Family Pictures 2010

After searching for someone to do our family pictures, we found the right woman. Daddy's co-worker took them at Elmwood Park last weekend. She was so awesome. She told me I was invisible to the camera and I believed her. Mommy and daddy are so happy with the pictures that only took us 30 minutes and we had 71 great pictures. This is just a glimpse at some of them. Since my last post, nothing has really changed with me, except that I am fully potty trained, except at night. Mommy makes me wear a diaper "just in case." I rarely go at night in my diaper, but I think mommy is scared she will have to change my sheets everyday. Guess she doesn't understand that I'm good to go. My new words are "give me some pribacy (privacy), shut up (from Pinocchio), and I'm sick of you." My favorite thing to eat is popcorn. I will eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I love it! I love to watch Mickey Mouse (so does my sister), Dora, and Diego. It has started to get cold and dark very early so we don't get much play time outside, which makes me sad. I love to play outside, especially baseball. It is going to be a long winter. As for my little sissy, she is doing okay. She still wakes up in the night screaming bloody murder. Mommy just switched her Prevacid to night time and started giving her Maalox before bedtime. Mommy thinks that all the food she has been eating is making her tummy hurt. Josie and I go to the Dr next week so I guess mommy will make sure Josie's stomach is all good. During the day, Josie is very happy. She jumps in her jumperoo for long periods of time. She likes to play with me, especially when I make her laugh. I typically get right in her face or lay on top her stomach (mommy gets mad at me when I do this) and start laughing to make her giggle. Mommy and daddy think it is cute, but man they sure don't like it when I am mean to her. One of the things I did a couple of weeks ago made mommy really mad. Mommy came out of her bathroom one morning to find me rocking a strapped in Josie in her bouncer. The bouncer was on it's side and Josie was laughing. Mommy was so mad she spanked me and told me to never do that again. I don't know why she was so mad because Josie seemed to like it. I also like to set toys on top of Josie, which mommy doesn't like, but Josie does. No matter what the best time of the day is bath time. Josie and I always take a bath together and she loves me making her giggle. In fact she can climb out of the yellow "lawn chair" in the bath. She has officially went under the water once. Mommy got scared, but she seemed to like it. She coughed a little afterwards and then giggled. I guess all in all I love my little sister and can't wait for her to get a little bigger so she can play with me a little more. She is almost sitting up on her own so just a couple more months and she will be crawling and getting into all my stuff. I'm sure I will not like that, but for now I love how she lets me do whatever to her and she giggles. I hope all is well with everyone and I will talk to you soon. Happy Thanksgiving!

Halloween has come and gone!

Josie was a Pea in a Pod and I was Mickey Mouse. This was the only picture mommy could get of me because Mickey would not appear in front of the camera. Okay, I will not take a picture for anyone. I don't like cameras so if you want a picture, don't tell me. Josie didn't like her costume. She cried every time mommy put her in it so that is why it was never buttoned. Besides our costumes, daddy carved one of our pumpkins. I didn't really help because I thought it was gross. In fact, when I wanted to touch the guts, I decided I didn't want to because that is just way too gross. Daddy did the carving and I did the watching. On Halloween we actually ran around to a couple of different places, but we at least started early enough this year that I got to go trick or treating with my neighbors. We first headed to my great grandma and grandpa Mauer's house and I got my first piece of candy for the night. Then we headed up to gma and papa Meyers'. Oh my was that a rush. I saw all my good friends up there and was so excited I kept running into the street. Mommy and daddy finally got so sick of chasing me and were worried that I would get hurt, they decided it was time to go. Our last stop was home. We met up with our neighbors, Bach's and Schrage's, and went down the road to Trick or Treating. I had so much fun running around with Minnie (Cali), Bumble Bee (Claire), football player (Charlie), Star Wars guy (Ryan), and of course my sister and our parents. Josie stayed in the stroller and slept until the very end, but the rest of us kids ran from house to house on Turnberry. I can't believe how much candy and stuff we gathered on one street. Mommy says she has never seen such an excited child about running from house to house. I loved it and can't wait for next year. Besides all our Halloween fun, I am officially potty trained. I only battled mommy a couple of days, but of course I still have to get completely naked, including my socks off! I only wear a diaper at nap and at night time, but I have been dry every night so I'm guessing mommy will not make me sleep in one forever. As for my sister, she can roll over from back to front and has just rolled over from front to back once and that was today. Josie is really trying to sit up now, but she still falls over. I am guessing in the next couple of weeks she will have this mastered also. According to mommy and daddy, Josie is trying to be just like me. She is trying to do everything ahead of schedule. They keep hoping that she is not as quick as me. I don't think she will ever be as fast as me! All is good with our family and hoping all is well with yours. Talk to you all soon.