My Second Christmas!

Mommy says that Santa Claus is coming here tonight. Silly mommy. I know he has been here with his birds and his deer for a month already. I guess he is finally allowed to come inside. Daddy said he will leave me lots of pressies. I already have a lot of toys, and today I got to play with Tuti, Granddad, Granny, Grampy, and Aunt Diana. What more could I want? Another bike. I want another bike.

Mommy says we have to leave out cookies and milk for Santa. That's fine, as long as he doesn't eat all my teddy grahams. He can have daddy's chocolate covered walnuts. Yuck!

There's a dog in my CHAIR! OMG!

Look! The dog is in my chair! Dog! Chair! Dog! Chair!

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Come back, dog!!! I want to sit on you!!

There's dog in my house! OMG!

This is my friend DOTi. She comes to visit me sometimes. Sometimes she even stays overnight to play with me. Yesterday daddy threw a ball for her over and over and over and over. I needed a nap after watching her, but the dog just ran and ran and ran. Go dog go! I have some new shoes and a big pink ball! I like to go outside and look at the trees.

I love lima beans. They're so delicious! They are most delicious when I can scoop them with my wooden scoop and get them into my mouth. I also love yogurt. Yogurt tastes good on a spoon or from a bowl. Daddy laughs a lot when I lick the yogurt out of the bowl.

I also love the Monkey-Alligator song. And I love the song about how I named all the animals. I love music. I love the viking kitten song. I love to dance a lot. Mommy laughs when I dance. We dance together a lot.

I am tired from such a big week. I'm falling asleep on the computer. Time for bed!

Leaving My Old Teachers

Next week I am going to start a new class at school. I like that I will be with new kids, but I am going to miss my teachers so much! I love my teachers. They're so nice to me, and they always pick me up when I wrap my arms around their legs and pull on their shirts and say "Yaaaaaaaaang!" I don't know if my new teachers will be like that. My old teachers, well, they really GET me. They know what I want, and how to tell me things so I understand. I hope the new teachers are like that.

I am the oldest kid in my class because my best friends were older than me and they already moved up. So now it is just me and the boys. The boys are so little, they never hug me back even though I give them lots of hugs! Mommy says that the new class has bigger kids so that will be better.

Thursday and Friday, mommy said she will go sit in my new classroom with me for a little while, so I can get used to it. She said that the toys are a lot better and the kids like hugs so I think it will be fun. But it won't be fun when mommy leaves!

I hope everything will be OK. Hey! Look! The neighbor's dog is in my yard! COME HERE DOG!!!

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So Busy!

I had so much stuff to do yesterday, since I'm finally going to be in town for awhile. You see, I have been traveling for 5 weeks! I went so many places with mommy, and I thought we were through with traveling but then mommy left and daddy took me to New Bird, where I spent some time with Granny and Grampa and their kitty. It was so much fun!

When mommy came home, she gave me lots of hugs and kisses, and she told me that it was time to start walking by myself. So I did.

Now, I have so much to do! I need to rearrange the bookshelves, sort the laundry, empty the toybox, and catch all the birds in the yard. Yesterday mommy was all hugs and kisses and she was so clingy, I had to do something to keep her occupied. So we put on one of those Baby Einstein videos and luckily, she was mesmerized. It freed me up to do some of my work. I feel bad just plopping mommy in front of the TV like that, but as long as I don't leave her there all day, it's OK, right?

I'm not sure why she's so crazy about it, but I guess it's all the pretty colors and music. I find it amusing, but mostly I think the TV is kind of boring.

Today I have to get ready for friends to come over. Mommy keeps hiding all of my toys, and I need to take them all out because I want to share them.

In other news, I finally have my passport! Yay! I can go visit France, where my friends Isabelle and Le Chef live. They're so nice and I bet they'll show me where to get delicious crepes!! Gotta run!


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Where are we going next?

I love to travel and Mommy takes me to lots of neat places. We went to Seattle and saw my cousin Cate, which was great because she has kitties! We also went to New York, which was great because daddy snuggled me inside his coat when it was cold outside. We went to Texas a few times which was great because I got to use a different car seat. That was fun! The first time I went to California I met my great-aunt and saw BIG trees. I like trees! They always have birds! I went to Chicago which was great because daddy gave me as much banana as I wanted. I went to California another time and met my new best friend Catie, and she has a kitty AND a lot of fish. I went to a zoo and saw SO MANY BIG DOGS! It was great. I went to South Carolina which was great because Tuti let me play with her shoes. She has a lot of shoes! I went to Washington, DC which was great because I saw lots of birds. The birds were funny! They would eat your food right off the table! I like to teach my food to fly but the birds eat it and fly so that works well.

Mommy said she is ready for daddy to travel with me so she can go somewhere by herself. I will miss her! Next week I'm going to spend the night at Granny and Grampa's house with daddy because he has a meeting in New Bird. I can't wait to see New Bird again. Last time I was there, we saw dogs. I love Granny and Grampa. They're so funny!


Here is a picture of my favorite dog in San Diego: