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it's almost spring. it's been raining all day and it's getting warmer. last weekend it was 65 and we spent much of sat and sunday outside in the backyard and front yard doing spring garden cleaning. i had a cappucino outside on the table abd you climbed up there to drink it. you really like the foam.

you are desperate to get outside all the time now. you stand by the back door and cry _ousside, ouuside- it's very sad because you can't always go ouuuside- sometimes it is too cold of rainy or muddy.

another thinkg you love right now is the sink. the kitchen sink. you want to sit in your high chair and turn on the water and just splash the sponge and the other kitchen utentsils on the water. you also want to push the buttons on the blender. you cry and cry if we won't let you in the high chair to let you see exactly what we are cooking at dinner time.

you're still eating anything and everything. you like vinegar.

we got some generic oreo cookies and gave you one. your first creme cookie, we though- until!!!! we gave it to you, you unscrewed the two lays in .5 seconds, ate all the creme filling out and threw the cookie bits on the floor. something makes me think you have had one of those before----perhaps at daycare? you can say cookie now. and you go into the pantry and rumble around with containers saying cookie.

last week we decided- no more sleeping in our bed. this came to a head because you decided that you non longer wanted to just peacefully go to sleep. you used to love to go to bed. something happened and now you hate it. so we let you cry and cry. and if you woke in the middle of the night we didn't come get you- we just let you cry. it was brutal. but in 3 days you were much more well rested and now you sleep thru the night for the most part. we are better rested too. it's a good thing. this morning you got up at 5 and we let you cry again. we are sleeping in the living room while you cry in the night so we don't have to hear you. a lot of the time you are just crying in your sleep and you aren't even aware you are doing it.

i took you jogging last week. you hated being in the stroller for the first 10 minutes until you realized that being in the stroller allows you to see doggies! you love doggies. the next day you ran over to the jogging stroller to sit in it and we went for another jog. you fell asleep this time and i let you sleep outside on the porch for 3 hours. you had such a good nap out there. it was kind of cruel- we thought- that you were sleeping outside- totally unaware of being outside- when you so would like to be awake and running outside.

doggies- another trick when i need 10 minutes to myeslf is that i set you up in front of my computer and put videos of dogs doing tricks on. you can watch that forever!

you are also trying to sing your abcs now. we sing them every night when you go to bed. you know A, G, and I. the rest you just sing/babble nonsense.