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.

christmas came early for the big d!

christmas is a fun time. i got lots of presents so far and mommy and daddy said it isn't even christmas yet. i got a cool sleeping bag from unkiah and aunt sherri and thomas the train underpants from tiff and jason and a bunch of money, but i don't understand that. it just gets hung up on the fridge under a magnet. oh, and santa visited us early. you can't even believe what santa brought me! are you ready?! you are never going to believe this----yo i got a BIG BOY BED!!!!!!!!!! with a thomas blanket. there is a dresser and a night stand and a stool to get in and out. i don't know how santa got it in the house. i was so excited about it....i couldn't sleep. so, last night there were a lot of tears. mommy and dad left the crib in my room and kept saying "it's okay to sleep in your crib if you want---you get to sleep wherever you want" so i told them i wanted to sleep in the hall. i guess they meant ALMOST anywhere i wanted. oh, i couldn't sleep im mommydaddy's bed either. so the choice was the big boy bed or the crib. i wanted to sleep in that bed so bad. so, after a good healthy round of tears, i finally fell asleep in the big boy bed. and the coolest part was when i woke up this morning...i just got out and went to mommydaddy's room and got mommy up. ALL BY MYSELF. yessirybob. i was unable to sleep in my big boy bed for my nap today, but i am shooting for sleeping there tonight. i don't know why i have the crib and the bed in there. and i don't know why the big people tell me i an sleep in my crib if i want. they are weird. maybe santa didn't ask them before he brought it in and they really want to keep me in the crib. this is so pansy toddler bed, folks, this is an honest to god big boy bed. oh yeah. how can christmas get better?

we had a dress rehearsal for the christmas pageant today. i don't even want to talk about it.

mommy is a camel.

so. christmas is coming. this is a little exciting to me because, well, i don't exactly know what it is. i know i am going to get a very cool thing called "coal" because my parents have told me this several times. i don't know what coal is, but i am pretty psyched to find out. it's got to be a cool thing, right? my parents have put up a christmas tree. i thought it was cool when they first put it up because, well, there was a tree in the house. then one day, i woke up and ther were beautiful lights and ornaments on it. i asked if santa brought them and mommy said yes. me and my parents have a difference of opinion, however in how one treats a christmas tree. i think it is big fun to pull off ornaments and drag off garland while the parents feel pretty strongly that one should leave them alone. it's not that i want to be naughty (heh heh, no really, i DON'T) but come ON i'm 2! what do you expect. i notice after breaking several ornaments that each day, it seems less and less of the tree is decorated. in fact, it is almost only decorated on the top half. it's okay. i have a higher reach than mommy and daddy realize.

so, these days i am super duper into trains. i heard mommy saying it is going to be a "thomas christmas" and i don't quite know what that means either. but i am not stupid. i know thomas is a train. i also really like penguins and beautiful things. i think a lot of things are beautiful. the other day i took a beautiful nap. i have a beautiful cat, mommy is beautiful and the day is beautiful. i like to say "it's a beautiful day outside today" because when i do, mommy gets all weird and it cracks me up.

yesterday i went and saw santa. i mean, i really saw SANTA. the real deal, man, not a picture. the real guy. yup. at the mall. i have asked daddy to scan the picture so i can post it here to prove that i really saw him. a lot of the kids were in cute red sweaters and fancy hairdos, but i was in my yellow shirt and brown cords. i am not sure my shirt was clean. however, alot of those kids who's mommies dressed them up to see the big guy cried like wussies and never got the picture. me, i just ran up to santa, sat on his lap and told him i was behaving and that i wanted a blue train. i am so badass.

i am also very excited because my auntie karen is coming to visit soon. (my crazy best friend who wants to put me in dresses. yes. i said crazy. accept it auntie. embrace it) well, okay, truth be told....even tho i love her so much, i don't have real real real clear memories of her....but mommy is so excited, so it is making me excited. i know she is the coolest person ever. i can't wait to see her. it's going to be very cool. i am going to have her give me juice and cookies and wine.

also, i am going to be a king in a church xmas pageant. mommy is going to be a camel. god i hope someone takes pictures.

