I make mommy laugh

Last night her new camera finally arrived. She was so excited to be able to take good pictures of me growing up (maybe now she'll get some new ones on this blog). So I took her old camera that doesn't work anymore and told her to "Cheese Mommy". She knew what that meant. I took lots of pictures of her on that camera. It's too bad that it doesn't really work. She won't let me play with her new one. She's too afraid I'll break that. Maybe one day I'll be a professional photographer.

Playschool

Thats what mommy calls it anyways. It's really more of a daycare with lots of playing and preschool activities. It's a lot of fun. I've been going for two whole weeks now on a regular basis. I've made two really good friends there. Curtis and Sawyer. Curtis is three months younger and Sawyer is one month and a day older. We have a lot of fun chasing eachother around the yard and chasing the dogs. I draw almost every day and I gave up eating the crayons. My teacher Miss Laura says she wants to take us outside but it's been so cold lately that that's hard to do when the ground isn't drying off.

I'm 23 months

Mommy's heart is breaking cause I'm growing up. She says she loves me so much but she wants me to stop growing up so fast. She keeps telling me that it seems like just yesterday that I was born. I keep trying to tell her that it wasn't. I've been talking up a storm lately. I know all of my colors and a lot of my numbers and letters. My favorite show in the entire world is Sesame Street. I especially love Elmo and Ernie but Cookie Monster and AbbyCaddaby are close seconds.

I love to sing and I sing a lot. My two favorite songs are Sing a Song (from Sesame Street) and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but those are sometimes boring because there are no motions to them like Itsy Bitsy Spider. I suprised my mommy when I showed her I knew how to do that. She was very proud of me, but there isn't much that doesn't make my mom proud of me. To her, I am her entire world.

Mom says I talk to much

Well what in the world does she want? First I didn't say enough. She was really worried that my speech would be delayed. She was WRONG. Not only can I say probably close to 100 words, I'm starting to put two word sentences together. Yesterday she put on my shoes and sweatshirt and I grabbed her hand and said "go now". Mom was impressed. I'm finally starting to figure this speech thing out. I've known what I was saying all along, but the grownups can finally understand me.

I'm 21 months and constantly in trouble. Mom always is saying no to me, especially when it comes to crayons. Honestly I'd much rather have pens but for some silly reason, mom thinks they make even more of a mess than crayons. I love to draw on everything, and everyone. I carry crayons everywhere and I think that they make the world so much more colorful. As I stated in my previous posts, adults tend to not let me eat crayons, which I must say puts me in a bad bad bad mood, which everyone hears about. I'm just experimenting, and I happen to think crayons taste very good.

My mom is driving me insane

I'm twenty months now and every time I try to do something she's always saying No no Patrick. Put that down Patrick. For once, just for once I wish she'd let me get into mischief. I went to school last week when my Auntie Kate was sick, and you know what they said to me? They told me not to eat my crayons. I'll tell you this, being a toddler is hard work. I have to take naps. I have to eat vegetables. I can't eat crayons, I can't climb on the oven door, and every time I try to help unload the dishwasher, mommy locks me out and empties the only rack I can reach before letting me back in.

Not to mention, when we were in Carmel, my mom came up with this torture method of letting me scream it out. Now I have to go to bed every night by myself at 8:30. It's SOOOOO NOT FAIR. I can't wait to grow up.

A WHOLE YEAR AND A HALF

I am officially 18 months today and very very good at driving my parents crazy. Mom swears there's no more kids in her future, but I'm not so sure about that.
I am offically 34.75 inches tall and 24.12 lbs. I walk EVERYWHERE, and run most places. I'm getting real good at getting away from mommy and daddy and pretending that I don't understand what they're saying. I can say lots of words now.
Some of my words include, Car, Bye, Shoe, Two, Cool, and UhOh.
I'm a really big help to my mommy. I love to sort laundry and watch it spin around in the dryer. I also like to help unload the dishwasher although mommy is nervous with knives and forks.

Almost 15 months and growing

Gosh guys, I'm sorry I haven't been updating this as much as we should have been. I rarely let my mom have actual computer time to type things up. She's a busy lady chasing me around all the time. I've figured out how to operate baby gates and baby latches. Mom says I'm too smart. Nana agrees with her. I'm just a typical toddler figuring out exactly how this world works around me. What fun are baby locks?

At my 12 month appointment I was 31 inches and 21 pounds. We don't know how tall I am right now, but we do know I'm somewhere around 23 pounds. Mom is guessing that I'm probably 32 inches. She just tells me that I'm getting heavier every day.

Christmas was incredibly fun, but tiring. All these houses and food and presents and people. For a guy who wasn't quite one at the time, it was a little bit overwhelming but next year I'll be better prepared.

I had my birthday party on January 12 up at my Nanas house. It was a lot of fun and I got way too many toys.

Since the weather has gotten nicer we've been going to the park A LOT. Let me tell you, if you haven't been to the park, you've got to go. It's seriously so much fun. The slides are awsome, the swings are fun and the crawl tubes are a great way to get exercise.

Last weekend was Easter. My second. Mom is kind of upset that all my firsts are done and over with but at the same time, she's glad that I'm growing up. I had a great time hunting eggs, but I didn't understand why everyone wanted me to put them into my basket. I was having way to much fun carrying them around.

Okay well thats about it for now and I'm really really sorry that I haven't been on here in so long. I promise I'll try to get my mom on here more often.

See you later!

Patrick.
PS, look for new pics.