title? what title?

did i tell you i was buzz lightyear for halloween? i will try to find a picture. it was fun. i liked trick or treating. and, altho i didn't say anything to my mom, i got a little comfused, because i got a whole bunch pf candy--and i DID eat a few pieces that night, but then *poof!* after that, it was gone! i don't know where it went.

i am having a lot of fun at dance class. i can do heel-step and toes-in-the-back and i can bow and i can plié. my recital is may 18, and you are all invited! please come! it might be the 17th, which is granny-frannie's birthday. but i want a lot of people to come to my recital.

how was your thanksgiving? mine was good. we went to a potluck, me and mommy and daddy and then me and mommy went to one of her friends at work and we had dessert and i got to play with a guitar. i love the guitar. i am very good at it (of course).

today we went on a field trip at school and i got to ride in the van and we saw christmas trees and a singer who i don't think was greg greenway, but he played guitar and there was santa claus also. AND mom signed a permission slip to let me watch a movie at school. we had pictures at school and i wore a tie and a vest and pants with suspenders and i looked really good.

i know this is a boring post. too bad.

a picture diary of my summer (a slice)

in cape cod....on the beach....taking a smachball break. yeah, i see her checkin me out.


chillin with my peeps. buried in the sand. oh yeah.



cape cod has beautiful lighthouses. and you can't really appreciate it unless you skip to it with your cousin



smashball on the beach.



raisin the roof with cuz



taking a break on my hike in the woods






this is higher than it looks.



on the whalewatch. did he say he spotted one starboard? what is starboard?!



bouncy bouncy at my birthday!


swingin off the rope weeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!




mmmmmmmmmm birthday cake. MY birthday cake. i'm a 3 year old man now. look out!



partyin with my buddy jackson


don't hate me because i'm beautiful




these people drove me here


i rock the horse!



but the hay ride was my absolute favorite. what have YOU been up to

3 is the good life

i do. i have a really good life and i am pretty happy these days. i started my new school. and even tho i miss my old teachers very much, i get to talk to them on the phone, so it isn't so bad. and i will visit them one of these days soon. my new school has a very nice teacher and all the kids use the potty. the potty and the sink and the paper towels are just my height so i don't need a step stool and can do it by myself. and i have a cool lunch box that i bring. and i take stretch and grow and dance class. and i even know some of the other kids in other classes because their mommies work with my mommy and they came to my birthday party. AND mommy sometimes makes me real peanut butter and jelly sammiches, which i thought i had before but it turns out that was a lie (soy nut butter? almond butter? ain't NOTHIN like this real stuff). that might be the best food ever. well, no. friday is pizza day at school. how awesome is that?

i also started sunday school, which is very fun. they let me light a candle...what's not to like about that?

i had a really REALLY REAALLY fun birthday party. we went to a gynnastics place and we jumped on trampolines and off balance beams into big foam pits that the grown ups couldn't get out of, which was funny. and there was a popsickle course that was fun to go thru. i think i want to take gynnastics classes. and i had a cake with trucks on it and it was yummy. and i got a LOT of presents. i think i might make someone sad if i forget to say a present someone gave me by accident, so i won't say everything i got. but i will say there is not one present that i didn't like. and even at 3 years old i know that when you get a bunch of presents there are always a few you kind of just ignore and forget about. but i totally scored and i heard mommy saying it made her "a little uncomfortable" whatever, she is going to have to get over it. no, i don't have too many toys and yes i appreciate all the new things i have. well, some relatives send "checks" or "money" or "savings bonds" and i don't really get that. i am rotating thru each and every toy and enjoying them thoroughly. so there, mother.

today was a good day too. not only did i get 4 books in the mail (i think from auntie karen) but i also went to the dentist for the first time and got my teeth cleaned. she polished my teeth and counted them and put a little hose and a vacuum in my mouth and i got to lay in a chair that went up and down and then they let me watch when they cleaned mommie's teeth. i had no cavities. it was fun.

