today you...

• Read the Dougal the Digger book that the neighbors kindly brought over last night several times before breakfast.
• Ate WeetBix with banana for breakfast.
• Read lots and lots of books in the basement, including a book about mammals, Why do Cats have Whiskers? and naturally more Dougal the Digger.
• Whined periodically to make sure your Mama doesn't forget that you're two.
• Took a few deep breaths, upon Mama's request.
• Fit random toys together like a puzzle on an old tennis racket...the racket doubles as a leaf blower and a helicopter.

• Ate baked beans, the cream cheese off of a bagel, and macadamia nuts for lunch.
• Put on your gumboots (mostly) by yourself for the first time, on the wrong feet.
• Transformed via the gumboots into Dougal’s driver.

• Enjoyed an after-lunch bath and wanted to wear the gumboots in the bath but settled for putting them back on immediately after.
• Held the shower nozzle and became “fighter (fire) fighter Dougal driver.”
• Didn't want to get dried off.
• Hung out in your robe in your room,

• while stalling before naptime,

• but you were definitely ready for one.

• Read Dougal the Digger three more times and begged unsuccessfully for one more book before your nap.
• Took a three-and-a-half hour nap.
• Looked forward to “Papa coming home soon” and once he arrived, you screamed "Papa" over and over in the sweetest, highest-pitched voice.
• Ate beans and rice for dinner.
• Had a little tantrum after dinner that involved throwing a basket of magnetic letters.
• Opened up a surprise package from your far away friend, Eliot, first saying, "Eliot come home soon. LOVE it." And then in your best authoritarian voice, "COME HERE Eliot."
  

• Read five digger-themed books with Papa at bedtime.
• Talked about the owl and possum that you insist are in the trees outside your window after dark, saying unconvincingly , “Owl flew away. Possum ran away.”
• And finally, went off to dreamland, soundly for 12 hours.