February
2004 Journal
Happy
Valentine's Day! We have been busy decorating with
hearts around here! I will be continuing my swimming
lessons, hopefully going to ChocolateFest in Hershey, having a
Valentine's Day party at "school" and a get together
with friends here at home! Mommy
and Daddy said that we will be so busy that they will be
adding an extra day to this month! Happy Leap Year!
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Happy
Groundhogs Day!
February
2, 2004 |
That stinkin'
groundhog saw his shadow AGAIN this year! Guess that means 6
more weeks of winter. No big surprise...it has been really
cold around here. It's been snowing, sleeting and
raining! Mommy and me made some groundhog cookies that I took
for my friends at school today. No one knew what they
were...my friends kept calling it a bear or a rabbit!
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Swimming
Lesson #4
February
3, 2004 |
Today at
swimming we did something really cool! Mommy and I went all
the way to the bottom of the 3 foot and had to push off with our
feet! Weeee....rocket ship! It was hard for me because I
didn't want to put my feet down...but we did it 3 times until I got
it on the last try. I didn't feel much like jumping from the
side of the pool today so I practiced my "reach and slide"
along the wall. I like doing that because Mommy doesn't need
to hold on to me. We practiced all the regular techniques
again and I am doing about the same at those. I had fun at the
end of class playing with the beach balls. The teachers put
about 10 of them in the pool and us kids stood in the middle of the
circle throwing them around.
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ChocolateFest
February
8, 2004 |
This afternoon,
Mommy, Daddy, Amanda and me all went to the Hershey Lodge for
ChocolateFest! It was soo crowded but we had a fun time
tasting different kinds of sweet treats from 70 some vendors.
My favorite was a plain old Hershey's Chocolate Bar. I was
asking for one on the car ride over and was excited to see a whole
table covered in chocolate bars! I also had some really good
chocolate ice cream and these chocolate things that looked like
potato chips! Mommy, Daddy and Amanda had some yummy
cakes. I don't care much for cake. Amanda's favorite was
the Giant wedding cake. Yes, that is Giant the grocery
store...heehee. Mommy liked a chocolate cake from one of the
cake competition tables...it was shaped like a thing of Swiss
cheese! Daddy didn't really say what his favorite was but I
sure did see him trying a lot!
There was music playing...a live band. That was neat and
loud! Plus, there were dogs there! A bunch of
them...they were being trained to be seeing eye dogs. I think
they were all Labs. I didn't care, they were all really
friendly and I got to pet all of them! The owners would give
them special treats for being good. That meant that they had
to keep their eyes on them and not me. I only had one dog that
gave me a kiss! I didn't mind.
After we took Amanda home, I kept singing the Hershey Park chocolate
bar song.
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Swimming
Lesson #5
February
10, 2004 |
We missed this
lesson because the Pathfinder was having problems again and Daddy
took it to the dealership to get fixed. Bummer...Mommy and me
were really looking forward to going!
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Happy
Valentine's Day!
February
14, 2004 |
Happy
Valentine's Day everyone! Mommy, Daddy and me didn't do
anything special. Daddy was on call for work and we needed to
stay around the phones and close to home. He ended up going in
to work around 4:30. As a matter of fact, he is still there
and it's my bedtime soon. I hope he doesn't have to work much
later. Anyway, Mommy and Daddy got me some really nice
things. I got a roundhouse for my engines to go
"night-night" in, a blanket with all the Thomas engines on
it...and my favorite thing that I played with and carried around all
day...Percy! He is engine number 6!
I gave Daddy a mug that I painted all by myself. He can take
it to work and use it to hold his pens and such. I got Mommy
some chocolate pretzels, a bath wrap and a Trading Spaces
book. It must have been a good read, because she read it all
night long! Daddy got Mommy some really pretty flowers.
Mommy said that they are called roses. I think they smell good
too.
I also had fun helping Mommy to make cupcakes for our party
tomorrow. I'm excited because my friend Derrick will be coming
over and I haven't seen him in a long time!
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Valentine's Day Party!
February
15, 2004 |
We had a lot of
our friends come over today to celebrate Valentine's Day and just be
together! Let me see if I can remember everyone's names:
Amanda, Jen & Darrin Hartley, Melonie & Ryan Fisher, Drew, Louise,
Derrick, Julia and Baby Nolan Ciesielka! It was a full house
but we had a great time. Derrick, Julia and I had fun playing
with all my toys. Nolan stayed upstairs with all the big
girls. We ate a lot of food. My favorites were the chips
and cupcakes! Plus, I had a great time playing "run with
trucks" with Jen! She can go pretty fast!
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Playdate
with Derrick & Julia! Nolan took a nap!
February
16, 2004 |
Mommy took me
out to Derrick's new house. They just moved into it last
month...and boy is it nice! He doesn't have a yard to play in
yet but it's been too cold outside anyways. His Daddy needs to
plant some grass yet. Mommy and Derrick's Mommy talked a lot
while us kids played with all the toys! Derrick is pretty
cool...he has Thomas stuff too! It was hard for the two of us
to share that toy. So, it didn't stay out for very long.
I did like his Rescue Hero stuff. My favorite was the big
police car that had a claw on the front you could catch people with!
I think Derrick and Julia are coming to my house next week!
