It Is Almost Time

My baby brother will be FINALLY coming out of Mommy's belly next Friday!!! Woo Hoo I can't wait. My best friend Connor's baby brother Ryder is already here so now I need my baby brother. There has been a lot that has happened, but the biggest is now I am 3 YEARS OLD!! I know it is kind of crazy. We have been to Lake Jordan and Falls Lake and we went to the beach with Titi Chell this weekend! We also went to New Jersey in November and then in March and then to see abuela in May. We have been pretty busy. You saw my new big boy room! And though I know I am getting big I still don't want to use the potty I know. We keep having this discussion with Mommy AND Daddy AND Titi Chell AND my friends, but hey....actually this is one of my favorite things to watch right now.... The Potty Years I hope you like it. Okay gotta go. I promise I will keep you posted on my baby brother.

I Know, You Probably Thought I Gave Up or Something....

Things have just been really really busy. And guess what I am going to have a baby brother. I am excited about that. Right now he is in Mommy's belly but I talk to him sometimes. I think he listens too when Mommy and I read books together. I think it is going to be cool having a little brother and being the BIG GUY around the house.

I also just moved into my new room. Oh yeah, I got the biggest room and Mommy and Daddy adn Titi Chell and Gwen painted it blue and green and I have the BIG bed and Mommy put my Lightening McQueen radio on my night stand. I really like my new blue room. And my old room is going to be my baby brother's room.

Here I am watching TV in my room!


Oh and my birthday is coming soon. And then that is whe nmy baby brother will get here. After my birthday! I am excited. We are going to have fun together, driving Mommy and Daddy crazy and playing with my friends. I am going to have to introduce him to everybody and make sure they don't mess with him!

Oh yeah we've been working on this ptty training thing. Yeah, I'm not a fan. Even if my boy Connor is going on the potty, I am just not going to do it. I mean I know what I need to do, but it is just so inconvenient. i have to stop what I am doing pull down my pants, pull down my pull up, sit on the potty, clean myself, pull up my pull up, pull up my pants. Gosh it is exhausting just thinking about it. They keep saying big boys make pee pee and poopie on the potty, WHATEVER. I will do it when I want to, just don't tell Mommy. She is trying.

This is what they do to me, put me outside in underwear (which I DO like) to play with my watertable.



I mean Titi Chell even put the potty in my room when we were painting so I could go. But, like I said, I'll do it when I want. I just don't want to right now.

More to come soon with all my adventures coming up!

See you later!

I Guess It Has Been That Long....

Sooooo MY BAD! Yeah I know since September and so much has happened. Let's give you the quick run down.

End of September, Mommy's birthday. Yeah I was messing with her, she kept telling me to sing Happy Birthday to her, but I would sing "Happy Birthday Daddy". I don't think she liked that too much, but I thought it was HILARIOUS!!!

October
Mommy kept asking me what I wanted to be for Halloween. And seriously I was just excited that it was Halloween. I'm not to sure about all the dressing up stuff. We did go to the pumpkin farm and rode the train...yes, I know AWESOME!!! I love trains!!! And next best thing, I got to jump in all the hay I wanted. I mean it was really high, like I scared Mommy and Daddy AND some people watching because I was jumping off. LOL It was so cool.

Well Halloween came, I didn't want to put on the costume Mommy borrowed from my friend. It was rainy and ugly outside so we stayed in and I got to hand out the candy, until this very WEIRD person came to the door, with all this paint and stuff and I did NOT like it. Okay, I'll admit it, I got scared. I pretty much hung out on the couch the rest of the time and peeked out of the pillow when the door bell rang.

Now November has been very cool so far. We had my hearing appointment at UNC and I did awesome! My ears have gotten a little better in some parts, but Ms. Sarah thinks that is because one of my tubes fell out and my ear drum healed. Yeah, I know Mommy likes that information. I was just having a good time playing with the toys and Ms. Sarah.

