Month: March 2008

My new thing… “Give me free elephant rides?!” Then I climb on the Mommy or the Daddy and demand to be taken all around the living room or my bedroom.

I opted for yet another NO NAP day… But was in a good mood… Mommy needed to capture THAT on film!

This weekend we went to Wall Springs Park. It was COLD. I was a bit scared of the BIG slide, but finally did it!

On the way up!

Here I come!

Did I just go ALL the way down that HUGE slide???

I finally got enough happy faces to get my water/sand table. i had to check out the undercarriage to see how it worked.

I was all wet and cold!

But VERY happy… til the sandbox broke (another story for another day!!)

Today I even actually participated in an ENTIRE Gymboree class!!!

Of course, I needed to bring “friends” from the toy drawer!!

Yet ANOTHER no nap day!! I crashed with 2 minutes of being placed in bed tonight!

So in the past week I have only had two naps. Badly needed naps at that! I go into my room when asked at naptime, curl up in bed, get my naptime kisses and hugs, wait for Mommy & Daddy to walk away then get out of bed and play. When asked the other day what I was doing I responded “Playing quietly in my room, shhhhh!”

Today, I BADLY needed to take a nap but just wanted to be goofy and keep running out of my room. Mommy finally gave up around 2pm. We went to run a few errands before dinner with Grandma Jo and Grandpa Howie.

Mommy said I let out a HUGE sigh on the way to COSTCO and she looked up in the mirror and was OUT…

Well, needless to say, I only got a brief rest and was pretty grumpy/sensitive the rest of the evening. It is storming out now and I am headed to bed at 7pm. Daylight Savings is tomorrow so Mommy & Daddy have been slowly adjusting my bedtime so the time change doesn’t shock me!

Peeps… I think my baby bro’s tub (which was my tub in years past) is awesome! I’m soooo not giving it back to him. It’s mine! All mine! Mommy and Daddy think it’s funny that I really like this little tub, but hey… I’m different and proud of it!

So, today was interesting. I’ve been crabby all day. Mommy and Daddy do however take accountability for this. They stuck me in the car a bit before 9 this morning and ran errands until 1 pm. They did buy me a fun new sandbox/water table combo for when I potty train. Nevertheless I was CRANKY by the time we got home at 1 pm. I refused to take a nap because I didn’t have any down time/outdoor play time.

So, after 2 hours of self quiet play in my room (which I did without much fuss), I got aggressive and hit and bit Mommy and Daddy. Mommy started to cry. Well, Mommy and Daddy had enough and took me out back to haul sand. In this case it was haul the play sand from my old (too big with my new playhouse) sandbox around to the front of the house to partly fill in the hole from the old tree. I didn’t listen very well and would sprint ahead with my bucket to the front yard. Mommy and Daddy got very upset with me because I wasn’t listening and was endangering myself.

Eventually, after one sprint down the side of the house and out to the front yard with the last of the sand, Daddy had enough and shut the gate locking me and Mommy in the back yard. I was NOT happy.

Daddy went to trim the Pentas (http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/shrubs/PENLANA.PDF) in back and I kept getting in the way, wanting to help, but not listening and endangering myself. Eventually Mommy took me in for a bath.

Getting around to the title of this post…
Daddy, being sooooo frustrated at me stayed in the backyard and trimmed 1/3 to 1/2 of the palms in the backyard. The Travelers (http://hort.ufl.edu/trees/RAVMADA.pdf) and
Areca’s (http://hort.ufl.edu/trees/CHRLUTA.pdf) had some die-back during the one night of freezing weather and high winds we’ve had this winter. Mommy and Daddy didn’t want to trim back the plants until we were probably clear of any other freezing weather, figuring that if they did trim back it would freeze again and damage more of the plants.

Well, as Daddy finished the last bits of tidy up and got ready to come in and shower Mommy said “I like when you get frustrated with Breighton and want to avoid him” and had this, well, impish look. I’m kind of worried that if I’m not careful, Mommy will ensnare me in her never-ending (and Daddy says hopeless) plans to train Daddy!

Anyway, love to all of you! I’m hoping I get a good night’s sleep tonight!