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.

gymnastics is fun
i love jack
i love my new valentine book and sitting at my table

future rock star

I sleep good (sometimes) and I like to bowl and sled...and I had fun in Florida

at the aquarium


i am a hermit crab


my friend tucker
getting my sunblock on













A few weeks of past and lots has happened. I got to go to Florida to see my GramB and GrampC and Uncle mike and aunt amy and their dog Tucker. We got ther and it was very cold and rainy--but that did not stop us from having fun and going to the beach. Mama got food poisoning and GramB got a little sick, but we all still had fun. I fed squirrels, I saw dolphins and I built sand castles. Uncle Mike tried to corrupt me with finger pulling...I was a a rock start flyer, barely cried at all on the the way there and nto at all on the way back. It has been snowing for a while here, so we went sled riding and bowling today, it has been a great family day together. Daisy is doing better. After way too much money and quite a bit of pain for all of us, especially her, her surgery was a success and she is on the road to recovery. She started walking 5 minutes three times a day this week. Life is good. Love to everyone.

More pics of the snow, my bed and bowling to come very soon!

pics from papa's phone

my new floorside bed


i love to eat oatmeal
i love bracelets...I think my fave is one that either emma or gina left here at xmas, it is pink!
i practice almost every day
chillin with my pops
mama could not believe i knew how to use these
yum!
sleddin

we have a backlog of video and pics to post for you all...i now sing A,B,C,D, little star (only now did mama realize they were the same tune) and i say 1,2,5,7. I stay in my bed (thank god mama says). I am getting some new teeth, and they hurt and i am up a lot in the middle of the night...hope uncle mike and amy and gramb and grampc can sleep through it next week while i am in florida with them. daisy is spending another night in the hospital, as they can provide better care for her there than we can here, she ended up having to have both knees pretty much rebuilt, as all her ligaments were torn. it is going to be a long road to recovery for her. the sledding pics are from the day she tore her first acl...and by the way nana and granpops, i love my sled--thanks!. after the phone battery died that day my friends ben and max brought over their sleds and i went down the hill all by myself and then the 3 of us went down a bunch and crashed a few times and i cried, and i laughed and it was really fun!