February 26th

A couple fun things Vallerie said recently:

Eddie's got a plants vs zombie game for the xbox, and Vallerie wanted to play. So she played a little bit and then went to get ready for bed. While doing that she was telling me how she was scared of Zombies. Then Zooka runs in the bathroom and Vallerie sits down with her and says "Zooka you'll protect me from the zombies wont you?" Then she made a "bark bark" sound (pretending to be the dog agreeing). It was pretty cute.

Yesterday she decided that she wanted to rename the pup Shorezee or Shortsee... Hard to tell really what she's saying. I kept telling her that the dog's name was already Zooka and we couldn't change it. Well, she doesn't care because she keeps calling her Shorezee. Hopefully that resolves itself soon.

Here are some pics of Vallerie and her pup... (this is how she plays, sigh)

And a some sweet pictures.

And a couple of Zooka and Dalmo

February 24th

Not much has been going on lately. We've really just been chilling out at home, which is totally fine with me.

We had a movie night last week. We watched Hotel Transylvania. It was pretty good, Vallerie really liked it. It has now replaced Despicable Me 2 as her "nap time" movie. (Usually she falls asleep to a movie at nap time)

I got my new glasses on Saturday. I'm still getting used to them. I think they look ok...

Vallerie has been interested in dinosaurs lately. (Eddie is thrilled) I printed off a few coloring pages for her which she calls her homework.

Since she was doing "homework", Eddie and I bought her a pre-k book. It's got a lot of coloring and tracing. Numbers, letters, colors, shapes, etc. So far we've done it 2 days in a row. She's pretty good at most of the stuff. We started off with colors and letters. Yesterday she wasn't paying attention and just wanted to play around so we stopped early.

Zooka is doing well with potty training. She has started to chase the cat around (to play). He is less than happy about that. Oh well, they will work it out.

February 11th

Last Friday I went to the mall and got my eyeballs checked. I got some new glasses (they aren't in yet). While I was doing that Eddie took Vallerie to the indoor playground. She had a good time running around. I was a little worried about germs. Normally I'm not like that, but it just seemed like the kids that were playing there were... a little dirty. I know that's not nice of me to say, but come on. When you leave the house you don't have to dress your kid in designer clothes, but you can at least put them in a non-stained shirt.

After I was done and we got Vallerie away from the play set (aka bribed) we went to the candy store! It was her first time and she was thrilled. She kept opening the buckets and wanting to reach her hand in to grab candy. It was cute. We got her a bunch of different gummies (my fave were/are the peach flavored penguins) and some little tootsie roll things. She also got a little stuffed tiger. She named it "Ty-Gee". (Even though the tag said it's name was Stripes. She did NOT want to name it that)

The lucky little darling also got to ride the tiny merry go round in the mall. She loved that too.

A couple weeks ago we bought Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. We got the special one that came with a free gift. This one came with a lunchbox. Vallerie loves it. It's now her movie lunchbox, so when we have movie night we'll fill it with popcorn and candy. It's good because she can have her own stuff and not eat half of something and put it back in the big bowl. Nothing is grosser that eating a 1/2 soggy piece of popcorn!!

We also bought her a squishy brain that you dissect. The set came with a body and squishy organs too, but we think those are too small for her now. She really likes the brain though... Only, she doesn't like us to put the eyes in the skull because she doesn't want it looking at her. The box said 8+ but hey, who says she can't train to be a brain surgeon earlier than that?

We watched Puss N Boots over the weekend for movie night. Now Vallerie runs around pretending to be a Ninja (I guess that's what she thinks he is) She even asked me to buy/make her and Bot a Ninja costume. I suppose I'll have to do that soon.

So far Vallerie's current favorite movie is Despicable Me 2. She watches that movie over and over and over. She even quotes the damn thing! But, it's ok, she's cute.