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Swimming
Lesson #6
February
17, 2004 |
Mommy & me
went swimming today! I have soo much fun there! I
finally jumped from the side of the pool! One time was enough
though. I liked going to the bottom and pushes off with my
feet and coming up out of the water like a rocket! That was
fun! Mommy helps me with that. We did a lot of practice
with "scooping" the water today. I had to swim to
Mommy and try and move my arms, I didn't do too bad. The
teachers turned the sprinklers on at the end of class today and we
had to swim under them! I did that once and that was enough of
that. Not a big fan of the sprinklers....plus, they are
cold!! Brrr. I did finally warm up to the one fountain
at the end of class. The water was warmer in it but I would
only get close enough to touch it and splash Mommy! We only
have 2 more classes left in this session but Mommy plans on signing
me up for this class again. We are hoping that Daddy will be
able to come to some.
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Busy
Working!
February
18-20, 2004 |
Mommy & me
have been going to FunCare all day Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. Mommy has been helping Ms. Judy out until she hires
some more teachers. I have been having fun in my class.
I really like Ms. Michelle but Ms. Amy is my teacher. She is
really nice too. We have been learning about the color yellow
and about squares. I have been picking out squares for Mommy
all week. I have even been tricked into taking naps too.
Although, I keep telling Ms. Amy that I am not napping! I just
have been too busy playing and working hard that I can't stay
awake. It's been nice this week because we have been able to
play outside on the playground! That has been soo much
fun! Then, the icing on the cake was Friday. There is
this big pink and blue bus that comes to the daycare. It's
called the Jumpin' Jitney! Well....that was sooo much
fun! We get to learn gymnastics in there! I was just
excited because it was a bus! Mommy is working the same next
week too...so, I hope I get to go on that bus again!
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Geocaching
Trips #3 and #4
February
22, 2004 |
What a nice
sunny day...a bit chilly but not too bad...so, we decided to go
geocaching. Today's adventure took us to Middletown, PA.
We did drive around for a bit before we found a place to park.
I had a fun time walking through the woods and jumping on the piles
of snow that remained. We sure did get muddy on this
one! It took us little while to find the cache...it was quite
a bit off of the path...but we found it! I took out a little
plastic snake and we left a state quarter! Daddy had some
other coordinates in the GPS, so we went to find it. We parked
right off of the railroad tracks from the Middletown &
Hummelstown Railroad. We were hoping to get to see the train,
but no luck there. Our GPS said we were in the right spot but
we couldn't find the cache. Daddy and Mommy looked for a
really long time! We are going to try and go back there
another day, maybe when it is warmer, less muddy and the creek isn't
so high. It was a fun day!
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Swimming
Lesson #7
February
24, 2004 |
It's hard to
believe that this swimming session of lessons is almost over.
Only one more to go after today! I was having more fun today
doing my own thing. I really had no interest in trying to
"swim" to Mommy. I did it though and was not horribly upset
afterwards...it's just the convincing me to do it in the first
place. I like to slide on Freddy, push off like a rocket (I
almost lost my shorts on this one today!) and practicing the grab
and slide along the wall! Ms. Joanne was playing tag with me
while I was practicing that one!
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Frosty
the Snowman...Finally!
February
24, 2004 |
Finally! A
snowstorm that brought build-able snowman snow! As soon as
Mommy and me got out of the car after getting back from swimming, I
ran for it! Mommy helped me to start the pile and I would
carry over some more snow and help pat it on. I had to be
really careful, because sometimes I was patting too hard and it
would fall off! Aunt Susan had sent me some really cool beads,
so we used those and Mommy brought out the carrots! I had fun
making "Frosty's" eyes, nose and mouth with them. I
admired him for about a second and then I had fun KNOCKING HIM
DOWN! "Hi-ya!"...with a kick and a few more kicks, a
couple punches and jumps and he was gone! Hee-Hee...what
fun! I could have stayed out there all day but the snow was
soo wet, it was like rain and I was getting pretty soaked!
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Geocaching
Trip #5
February
28, 2004 |
Mommy, Daddy and
me went in search of another treasure this afternoon. We left
kind of late, around 4:30. This one was in Hummelstown, near a
really great playground and ball field. There were quite a few
people there so I got to play for a long time while we waited for
everyone to go home. While geocaching it is very important to
be quiet and sneaky and not be spotted. Daddy brought our
remote control car that Santa had left us, so we ran that for bit on
the basketball court. It sure can go a lot faster
outside! Anyway, after the sun set....we were good to
go. I had fun running around the ball field and Daddy found
the treasure right away. I like picking up the containers and
saying "treasure!"...sometimes I forget the "you have
to be quiet part". Oh well, no one spotted us. We
took nothing and left nothing since the container was too
small for our Silly Putty but Daddy signed the log! I think we
are going on another hunt tomorrow!
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Virtual
Geocaches (#6,7,8,9,10,and 11)
February
29, 2004 |
Wow...what a
nice day! It was in the 60's and we didn't have to wear our
winter coats! Today we went geocaching but this time we did
what they call "virtual" caches. That means you
don't have anything to "find" but you are given coordinates
to places you may have never been to before or have been, but never
really looked at or appreciated it. We did a lot of historical
Harrisburg ones today, 6 total. We learned about the
Harrisburg Train Station (it's one of the oldest around), where the
old Farmers Markets used to be, special gifts given to the
city, the underground railroad, where Presidents once visited and
gave speeches (Abraham Lincoln being one of them) and checked out a
special memorial statue in the park. Mommy and Daddy worked
hard on answering the questions that we had to in order to get
credit for the "find". I enjoyed the Train Station
most of all....Daddy bought me Toby the Engine there...he is number
7. I took him along on all the caches! I also had fun
walking in the Capitol Park, which is the park around the capitol
building, chasing the squirrels up the trees...they were everywhere!
We had a nice lunch at The Spot...a very popular, kind of
"divey", restaurant in the city. They are famous for
their hot dogs. What a fun day!
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