the cat in the hat

i try to pretend sometimes that i do not know what my parents are saying, but this is proof that i understand what they ask of me....shucks!

peanut butter mouth & bed head

new shuuuuuu!

look! i got a new pair of shoes - just like my cousin lussi's orange pair (i even have the same size!!!) when we were at the kiosk in the mall, my mama and aunti-peee had me try on a few different colors and a couple different sizes - but once i had these green ones on, there was NO WAY i was going to let my mom take them off to try gray! that was it - i decided that i wanted these green ones. now i wear them everyday, all day long - sometimes even with my pajamas (but not in bed, of course.)

hangin' (with) lus(si)

my cousin came down for an overnight trip. on sunday morning we went out for breakfast and then went the playground in loring park. lussi made the wise decision of playground over sculpture garden - although we may have had the most fun running around the garden that had an inside and outside brick loop. by the end of the morning we were both pretty tired! papa managed to get one picture on his cell-phone before i got antsy.

happy mama's day

hi (uncle) kai!

my mom talks about all of my aunts and uncles, but kai's is the first whose name i can manage. beyond that, i shorten phonsavan to "P-eee" and brit to "B-eee" -- cory gets a "k" sound and that is about all i have patience for right now.

ps. notice the new vimeo format? amanda and anne have been using vimeo and i absolutely LOVE the fact that the video is frame-less while it plays! beautiful detail! so, i've decided to try it out myself... so far much easier than photobucket!

round glass - smoothie face

as you have probably already determined, i LOVE smoothies. another thing that i LOVE is doing things by myself - particularly drinking a smoothie out of an adult-glass. this morning i kept turning the glass every time i took a drink, so that all sides of the glass became covered with smoothie - consequently it started to get on my face and created a ring-of-sorts that my mama thought was cool/funny. you can also see that i gave my papa a lesson on how to ask for more (in sign) ... i don't know how the camera was fast enough to catch such a thing!

below is a video documenting my obsession with cookies - well, at least my obsession for asking for cookies. i've come to terms with the frequency with which i actually obtain one.

20 months

and full of all sorts of tricks

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!

videos are fun- but mama likes these best

eating with a spoon

i have pretty much mastered the spoon! (my mom got this away without putting a bib on me for at least 30 seconds {during the video below}, right?!) i love to eat with a fork or spoon when i am at home with my mama and papa. when i am at MA-Tu's house, and eating sticky-rice, i also know to take a small piece and dip it in the sauce like all the adults do. i am bi-cultural -- and also showing signs of being bi-lingual. i understand both english and lao - i don't yet realize how good it is for my brain!

laughing at papa

snow storm = fort in the tree