I love my new school!

I've made it through two weeks at my new school and I'm happy to report that I absolutely love it! The teachers and director all love me, even the teachers in the other rooms. They all know who I am and want to hold me when I come in the morning. I even got to meet another Sydney in the early morning room - she gets so excited when I get there in the morning and announces it to everyone :) There is lots of time for me to play with my new friends on the mats, although we don't always get along so well - I get a little overwhelmed sometimes when the kids don't give me enough space, but it's getting a little better. There's another girl in my class who is 2 weeks younger than me and we chatter back and forth most days. Mom picked her up yesterday because she was crying and I got REALLY mad because she was holding another baby. We read lots of books, sing songs, and take lots of pictures. May has an animal theme, so we've been learning about farm animals and they want mom to bring in a picture of me and Razmatazz! That will be fun to see pictures of my kitty during the day. We go outside if the weather is nice and I really like that.

I got to go to a place called Medieval Times on Saturday night for uncle Steve's birthday. There were real horses there and I watched the entire show! Mom and dad wouldn't let me have any of their chicken legs or potatoes, but I did get to eat my rice and lentils (in the dark)! I was really good and everyone was surprised by that :)

Dad is running a 5 mile race next weekend, so we all went over to the lake the other day so he could practice a bit. Mom and I just walked around and I got to test out my new ride! I got a jogging stroller that is super comfy - I slept most of the way around the lake, then just hung out with mom and watched the ducks until dad had cooled down. I'm also going to move into my new carseat this week! Mom took it out of the box over the weekend and set up the straps so we can install it later. It looks so much more comfortable than my infant seat and will let me sit up a bit more and look out. I've been arching my back and wanting to sit up in the infant seat, so I think this will be better. The seat will hold me until I'm 70 pounds - can you imagine??? It is law in MD that kids have to be in carseats until 8 years old unless they are 4 feet 9 inches tall AND 65 pounds! That's just crazy.

We had a relaxed, but good Mommy's Day yesterday. I even let mommy sleep in (sort of) and dad played with me for a while so mommy could nap. I don't know why she needs to sleep so much (just kidding - it's because I get her up so early every other day!) I made mommy a card at school last week - it has my photo on the front, my footprints and a sweet poem on the inside and my teachers gave me a rose to give to her - mom was very happy with it and gave me lots of hugs (she always does anyway...) :) Daddy also got me a card to give her and that made her cry. We went to the store and picked out some new plants for the deck - dad's going to build a planter box to put them in. Then we stopped and got mom sushi for dinner - I slept through that part of the trip, but tried to help her eat it when we got home - I don't know why she wouldn't let me try any of it!

Well, better get started on the day. We'll post more pictures soon. Take care everyone!