April 2009 Epistle

April showers bring May flowers, that is how it goes right; well we have had some good days of rain, but we have also had sun and warm temperatures. I love it! It is getting warm outside and so I get to play out in the backyard. My favorite activity in the backyard is playing with water much safer than playing with fire. It does not matter to me whether it is the hose or the sprinkler, I will play in it and with it and in either case be completely soaked when I am done.
As I continue to get older and become a greater boy I learn some of the necessary things in life, such as using the potty. Mama has started to make me use the potty and get me out of diapers. It can be exciting to use the potty, but it is also a major chore. I have to quit whatever I am doing—which almost always is much more enthralling that going potty. However, I think its fun to wear undies, but I do get them dirty often because I will not stop playing. Sometimes I do well, usually when Mama reminds me because we go together, but other times I either do not want to go or I try and pee just a little bit really fast so I can hurry back to what I was doing.
This month I experienced a very important step in my eternal progression, I learned to empathize. Mama broke her toe while Daddy was gone to Utah, she smacked it on a door. I found myself very concerned with her foot, I had to have my toe buddy wrapped like hers.
Buddy wrapping is cool, just tape the broken toe to the unbroken neighbor and done. I looked stellar!
As for being a big brother, I love it! I like to check on him and make sure he is okay.
I enjoying seeing him and making sure he sees me, I will give him his pacie, kisses and plenty of hugs. Sometimes Mama has to remind me to be gentle, but I am just so excited.
Easter was in April like most years but those April showers did not cooperate; they are supposed to not fall on Easter or the Saturday before, that ruins the outdoor egg hunt. So instead Mama and Uncle Austin hid all the eggs inside. Fortunately I rebounded and still enjoyed the egg hunt. I got a boat in my Easter basket, I think since I have been talking about a boat for a while. That evening in was in the bath tub and floating happily along with the bubbles I got too. I got eggs filled with chocolate candies—yummy! Some others were filled with dinosaurs, frogs and turtles. My favorite, of course, was the chocolate candies. I would find an egg and quickly open it hoping that it would have yummy-tasty candy inside, if it did not I dropped it and went on to the next egg.
A while ago Mama bought me some puzzles, Cars puzzles, and now I love to put them together. I can almost put them together by myself I am best at putting Lightning McQueen together properly. Mama and Daddy only showed me a few times and helped just a bit as I was learning them, then I could do them all on my own.
I am so looking forward to the rest of spring and then summer, we have some fun things planned. Take care of yourselves and do no to anything dangerous—that is a word I know well. Love you.

Corin Douglas O’Berry