big boy hanging at the park

YEEAAAAH! i love smoothies!

it's spring!!!

continued love of books

i love books so much! i like when people read to me, but i also like to read to myself. i grab a book, climb up into the {dental} reading chair with the cozy-fuzzy-fur and spend some fantastic quiet time reading to myself. this particular book is about different kinds of trucks, i like to give different trucks slightly different "voices" - like "brrrrm" for the tow trucks and "mmmm" for the concrete mixers and "ccrrrrsh" for the giant excavators (i even give this one a special hand-gesture to accentuate its personality)....

busy weekend

it sure was a busy weekend! the weather was sooooo nice that i spent nearly the whole weekend outside.

i like to stomp my feet on the temporary-airstream-patio (a palette!) because it makes a special kind of noise - a wood noise that is slightly hollow.

i also helped my mama test-out a new color for our house - she let me practice with a dry brush on the door. i felt really important and took great pride in my work!

but mostly i liked to run and roam all around the yard - back and forth, up and down and along the concrete wall - kicking and throwing the ball around - i even figured out a way to get my car out into the grass. there sure is a lot to do outside in the spring!

"mii mii"

my mama and i went to the bookstore for story-time and to meet miffy (whom i very affectionately call MIMI) it was a very exciting time. i got to hang out with with a bunch of kids, hear a miffy-story, color a picture of "mimi" and some "B-diii-s", i even got to shake her hand. ---> (i secretly liked the Clifford shaped-like-a-stuffed-animal-back-pack that i found hanging on rack the best - but after holding him and giving him a big hug, i put it back where i found it so that we could go home.)

signs of a big boy

signs that i am a big boy:
-i walked down the set of steps in front of our house all by myself!
-i can drink out of a glass without spilling it all over my face
-i run SUPER fast, can stomp my feet and kick a ball
-i will point at my bed when i am tired, even if my mom is planning to sing me an extra song because she loves when i'm sleepy in her arms
-i read hard bound books with paper pages - and will sit through stories that have more than one sentence on each page
-i listen to my mama and papa when they tell me to put something back where i found it, or close a cupboard door that i shouldn't have opened, or to take my feet off the table.
-i know how to lock myself in the bathroom so that i can clean the toilet with the toilet brush - or sniff & sniff the sweet-smelling soap that meg gave me for christmas
-i will say "no" if i don't want to go to bed - whether i'm asked in english or in lao.
-i have a favorite shirt and pair of jeans (i like my jeans sooo much that sometimes i like to sleep with them like a blanky)
-i LOVED the sugary candy and cupcakes at my cousin, lussi's birthday party - just like all big KIDS do! (much to my parent's dismay)

one fish, blue fish

well, it has been about 2 weeks now, that i've had my pet fish. my auntie phon brought me a female beta-fish (one fish) and when we went to buy some fish food, my papa really wanted to get a male beta-fish (blue fish), too. they started in the same fish bowl and they lived peacefully for a while. a couple days ago, we separated them because blue-fish was chasing one-fish and slowly nibbling pieces of her tail off. phew. good thing we separated them!