the only thing that could make things better would be if daddy was here all the time. but, other than that, things are pretty good. i think i am going to like being 3.

ballet and tap shoes yay

if i keep my underpants clean and dry all day with no accidents i get a surprise after i brush my teeth. sometimes i get books or little cars. my 2 favorite surprises were lip balm (i could give minty kisses) and last week i got a small dustpan with a dust broom. i liked it so much i slept with it.

what?

what's wrong with liking a dust pan? i like things nice and clean, just like my daddy.

mommy said she can't keep giving me so many surprises and that it is going to stop soon. well, shucks mom, i guess that means i am going to stop going peepee in the potty then, huh? i mean, hello?! what's my motivation here? she said something about giving me tokens or some dumb crap so i can turn it IN for a surprise. yeah. mommy is just going to have to learn that if she gives me presents for doing something and then the presents stop rolling in...well....there is such a thing called "natural consequences" i don't exactly know what that means, but i have an idea.

also, my birthday is coming up and i am going to be three and i am going to have cake. also, i am going to have a birthday party at a gymnastic place.

also i am going to start a new school on monday. mommy said we were on the waiting list for a year. they have computer class and spanish class and music class and stretch & grow and dance class. i am going to take computer class and stretch & grow (which i did at my old school) and dance. we got my ballet shoes and my tap shoes already and i am very excited.

i had my last day at my old school yesterday. there was a little party for me and all the teachers gave me lots and lots of presents and they were crying and stuff and mommy said i could visit whenever i wanted. she wouldn't let me open the presents because she said it wasn't my birthday yet. one of the presents is from one of my teacher's mommies. they love me very much at my old school and i love them. i don't know what "last day" means so i will have to ask my teachers on monday. i think it means "birthday" because of the cupcakes and presents.

now my gramma and papa are visiting for the weekend. o love them. grampa plays with me outside which is good because mommy never does and daddy is always in raleigh. mommy has strep throat and is going to take a nap while everyone but her went out to dinner.

what i did on my summer vacation

when too much time passes between posts, too much flavor just gets lost. i had originally planned to keep a day-byday account of my super awesome vacation.....back in august. so let's see.........

on day one we drove to maryland and stayed in a house with a pretty girl younger than me and their dog maggie who i was very afraid of. i didn't have any peepee accidents at all.

the next day we drove to new york and i didn't have any accidents again. i only used the potty. new york was fun. we saw nona and pop and uncle elliott and aunt sherri. we stayed with aunt sonnie and tom who i love so much and they have this very tiny tiny white dog and i am petrified of her. and i saw my uncle dave and uncle dan which was awesome because i never get to see them. they are my mommies brothers

then a couple days later we drove to the greatest place in the world: cape cod.

i got to play with my cousin who is a big boy, he's 4. they had bunk beds in cape cod and we had pillow fights and played all kinds of games up on the top bunk. my mommy, who as you know is very mean, wouldn't let me sleep on the top bunk even tho it was a bed. i played with my little cousins too, but they were nmot as much fun as my big cousin. and we went on a whale watch on a big boat and we saw lots and lots of whales. we saw there mouthes and their tails and mommies and babies. it was probably the greatest day of my life. and we went to one beach and it didn't have waves and i liked it and we looked for hermit crabs. and we went to another beach and it had waves and i don't like waves. one day we were walking down the street in a place called provinctown and i thought it would be funny to pull my pants down. and a man who sounded like a lady said "oh honey don't do that then everyone will want to start doing it" and mommy was trying to yell at me but she was laughing and that is always fun when i can manage that trick.

oh i forgot before we went on our vacation, conor came to visit. and we went to monkey joe's. conor's mommy is my mommy's friend.

and then, i was doing really good not having accidents in my pants. and then we were in a store and my mommy SAID to the lady that she is potty training me and could we PLEASE use your bathroom and the lady said no, so i peed on her floor. ha. i wish mommy didn't clean it up. mean old lady.

i didn't want to leave cape cod it was the most fun i have ever had in my life and mommy and daddy were with me the whole time and i will never forget it.

