Thirty two months two weeks

Hello world!

My dad fixed his computer and then turned it on.  I was so excited, I danced around yelling, "blue light on!  Hooray!"  I told my mama that fireworks were "noisy stars in sky."  I watched them out the window.  I also worked out about numbers;  after nine comes ten and eleven, so after nineteen comes tenteen and eleventeen.  Something else I really like is the jingle on the radio;  I sing along: "BBC Radio Two."

I talked to my gramma on the computer again and I read her two books.  I read about daddy bears, baby bears, ducks, trees, swings, and bed.  My gramma really liked my stories.  I also ran downstairs and brought up as many toys as I could carry to show her.  I carried five toys upstairs all at once. 

I think my favourite foods are carrots, cheese, grapes, and olives.  When it's dinner time I always eat the meat first, then the vegetables.  I really like vegetables from the garden;  there's still a couple beans and peas in the garden to eat, but I ate all the carrots.  We need to grow more so I can pull them up and eat them.  And I ate all the apples my mama picked for me.  She made some into juice too, and I drank it. 

My dad has a special purple pen.  It never washes off.  I drew on the bed with it.

Love,

Franklin

Thirty two months one week

Hello world!

My best words this week are "pumpkin," "trouble," "scarf," and "sick."

I helped my mama carve a pumpkin.  We made a scary man with a candle in it.  I called it "man pumpkin squash."  Then my dad cooked it into soup and I ate it all. 

I told my dad today, "mummy make socks toes.  Thank you mummy!"  My stripey woolly socks have brand new toes.  I also said to my mama, "man make letters.  Good job man!"  when I picked up the mail from the slot. 

When it's time to do something, I tell my mama.  She says, what do we do next? and then I say, "get dressed!" or "sleepytime nap!"  Sometimes I don't want to say it, though, and I lay on the floor and say, "meh."

Love,

Franklin

Thirty one months four weeks

Hello world!

My best words this week are "magnet," "gloves," "kitchen," and "tuna."  Sometimes I say my words backwards, like "cayron" and "bicsit" instead of crayon and biscuit.

I went to a party with my mama with lots of kids and balloons and treats.  It was so much fun!  I brought some cars to share and I got to share other kids' toys too.  My mama made a cake and I got to eat it at the party. 

I have new mittens to keep my hands warm.  I can even eat apples with mittens on.  To put them on, I poke my thumbs in, then I poke them out;   it's hard keeping thumbs in the right place.

But last night I woke up and puked all over my bed.  It was really yucky.  I puked so many times.  My mama came when she heard me yelling and she asked why my arm was wet.  I said, "cough on arm."  So she knew what happened.  Today I feel a little better, but pretty tired from all that puking.

Love,

Franklin

Thirty one months three weeks

Hello world!

My best words this week are "oh dear," "magazine," "string," and "stripey." 

I woke up twice this week and needed the potty.  I took off my jammies all by myself and used it.  Then I woke my mama up and told her, "bum wipe!"  She was really happy to wake up and wipe my bum. 

I have a neighbour named Eileen.  I like to visit her and play with her toys.  When we walk by her house, I ask my mama if we can see her.  One time we picked plums for her on our walk, and I like to remind my mama when we walk past the tree.  I also have a neighbour named Zak.  He goes to school but I got to watch him play a computer game when my mama talked to his mama.  I tell my mama about Zak's car.  I say, "Zak's mummy drive car.  Zak's car gone."

I'm so good at tidying up now.  I put away my toys before I get out my books.  Then I put away books before I get out toys.  I lined up my little bears on the piano.  I pushed them on the floor;  my mama said, where do bears go?  I said, "bears sleeping on floor."  I also know where to draw now.  Not on the walls or the floor or the chair or the piano.  I draw on paper!

Sometimes I like to ask my mama and daddy one thing lots of times.  I say it over and over again.  If I ask enough times they might say yes, I think.  My dad does sometimes. 

Love,

Franklin

Thirty one months two weeks

Hello world!

My best words this week are "sawing," "mowing," "slipped," and "peanut butter."  I sometimes say my name "Fwankwin" now.  I used to just say "Fankin."

I have a cough and snot this week.  It's really yucky.  My mama gave me a hankie to put in my pocket so I can wipe my own nose.  I'm really good at wiping my nose and putting the hankie back in my pocket.   I woke up a lot in the night this week because of my cough and snot.  One night I got to go in bed with my mama and daddy for a little bit and snuggle.  It was really nice, and then I wriggled around a lot.

I love to pull up carrots from the garden.  My mama makes me a little bowl of water and I wash them, then eat them.  I also like picking peas and beans to eat.  It's more fun to eat them from the garden than with dinner.

My mama made me a hat but I want to wear my dad's hat instead.  It looks like my hat, but it's big and blue.  When I put it on, I pat my head, just like my dad.

Love,

Franklin

Thirty one months one week

Hello world!

My best words this week are "hello," "later," "chard," and "harmonica."  I play the harmonica;  I say "amonca."  Sometimes I have a hard time saying Hs.

On Saturday my dad doesn't go to work so I get to play all day with him.  My mama goes to work instead.  I tell her bye bye, give her a kiss, and wave out the window when she goes.  When my dad goes to work he's gone before I wake up in the morning.

This week my dad didn't go to work and I got to play so much with him!  We even went on a train with my mama.  I sat in the seat like a grown up, and only wriggled a little bit.  I call trains "Thomas;"  I love trains. 

I fell off my little chair when I was climbing.  I got upset, and then later I told my dad, "ouchie.  Pink cream."  Whenever I get ouchie, I need cream on it.  I need it so often, I get to keep the tube of cream in my room.  It's pink.

I found a piece of string on the floor and I flossed my teeth with it.  I like flossing.  I want to help my mama floss sometimes.

Love,

Franklin

Thirty months four weeks

Hello world!

This week my best words are "flannel," "try," "silly," and "naughty."  I say words my own way:  I have a hard time with Ls, Rs, Vs, and words with lots of sounds together like Sp, St, and things like that.  Instead of light and yellow, I say "yight" and "yewwow;" instead of drink I say "dwink;" I say "seben," not seven, and I say "soon" and "sicker" instead of spoon and sticker.  I say "So duck" to my mama but she doesn't know what I mean.

I got up one morning and into bed with my mama when she was asleep.  Then I was awake so I got back out of bed and looked for something to play with.  I found some vaseline I used to have for my rash.  I rubbed it all over myself;  it felt great!  When my mama woke up, I showed her where the vaseline was:  on the bed, the floor, the toothpaste, and of course, all over me and my jammies.  I got a towel and we wiped it up. 

At dinner time I set the table myself.  I also put my plate in the sink when I'm done.  I like to be helpful.  When my mama cooks dinner I read books or play with blocks in the living room.  Sometimes I bring my book into the kitchen and read out loud to my mama.  I also like to stand on a chair next to her and chop things with my knife.  And I really like to taste sauce my mama makes off a little spoon.  When she uses the mixer, I ask, "Franklin nick it?"  That means I want to lick it.  I love to lick the mixer when it's done.

My favourite  shirt is my motorbike shirt.  I call it "motomike."

Love,

Franklin