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.