then we went back and did a lot of driving again and the whole trip i didn't have any accidents. we went back to new york and we had dinner with michelle and i was very naughty in the resturant. but i was behaving so much, and i didn't want to be there so i was naughty. too bad. and i saw mommy's friend heidi for a little while. mommy wouldn't let me go in her house tho so daddy took me too hoffman's playland where i rode the trains and the boats and the helicopters.

then we went back to maryland again and visited and then we went home.

i was very happy to come home but i still think cape cod is the best place in the world.

no title

i am on vacation in cape cod. i have already done lots of stuff. stay tuned to the funnest timne of my freakin life.

captain underpants!

that is the new name mommy came up with for me today. there is a book by this name and neither of us has read it, but she likes calling me captain underpants and i, quite frankly, enjoy being called captain underpants. today mommy decided there would be no more diapers or pull ups for me during the day any more. oh yeah, the teachers at school were thuh-rilled when she brought me to school with 4 pairs of undies and 4 pairs of shorts and said "we're doing underpants now. just do the best you can." you see, i still don't really have this potty thing down. in fact, since the novelty has worn off, i would say my enthusiasm for this little duty (duty--heh hehe heh) has diminished a bit. so i am not really sure why we are suddenly into the underpants. i certainly knew right away when i was standing in the tomato plants that i peed. i kept my pullups dry the other day all the way from raleigh to home---i peed in every bathroom i could get the old lady to stop at. maybe that is why i am captain underpants.

mommy picked me up from school friday and we took a road trip to raleigh, where we were going to spend the weekend with daddy. we stayed in a little house called a hotel room and it had one bed and a little fridge and people on the other side of the wall that i couldn't see. i thought i would love raleigh, because daddy is there, but it turns out i hate it. the house in raleigh is no fun and even though i got to sleep with mommy and daddy, i couldn't sleep so me and mommy went outside at 2:30 in the morning, but it wasn't morning because it was dark and daddy said everyone could hear us and she wouldn't let me climb up and down the stairs. so, we went out to breakfast with daddy and me and mommy left.

then we stopped at the outlets because mommy wanted to buy me some more shorts (now i know why) but it turns out, in july, all you can buy is winter stuff. you can't buy shorts in july. of course. so, i didn't get any. but, i went to a store called "harry & david" and they had these blueberry candies that have renewed my interest in learning to use the potty. mommy let me have some in the store and when i told her i loved them, she bought a bag and said i could have some everytime i used the potty and my pullups were dry. of course, now she means underpants, but on saturday she meant pullups. but that is a pretty hard job, using the potty AND having dry pullups. but like i said---my pullups were BONE DRY all the way home.

pretty soon we are going on vacation and auntie laura and conor are coming to visit also. and we are going to see uncle dave and nona and gramma papa and aunt kendra and all my cousins except i don't really like the beach because i am afraid of sharks. but you know what? today i told mommy skin starts with the letter "s" she was very excited and called daddy. i would have thought she knew skin started with the letter "s" but you never really know with her. mommy made this crap called tempeh for dinner so we ended up going out for a burger instead. well, mommy has to get up and 5 then get me up at 6 so we can get me to school and her off to work so i have to go get my rest so i have energy and mommy needs to read harry potter even though she already read the last page.

no clever title

i forgot to write comments on my pictures. do you notice how mom is sitting back and letting me, her small child, do all the work? it's a good thing i have my sippy cup on a bungee in front of me. hey guess what! mom decided to keep me home from school today. daddy is in raleigh working, so i have to be at school from very early to very late, because mommy has to go to work. it is very horrible and i think i have bad parents. so, since mommy feels bad about it, she decided to keep me home from school today to hang out with her.
and guess what.
i woke up with a sore throat and we went to the doctor and they said i have strep throat and i have medicine that tasted good and now i feel better but mommy said i can't go to the beach with jackson tomorrow because i might give him my throat but i don't think that is true because i don't share very well, i would keep it to myself and my daddy is coming home today after the sun goes down so i will wack golf balls with daddy and not go to the beach because i feel better and can eat popsicles. AND i went peepee in the potty and kept my pullups dry so i got to get m&ms. i'm 2 and ozzy rules.

