Playing in the Band

el n buds...this was a tostinos party pizza on the fly dinner night, which ended up being great for the kiddos
tower pre stain/seal...notice the newly tilled pumpin patch in the background
starting to stain the parts and peices
i had been playin the mando up until this point...but the videos of that were not very good compared to me rocking out on the shaker!

The playground project is 1.2 complete--we ended up getting snow and rain all week, which set mama and the crew back quite a bit. so hopefully they can finish staining and then digging out the tower rest and the assembling all the pieces this weekend....

Nearly 2 and knowing it

hum, i wonder
oh cool, a bug
i made his kite with mama
i love wind and my pinwheel
I like workin in the garden

ice cream sundaes are yummy

cheese
I wake up I say it is my birthday, I go to bed and I say, tomorrow I wake up and its my birthday. I then say I am going my other friends birthdays. I love birthdays! Mama and papa got me a new swingset, well, we are sharing it with our neighbors cause it was really expensive, it is a great big rainbow system and we can all play on it at once, I am super excited. Mama spent nearly her whole mother's day staining it. Papa and I made her a yummilicious breakfast of blueberry ricotta pankcakes and bacon and eggs and we ordered her pizza for dinner, she really liked it! It is supposed to snow here this week and then be in the 70s next week, thank goodness because gramb, grampc and uncle mike are coming to visit! I like to play all of my instruments still, but am focused on piano, drums and harmonica right now. Papa showed the video of me playing piano to a guy who said I was very advanced, because he is a teacher and said his 4-5 year olds don't graps the concept of 2 hands or keystrokes. I am also very creative, I told mama the other night that I got spanked at daycare by suzette because i hit her daughter sonja...well suzette had not even been there....what an imagniation I have! Anyhow, life is good, hope everyone is doing well!

Happy Mother's Day!

i like to read to calib

calib and i are buddies, i help take care of him. lately, i have liked to put him to bed a lot during the day. i am talking up a storm, potty training regressed, but still poopinng on the pot a lot. life is good.

Happy Easter

the gang from left to right--me, max, leo, ak, jasmine, ben, rocco, abigail, kylah
alley party

just after the warm blizzard and before the blistering sun

The easter bunny came and hid eggs and brought me a basket of goodies (thanks gramb and grampc). Mama got really really sunburnt on her neck (haha she is a redneck). She hid lots of eggs and the whole alley gang got together for an egg hunt and a brunch and we played outside all day. When we woke up it was cloudy, then it was sunny, and then out of nowhere at 9am a blizzard moved in for about 10 minutes, then it passed and then it got to be 60 and sunny--the perfect day. i got really sick for the first time ever this morning projectile vomiting, it scared mama and papa. but then i was fine, just taking lots of naps and not eating, but am in good spirits. we hope everyone else had a good easter.

I'm a Big Boy and Nana's here!

this is my star chart, as you can see, i got lots of stars!
i got a few new trains for being such a big boy

gotta go, gotta go

This past weekend I participated in potty training boot camp--3 days of attention, love and 1000's of "tell US when you have to go potty." I did GREAT! No poop accidents, dry naps, and last night I was dry all night. I tell them when I have to go about 90% of the time, but unfortunately, it is that I have to go right then, so I don't always make it to the bathroom. I got a fire truck as my big reward. Nana got here last night and she and I hung out a lot today. I am excited to spend all day tomorrow with her...let's hope she is ready for me and my terrible still potty training two's for 8 hours. I know she raised 4 kids, and I promised mama i would be a good boy, so I am sure we will get along great. I am gonna kill mama for posting pics of me in my underwear, but she thought they were too cute to pass up.

Bad Mama--almost a month and no posts!

my most recent art (in the bathtub)
(warm'n up the vocal chords with a little jingle bells)
(i love to walk daisy)
(i can play without even looking)

rock star
i love jack too.
Mama says sorry yall that she has been sick, busy and negligent of the blog. A nasty virus hit our house and I was sick and then mama was sick, and still is a little bit...like 10 days later! But we are all on the mend and spring is here and that means lots of time playing in the alley. Today we took a wagon ride and walked my dogs to the mailboxes. That's right, daisy is now good enough to walk all the way to the mailboxes and back (but not much further). I tell her all the time she is a good girl and that I love her. I have also learned to tell her "no bark." I am talking up a storm. Mama picked me up from daycare the other day and (at 22 months) I said, "What did you do today, Jen" clear as day. I know his mama's name is Jen and papa's name is Tom and when prodded, and asked what my name is, I always first reply "big boy" and then with big pride I say "Ellis Hayes." And I am a big boy. Tonight after dinner I was contemplating life and coloring when I looked at mama and said, gotta poop...so we ran up to the potty and I did it, I took a gigantic human poop on the pot. Mama loved on me for an hour over it. After this weekend, I should be fully potty-trained, only in underpants, all the time, even at night. I love to talk about my friends and what I do, and about the bulldozers across the street and of course, how the "train went to the roundhouse to take a nap and when it wakes up it will carry freight to the next town" (yes, no joke). 22 months old folks, I am one smart articulate cookie. Life is good.