Blogging: It's like Newsies for the 21st Century

Extra!  Extra!  Read all about ME!  Blogging is sort of like my own personal newspaper, where I can tell all my beloved fans about my life.  There are many weeks where my front page is a bit boring, same old, nothing new.  But then there are exciting weeks!  Where I go places and see people and pet kitties!  After a month of lazy afternoons at the local slide (awesome, but not exacting thrilling material), I had the most exciting weekend!

Mom and Dad took me to New York City!  We got up early Saturday morning, packed up the car, and hopped on 95.  A few hours and a nap later, we were pulling into a sweet parking spot on West 95th Street and walking into an apartment full of friendship, hugs and kitties.  I was just getting settled in when - POOF! - Mom and Dad were GONE.  They were off to Broadway to catch a show.

Well, I had a few obligatory tears.  I'm two, so it's legally required that I fuss a little when left.  But I wiped my eyes pretty quickly and fell to business.  Those kitties needed serious terrorizing petting, and my friends Mandy and Reid had dropped the S-word a few times - SLIDES!  We hopped in my stroller and rode off to Central Park, where I had a full day of slides and (get this) hippos!

I had so much fun playing with Mandy and Reid all afternoon.  We had snacks, and stroller rides, and hundreds of trips down the slide.  It was fantastic!  After a few hours, we met back up with Mom and Dad at a really yummy sushi restaurant for dinner.  They filled me in on their afternoon, which I will attempt to interpret here:

As I mentioned above, Mom and Dad left me to catch a show on Broadway.  They went with Grandma, Pop-pop, Liz, Vin, Andy, Cassidy, Maria, Jarrett, and some of Vin's family to see Newsies!  They took up a whole row in the balcony of the theatre, and loved their seats.  They were so excited for the curtain to go up with Jack Kelley singing "Santa Fe," which is Grandma's favorite (they may have seen the movie a few hundred times before).  The show was fantastic, from all accounts. 

Mommy was most impressed with the tap number in "Once and For All," and now has dreams of me taking ballet and tap lessons.  She was also really impressed with the set design, and use of a real, live printing press on the stage.

Daddy says it's the first musical he'll be remembering more for the choreography than for the music - the dancing really was that superb.  He really liked that they even added a few dance numbers between scenes to give the dancers more opportunites to shine (and to liven up the stage during set moves).  He says everyone did a great job.

Mommy and Daddy are both really glad they had the chance to see the show!  So, a few thank yous for this weekend.  Thanks to Auntie Liz, for arranging the tickets!  Thanks to Mandy and Reid, for playing with me during the show!  Thanks to the weather, for only raining during the car ride so I could play on the slides!

Big Girl Bed!!

In case you were unaware, I am a big girl!  You want proof?

BOOM.  Big girl bed.

 I have been flat out begging for a bed for weeks now.  My mom and dad have let me sleep in the big guest bed a few times to appease me (since I flat out screamed in the cribby), but were a bit slow to get me my own bed.  Something about "rearranging the upstairs" and "no time to move tons of furniture" and "no mattress for the bedframe."  Excuses if you ask me! 

Mom and Dad finally decided on a layout, moved everything around, and put together my new bed!!  Here is a shot of my side of the room I'll be sharing with Gavin in a few weeks:

 Here is Gavin's side of the room:

It's a tight squeeze, to be sure.  But we'll make it work!  I couldn't wait to get to bed last night.  I started asking for my milk at 6:30 while my mom was taking these pictures.  By 8pm, I was in pajamas and up the stairs for bed.  I slept like a baby!

February Recap: Mom's Version

Laura started you off with a great recap of our fun adventures this month.  I'm here to fill in some of the hilarious and cute things she's said and done every day.

On the way to school, Laura was talking about names. She said "Waura's name Waura. Mommy's name Cai-tin. Daddy's name Nate. Waura's name... Dow-soo-see!" This has since been modified to "Dow-see."

Laura is very interested in the source of her things: "Mommy gib it ta me." She picked out a book to read that Uncle Taylor had given her for Christmas. When she showed it to me, she said "Tay-er gib it ta me!" I couldn't believe she remembered that far back!


Laura and I had a lot of fun making "Balens" (Valentines) for her classmates.  We glued doilies to colorful construction paper, and then covered them with stickers!

I asked Laura a yes or no question, and she answered (appropriately) with "Pwobabwee!"

Laura is starting to attempt r's in her speech: this is mostly apparent when she talked about her BFF Audawee (instead of Auddy).

Laura is really playing pretend. She went "shopping" for coats in one corner of the room, came back and showed me the coat she bought:  she held her hand open to "show me."  She's also pouring invisible foods into her saucepans while she plays in her toy kitchen (newly reinstalled in the family room)! 

We have watched a LOT of Lady and the Tramp this month.  It's been a welcome break from Dora!  Here are some of our cuter Lady and the Tramp moments:

• Compared Jock (a Scottie) to Pippi (a Westie)
• Calls the chihuahua in the pound a "choo-choo-Waura"
• Has been singing Darling's lullabye to all her babies "Wa-wa-wu"
• Laughs about the "naughty cats" and has started calling our house her domicile
• She really likes the part where Jock and Trusty use their noses to sniff out the wagon.  She asked why they were sniffing, which led to a great discussion on how people look for things and how dogs look for things.  I wasn’t sure how much of our conversation sunk in until a car ride home from school.  Laura threw her typical we’re-halfway-home-on-our-normal-route tantrum.  I asked Laura to look at the window and tell me when she saw our house.  Laura looks out the window and starts wildly sniffing.  I asked if she was ok, and she answered “I sniffin’ Waura’s house wike a puppy!”  She sniffed the whole ride home!  

A shadow passed over Laura's face in the car. She started blowing and shouting "Cloud on my face! Go way cloud!"

I sometimes call Laura "Chicken Little;" the other day she responded with "OK, Chicken Mommy!"

Laura found a plastic wand. She has been waving it around her head saying "dabwa dwabwa!" Then turning herself (or Ries) into a bird. "I a bird! Tweet! Tweet!" Nate has picked her up (in bird form) to "fly" around the room, and she tweets and says "Wook at me!" the whole time.

When Ries stole some of her toast, she brandished her finger at Ries and said "You scavenger!"

Loves identifying animals in books, on the iPad, and on the fridge magnets. The peacock on the fridge is a little hard to identify, and Laura calls it the "Christmas." It does look a bit like a Christmas tree! The Rhino is also a "nonocerous"



In the car, Laura asked me "What's my puppy's name?" I answered Ries. She said, "No, Puppy!" She asked again, I said Ries again, and once again it was Puppy. She asked a third time, so I answered "Puppy!" Laura dissolved into laughter and said, "No! Ries!" Laura told a joke!


Has been saying "Sgetti" for spaghetti.



Has been saying "Toastcard" for postcard. She loves receiving them! Thanks Bimpy and Miss Sue, for all the great toastcards in the mail!