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Mommy and Daddy try to get me to say my name all the time, but when they go around the table asking who everyone is, I usually point to myself and say, "me!" Or else I call myself "baby." But listen to what I said when I saw myself in the camera's screen...

Apparently Eliana likes mangos enough to sing about them.

William finished his painting set while he was home sick on Friday and wanted to photograph the finished product. On one picture he had written the number 3,000,000. When I asked him how he knew how to write 3,000,000 (he had the right number of zeros) he told me that he knows almost everything. He tempered his self evaluation when I asked him for the camera, but he definitely knows he's smart :)

Let me tell you a story about playing with my kitty, as I just told it to Mommy.

"Mew-mew, mew mew mew mew. (Clap, laugh) MEOW! Mew, mew mew mew mew. Yep. Mew mew. Mew, mew, mew mew, mew, mew, mew. Oh, no! Mew, mew, meow. Mew-mew? Mew-mew, Mew-mew!"

Would you like to hear more? I can tell the longer version.

[Editor's note: I believe this translates roughly, "The kitty was on my bed. I was petting her. Then I hit her. Then she ran away. I chased her, but she got away. Now she's hiding somewhere. Do you know where the kitty is? Kitty, where are you?]

At trivia, when they were getting ready, I did a Survivor challenge jumping over the mats and running through the legs of the table. And then when Michael came home, I was running across a mat and seeing how long I could stand on the rolling mat without falling. Oh, and by the way, I was holding out my arms. The End. That was a true story.

Trivia in 3D

Pull-start Diesel won 3rd place!

You don't want me to spin my bowl
You take it away
Then I'll spin my cup
You don't want me to spin my cup
You take it away
Then I'll spin this green bean!
I'm so funny!

My doctor's appointment yesterday was very interesting. The doctor came in, shined a penlight on my bump (which lit up like my pink night light bulb), and sent us home. He did take a couple minutes to say that it was a fluid-filled ganglion cyst and I will probably just bump it sometime when I'm playing and it will go away. But if it doesn't go away and someday I decide I don't like it there, then we can come in and have it surgically removed. I can't imagine I will want it gone that badly!

Another thing I learned about my body yesterday... I can't lick my elbow!

Can you lick your elbow?

There is snow outside and I said, "Yay! It's January! We can play in the snow!" I hope that big hill is still here. We can sled down it and I think we can build jumps on it. And we can run and then jump in the sled and then I will start slidding down! Dad ran and jumped into the sled and then he started heading down. And he hit a crack and the sled flipped and the sled landed sideways and Dad landed kneeling holding the sled. And that's the story of having fun in January!

Ugh! She's heavy!

My godparents, Adam and Leah, both had birthdays this week. I wanted to wish them a happy birthday. William wanted to get in on the videotaping, too. He can be so silly sometimes! He's been especially goofy tonight since he got back from his friend William N's birthday party at Space Aliens. What a great week for birthdays! I hope you like our video.

It's only 9:30 and we've already had a busy morning. Sometimes I'm not even out of bed this early. But today I had my two-year doctor visit before William even went to school. I put on my own shoes while Mommy helped William with his. I packed my Elmo backpack with my baby while Mommy put William's homework in his. Then Mommy helped me with my coat and hat while William put on his. We were all ready to go.

We got to my doctor's office in plenty of time. I was a model patient. I laid very still for weighing and measuring. I was 31 1/2 inches (4%) and 22 1/4 lbs (3%). I let the doctor check me all out. She's very nice. She thought it was time to find another doctor to check out the bump on my wrist since it seems to be growing with me rather than getting smaller. So I'll have another doctor appointment sometime, but it's no hurry. The bump doesn't hurt and it's not in the way. We'll just get a more expert opinion about if and when it should come out. Other than that, and William crying because Mommy took his toy motorcycle when he wouldn't stay in his chair, it was an uneventful visit. My ears are clear and I'm all done with shots until I'm five!

But I did have to go to the lab for a blood draw. First we took William to school. He was a little late, so he had to check in at the office first. We watched him go in, stop in the office, and then head right to his class. My brother can be so grown up and responsible sometimes! Mommy says I should tell him what a big girl I was at the lab. I got a little owie and the lady squeezed some drops of blood out of my finger. I just watched intently the whole time. I was so engrossed in the process I even drooled a little. The drool was kind of funny and made me smile :) I was so brave that the lady dug through the stickers to find the sparkliest Elmo sticker she could give me.

She created a little reading nook for herself

As soon as we got home, I asked Mommy for Dora. I love watching Dora and would watch it all the time. I thought Mommy was happy that I liked tv, but now she's always saying "no" and "enough tv." I wish we could play movies on the tv all day long. But Mommy won't. So sometimes I go up to my room and read or I push my babies in their strollers. Right now, though, I think she'll let me watch Dora since I haven't yet today. Off I go!

One of Eliana's grandpas (Poppops) looks a lot like Santa Claus, which was a little confusing to her this year. So when she got balloons for her birthday from Grandma and Grandpa, she insisted they were from Santa Claus. Really, what's the difference? :)