kayaking pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71701519@N00/799741369/

if you say it, i will say it

and if it cracks you up when i say it, then i will say it alot. for example, mother put her hand up with tallman and ring man bent down with pinky, index and thumb remain up. then she yelled something that sounded like 'ozzy rules!" it makes this simple woman so happy when i do these types of things, so i appease her by running around with the hand up in that way saying "ozzy rules'.

i can also imitate apparently an old commercial where a little girl says "it's shake n bake and aahh hay-yelped"

i really like knives. have i told you this? i am allowed to use gentle knives. but i am fascinated by all things knife.

the potty thing. my best guess 50-50. you know, sometimes they put me in diapers, sometimes pullups sometimes underear, sometimes i got my goodies out for the world to see. i don't know mommy's feelings about my using the potty. i mean i know she wants me to but if i don't she's like, "oh well, remember next time" do you think she needs to be tougher to get me to remember/ she says i'll figure it out that i am almost there. i am suspissing that she is being her typical lazy self (please please please don't tell mom i said that about her) and is waiting for me to train myself. how stupid is that?! she offers the opportunities and it is up to me to take them. also several mornings after sleeping all night long i woke up with a dry diaper which mom got super excited about. wait. i think i have to go peepeeinthepotty







ozzy rules shake bake and i helped gentle knifes

note to self. really look at web site i have meeting tomorrow potty traininsd gram pop trip

why is water wet?

holy crap. has it really been that long since i've posted?! that is a dumb question, isn't it? what happens if i post? what happens if i don't? what happens if i ask a question? why? WHY?

what is that?

a fountain.

what does it do?

it sprays water?

why?

for decoration.

why is it a decoration?

it's just water. it's pretty to look at. the birds like it.

what IS water?

2 hydrogens and an oxygen.

is it wet?

you get the idea. constant. and when i say constant, i don't mean, just really often. i mean, con-stant!

hey, guess what i did on the forth of july? you can't guess. i will try to post a picture, but i went kayacking!!!!!!!!! oh yes i did! it was the funnest thing ever. i even got to paddle. miss michelle from mommy's work has 3 kayacks so me and mommy rode in one and now me and mommy and daddy want to buy our own. then at night, while we were in the house eating vegetarian burgers and broccoli cooked on the george forman while the rest of the world ate hot dogs and corn on the cob cooked on a grill, the fireworks started (they are legal here). i do not, i repeat, do NOT like fireworks. so, i got to sleep in mommy and daddy's bed.

oh a way before, my mommy's friend auntie kim came from california for a visit. she is sooooooo pretty. it's nice when we have visitors in my house. i like to wake them up.

oh yea, a while ago, after kim left, me and daddy went, just the 2 of us without mommy, mommy stayed home because she had to work, to see gramma and papa in the mountains and we went on a hike and saw waterfalls. and i helped papa cook hamburgers. it was so fun, i can show you some pictures of that trip too. well, too tired to write more even tho there is more to say. i am doing great on potty training. sometimes i go poopoo or peepee in my pullup or underpants , but sometimes i use the potty too.. and then i can sing the" poo pee in the potty' dance. and i get m&ms when i keep my pullups dry or go poop in the potty. speaking of...............

don't you wish you were me?

i just wanted to say that i went pee pee in the potty 3 times at school today and for the first time ever--i went poopy in the potty! i am SO on my way to being a big kid!!!!!!! i just wanted to say that! i got m&ms, stickers and a tonka tow truck! all for pushin out a turd. i love my life.

one more thing

i forgot to mention this cool thing my mom got. see, i have been kind of scared in my room at nite some times and really not wanting mom or dad to leave me at nite. it was getting kind of stressful. for everyone. so i don't know where my mom found this stuff, but it is a spray, and it's called scare-b-gone. and every nite, they srpay it whereever i think there might be something a little scary, like under my bed, mostly. plus, it smells like lysol so i think it kills cooties too. it's awesome.

