have been practicing for months now learning our colors. He gives me a color and I put the card in the right pile. I am a pro now at colors. Purple was one of the first ones I got, but now I know white, red, green, blue, and yellow and sometimes orange. You may also notice the block tower that Daddy built. He is very good at building towers with blocks and he spends a lot of time making them. They are so tall and vulnerable looking. He looks at me sternly and says "Do not touch, this is Daddy's tower". And I am supposed to play with different blocks and leave his alone. But I just can't. I can't. I can't. I try hard for a few seconds but that is the longest I can last before I just have to knock them over. Daddy gets really mad, not even this is kindof funny mad, but actually mad. I got a time out for not listening. Speaking of time outs, I have been getting quite a few of them lately. For coloring on Jack or standing on Jack or coloring on the floor or hitting or biting....I have found lots of ways to earn a time out. I kind of like it. When I hit I immediately know that I did something naughty so I say  "SIT?" and then I run to my spot. Then Mommy explains why I am there and at the end I say "Soweey" and I give a hug. Mommy and Daddy discovered I was enjoying time out a bit too much so the last time I was put up in my crib instead. And MAN did I not like that one bit and I screamed the whole time. Mommy and Daddy seemed satisfied. 

One in each hand....

Daddy does a good job balancing everything between Mommy and work and us. With everything going on he always makes time for me and we play "Boo" and read stories and he lets me help him organize his tools and water the lawn and he throws me up in the air and tickles me and he supplies me with an endless supply of waffles. I love Daddy.

Bonding

I just LOVE Jack in the Bumbo - which I call bum bum. He is my little audience and I have so much to teach him about being a little brother. So far he seems to really be getting the hang of laughing at my jokes. I wonder if we will have a special language someday that only we will understand. That would be cool. 

Allow me to introduce myself....

Claire has been dominating the air space a little bit but she has honored me with the privilege to blog about myself today. It seems only fair that I get a word in once and a while. Mommy went back to work so I have been enjoying nursery school. It is a big change for me because I am used to people rocking me and cuddling me and taking long leisurely naps in my swing. But at school they put me in a crib to nap. It is very firm and lacks a vibrating button and it doesn't rock. I am sure I will adapt, but for now I am taking brief naps. Mommy is happy though because I am so wiped by the end of the day that I have started sleeping through the night. 7 to 7. Also there are so many toys there that I play a lot more and take in the sights and sounds. There are several other babies in the room with me - some are crawling and some are even walking! But I am the cutest one in there and the teachers tell Mommy all the time how much they love me and could hold me all day....When Mommy comes to get me she carries me into Claire's room full of toddlers. And it is scary in there! The toddlers see me and start chanting "BABY" and recklessly descend on us like hungry Godzillas and Mommy has to hold me tight as they start grabbing at my dangling feet! In addition to embarking on my adventures in school I have also started to sit up by myself in my Bumbo seat. It is like my own little thrown. Claire tries to squeeze her bottom into the bumbo and she is quite large and can barely uncork herself after she has sat in it. I look quite dignified in it and Claire entertains me by performing little shows and making funny faces. It is so nice to FINALLY get her attention. She is very clever and I watch her intently and try to woo her with my smiles. I think we will make a great team someday. She still gets jealous sometimes though and it can be quite irritating. For example if Mommy is feeding me and Claire wants her - which is most of the time - she points to the swing and says "Jack Na-night" or she points to the play mat and says "Jack Down"....as if me eating for ten minutes every few hours is demanding too much. Sigh. For now though I am enjoying my status and my big sister. Don't tell her but I stay up at least an hour later than she does each night and that is when I get my special alone time with Mommy and Daddy. We have long conversations and I tell them lots of stories about my day or I just sit on Daddy's lap and watch baseball or the news. I am very worldly. 

Pumpkin Patch = meh.

On Sunday I was dragged to the Pumpkin Patch. The whole way I repeatedly  expressed that I preferred to go to the playground "no punkins - WEE? WEE?" But Mommy and Daddy promised that this was more fun. It was a gorgeous fall day and I did really like seeing the baby animals...but there was a turkey there and he kind of freaked me out. But never the less it was an enjoyable outing. The playground is more fun though...just sayin.