A couple days ago, I had a really tough afternoon. See my hand in the picture here? That’s my booboo hand.

I was out with daddy, getting firewood like we always do, except I had my ball with me and I was playing, throwing it around. It was really windy that day, like it always is in Colorado, and my ball blew out away from the house, where there’s a lot of scrub and little bushes and old dead cactuses and stuff. I ran after my ball, and tripped, and fell right into a bunch of little cactus plants.

I started crying right away, and daddy left the firewood and came to get me and brought me inside. Then he saw all the cactus needles in me. There were a whole bunch that went through my pants and got my thigh, and there was even one stuck in my forehead. But the worst was my left hand. There were at least sixty tiny needles stuck in my hand, mostly in my palm at the base of my thumb. They were really tiny needles, almost like hairs. Daddy had to help hold me down while mommy pulled them all out with tweezers. It really hurt a lot.

Afterwards, I took a nap, and when I woke up I felt mostly better. I like to point out my booboos, but they don’t hurt like they used to. Daddy took me out and showed me the cactus and told me to stay away from them cause they’re sharp and they hurt. I hope I don’t forget and go over there again.

My dad says I’m a sponge. That’s really weird, cause I think a sponge is the thing I use to clean my chalkboard, and I don’t think I’m anything like that. But anyway, I want to tell you all the stuff I’ve been learning recently.

Yesterday, I counted to ten for the first time. Actually I counted to ogi. Like this: One… twoo… feee… four… five… six… semee… eight… niine… tenn… ogi! My dad called my mom to come and hear me count. I did it a few times, and we clapped and said “YAAAAYY!”

I also said “I love you” for the first time last week. Actually, I said “I… ove… you!!” cause I can’t say the letter L yet. But I can look at most letters and say what they are. I don’t know lower case letters and I’m still working on G, L, S, T, and V, and sometimes I get E and F confused with each other, but my mom and dad say that I’m doing really well.

I’m real good at singing my ABCs now. This is a video my dad took a couple weeks ago. I’m even better now.

Here’s another video – I start off singing “Twinkle Twinkle”, and looking through my book of nursery rhymes. Then I turn the page and start counting the hearts on the king and queen of hearts. Last, I do the sign language for a swing when it comes on my TV.

This is a video of me watching my Baby Einstein video and doing the sign language for bowl, chair and table. I didn’t do the sign for cup right in this video, but I know how.

Here’s another video from when I was in Connecticut over Christmas. This is my Pepere pulling me on a sled. It’s fun, and I keep yelling “Weeee!”

Remember how my favorite song used to be Old MacDonald? Now it’s the ABC song.

Today when my mom and dad said we were going to the park, I knew right away it was gonna be fun. “Park? E park?” I picked up everything I could carry and got ready to go.

We went to the store first and got some stuff. Mommy bought some mittens for me, which you can see in this picture. They have cats on them. I like my new mittens.

Then we went to the park. I climbed all around on the staircases and then went on the swing for a long long time. I don’t like the slide as much as I used to, but the swing is always a lot of fun. Weeeee!

Daddy put all the pictures from today up on the internet. You can see them all here.

I feel really crappy.

I’m still sick. I threw up again tonight. I don’t like throwing up. My mommy rubbed my back and told it it was gonna be okay and then my daddy read me my favorite book about where’s the cat? but I still feel really sick.

Mom and dad say they’re worried about me getting e-hydrated cause I don’t want juice but I just feel so crappy.

I felt better today during the day and I even danced to one of my videos, but tonight I started feeling worse. I sat and watched my Blue’s Clues video that we got from the library and then I threw up.

I don’t like to throw up.

I’m going to sleep now. I hope I feel better soon.

I’m back home in Colorado. We got here after midnight last night. I stayed awake the whole way until the plane was landing in Denver, then I fell asleep.

It was fun at the airport in Newark cause I met this other girl named Mia who was 2 or 3 months older than me, and she knew the whole alphabet! I can sing A-B-C-D-E-B-C but after that I just make up letters. I’ve got the tune down pretty well. One time I sang A-B-C-D-E-I-O and my dad laughed a lot. But anyway, Mia sang the whole alphabet, and everyone in the whole airport waiting area was watching. I was completely enthralled that she knew my new favorite song and that she knew all the letters. When she was done, I cheered really loud for her – YAAAAYYY! – and everybody in the whole airport laughed I think.

I’ve got a whole lot of new words. Mom says I’ve got like four or five times as many as when I left Colorado at least. I say new words every day now. I can even say some two syllable words like cookie, eyebrow, and choo choo.

We’ve got lots of pictures, but my dad says he hasn’t had time to up load them yet so I’ll put them here later. Okay. Bye bye!