daddy pitched a tent

a couple weeks ago, mommy and daddy kept me home from school, packed the car full of stuff and took me to some place called a "camp site." we drove in the car for a long time, then when we got out, we took everything out of the car. i was running around and mommy and daddy put up a plastic house called a tent. i got to bring my sleeping bag. mommy was cranky because she couldn't make a fire. and it was cold outside. so then, mommy and daddy took down the plastic house and we got back in the car and went home. i guess that what camping means. then, mommy set up the tent thing in the back yard and built a nice fire in the fire thing and we went in the tents with our flash lights. mommy actually wanted to sleep outside, but me and daddy talked her back to her senses. it was really cold out there. that was a weird experience and i don't know what i think of it. mommy wants to go to a camp site where she can have a fire and where there aren't golf carts all over the place. daddy wants to camp where he can go fishing and if daddy wants to fish, then so do i.

i gave mommy a hammock for mother's day. i love it because she falls out of it a lot. and that is funny.

now here is the big news. this past weekend was called "potty weekend" and i got to run around nekkid most of the weekend. i am getting lots of practice going peepee in the potty. i got stickers and m&m's and a book (a thomas book). i get stickers every time sit on the potty! and i get m&m's every time i pee in the potty. some times i like it, sometimes i don't feel like it, and mommy and daddy say it is okay. my teachers at school even have the same stickers and ask me to sit on the potty. today, i was washing my hands and i said "uh-oh! what is my body telling me?!!!" and i ran to the potty. this is a pretty fun thing because first of all, my mother has NEVER given me m&m's, PLUS every time i go on the potty mom and dad dance around and cheer and act like complete fools, which cracks me up. they even took me strawberry picking once i went a few times. i haven't gone poop on the potty yet. the other day, i yelled "thankyou! good nite!!" complete with the arm thing, just like auntie karen taught me.

lorri rocks!

today was a great day! first i went to the roller skating rink to a birthday party and that was so cool! i got right in the skates and i wasn't afraid. i fell a few times but i got up all by myself with no help. i can't wait to do it again. i am very good at it. they even played an abba song, and you know how i love the abba. mommy didn't know they still had skating rinks

then, i decided not to take a nap today so that added a bit more fun to my day (i am starting to reconsider this whole 'nap' thing). we didn't go to the neighborhood pig pickin' today.

and THEN mommy and dad took me to a big people party down the street. we got to yell "surprise" which was fun. there were 2 dogs in there, and i didn't like that very much, but it was a fun party. there were some boys there that i played with. one of the boys, a big boy, a 5 year old said "he's looks like a baby but he talks. he's a talking baby" and then he let me play with him. i know i am articulate for my age, and somewhat precocious, but i still like to tackle. and kick the soccer ball. lorri, one of my neighbors said she would "sugar me up" with m&m's any time i wanted to come over and then send me home. then she tought me how to say "lorri rocks" before we left. i like mrs. lorri. and i think it was kind of her to offer me m&ms.

i am very very exhausted now. i asked my mom what would happen if i drank a cold beer (i don't know why she thought that was funny). she said i would get sick and she would get in trouble.

i did have a bit of a melt down yesterday. it was my first category 5 in public. i threw a train in the book store and then hit mom, so mom picked my naughty self right up and carried my ass right outa there. it was quite a scene getting me out of there. this is what mommy doesn't understand: i wanted to stay in the book store (they have a really nice thomas set in the kid's section). if she just put me down and let me play, i wouldn't have wiggled and screeched like i did. i wouldn't even let her put me in my car seat. i was soo soo sooo mad. i begged her to let me go back into the bookstore, i promised i would behave. i screeched and jumped around the back seat of the car and mom just sat there NOT taking me back in to the store. i coudn't believe it. i kept saying i would behave and she kept saying "i know you will, honey, the next time we come" but i meant i would behave NOW. i am not sure i have ever been so mad at that woman. finally i calmed down and got in my seat and we went home.

well, she made up for it today. today was a great day.

my first interview, from auntie karen who i love and miss

Five questions for Donovan:

1. What do you say when your mama has finished giving
you a bath?

Thank You! GOOD NIGHT!!!!!!


