Good morning!

Mama's computer has been broken, so I haven't been able to steal a few minutes on it to update the blog...sorry!

I'm having a good time these days. Mama takes me to Toddler Tea Time on Thursday mornings, and we have circle time and play time and snack time and more play time and more circle time. And there is a really cool deep table. The first time I went it was filled with rice and scoops and rakes and other fun things. Then last week, it was filled with warm soapy water and baby dolls! I LOVED washing the baby dolls and still talk about it. Every night when Mama puts me to bed, she says "I had fun with you today," and every night since the baby-washing, I respond "Fun today, washing the babies!" I hope we get to wash babies again this week!

Mama has been letting me wash toys and my play kitchen dishes in the big sink while she cooks, but I'd really rather wash my babies. Mama says my baby dolls have squishy parts that wouldn't do well in the water, but I say a clean baby is a clean baby. Maybe she'll see the light soon?

2010!

Happy 2010!!

It is a new year! I have a new sister and one less cat (although I fondly remember Stubbs and talk about him all the time). I'm going to try to keep this blog up better. You know, as a New Year's Resolution.

This is me and my new sister, Eleanor - aren't we adorable!

Snowfall Update

As promised, here is the update on our year-to-date snowfall. I had Daddy send Mama the link he uses at work - we are at 85 inches of snow for the year so far, and 57.5 inches of rain. I'll bet my Cousin Gloriana would agree - we got rain all summer!!!

Snow!

So, if you saw my last post, you saw the picture of the snow we had about 2 weeks ago...well, we got LOTS more a few days ago! Here are some pictures Mama took on Thursday night. I'll try to update Monday how many inches we are up to for the year - I know it's at least 75 now.

Mama said to explain that the "pony walls" (the plywood you see on the left, put up in winter to keep the snow from "flooding" the walkway) come up to her shoulder, so just about 4.5 feet tall...that's a lot of snow!

This was taken on our back porch, which is about 3.5 - 4 feet above the ground.

Daddy's Home!

My Daddy came home a few weeks ago - we've been busy playing and taking care of Mama (she has a baby in her tummy, you know) and learning new words and sledding and playing with beans...I missed him so much! I've been such a good girl lately, considering all the pain I've been in. See, I learned to walk while Daddy was gone, and I tend to fall a lot. So I had just gotten rid of the multiple bruises and scrapes on my forehead when I fell down at the hospital on Monday. I tripped over Mama's foot (she says I never look down when I walk or run, I say she's out to get me) and fell on my face - my two front teeth on top cut my upper lip very badly. I bled and bled and bled - Daddy said it looked like I got in a street fight, whatever that is. I am also cutting four teeth (actually, they are cutting me): the two top canine teeth and the two molars on top, as well. I've been having a rough time of things lately! Anyway...without further ado, here are some pictures from since Daddy's been home.

Daddy likes to put my hair in 80's styles.

He does make me laugh, though!

This was taken from our front porch almost 2 weeks ago - we've gotten about 60 inches of snow so far this year!
















I love sledding!














I got to vote! Well, not really, but I told Mama and Daddy who to vote for.










I love pizza and ranch - a rare treat!

Where's Daddy?

On Saturday, Daddy woke me up REALLY early and gave me my medicine, then we (and Mama) got in the truck and drove out somewhere very far (it was almost 10 minutes away!) in the dark. Then Daddy kissed me, and me and Mama went out to breakfast, a rare treat. I haven't seen Daddy in person since then. I think Mama trapped him either in the telephone or the computer. I hear his voice several times per day on the telephone, and sometimes I get to see him and talk to him on the computer. I wonder how he's going to get out of there? I wonder how she got him IN there, in the first place. I'm not sure I trust that woman.

I miss him. Mama doesn't do bedtime the way he does. I hope he gets out of the phone soon.

*Mama here. He will be home November 2, honey. And he misses you too, I assure you.*

Is that an ice cube in the potty?

Mama is always complaining how cold the cold water is here. I ask you - does that make any sense? Isn't cold water supposed to be cold? Well, I decided to see what all the fuss was about, so while Mama was eating her breakfast this morning, I took her digital meat thermometer and ran it under the cold running water. It registered 46 degrees! That IS cold! So then, just for fun, I ran it under the hot water, and it got up to 128 degrees!

Here's what our toilet does all the time. It is constantly dripping everywhere and Mama sometimes keeps towels under the toilet so I won't play in the outside potty water.