Valentine's Day

This year for Valentine's Day we celebrated by Mom and Dad taking us out to dinner on the Thursday night before. After dinner we went to Target to look at toys. Cohen had fun looking at Legos and Super Hero stuff. I had fun walking up and down the aisles thinking I was big stuff. I was really strutting around, and moving at pretty quick pace. It was a fun night. 

The next morning (Valentine's morning) Dad surprised us with cinnamon rolls for breakfast. I though they were YUMMY! Mom and Dad gave Cohen and I a Valentine gift. I got a stuffed Pluto dog to go with the rest of my Disney characters and a cake pop. That was yummy too! Cohen gave me a little stuffed Spiderman doll since I like playing with his super heroes. 

Cohen got a new backpack, a cake pop and Lego book. I gave him some Lego figures and Spiderman candy. 

We just spent the day at home since Cohen had the day off school. Mom took us outside to play in the snow for a little while that afternoon. It was a little chilly though so we didn't stay out long. 

That night we all hung out together. It was a fun day being with the ones we love most. 

Here are a few pictures Mom took of Cohen and I. 

The End of the Thumb Sucking

At the beginning of February, (Feb. 1) Mom noticed I had a really red thumb with a blood blister and a puss blister on it. She touched it and I winced and had a look of pain on my face. She and Dad talked about it and they put antibiotic ointment on it and wrapped it for my nap. They were planning to do that the rest of Saturday and all day Sunday. If it wasn't better Mom was going to take me to the Dr. on Monday. Well, after Mom got a better look at it she decided she was going to take me in on Sunday. One of the offices my pediatrician works for is open on weekends.

Saturday night when I went to bed Mom was gone so Dad put me to bed. Mom was anticipating it to be a very long, rough night with me not being able to suck my thumb since I always would do that when I went to bed. Dad told her it went well. When he was putting my pajamas on I held my thumb up, looked at him and said, "Pweas?" Good thing Dad is more realistic than Mom. Mom said that would have probably broken her and she would have taken my bandage off. Dad put me to bed anyway and I didn't cry at all. I went right to sleep and slept all night.

Sunday morning Mom made me an appointment and it just so happened that my regular Dr. was the one working so I got to see him. He took one look at my thumb and said, "Oh yeah. That's infected." He gave me an oral prescription to treat cellulitis and told Mom they should continue to put antibiotic ointment on it and wrap it to keep me from sucking it. Mom had the thought that just maybe this would break me of sucking my thumb but she said she was also realistic and knew it probably wasn't going to happen.

Well they wrapped my thumb at every nap and bedtime for just short of a week. Mom tested me at nap time one day with no band aid and I didn't suck my thumb at all. She continued to go without the band aid with the plan that if I started back sucking she would put the band aid back on. Well, I never did. It's been almost 2 weeks with no band aid and I haven't even thought about sucking my thumb. I now kind of gnaw on my "pinky" (taggie blanket) but not on my thumb at all. Mom was pretty surprised it was that simple to get me to stop.

She said the infection was a blessing in disguise. She and Dad wouldn't have tried to break me of thumb sucking this soon and the older I got the harder it would most likely be to get me to quit.

My thumb is completely healed and that big, BIG, dry callous I always had on it is gone. My thumb is completely normal looking again.

The 'knobby callous' on my thumb. 

My thumb the day they noticed the infection. Bright red, puss

and blood blisters. OUCH!!

Me with my little thumb all wrapped up.

After just one day of healing after the medicine.

Playing in the Basement

I have discovered how much fun can be had in our basement. We have a whole big playroom down there! It has toys in it! Whenever I think about going down there I stand at the gate at the top of the stairs and say, "Down? Down? Down?....." I'm basically relentless.

I like to climb up and down the stairs too. I think I'm pretty big stuff.

One day when Mom and I were downstairs playing she brought the camera and snapped some pictures of me. I thought I'd share some of them.

One of the last few days I sucked my thumb.
More on that coming...

Cooking up something delicious! 

Riding on Patches. Cohen got him for his 1st Birthday

from Granny and now I enjoy playing on it.

Not quite sure how these puzzle things work but

I'm thinking about it really hard.

Close up of my sweet face and beautiful eye lashes.

My tiny little hands. 

Drinking my "wallah" (water). 

More Favorites

This is me just sharing a moment with our "Malie" I was
patting her saying, "Nice."

Why so sad? Well, I was eating lunch and

I finished my applesauce. It was gone. There was no more!

The girls snuggling on the couch.
Mom, Marlie and Me. 

Hanging out with the boys in the basement while they

play video games. They even gave me a controller with no

batteries and I thought I was really playing. 

Cohen has so many fun toys.

These Ninja Turtle weapons are one of my favorites.

I hold them and made "zzzzzzz" noises. 

Wearing my new Minnie Mouse outfit and headband from Santa.

Mom thought I looked much too cute not to get a picture of me. 

Talking on my Minnie phone. I was

walking around the house saying, "Yeah. Yeah....yeah."