2. I know you like music, do you have a favorite song
or cd?

that's hard...there are so many....mamma mia...shakira....old skool rap....but i will go with dog train.


3. You seem to really like trains. Do you have a
favorite train?

usually it's thomas, but sometimes the caboose.


4. Why is that your favorite train?

because he's bleeeue and my fray-end and he goes "chugga-chugga cheeeooo cheeeooo"


5. It’s pretty early to decide but what do you think
you might like to do when you grow up?

i want to be a nurse and give people shots and make them feel better. a doctor nurse.



Follow your answers with the sentences below:

If you want to be interviewed by me, please leave me a
comment or send an email saying: "Interview me." (or
the like).

* I will respond by asking you five questions. I
get to pick the questions.
* You will update your weblog with the answers to
the questions.
* You will include this explanation and an offer
to interview someone else in the same post.
* Then others comment asking to be interviewed,
you will ask them five questions and so on.

Thank you! GOOD NIGHT!

phew! what a whirlwind of a long weekend! finally i got to spend time with my wonderful auntie karen! we hung out and went to the street fair and i sung songs for her (serenading if you want the truth) and shopping and to a bookstore (where she bought me not one, but TWO books--one that came with a roller!). we had so much fun. i have been asking for her all day. i hope she comes back tomorrow when the green light comes on because i love her so much and tomorrow when the green light comes on auntie karen can come back from california and play with me and help me put my tracks together and we can go in my backyard and roll the roller on the dirt. and then i can go to kids at play and monkey joe's and fit for fun.

i just couldn't stop thinking about my auntie karen today. i even kind of, well, got in a little trouble at school today. got sent to the office even. it's just that i wasn't tired at nap time today so i wasn't napping because i was hoping auntie karen was going to come and i guess i wasn't being quiet today either (i had a story to tell the kid next to me on the mats about belly's dancing --i overheard my mom talking about it) so i guess i got sent to the office so the other kids could nap. how could they nap with all the cool stuff i had to tell them?! wussies.

mommy said i should mention in this blog that a lot of mommies and daddies and kids are very sad in virginia today. i want to go to virginia and hug them and love them and make them feeeeeeel better so they won't cry. i bet karen would take me to those sad mommies and daddies and other kids so i can make them feeeeel better. i want to say "don't cry" i will make you feeel better but mommy said that it is okay to cry but we can still hug them in our dreams. once i figure out where dreams are,i will do that.

isn't she the lady who went to a tofu festival?

so, i am so excited. auntie karen is coming for a visit. she is the one who took pictures of me eating ribs. i hope i can sleep tonight. all day it was "is auntie karen on the plane from california?" i was also asking what would happen if auntie karen takes off her socks, would she have lots of feet and toes? and mommy said that yes, she would.

i admit, i get concerned at times what would happen if a grampire were to ring the doorbell, and come into my house and come into my room. mommy asks me what a grampire looks like and i told her he looked like a count. i worry about these things. and also about the dog next door. he is loud. but i am not really a worrier in general.

mommy and daddy let me grind coffee beans. sometimes they are nice that way. and they are teaching me how to dust, which is super fun. and garden.

so far, we have planted flowers that might have died, broccoli, cauliflower, strawberries, some herbs and some blueberries. but i don't see any blueberries. soon, we will plant tomatoes, cukes, peppers and some other stuff. these are all baby plants and i can't walk on them or drive my trucks on them. i am very careful when i drive my trucks thru the garden. i like to help mom water. that is the funnest. we have a fence now, so i can't run away into the front yard or the street when we are in the back. we had to get the fence for mommy. daddy can run and chase after me. mommy can't. she just yells and me to stop (rrriiiiiiiiiiiight....that works) and walks kind of fast.i don't know what is funner. watering plants or running away from mommy when she can't chase me.

