: : : Here is the news for January : : :

Tuesday 31st January
My lovely brother and I have been having lots of fun playing our new favourite game, Twister. Peter is a very good Twister and I am a very good twizzler of the right foot green thing.

I'm not really in Dad's good books today as I got up about 10 times last night. He still read me a story at bedtime inbetween telling me all about how I was goig to stay in my own bed tonight. We shall see.

Monday 30th January
There will be no news today.

Sunday 29th January
Finally grandma arrived with Aunt Lord and it seemed to take them ages to arrive. After lunch we played a great game called twister. I was really good at spinning the spinner and Peter was really good at doing all the balancing.

When the house could no longer contain us we went to the park for a bike ride. I went nearly fast and Peter went really fast. He didn't know that Dad had moved his stabalisers up a bit so he fell off his bike when he went round the first corner. He wasn't hurt though.

Sadly Grandma and Lord have to go home today.

Saturday 28th January
Today I went triumphantly in the car into Town and to the toy shop to claim my hard won prize. I chose an Emily train as there was no stepney one to be had there. She comes in two parts and even has magnets.

Later on Ben came to play, we share a love of trains in general and had lots of fun driving them round a variety of tracks, one of which was made by Peter. Thanks!

Friday 27th January
It's friday and I have two more thomas sticker stars on my star chart. This brings me two stars closer to my shopping trip to the toy shop tomorrow. I'm not sure what I shall decide to buy but I suspect it will be Thomas related in some way.

I went to a creche today but it was rubbish. All the other children were just babies and there was a scary lady there with grey hair. I told her to go away because she was scaring me.

Thursday 26th January
I now have nearly a full house of thomas stickers on my special star chart. There are two squares for every day and I have each square up to today completely full. This means that I have been behaving as if I were an angel or some such.

Dad told me that he was going to make me another star chart that will all be to do with staying in my own bed. I am imagining that I won't care very much about that particular chart.

Wednesday 25th January
I'm pleased to announce that it is apparently still my birthday today as there was a large bag of presents on the kitchen table this morning. I am even more pleased to announce that they were all full of thomas related toys, which is even better. I have been playing with my books, colouring pens and stickers all day. Thank you very much grandma and esther and maud.

Tuesday 24th January
This morning as a special treat we had Hannah staying in our house. I'm not sure when she arrived, but it was lovely to see her, even though we only saw her very briefly, because Dad took her away somewhere else. When he came back in the evening he had manged to lose Hannah, but had found Esther. So that was nice. Esther didn't stay long either though, I think we may have scared her off.

Monday 23rd January
In the morning I was very naughty.

In the afternoon I was very good - as good as an angel apparently so there's balance in everything.

Sunday 22nd January
I made a special clock with Dad today. First we printed it out on a piece of paper and then I coloured the numbers in - not very carefully and I went ovre all the lines. It's quicker to do like that. Then Dad cut it out and I helped him put it into the clock. It's got a picture of thomas on it. It's a Thomas clock. It will show me when it's 4.30 or earlier.

Saturday 21st January
I played the jumping on Dad's tummy game today. All you have to do is leap very high into the air and aim for somewhere on Dad's tummy. There is never any danger of falling onto the floor as he will always catch you, except - if he's asleep. When he's asleep the surprised look on his face is not a pretend one and you may fall onto the floor. Luckily he caught me at the last minute.

Friday 20th January
I woke up at 4.00 last night and although I was already in Mum and Dad's bed (which had previously got into secretly) I screamed REALLY loudly into Dad's ear. There was a monster biting my toes, and I didn't like it one bit. Although of course I realise that there are no monsters. Although I told Dad that I seen one outside the downstairs toilet this morning. Dad asked me what he was called. "Mr. Monster".

Thursday 19th January
There is no news today.

Wednesday 18th January
There's not much to tell today, I've been playing with all my toys - especially my spencer train and my cat stacking game. The cats are quite hard to stack sometimes.

Gaye came in the evening with another lovely present - it was a lego helicopter. She came just at bedtime which was lovely because she earned us an extra 40 minutes being not in bed time! good work Gaye!

Tuesday 17th January
TODAY I AM THREE. There's really no getting away from it. I wish everyone would stop singing that song to me though, it should be clear that when I have my hands over my ears that I really don't like it.

