No! I was Not Scared. I was pretending to be scared.

"Mommy, Justice has a bear."
"what? Justice has a bear? At his house?"
"No, at the bike shop. I saw a bear."
"Oh! Yes, you saw a bear -- you saw somebody wearing a bear costume. At the holiday party. It wasn't a real bear."
(long pause)
"...it was a bear costume? Somebody was wearing it?"
"Yes, it was a person wearing a bear costume. Did you think it was a real bear?"
"No..."
"But you were a little bit scared, weren't you?"
"No! I was NOT scared!"
"No?"
"No...I was pretending. I was just pretending to be scared."

I like very much:
Roaring at people, esp. my little brother because he startles so easily and waves his little arms around.
Onions in lamb stew. And carrots, and potatoes, and meat...OK, basically the whole stew.
Jello. Red or green.
Popsicles.
Mangoes.
Blueberries and blackberries. Berries in general, yum.
Jumping off of high things. Jumping in general.
Smashing snd castles and obliterating block towers.
Baking cookies with Oma.

I don't like:
When Mommy or Daddy tells me to do something.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

I changed again.

After months of sleeping well and promptly at 8pm every night, almost on command, I now spend about an hour negotiating and pleading and arguing and disagreeing and resisting and yelling and crying and begging and sobbing. It's not fun for me, and I don't think it's fun for the parents either.

I'm just not tired as early, and there's so much to do and think about...now it's really hard to go to sleep!

Things I say a lot: If you ask me to do something I don't want to do, I'll say "No, can't. Can't do it." And I will sadly and solemnly shake my head.

When I don't like something you are saying or doing: "MOMMY, DON'T! DON'T DO IT!" Including, like, after you ask me to put my toys away.

I really like the pirate stories, still. Now there's a zoo boat that we see sometimes, with lots of animals on it, and then we go to the island and find the treasure.

I like the zoo a lot. We've been there with Tory a few times now. I like the monkeys, and the giraffes, but mostly I like the rides. I'm just big enough to go on all of them! 36 inches. I really like going up in the airplane ride with Tory.

The other thing I like is tea parties. Mommy makes peppermint tea with honey, and I put plates and cups and chairs out and then pour the tea. And everybody that comes to the tea party has to wear funny hats. Even the bunnies.