well, as soon as the green light comes on, i get to see karen. i am sure she is an early riser, like me!

protest

i would just like to say for the record that i am not a big fan of mom shouting to the world when i make comments about my boy parts. seriously. how many cute posts has she made about me referenceing my elbow? some day someone is going to google my name when i am applying for a job and i don't need this. these are private moments and i never signed up to be on a reality show for the world to snicker at. hey mom, did you tell everyone how i pretended to listen to your heart because i was being a doctor? no? why? because it didn't involve my bits? god mom, sometimes you are so sophomoric. so there.

from donovan and from mommy

last week we went to a carnival. wow. i admit, it took me a while to catch on to things. i was a little afraid at first, but then i really got into it. i rode on a train, which i loved, and i rode on a truck ride which i loved. i went on a different ride with my mom and neither of us liked it. then i played a ducky game and won a prize. a whistle!!!!!!!!! i play it so well, too. then it got dark and the lights came on in the carnival and it was really cool. the lady on the truck ride said she had a god-son who had my name and had blonde hair so let's just say, without giving away too much information, that i didn't have to get off every time the ride stopped. i think you get the idea. don't tell anyone. i still have my whistle. and i ate fried dough, which was very yummy. that's it.



dear donovan,

i am glad you liked the carnival. we had fun taking you. you know i love you, right? i don't wnat to embarass you or make you feel bad, but there is something i have to put here. maybe a few things. hopefully it won't prevent you from getting a job someday, but well, i just can't keep it to myself anymore.

dear everyone,

donovan has recently discovered the fun that is his.....well....last night in the bath, he was playing with his, um, you know....stuff. then he pulled on his widdle testicles and said "does my penis have wings?"

while admiring a ninja motorcycle in a resturant parking lot: "you know what? actually motorcycles DO have pedals"

while stabbing me with a key: "i am a nurse. i am giving you a shot"

there ya have it

overheard....(by mom)

"forty years ago, when i was in califonia....i was in mommy's tummy and i got borned"

"my big ol' penis gots pee pee coming out of it"

(after singing a new song..a very surprised look on his face) "OH! idon't know anything about that song!"

(both donovan and daddy had been sick recently) "i am a doctor. i bang on the door and i say 'hello!' and i say 'come in' and i have a tithusoap (aka stethoscope) and i make you feel better"

mommy is a nurse. nurses give people shots.

donovan has also entered The Question Asking Phase, which i understand will last a loooong time. often he asks questions he knows the answers to "is this train blue?" "does this helicopter have a propeller?" but often, he really wants to know the answer. and so do i.

what do dolphins and fish drink? can dolphins and fish walk? what do i do if _______ bites me at school?

this from a child who will be 2 1/2 tomorrow (also our 2 year anniversary living in nc)

ab thick

i have 2 ear infections and strep throat. whaddya think of that?

some pictures

these aren't the most recent pictures. i guess i must not be as cute as i used to be because the Big People don't take as many pictures as they used to when i was a young'n. thank god for auntie karen. and a good shave.

quotable quotes volume one

recently heard by others, spoken by me (not quite 2 1/2)

tigger has a tail. daddy doesn't have a tail. mommy doesn't have a tail. donovan doesn't have a tail. people don't have tails. people have butts.


i don't have a life of my own.


if lightening hits a tree, then there will be fire.

when i eat food it goes in my belly and i can't see it.

the sun doesn't turn around the earth. the earth turns around the sun. what's the earth?


obviously this dinner is yummy.

mommy mommy mommy mommy, pinching her lips. mommy mommy mommy. stop talking.