I did however have somer eally lovely presents. The best ones were the one from Mama and Dada which was a cat stacking game, and Dad and Mum got me some corkers too.

I had a little party in the evening where there were many cakes and crisps and sandwiches and the like. The crowning glory was the CAKE that everyone made for me. It was a Train cake and it even had a tender full of popcorn coal. It was almost too good to eat.

Monday 16th January
I spent this morning pretending to be an egg. How it works is as follows: Get up really early and get into Mum and Dad's bed. NExt curl up very small and try and squidge underneath Dad. Say "I AM AN EGG" for a bit and then wriggle about a lot.

I spent this afternoon falling off the sofa and bashing my head.

Sunday 15th January
I've been worrying about my birthday today. Will there be some presents? Apparently yes. Will they be brought by Father Birthday? Apparently no. I'm still sad about Dad's uncle Jim not being the actual father christmas, I thought it would be nice to have him in the family.

Saturday 14th January
I went to Ben's house today to play with his toys. Dad said that I would have toask first before I played with them, but as it turned out he was doing some drawing, which left his fire station totally free. There was a little competition from Sam, but nothing I couldn't fight off.

Friday 13th January
I am very tired today so there will be no news.

Thursday 12th January
I met Dad for lunch today and had milk and cookies in our meeting-dad-lunch-time-cafe. It was lovely, especially the chocolate cookie part of it. Dad kept asking me if there was a bit of my cookie with his name on it. I told him that this cookie was just for babies, and could he please stop calling it a biscuit. I told him i liked his beard instead.

Later on I rubbed Dad's face where it's all rough and told him I liked his "frost". He seemed pleased.

Wednesday 11th January
Today I fell over three times, and sadly the last time I fell over it was into a great big muddy puddle. I fell over flat on my face too. I did it when we were on our way to Peter's school. We usually play a traffic light game where Peter says "redlightyellowlightgreenlightGOOO!" and then I run off. It's a good game, but you have to be careful of puddles and the like.

Tuesday 10th January
I have been just a little bit grumpy today. I think I may be hitting the peak of my terrible twos, and just in time too, as I am three in just a week or so.

Monday 9th January
There is little good news today.

Sunday 8th January
Not only did we go on a steam train today, but we saw elephants from the window of the steam train. That doesn't happen every day. It was the best day ever though. I got a small train to play with on the big train, which went through tunnels and made whistling noises and everything. Dad found some slinky springs under the seat that I used to pretend to be an elephant too. There were also sandwiches.

Saturday 7th January
I went on a special trip with Dad this morning, at least that's what he told me it was going to be. When we got there not only was it snowing but it was IKEA. I spent most of the time I was there saying things like, "No-one even wants to be here" and "Everyone wants to go home" and "lets all find the way out if we try". Eventually we did find our way out and it was still snowing so we went home.

Friday 6th January
I went to see Dad at work today. As usual he was already playing on my THomas The Tank Engine website. He let me have a little go though. After that Mum and I took him out for a cup of coffee and a cookie. He called it a biscuit and I had to correct him about that.

Thursday 5th January
It has been decided that apple juice no longer agrees with my system, for reasons we shall not delve too deeply into.

In other news I made sure that Dad was awake for most of the night. I even slapped his head with my feet in the morning and called it "patting".

Wednesday 4th January
There will be no news today.

Tuesday 3rd January
I'm afraid that the only thing I did today was to shout and generally make a nuisance of myself whilst being bad tempered. There was almost nothing I did that redeemed me. This will all change once I am three.

Monday 2nd January
Today we did nearly exactly the same things as yesterday, except this time everything was open. Dad and I raced Peter around the track - I pressed my foot on the pedal and Dad did the steering as I wasn't really that bothered about doing it. It's the sort of thing you have to keep thinking about.

There was no cake today.

I invented some binoculars for trying to see if I could see Mum and Peter, the invention mainly involved cupping my hands around my eyes, in the internationally recognised sign for binoculars. I did eventually see them, but only when they were quite close to us.

Sunday 1st January
We were supposed to be going on a mysterious outing today, apparently there was supposed to be some go-karts to drive on around a little tiny town. Sadly that part of the treat place was shut so we had to make do with eating a massive piece of cake in the cafe instead. I had a tantrum too, which was nice.

After that we went to a shop that was closed when we got there.

We did play in the massive box that the TV came in though, that was the most fun we've had all holiday. Probably.

 

 

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