January Second

On Wednesday morning, January 2nd, I woke up to find mom out of bed and dressed.  At 6:45 am.  Whoa.  She told me it was time to get Beef Stu out of her belly!  So she and dad went to the hospital and I kept Grandma and Grandpa K. and Auntie Maddie company.

At the hospital they got mom all ready.  I'd like to say she handled it like a champ, but let's be honest, she's kind of wimpy.  Rumor has it she was begging to be knocked out within minutes of getting her spinal.  Meanwhile, dad got to wear a ridiculous clown suit.  Maybe it wouldn't have looked so silly if he hadn't put it on backwards.  

And then it was time!  Beef Stu came out of mom's belly yelling.  I guess she wasn't quite ready to be bothered.

Mom was just happy because her very favorite doctor pulled Beef Stu out.  

Once she was out the nurses checked on Stu.  She was 6 pounds, 12 ounces and 19.5 inches (which, incidentally was off by an inch, but we'll just pretend she was born tall).  Even though she had to grow in mom's belly with clotty-guy (a blood clot and torn placenta) Stu was a healthy peeplet.  Phew.

I'm not sure who she looks like yet, but I hear she has my tongue.

Stu got a bath so that she'd be all fresh and clean and then it was time for me to visit her!

Turns out, I know why mom's belly was so big!  Stu had a present in there for me - she brought me my very own camera.  I love it!

I was so excited to meet my sister.

I held her and snorgled her and sang her songs.  

I'm pretty sure she was happy to see me too.

I love my new baby sister and I'm excited to introduce everyone to Beef Stu, aka, Elise McKinley.

New Year's Day

Bear with me Peeps, I'm a little behind, but I'll catch up.  I've been so busy with my new big-sister-skills I haven't had time for blogging.

New Year's Day was a pretty exciting day.  It was the last day of growing Beef Stu!

Good thing, too.  I was pretty sure mom was going to explode if her belly got any bigger.

Plus, the belly was starting to get in the way of things.  Have you ever seen a whale try to wash dishes?

So, on New Year's Day mom and I spent some time getting things done, like mall-shopping-skills and bag-packing-skills and things like that.  And mom even picked me up a few times.  I'm pretty ready for her belly to let me be carried all the time again.

We had to get all ready because we knew that Beef Stu would be coming in the morning!

It was a pretty fun busy day!

And things got more exciting when I woke up the next morning!

Day Thirty-Four

Day Thirty-Four was the end of Snowman Week.  It was a great week and thankfully I wasn't required to come into direct contact with any snow.

We made chalk snowman drawings.  I was able to put my circle-drawing-skills to good use.  Who knew I was an expert snowman-drawer?!

You can totally see the snowman, right?!

If mom were on top of her game, I would have worn my snowman shirt to school.  But that's okay, it's easier to be sassy in glittery sparkly clothes.

Day Thirty-Three

I know Peeps, if you're really paying attention you'll notice Day Thirty-Two is suspiciously missing.  I was so busy having a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa K.'s house that day I forgot to have them take my picture.  My bad.  Thankfully I'm back on track now!

Day Thirty-Three was the start of Snowman week.  We made awesome snowman   pictures, read snowman stories and sang snowman songs.  I loved it all.  Someday I'm going to make my own real snowman!  Or maybe I'll just have dad make one and I'll supervise.  I do have a policy about touching snow...I don't care to.

School was great, but I especially loved that mommy and daddy brought me.  It was an awesome special treat.

Big Sister

You'll excuse me if I'm a few days behind in my blogging skills.
I've had a busy week.

Brave

Happy New Year, Peeps!

I'm not really into making resolutions.  I'm more interested in year-round betterment and continual self-improvement in order to be the most awesome toddler-peep ever.  So today I worked on my bravery-skills.

Last year I was pretty unsure of rides but this year I'm super brave.  So when I spotted the Blue's Clues ride I was all, "Auntie Maddie, let's ride in circles together but not actually push the up and down button!"

Even though I look apprehensive, I actually had a great time.  And mom was all, "This is just like Dumbo - you're practically ready for Disney!"  WIN!

After rides Bella and Jack got balloons for all of us and we had a good time walking around. It was so great to see them!

It was a fun morning at the mall.

Thirty-Two

A few days late but I'm due for my thirty-two update.  It's been a pretty awesome, present-filled month!

I'm not sure I have any earth-shattering news.  I've just been a regular toddler-peep.  My big girl bed continues to be great.  I love to sit in it and read books during the day, and that's only sort of related to easy bguck access.  I've been going to bed between 8 and 8:30 pm and sleeping until 7-7:45 am.  At night I'm pretty well behaved about sleep.  I don't wander or get out of bed and in the morning I just call for mom and dad when I see the seven on my clock.  My naps have been less than awesome, according to mom anyway.  At the beginning of the month I decided that napping for an hour seemed sufficient.  Mom thought this was lame.  Lately I'm napping 1.5-2 hours a few days, and then a 45-50 minute day, and then back to longer again.  A fair compromise I think.  I didn't think I needed to nap at all but mom was all, "The bguck fairy will take your bgucks if you don't rest.  Bgucks are only for kids that nap."  Lame but a risk I can't take.

My potty skills remain solid.  I even nap in underpants now!  I've only had one wet morning diaper in almost four months but since my closet is filled with diapers, I still use one at night.  

I think I'm bigger and stronger.  I've had eleventy billion people tell me a look taller.  I'm practically super-model tall.  I got new shoes - size six!  Okay, so my feet don't actually measure a six yet but I'm close.  My fluffy mullet is getting super long.  I'm sure all this growth is from my excellent food-munching skills.  I've gotten especially good at eating peanut butter cups and cookies.

I had another great month at school.  I love learning new songs and doing art projects.  At home I sing all day long and spend a lot of time with my art supplies.  I'm a very creative peep.  I can even draw people now.  And most of the time the nose is below the eyes.  But mostly books are still my favorite.  New library books are my extra mega favorite.  When I get new books I like to spend the whole day reading them.  I also love playing school (I'm the teacher, mom and dad are my class), and playing marching band.  When dad gets home from work we like to play hide and seek, run around the house screaming, and put-Hanky-on-the-fan-and-watch-him-spin.  All awesome games.  Our noise level always impresses mom.

Gym class has been great and I've been doing peep-yoga class too.  I like to do tree pose, star pose, down dog, and hand stands on the wall.  I'm going to take a break from these classes though, just until Beef Stu is big enough to come with and cheer for me.  Instead, I'm going to start musical storytime class at the library soon!  I can't wait.  I ask mom if it's time to start pretty much every day.

I've had a pretty great thirty-two months running things around here.  I think I'm ready for my promotion.  I was born to be a big sister.  And probably a neurosurgeon.  Or poet.  Or interpretive dancer.

Happy thirty-two to me!