one more funny story before i go. the other day i was taking a bath and i wrapped myself up in the shower curtain and i said "i am in a elevator" and i went up and down and then i opened the doors and closed the doors. then i said, "i go peepee in the elevator" then i assumed the position and peed. it was so fun. what i loved most about it was that i said it and THEN i did it. i didn't do it and then say it. there is a profound difference. hopefully mommy hasn't caught on to that sublety yet because then it's going to be on the potty all the time. i would much rather pee in the tub. one of my favorite books, "green eggs and ham" has sam-i-am sitting in the potty, reading a newspaper. i told mommy, "sam-i-am is on the potty, trying to go peepee. or maybe poops" mommy thinksi am very smart.

well, okay then. bed time.

PS don't try to tell me the guys name isn't sam-i-am. they can both be sam-i-am.

i have a lot to say

however, it feels imperative to document that at this moment, right now i have discovered the new funnest thing ever. presently it involves ducky crackers (like goldfish) but i suspect we will branch out to other things. in fact, mommy is looking away so she doesn't encourage me by laughing. what is this new hobby, you ask?! STICKING THINGS UP MY NOSE! YAY!!!!!!! i will post the less significant things soon. fun fun fun

first haircut

well, my genius parents didn't get any good halloween pictures of my adorable self as a scarecrow, but today i got my very first ever haircut. daddy insisted. mommy didn't want to do it.

this picture is me in the kitchen. dada calls it my trailer park picture. i can see why




here are my beutiful wonderful curls....


say goodbye cornsilk curls


this is easy

eeeu why would she save it???

oh yeah. i am hot

soon.....FART JOKES

i realized the other day i completely forgot to cover halloween. and i will. soon. but first i have to tell you how clever i am. the teacher told mommy that i was one of the brightest kids in the class. pretty freaking impressive when you consider that it is a class of 2 year olds--many close to 3 and some un-potty trained 3 year olds.anyways, she thinks i am smart because i know my colors and talk clearly and know what an octopus is. big whoop. i'll tell ya why i'm so smart.

there is a song i like called cows, right? and there is the line "cows....we're remarkable cows..." it's a great song. so, a little while ago i sang (get this. oh i wish you knew the tune) "poop....we're remarkable poopie...." oh my god i slay me! do people say that? yup. genius.

a post just to have a post

sure has been a while since i've posted. i was looking over some of my old posts. i guess i blew the potty thing out of proportion. not a whole lot of interest in it. i mean, it's fun to sit in it and get a reaction from mommy when i stick my hand in the potty water, which for some reason she hates. but otherwise.....eehh, potty shmotty. who has time?

meanwhile, i am getting cuter and more adorable and of course, smarter, by the minute. especially since now i am a Big Boy and not a baby. here are some things i enjoy: singing. i love to sing and i know the words to many many songs. of course, i still love my balls. my 2 favorite things, and have been for a while, are still going out side, number 1 and playing with my trains. and i have been pretty into building houses with my blocks lately too. but outside and trains are where it's at man. oh i still love the old backhoes too. i have become a pickier eater and really enjoy throwing my food. it's all about the reaction i get from the big people. i mean, why else would i throw perfectly good food that i like? dad's reaction is usually funner than mom's. a lot of time mom takes me out of my seat, makes me pick up what i threw and puts me back in my seat. dad, on the other hand gets all flustered and mad. love it.

they have a punishment that has lost its ooomph quicker than The Wall, and that is The Gate. i get the gate for hitting, biting and pinching. i don't like it but it's not that bad. so i cry a bit to make them think i am upset then after my 2 minutes is up they pick me up and kiss me and i tell them i am sorry and then sometimes i stop and sometimes we play the bite-gate-sorry game over and over. altho NOW i see that they are starting to take away a toy and THAT i DO NOT like.
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so my friend miss michelle came to visit me from new york and i really liked her. i asked for her for several days after she left. i hope she comes back to visit. and another one of mommy's best friends might come at the holidays, and she is excited about that. even i remember crazy auntie karen!!!!!!! well, i have to go because i just do. don't make me lose character and be mommy.