And I got to hang out with some really cool people this weekend. Me and Mommy and Daddy went to Bald Head Island for the Care Project Retreat! I got to met more kids that have hearing aids and some other that have these cool things called Choclear implants. Ms. Janine called them "cokies" I like that better. I hung out with this boy Talon who was like my age and he had a little brother, Dylan. Dylan was cool, but he just stayed on the floor a lot and didn't talk much. I remember when I was that little....but Talon and I yeah once we got comfortable we got to running around and laughing and playing. I even have the bump on my head to prove it! Yeah, I tripped and fell, but its okay! Oh and I am totally loving these cheese crackers and peanut butter and goldfish now! You all know my food issues....I just don't like certain things. But, I am eating more things these days. I love me some tortilla chips and yeah before I used to lick them and spit them out. I know nasty, I have already had this conversation with Mommy AND Daddy! But now I totally eat them all up and these crackers that I saw Talon eating. So awesome. We went out and bought a whole bunch for the house.

Everyone on the retreat was awesome and it was really cool to be with other kids who had hearing aids just like me!!! Mommy and Daddy had a really good time also.

Well we are getting ready to go see Pop-Pop and Uncle Joey and all the rest of my Corona family!! I can't wait!! New Jersey here we come. Ohh and I am going to go see my boy Connor and hang out in JC!

Things are getting fun.....

I know no pictures....there will be A LOT SOON!!!

They Exist!

You know my Mommy and Daddy think they know everything, but I know what I saw. And I saw a DINOSAUR!! Yes, that is right. I am telling everyone in the world right now that I saw a dinosaur. It was big and brown and had a horn on its nose, just like the ones I have seen in books and it was walking and playing with another dinosaur. Sure, Mommy called it a rhino, but I know what I saw. It was a dinosaur.

We went to the zoo last weekend and I got to see elephants and giraffes, who looked like they were fighting with each other. We saw bears! And gorillas! And some funny monkeys called baboons that kept licking the glass thinking they were licking me! Well not really me, there were other kids there playing with the baboons. I didn't want to get too close. I mean if they think they can lick us through the glass, maybe they know a special way to do it and get out....you know? So I kind of hung back a bit.

We rode on a school bus, well not really a school bus, but that is what I called it. It was a zebra bus, it had stripes and stuff. I also got a new car!!! I know you would think my Mommy and Daddy wouldn't buy me anymore cars. Mommy is always talking about how they are "all over the place" but we got one and it says NC Zoo on it! I took some cool pictures on the elephant statue and the bison! Here check out some pics of that day. Oh and I am going to try to put up a link to the "dinosaur video" for you guys to see.


Checking out the seal!


Me and the bison!!


Check out the bear in between me and Daddy.
(Mommy was trying to get fancy with her pictures....she tries...


Me and the baby elephant! I love the elephants


Here I am in the helicopter they use to track the elephants! I know, I look good flying this thing, right?


I will post all of the pictures later. Oh here is the video of me and Mommy Dinosaurs at the NC Zoo

Beach Pictures! Old, but Still Good

Hey these are the pictures from when Lollie was here and we went to the beach!


Lollie sleeping in the car, getting ready for the beach


Me and Daddy getting crashed by the waves!!!


Mommy and Lollie


Me and Lollie hanging on the towel, playing with the sand.


Me and Lollie back home chillin' I miss you Lollie!! Come back soon and bring Nino with you!

So check out this link. This is how we get ready for the beach, music and dancing in the car LOL

My Annual Review

I know it sounds like I have a job, right LOL Hey my job is to be as cute as I can be, make people laugh, make my parents do what ever it is I want them to do ( I have been working on this lately and I have to say they fight me on it, but the whining actually works sometimes. I get better results when I ask for things real sweet and cute, but that isn't as fun as getting Mommy and Daddy frustrated LOL) Yeah I am two years old this how my kind roll.....

Anyway, Mommy met with Miss Kathleen and Miss Marilee yesterday and she told me they had all great things to say. They said I am doing so good that I really don't need Miss Kathleen to come to the house and play with me anymore. I was kind of sad about that because she always has new toys to play with and we do some cool stuff. But, Mommy said we will see her if I need something or when I have to do these reviews and stuff. So that is cool.

There are a couple of things Mommy said we should work on like saying my first and last name. Seriously, I am "the baby" or "Adrian" oh yeah and "the Chooch" but Mommy told me that my whole name is Adrian Corona. Well she calls me "Adrian Dickson Corona" when she gets really frustrated, but she doesn't say that all the time LOL So yesterday she kept telling me to say "Corona" so I said it and she told me to say "Adrian Corona" and kept explaining to me that was my whole name. Okay Mom, I get it. I may be two, but I am not one! Sheesh! So she got all excited when I was saying it. You know we clapped, high fived, double high five, you know the drill and then we started doing some other stuff.

