When The fresh beat band ended, Emily said "More Kiki! More Kiki!" (her favorite character)
Twice so far today, out of the blue, she said "Who wants to go to Gaga's? Meeeee!!!


I can't keep track of all her new words.  She can repeat almost anything.

New Words:  Kiki, Diego, Boots, cow, stickers, cereal, soda, thanks, your welcome, my hiney hurt, I'm scared, bandaid, shower, tub, I shut door, Here ya go, Aunt Kim, Sky, see cow, see baby, see that, color kitty cat, Carmel, Lucy, deer, squirrel, toy, mine, my, book, help, binky, baby by (bottle), cup, hot dog (means Mickey and Minnie mouse - because of the song, Hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog) phone, play, walk, bye, chair, bird, popcorn, I am, hug, ring, camera, I did it (from dora), backpack, map, La la la la Elmo's song, Rock a bye baby on the tree top, I watch ding (milk in microwave)  shoes, feet, go, twinkle star

I keep having to come back and add more words as she says them.  I can't keep track.  I think she may know to many to even try to take note of them all anymore.

EMILY: 
Favorite shows:  Diego, Dora the Explorer,  Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

She loves:  animals, car rides in Grandma's car watching Elmo, Conner, the 3 year old boy across the street, her independence, going for walks in her stoller- but her favorite is when she gets to walk (not holding hands of course) coloring, going to the park.  Her favorite used to be the swings. Not it's the slides. She has no fear.  She will go down even the biggest slides.

She hates:  when you try to help her do something she wants to do herself, long car rides (not as much as before)

Food:  She loves her vitamin gummies, She loves ranch dip and dressing.  She doesn't want to eat what she dips, she just likes the dip, Her taste vary.  One day she loves grapes, the next she eats the inside and spits out the rest. Oh, she LOVES cheese, but sometimes spits that out too. She loves soda (it's how we got her to take her antibotics and pain reliever - thanks to daddy coming up with the idea to sneak it in soda)

ANTHONY:
Favorite shows:  Spongebob, icarly, Victorious, Big time rush, scooby doo,  His favorite is Family Guy but I have issues with that.  He sneaks it every time he can.  With Daddy or without. He likes Dino Dan and still likes Dinosaur Train on PBS.

He Loves:  anything dinosaur, riding his bike.  He loved the Knoxville skate park we took him to. They have ramps for bikes too. He loves riding his scooter. He probably doesn't know it, but I think History will be his best subject in school (after math)  He's very interested in the Titantic and loved last year when the Columbus relicas came to Knoxville.  He told me last week that he can't wait 2 more years (they come every 3) to go on the boat this time.  He loves his video games.  He has a Nintendo Gamecube (Daddy's) but he wants a Nintendo Wii really bad. Maybe for Christmas.  He loves to build.. Tinker toys, Lincoln Logs, Lego's.  He asked me for more because he wants to build bigger projects. And he 'claims' his sister loses his pieces.  Oh, and he loves to do puzzles.  He's on his 3rd 500 piece puzzle at our house and he's working on a 1500 piece at his grandparents. Oh, and he loves girls, but he's embarrased to admit it.  He had his first kiss when he was four I think.  If I remember correctly it was Hannah at his first day care, Child care inc.  He kissed our friend's daughter Shay on her birthday.  There's been a few others but I don't rememer their names anymore.   He writes love letters.  Some to his neighbor friend across the street, Carysa.  And his first grade crush was Grace.  I sure hope he doesn't get mad when he sees this when he's older. 

He hates:  Bedtime and when it's time to wake up.  For a boy who's so hard to get to bed, he sure is hard to wake up in the morning.  His mind never stops but when it finally does..... He still bangs his head at night when his sleep gets interupted, but nothing wakes him up.... Not his sister crying, his cat meowing (loudly) the tv, not even the smoke alarm.  You can go in his room at night and have a conversation with him and he will have no memory of it in the morning.  He hates when his sister whines or tries to take his toys. He hates socks. He can't stand the seams.  He absolutely hates being bored.

Food: Luckily both kids like their broccoli, but that's about the only vegetable he likes.  He's willing to eat most but hates baked beans, sweet potatos, spinach, and tomatoes.  He will pick spinach and tomatos out of soup and spaghetti.  And telling him he can fart all he wants if he eats his beans doesn't make him like them any more.  But it does help with kidney beans..  He loves candy.   Sour stuff, skittles, jelly beans.  His favorite ice cream is Moose tracks.  Once he ate 4 hot dogs in one day. Lunch, dinner and 'a midnight snack' (before bed) He hates dip and would rather have his chips and pretzels plain, but does like ranch dressing with hot sauce for his chicken.

School:
Kindergarten he had Ms. Barker and towards the end of the year, he switched to Mrs. Whistler's class.
1st grade he had Ms. Dale.  He didn't like her much but she said that he's very smart and has the best handwriting in the whole class.
2nd grade he has Mrs. Witucki.  He's only been in school for a week, but so far he says she's nice.

His best subject is Math, but he has high testing scores for reading.
His favorite classes are Art and Gym.
He doens't like Music "Because they don't get to use instruments and sing dumb songs." And he absolutely hates guidence.  He takes speech class but he doesn't like it because it's so repetitive.

He's undecided what he wants to be when he grows up. He used to say he wanted to be a vetenarian, but his latest is he wants to take in stray cats.  And be rich.  I hope he plans on having two jobs ;-)