****I got the blog updated but still don't have pictures added for the last few days.  Hopefully that will happen soon.*****

funny thing: About 2:30am I sat straight up in bed.  Mimz asked me what I was doing.  I said I was just looking for Monk Monk.  When I fould him I went right back to sleep.

This morning I let out a "Yippie, yippie! Mimz it smells delicious even from a long way away."  I was playing in another room but I could smell the hot bowl of oatmeal Mimz made for my breakfast on this cold morning.

I wanted to wear my work boots to school so Mimz put my tennis shoes in my backpack so I would have them when I needed them.

Most days GGF goes outside and sweeps or blows the street and driveway to keep it looking neat.  He felt good enough to help Brad out and clean up his driveway area too.

Barbara and GGF picked me up from school.  I asked if she brought me as sippie.  She brought me a bottle of water with a straw.  I didn't want it.  At home, I asked again for a sippie.  Barbara and I talked about how I must rub the sippie across my top front teeth and that was causing me to wear them down.  That means no more sippies.  I guess I thought I might still get sippies at Barbara's but I guess I am out of luck.  Oh, how I love to drink from a sippie, holding Monk Monk, rubbing his hair while I rest.  I will miss my sippies but I guess I will survive.  Probably in a few days, I will be accustomed to drinking only from a cup or glass.  I do seem to adjust to change quickly, not always happily, but quickly none the less.

When we pulled into the garage after school, I said I hoped GGM was not napping.  I was ready for her to play cars with me.  She was not napping.  We played cars and Keep Away.  Then we changed our game to one similar to Dodge Ball.  Barbara and GGM were both throwing three rubber balls at me.  I was a pretty good dodger.  After more than a hour of this high activity playing, both Barbara and GGM were tired.

Oh, there is another change happening.  As I get older I play pretty intensly and Barbara thinks I play too rough with GGM, GGF, and with her and I could hurt one of them.  She has told me I can pretend fight, but I cannot punch, kick, or rough house with the three of them.  I guess I will save that kind of rough-housing for Daddy.  He is big and strong.

My Monk Monk at Barbara's home, is bald.  Once before he got a hair transplant.  He will get another as soon as Barbara finds the skein of red yarn.  I rub and pull on his hair a lot when I am holding him.  I find it soothing.  My Monk Monk at Mimz home and at Mommy's home still have their original hair.

Each time we play Cars it is a little different that it was the time before.

I have had them all go to the drive-in movie but it has never snowed at the same time.  We had to have tow trucks come pull the cars out of the snow when the movie was over.

I was eating a little Nerds candy and it was soooo very sour.

I like to pick the cashews out of  Party Mix and eat them.  Oh, I will eat a pretzel and sometimes a piece of Chex cereal, but my favorite ingredient is the cashew.  Barbara said next time they go to Sams they will have to buy a jar of cashew instead of all mixed nuts.    

I ate sauerkraut today for the first time.  We all sat at the table making faces at the sour taste, but I liked it!   Probably our acting silly helped me give it a chance.  I could have just as easily spit out the first bite and not given it a chance.

Barbara took me home to Mommy.  First thing I noticed was Kevin had moved.  I never forget to look for him.