Out like a lamb

Bye bye 2010. It was nice of you to warm up at years end (60'F!) so we could celebrate and play outside.

Princesses Anonymous continued

Enough said!

Soda

If you can't have any, fake it!

New bad habit

Holding onto food in my mouth for hours and hours and hours until Mamma pinches my nose and scrapes out the food so I can go to bed. I thought she'd be happy I wouldn't accept my E (aka Soothie).

Bye NeeNee

Thank you for helping Santa.

Advanced for my age

I have a wonderful sister to learn from, so I'm already acting more like a 2 year old than a 1 year old. Everything is mine, especially if it is someone else's hands. I love to pull hair and run on sofas and generally do anything I'm told not to. Because how can someone else be the boss of me when I'm only just figuring out how to do all these fun things?! I change my moods really quickly from going 'woe is me' to hugs to hair pulls to hugs and back to saying 'woe is me'. And I want to do it all by myself. Otherwise, again, I say 'woe is me'.

(note: Definition of 'woe is me' - put my hands up in the air and then bring them all the way down to the ground while crying, screaming, saying "NO, NO, NO" and occasionally stomping my feet.)

Princesses Anonymous

Hi. My name is Nina and I'm a Princessoholic. It's been 30 seconds since I thought about Princesses, 24 minutes since I touched a Princess, and 76 minutes since I watched a Princess movie.

Sorrow

(shoving Ewan)
D: Come say sorry to your brother.
n: Sorry.
D: What are you sorry for?
n: I don't know.

Holiday recap

I like Christmas. I can eat candy whenever I want (which usually means I don't eat at mealtime). I play with my toys and Nina's toys. And I run around crazy on sugar highs. Wooohoo!!!

Holiday recap

Santa is very sweet and also forgetful. He brought me loads of great presents, and he brought them early too! But he forgot my new dollhouse and had to bring it while he was making deliveries to all the other houses. Maybe if he was forgetful this time he's forgotten other presents and will have to come back again tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that!

And thank you to all of Santa's helpers!

Santa

(From a couple days ago)
M: Who is that?
n: Santa.
M: Do you want to say hi?
n: Yeah.
M: Do you want to sit on his lap?
n: No.
M: what do you want to tell him?
n: Thank you.

God Jul!

What did you do for the holiday? I got feverish, threw up and coughed all night. Falalala-laa-lalalala!

Science

Dear Mamma and Daddy.
Please note that if you leave the diaper bag in the car during cold weather, that the wipes freeze.
Love,
e. "my testicles are in my armpits" m.

Festival of Lights

I love my zoo! They host Santa's reindeer and put up so many lights that it's daytime at night. I think they put drugs in the lights though. It's hard to look away from all the pretty lights.

Little Mr Potato Head

I'm a sucker for any sucker.

Thanks Bedstemor!

Bedstemor has been knitting a lot. A blanket for Ewan, a blanket for me. A sweater for Ewan, a sweater for me. I said my sweater was too big, but Ewan's was just right.

Visitors

Luke and Cole and Dexter came to visit. And they brought their Mommies with them. It was too cold to play outside. Mamma thought it was too noisy to play inside! Cole proposed to Nina, but said they had to wait to get married until they're older. I napped and missed most of the engagement. I hope her next betrothal asks my permission first.

NeeNee's here!

NeeNee: My grandbabies are so darn cute. And they're not even buttheads.
e: Nina.

Of course!

Truth

M: (singing) I'm singing with the SuperDoggie.
n: (singing) You don't know how to sing.

First impressions

Salt licorice --
n: I loooove it.
(5 minutes elapse)
n: Yucky. Can I spit it out?

20 months!

I am not a copycat. The fact that Nina and I enjoy the same things at the same age is genetics and general developmental milestones. Blah blah love pizza and blueberries. Blah blah love playing/pretending night-night (and eating ice cream cones) games. Blah blah jumping into the bath with clothing on.

I am my own little man. I am mischievous and run Mamma and Daddy ragged. One second I'm turning off the power strip to the TV, the next second I'm pulling ornaments off the tree, then I'm pulling cords out of the wall, then I'm pulling Nina's hair, then I'm swatting someone, then I'm whining for milk. Repeat! While this is a great game, it's hard to be so creative sometimes.

I've gotten even more into books lately and love naming things. I've learned that context helps Mamma and Daddy understand me. I say "butt", they say "button". I say "waaa", they say "water". I don't understand why adults bother with the endings of words, especially as you can be understood with context and just the beginnings.

To celebrate my mirth, we went to the Blue Store for meatballs. I still ate my fair share of meatballs, but have decided that sweet foods like chocolate and chocolate cake are worth saving some space for. Family just can't eat these things around me without sharing, and they certainly don't eat sweets after my bedtime.

Definitions

Angel: Princess with fairy wings!

Signs of the holiday

Snow storms, pine trees, white lights, ornaments, holiday cards, dry heat, static.

Santa Santa Santa

n: Santa's coming to visit!

Everyday I ask about Santa and NeeNee's visit. Mamma says I won't see Santa but she's wrong. All visitors stay a while. Maybe he'd like to go to the zoo with us.

Okay, you caught me

I love pink. I love playing with dolls and coloring with Nina and being exactly like her. I even get to wear her old pink winter boots. Life is good.

What did you say?

M: Bridge.
e: bitch.
n: Big.
e: bitch.

The Internet

n: Why is it loading?
n: Look, my game is loading!

Yes. I can work the Internet. No longer am I satisfied with preschool computer games on my off-grid computer. I have now taken over Mamma's computer to access nickjr.com.

Holy crap

I can walk up stairs step-together-step holding onto the wall all by myself. I just tried it and did it all by myself. That's so cool. Where are the keys to the car?

Tree!

Daddy went and picked up our tree. It was a little sparse on the bottom. Mamma and Daddy said to wait a little and the branches would settle. That didn't happen. I had a better solution. I put all the ornaments on the same branch, and that weighed it down perfectly. My first time decorating the tree and it's perfect! Well, other than needing some presents underneath.

And we went and saw Santa at the mall. And by "saw" I mean he waved to me while I watched him from the balcony.

Fall photos chilling on the iPhone

Too much technology for snapping photos.

Fashion Week

Love

n: I love you.
M/D: I love you too.
n: I love you three.
M/D: I love you four.
n: I love you five.
M/D: I love you six.
n: I love you seven.
M/D: I love you eight.
n: I love you nine.
M/D: I love you ten.
n: I love you one hundred.
M/D: I love you one thousand.
n: I love you one million!
M/D: That's a lot.

Red means stop, green means go

n: Yellow means you need to talk slower Mamma.

Not fair!

(tantrumming) Mamma and Daddy won't let me jump on Nina or pull her hair or climb up precariously on the sofa or play with knives or do anything fun.

Taste

I love eating snow. And Läkerol!

Universal first words

e: Leyderdeyder.

Who asks to put on headbands?

Five

n: I want it to be my birthday again.
M: Okay. Why's that?
n: Because I'm 2 and I'm going to be 5 and have Cinderella on my cake.

I am the boss

n: Do it like this!
M: You are not the boss of me young lady.
n: I'm not a lady.

La nieve

n: Noooo Mamma, we have to go outside first and then take pictures.
M: It's snowing!
n: How do you say snow in Spanish?

Newer words

Hot. More please. Socks off. Empty. MINE!

Before and after

Before

After

Mamma and Daddy trimmed my bangs. I think they missed a couple hairs.

Genetics

We've identified the gene responsible for little brothers sitting on their big sisters.