today that was last saturday was very busy. aj had had a quilt made from a nearby group of people called the amish. evidently they are different or something since mj and bg went and watched this film at a place called the illinois amish interpretive center. it makes it sound like the amish were going to speak a strange language and have to be interpreted but the ones we saw spoke english just fine.

they weren’t very exciting though. lunch at a restaurant kept me awake for a while as i got some of the food everyone was eating though not a lot of food. and there was this baby i wondered about eating but she was bigger than me. i would have had to do a stealth attack and cull her from the herd but that is hard to do when you are in a high chair and straps are holding you there.

so anyway the amish weren’t exciting and they made me fall asleep after lunch.

i just realized that that might be very mean especially if any amish read this. so amish i apoligize for you being not exciting.

that night was exciting though, because my fans came by. there was jamie and matt and andy and maria and they totally watched me stomp around and go ‘bbbbbbbbbbb’. they were easily entertained. then it got late and i went to bed. everyone must have left at that point because they didn’t have anything to do after they could not watch me any more.

i am still very tired and it is bedtime but i had to stop my rememberance of things past to tell you that i went from lying down to sitting up on my own today. i know this sounds totally lame but it is like way harder than it sounds.

okay i will go sleep now.

i am very sleepy right now so this may not be as coherent as i would like it to be so i hope you are okay with that.

anyway this morning which is really last friday morning but whatever we went to a kindermusik class not taught by aj. it was taught by this woman who was very cool. we were doing this zoom buggy thing which involved me being massaged and bounced and swung around in the air. i was really tired but it was still a lot of fun. and i had four people following me around, aj and ua and bg and mj and all the other kids only had one. so ha ha to them.

we also did some other stuff but that kindermusik class was totally the big event of the day and i am too tired to go into the other stuff but take my word for it being cool and fun.

today we went to an orchard. [i didn’t really do this today it was last thursday but we are pretending that today is last thursday.] they had apples that we got to pick, though i stayed all bundled up in my stroller because the wind was very cold. there was this other toddler there i tried to talk to but she was shy.

before that we ate at an indian restaurant. all of the waiters kept coming over to say hi. i think it is because my personality is magnetic. mj and bg and ua and aj were there. i sometmes call aj jukebox joy because she has a song for everything. there is a song for putting things away and a song for standing and a song for dancing. there is even a song for pooping but ua played that one on his computer for me. it is called the poopsmith song and i think it is available online but i do not know where from. but i think aj/jj knows all of these songs because she does this thing called kindermusik which is german for ‘drivers wanted’ or something.

we also went to a stamp store where they also has stuffed animals. there was this octopus puppet who was very cool but no one bought it for me. they did buy me this illinois shirt at another store but i don’t understand why the college would not pay you to wear it since it is advertising for the college. i do not even know if illinois is a good school or anything.

anyway that is mostly what we did today.

i have not been posting lately because i have been away on a trip to illinois. i went to visit uncle andrew and aunt joy. i hadn’t seen them in a while so i decided it was time for a road trip.

road trip./

i’ll post each day saying what we did last week, starting with today and last wednesday. if that makes sense.

wednesday we drove to illinois. this was a lot of time in the car. but it wasn’t all bad, because i had this toy that is normally a table but the top can come off and it makes sounds and flashes lights. even when i’m in my car seat i can kick at it and make it make sounds and that’s fun.

i also napped some.

when we got there i discovered two things about illinois. illinois is cold, like brrr cold. i think this is the coldest i have ever been in my whole life. i know it was drizzling rain [which is not like snuzzling even though drizzling and snuzzling sound like they are related] but still it was cold. also they have a lot of corn.

cold and corn. i think illinois should have some c’s in its name because of that. cillinoics, maybe. the first c will need to be silent though.

that would also make cillinoics come sooner in an alphabetical list of states’ names so i think the people living in cillinoics will be okay with that.

ua was there when we got to their apartment. i played with him some and then aj came home but by then it was just about my bedtime.

today mj took me to lunch and bg was there and some other people like geof and jessica. actually just geof and jessica. i got some of mj’s potato./ it was good and starchy.

and starchy was what my pants were yesterday. bg put these brown pants on me that were corduroy and they were such old man pants. i felt like i should be stomping around saying hey you infants get outta my crib.

this scootching thing takes too long to get places. i push with my feet and pull with my hands and i still don’t go very far. i can’t wait until i can drive.

mj continues to insist on this napping thing when clearly i do not need them. she will grab me and lie down on the couch and put me on top of her to try to convince me to nap by using her warm snuzzly power, but i will not be fooled. instead i try to climb up her to freedom. sadly she thwarts me.

now that i can stand and dance a little i figured it was time i learned how to kick it new school. i am working on the beatboxing. right now i mainly can do ‘bpppppppfh’ but i’m working on that.

evidently the man wants to keep me down though because sometimes i do this while bg is feeding me and every time he wipes my face off even though he knows i don’t like to have my face wiped off.

oh i completely forgot to mention the birthday party we went to this weekend. it was for joshua, who was turning two. we had cake and sang the birthday song. i say we but i didn’t really get cake, except for a little flake of cake mj let me have. the funniest thing was that the birthday song totally scared this one other kid who started screaming. he’s such a baby.