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I was happily surprised when I woke up this morning to have received a Valentine picture in the mail from my friend Milan in Portland!  I got to meet him when mommy and I went to Seattle and I was so glad to see his picture.  He colored a cat for me and I told mommy it was Razmatazz :)  I even took it to school with me today.  

After I saw Milan's picture, I decided I wanted to color a picture for him too.  Mom was so surprised at how well I colored in the lines.  She had no idea that I didn't just scribble anymore (seriously, when did this happen???)  Check this out...it was a color by number.  Mom told me what color went with each number, then I picked out the right markers and colored the picture.  Mom took the picture on her phone before I was done, but you get the idea...

I had a fun day at school today, but had another tantrum when mom picked me up.  We're working on that...I think I'm just tired at the end of the day and the most random things set me off.  The other day I had a bagel in my lunchbag when mom picked me up.  She hadn't sent me to school with a bagel, nor did we even have bagels at home, so she asked me where I got it from.  That was enough to really upset me and I threw myself on the floor and mom had to carry me out screaming and crying.  Needless to say, I sat in timeout for a few minutes when we got home.  That was Wednesday.  Thursday I had a GREAT evening.  I was a great listener, great helper, ate a fabulous dinner, took a nice bath and even got to read FOUR books with mom before bed. Tonight I had another random tantrum at school, though.  Mom asked me to put a toy away and I threw it and got upset, so she carried me out again.  I calmed down quicker tonight and was fine by the time we got home.  

I looked through my art drawers and picked out a coloring book when we got home.  I picked out a Sesame Street letters and numbers coloring book.  I picked out a few pages and asked mom to tear them out.  I picked out one that had purple and orange on it (orange is my favorite color).  There were two words on the page - mom told me that one said purple and one said orange.  I picked out the same color markers and started tracing away.  Can you believe that I did this without any help from mom???  

Mom's slowly but surely catching up on editing and uploading photos.  She still has to get through December 2011 - maybe while we're on vacation in a few weeks.  Here are a few from the past few weeks, though.  

I've been having fun playing with egg cartons.

My new bedding.  I really like it!

I was playing in my marching band again.  I think I need some real instruments, not just a plastic kitchen funnel!

I'm *obsessed* with my Disney Princess book.  Mom's a bit tired of reading it.  But I really like it!

I got up and went to the bathroom all by myself again last night!  Mom heard my door open and close this time, but I went by myself and didn't even ask for help.  Hooray!  Mom's finally put away all of my cloth training pants since I've been so great about being dry overnight.  

I can't wait for our Disney trip - not much longer now!  Hope everyone's doing well!!!  

I think mommy's playing tricks on me...

Every night at bedtime after we all say goodnight, mom or dad turn my light off and I sit in my bed and "read" stories to my buddies or sing songs to them.  Mom recently put up light blocking curtains in my room, so now I don't have the benefit of the streetlights outside of my window to be able to read by!  I think mom's tricking me, though.  Every night, I call to her on the monitor and tell her I can't see.  And every night, she tells me to close my eyes and count to 10 and maybe I'll be able to see when I open my eyes again.  I've been trying that 3 or 4 times and wouldn't you know, I *still* can't see without the lights on.  Sigh.  So now I'm just sitting in my room flipping the pages, but can't really see anything.  Good thing I remember the stories and can "read" them anyway!

I'm super excited for this weekend - only one more school day to go!  On Saturday we'll go to swimming, but on Sunday is the SUPERBOWL!  Granted "my" team (the Steelers, duh) isn't playing, but I'm excited to see my friends.  I hear Arabelle, Cole, Baby Jake and Baby Cora (they kinda go together in my mind), Gabriel and Baby Charley are all going to come visit!  Mom says we're going to make our own pizzas and maybe she'll even have a surprise treat for us.  What kind of trouble do you think we can get in to?

Funny story about football...we were watching the games a few weeks ago and I always ask questions about what's going on.  I was rooting for the Ravens against the Patriots (don't ask me why - mom asked me which team I wanted to win and that's who I said).  But of course they missed the field goal and the Pats won.  A week or so later, I reminded mom that the Patriots didn't miss the field goal...  How in the world do I remember such details?

Anyway, on Sunday I will be rooting for the Giants for my Uncle Dan.  Go Giants!