i love cows

We have been having lots of outings with the alley folks this week. Miss Teresa had us over for Mr. Jim's birthday and we played like crazy kids. Then today we went back over there for a taco lunch (I like tacos) and then we went to Blake's house for cake cause he turned 4. I am a total ham for the camera these days and love to say cheese. I am not so good right now though with agressiveness. I am fine with other kids, but with mama and papa I like to pinch, hit scratch and bite. They are worried because they don't know where it is coming from--but they read their books and it all says it is normal--but they do not like it and I am spending an inordinate amount of time in :time out: as a result. i love to say excuse me these days--I will stand in your way and then say excuse me adn ask you to move. I love to kick my soccer ball while saying kick and then scream GOAL and run around clapping. I am still a little stinker and cannot quite grasp the concept that I am not allowed to stand on the couch, despite the fact I fell of it backwards the other day because of it. i also fell down the short steps into the playroom at daycare. well, i did not really fall. sonja pushed me for no reason--but we were all ok. mama is just very glad it was not the big staircase. I went to the Windsor Dairy with my friend Tessa and her family--we saw cows, chickens, goats and sheep. The cows got milked and got milk when I was there. I saw a 1 month old baby cow get a bottle. then one of the 3 month old cows chewed the collar off of one of the other little cows and it ran around all crazy, and it was very funny. I said moo for many hours that night and into today. love to all.

More snow and getting to be soo big

i love the mando
mas snow
my monkey and me like to jump
and hug
i love to sit in the chair like a big boy, and i love the sweater that gg knitted me

I can now ask "help me" and say please and thank you and excuse me. I constantly push the limits with jumping on the couch, so mama and papa got me a trampoline, which i like, but i bit the handlebar foam the first time i got on it. i say "i shared" and smile real big. i am in a bad habit of waking up at 11:30 and 2:30, but have pushed back my am wake-up time till 6 now, which mama and papa are most grateful for....5 am was just to early.

21 inches of snow! And Gram-b (now BB) and Gramp C visit!

day 1 of snowing

we really were not making music, more like chaos
at this point i was DONE with pictures

i know whats up

the alley crew...

the guy gang




my first pumpkin with mama
i was a great big helper

mama went to portland the day nana left and papa and i were all alone for a day before the big snow came. gramb and grampc were lucky to get in that morning, and in th eend the news said we got 21 inches of snow, in a totally unpredicted storm. mama was in portland where it was surprisingly sunny and warm. i decided to start calling gramb "bb" for a while. we had a good visit, but what we could do was kinda limited, so we hung out at home a lot. on halloween though we had a great alley party and i was a trickertreating rockstar. i knocked on doors, i said tick-er-deet, i grabbed fistfuls of candy and stuffed them in my bag--i was like a pro at this, mama was super surprised to see how good at it i was...but i learned from my neighbors pretty quickly. i have not tried a single peice of candy yet though...mama and papa hid it somewhere, and i know they are secretly eating it. i have all kinds of words and am veyr good at telling you when i poop and pee. i like to lay down for my afternoon nap, get real relaxed, and then drop a big bomb in my pants right before i fall asleep...but then it is hard to sleep, so i have to call for someone to change me so i can get comfortable again, and since they ignore me when i cry, i had to learn to say, "i pooped" then they come in. i ask to go potty, bu tmost of the time i just sit there. i love to brush my teeth--i say "brush teeth" about 10 x a day and run to my sink, climb on my stool and brush them. i can count to three on my own, but mainly that is cause mama is always warning me with "1.....2....3" so I started saying 2 and 3, forgetting all about 1, and well, i think i get it now....i love to dance and play my guitar. i love to play catch me if you can. mama would try to describe my vocabulary, but it would take a long time, so let's just say if you listen hard enough, i can say just about anything you want. and guess what, i am only 17 months old. i am cute as ever and am geting to be really fun, but also into my terrible two's a little early. love to all...and thanks again to both nana and the crawford grandparents for coming and hanging out with me, it was AWESOME!