Oops.

Well, that happened fast.  Sorry for the derailment on my progress towards blogging every day.  This time, I can tell you that two things have led to this: first, my laptop died on the 21st of February.  Caused mommy to get a bit behind on some online work and such--just now getting back to being all the way caught up.  And second, I have been SUPER busy with work compared to the beginning of the year.  Great for catching up on bills, not so great for, well...keeping up with almost everything else.  Still, I am determined to get back on track, so here we go!
It snowed again last night and today--not a lot, just about another two inches maybe.  It's been a very cold wintry start to March. Today we went to the gym--all of us, since it's now daddy's session off--and you had a great time as usual.  They told me that they turned off the TV at one point and you exclaimed, "Mommy!"--seems you thought that meant playtime was over and I was going to get you then.  Thankfully, you just kept playing and didn't get upset when I didn't show up right then :)
We went to Jimmy John's to pick up sandwiches for lunch and as per usual, you declared, "Chips!" when we pulled up in the parking lot (which cracked daddy up).  Back at home, 'Laundria' (your name for Andrea) came for her lesson, during which you mainly played with dad, with a few brief visits to check on what we were doing, complete with one where you got in the third chair and pushed the table towards Andrea with your feet lol.
After this, mommy cleaned up the living room a bit while you continued to play downstairs with dad.  I came down for a little bit to make some copies, which you "helped" with by taking over the arduous task of pressing the start button each time.  Soon, it was time for me to head out to go to lessons.
When I got home, I found you and dad taking a bath together.  He reported that you had taken a nearly 3-hour nap (you didn't have one yesterday) and were in a much better mood than prior to it.  Also said that you requested to "make house" when you were playing in basement--which was something we have not done in well over a month (we took the 2 remaining sections of gate and put on top of the ball pit to form a house shape).  You remember so much, it just amazes me.
 I had a frozen pizza for dinner, which you shared some of, then we practiced counting (you can get to 3 on your own usually, 5 if you are really concentrating) and singing ABC's. You then requested to watch some "dance" before bed.  No matter how many times I watch you do it, I have to giggle every time at your imitations of the sounds, song lyrics, and even some of the dance moves from the videos--though it appears we'll need to stop watching "Fat" by Weird Al, because you now think grabbing your diaper and making a silly noise is fun lol...
You now often head to bed when it's time without us telling you, which was the case tonight.  You then come back out of the room and say, "Mommy! Daddy!" and go back in there, as if to tell us that it is time to do bedtime routine.  You hugged and kissed your "froggie" (story on that another day), we read the books we read nearly every night now, put your blankies in crib, then "boinged" you up (I basically help you jump in with successively higher springs each time) into the crib. Oh, one funny thing that was different: you got your cash register out to play with and I asked you what numbers were on it. You pointed and said each one, then when you got to the equals sign, you said, "oops."  This was the way of it for all the operators, except multiply and add, because you saw those as "x" (you were looking from the side).
As I write this, you have been asleep for a while now, but just started making some sounds.  You said, "daddy, daddy, blankies, blankies."  You often talk to yourself for a while prior to sleep, and occasionally do this, too.  It's cute, but mommy worries for when you have a big bed and can get out when such happens...let's just stay at this stage, shall we? :)