(mommy:) "donovan, guess what!" donovan turns to mother with a bored, knowing look, "you love me a lot" yeah, ma. i've heard that one before.

lately, after a time out or similar punishment for naughtly behavior, it is i rather than the parents who is the first to say "i still love you, no matter what"

good times

just thought of a couple things real quick. mom and dad have decided that everything they want me to do i have to choose between "the easy way" and "the hard way". like, with brushing my teeth. they say i can choose the easy way or the hard way. sometimes i choose the hard way, just for shits and giggles. but i tell them ahead if time "hard way" so they know. i like to keep them on their toes.

also. this is what i want to know. what happens when the parents get to three? you know, "you better get in that car seat before i count to three! ONE! TWO!! " all i know is that they have made it abundantly clear that i should never let them get to three.

being 2 is freakin AWESOME.

green lites and boobies

i have really not been keeping up with this blog, have it? you know what my parents did? i haven't decided if i like it or not, but apparently, that doesn't really matter. they took the regular light bulb out of one of my lamps and put in a green bulb. then they plugged it into something they call a "timer." then they told me i had to stay in my room until the green light goes on, because, you know, green light means go. i like to get up early, go into mommy and daddy's room, turn on their light--one of my newer talents-- and tell them "okay let's go! time to get up" i do wake up before my whole room turns green, but now i have to wait in my room for it. yeah, we'll see. it's working out pretty well for all of us so far.

i can count to 15, with the addition of "eleventeen"

i am getting better at going peepee in the potty, but i still only sit on the potty at night before my bath.

mommy is trying very hard to get me to stop playing with her boobies, but come on man, they were mine for so long, i don't know why she thinks she can suddenly just take them back. she tells me to play with my own boobies, but not only is that not really fun; it's also kind of creepy.

a little catch up post

well, it certainly has been too long isn't it? christmas (or KISSmas as we like to say in my family) is long gone.....i have done and experienced some amazing wonderful things.......now how the hell am i going to remember it all.......

i got every toy ever created for kissmas. thomas trains....tracks.....dvds...an elmo doll that can move as much as a person...a sit and spin...clothes....just everything. it was really freakin fun.

auntie karen and jim came for a visit and they brought more presents. karen brings very cool presents and i really like her alot. i wish they didn't leave. we went out to eat ribs, which i loved. mommy calls them dinosaur bones. she has a lot of strange names for regular food. it is all to try to get me to eat it. it usually works. who wouldn't eat vampire chili? or gobble gobble stew? you just can't pass up, i'm telling ya.

me and daddy went on a trip without mommy. we went to florida to see gramma and papa, auntie kendra and my cousins. it was fun. and you could hardly tell mommy wan't there because she called on the phone often. really really really often. i had a great time with daddy. we went to the beach and did all kinds of fun stuff.

mommy wants me to post some of the more clever things i say, but as a fluent talker, really, there just isn't any point. i am clever. i say clever things. big whoop. they have been telling me since one i was a genius. yet they remain surprised each time i say something smart.

i am really into singing these days and i am very good at it. i am also into 2 movies. i mean BIG time. "cars" and "toy story." i have the "toy story" book and i have 2 pages (at least) that i have completely memorized and recite often, including "woody scoffed" and "buzz said smugly" i have 2 potty books and one i have completely memorized so that when we sit on the potty, i can recite the right things on the right pages so that it truly looks like i am reading it. i am still really into my trains also. i go pee pee in the potty almost every day, before my bath. mommy and daddy say it isn't time for me to get potty trained yet, they just let me do it for fun at night. of course, last night i peed on my train tracks and crapped in the tub, which i guess is not what they want me to do, but don't tell anyone, okay?

i hardly ever use a sippy cup any more, my crib has been taken apart and put upstairs and i can open almost every door in the house. i can also move furniture (like chairs and toy boxes) to high places i want to go so i can reach the things i want that mommy doesn't want me to have like medicine, and steak knives. mostly i am trying to get at my vitamines, but you know, i'll take what i can get. i can also fake burp and fake snore. today i am getting my second hair cut and i got a new pair of shoes. there were a total of 3 pair of shoes i could choose from in the whole stride rite beause of my big ol' feet. one was ugly, the other one tied and it didn't really matter what the last pair looked like because those were my only choices! well, i will try to post more often, because i have really left out a lot of suer duper cool stuff.