Hello all - I've been a little bit of a slacker on the blog front lately, but it seems life has been super busy since I've turned three. I'm a mister know-it-all, or at least I want to know it all. My life is now filled with one hundred questions a minute, as I seek to know everything about everything. My favorite questions: Where does x, y, and z fruit/vegetable come from? Where does Mommy, Daddy, Gigi, Mimi, everyone I ever met in my entire life work? Where does x, y, and z animal sleep? What does x, y, and z animal eat? You get the picture. After I get the answers to my questions, I usually say "oooh, I didn't know that." I'm a smart cookie too because I remember the answer to the question, but I'm always coming up with a new topic to ask about. I'm also getting really good at my letters and recognizing a few words. My Nana and Papa in Kentucky sent me a package of presents. The address on the box said to "Copper Bolton." I, without any mention from Mom and Dad, noticed that my name was spelled wrong (it's 'posed to have two O's and not two PP's). I then called them up and demanded a new box with my name spelled right.
This picture is old but I hadn't posted it yet and it's cute. Mommy and Daddy's friend from medical school whose name is Jeff came up to stay with us while he was interviewing for a fellowship. I am very concrete about things and apply the rules as I know them. For example, my daddy has yellow hair. I have yellow hair. Mommy has brown hair. Therefore, boys have yellow hair and only girls can have brown hair. You get the idea? Well, I also know that my daddy's name is Jeff and this man's name was Jeff. Therefore, this Jeff must also too be my daddy. I told everyone I knew that my other daddy was coming to visit. Ooops. Once this was explained, I was just happy to have two Jeffs in my house.
Our February and March haven't been to bad weather-wise and I've managed to make it to the playground a few times. Don't let this cardinal bird hat fool you - Mommy has me completely brainwashed. I know my favorite team is the blue team and that's the team that always wins. I'll occasionally yell go Blue (sometimes unprompted) and go Cats.
Fun with popcorn.
I don't have a million friends, but I do have some here in Boston, and it seems like they all had birthdays in March. These little guys are twins Brynn and Ben and I helped them celebrate their first birthday.
My buddy neighbor Rowan celebrated his fourth birthday at the YMCA and I really enjoyed this "jumpy place." The only jumpy placed I'd known before this one was Mommy and Daddy's bed. I'm a great jumper!
Wee!!!! More fun at the jumpy place! We had one other birthday party in March and one more that we missed. Wow!
We also discovered that I'm old enough to enjoy Chuck E Cheese. I think I've been three times in the past two months and I totally love it. I love putting the tokens in, riding the games, and getting the tickets. I like putting my tickets in the counting maching at the end and winning silly prizes like suckers, straws, plastic bugs, etc. Mommy and Daddy actually enjoy Chuck E Cheese too. Here I am actually beating Daddy at air hockey.
Yummy pizza!
I'll bonk those guys!
Getting ready for the Kentucky Derby!!!
The highlight of my month was a trip to Mimi and Papaw's house in Kentucky. I went to Kentucky in October, but hadn't been to Madisonville since December 2008. I was super pumped about the airplane trip. For this trip it was just me and Mommy. I was pretty good once I got on the airplane but not so good in the airports while I was waiting for the plane to get there. Even though I hadn't seen my Papaw since July, I kept saying "Papaw's gonna be so happy to see me," and when I saw him in the airport, I just took off running to him just like I'd seen him yesterday. Mimi and Papaw know how to treat a boy - they got me a new tricycle. I was in heaven.
Their yard is a little hilly so I needed an occasional push, but I pretty quickly got the hang of the whole peddling thing.
This tricycle was complete with streamers and a little ding-dong (you know a bell).
Go Coopy Go!
The weather wasn't too beautiful, so I didn't get to ride my bike all the time, so I spent other time coloring and playing with Mimi, Papaw, and Uncle Taylor. We invented games called the Laughing Game, the Tackle Game, etc. I bossed them around nonstop and told them what to play and where - and they loved it.
I went to work at Papaw's office. I banged on his computer and told him I was checking my email. I went to school with Mim. I'm not sure if being a lawyer or a teacher is in my future though. I told Mommy the other day that I wanted to work in a hospital when I got big. When Mommy asked what I wanted to do, I said "You fix babies and I want to fix bones." Who knows where I got this idea but we'll see if orthopedics is in my future. That other Jeff must have been giving me some ideas.
We've had a few very spring-like days in March lately, so Johanna took me and my buddy Kaya to the beach one afternoon. I love the beach! It was about 70 degrees that day but the water was probably 40. I loved it, and no my toes did not turn black and fall off.
And in other news, I found out that I was right (which is all I really care about these days). I'm having a brother! I'm still calling him Chocolate for the time being. I think I'm excited about having a brother. I don't know. I know that he will have yellow hair just like me because he is a boy (the concrete thinking again). Hair aside, he looked very healthy on his ultrasound and I look forward to meeting him (or maybe not) in August!