Well we went upstairs for a bath. I was using my new bath crayons and Mommy was drawing shapes and writing my name in the tub and I was copying her and splashing her (oh yeah always splashing SO MUCH FUN) and then it was time for 'jamas and bed. So Mommy got me out of the tub, wrapped me in my towel and started walking out of the bathroom, but I said, "No, Mommy, this way," and pointed towards the mirror. So she stopped, I looked in the mirror and I waved and said "Bye, Adrian Corona" pronounced(A-shree-an O-ro-na) Oh man she about lost her mind!!!! Oh it is so funny to see how she gets. Then of course it was the tug of war of getting my 'jamas on lunging off the bed, having Mommy grab my legs, powder getting everywhere, and we laugh REALLY LOUD LOLOLOL

Oh, here are some pictures from the water park this past weekend. We were supposed to go the weekend before, Mommy said I would really like it, but it rained and we couldn't go so we went this past weekend. We went with Tio Junior, Tia Jackie, Junito, and Jael oh and of course Mommy and Daddy. Check it out!


"Cheese!" Of course with cookie crumbs in my mouth!


My Tia Jackie and my cousin Jael


The Other Corona Men. Can't you tell I just wanted to get back in the water!

I KNOW It Has Been OVER A Month Now!!

But let me give you the run down:

Went to Titi Chell's in Charlotte - AWESOME

Lollie (my cousin Lauren) came and spent almost TWO WEEKS hanging out with me - WAY TOO AWESOME!!!

I have a new cousin Alexander in New Jersey - now I am no longer the baby....not so awesome

Oh and Titi Lilly had her baby Langston Emmanuel, another one of my Jersey boys, I will be hanging out with! Like Connor!!! VERY COOL!

Titi Arelis, Titi Janette, Abuela, Gwen and Darwin all came to visit me - SUPER DOOPER AWESOME

Ohhhh and doctor stuff: UNC Cleft Team Update: I AM PERFECT HAHAHAHAHAHA
Well that is what Mommy and Daddy say, I think I am doing ALLLLLLLL RIGHT!

So I am going to put up some pics, but I have to tell you all. These people at UNC at the Craniofacial Center are so funny. We went there on Tuesday. We were there really early. Yeah, not excited that Mommy woke me up at 6:45 after I stayed up late hanging out with the family. But, whatever I had to get up. So we go there, they have some awesome dinosaurs in the waiting room, this cool truck and some books so we were having a good time. Then the appointments start. It's like as soon as I get comfortable with a new game I am playing, we have to get up and go to see someone else. I mean everyone is awesome and really nice so its not that bad. But, come on they are interrupting my creative thinking and process. You know, taking the dinosaur and making sure it goes after dad or having the dinosaur take the truck head on in a battle. HAHAHA!!

Anyway, Mommy's biggest worry, well, the person she wanted to see the most was the Speech Therapist. She wants to make sure that I don't need another surgery or if I need speech classes, to get me started right away. Well, we go see Miss Lynn. She is really nice and she starts playing on the floor with me and we are talking about the different toys and animals and the plane. We were having fun. Then she goes and gets this metal thing and asks me to say certain words.

So she put the metal under my nose and says "can you say, bye-bye" Seriously, come on Miss Lynn, give me hard one! Anyway I say "bye-bye" and continue to play, then she asks me to say "ma-ma" and I say "ma-ma" and then she asks me to say "cookie" and I say "cookie" Three of my favorite easy words to say. Well she gets all excited and starts talking to Mommy about how it is hard for her to get that test done with kids my age and that my palate is working beautifully, something about the air coming out of my nose. It's all good, Mommy and Daddy seemed happy and they were all smiling and laughing. So I guess this little metal thing under my nose and me saying words makes people laugh.

Well a few minutes later Miss Lynn was checking my ears with this weird vibrating thing and I see the metal thing. I pick it up, put it under my nose and look at Mommy and say "Mommy, cookie" and start cracking up, well sure enough EVERYONE started laughing! Oh I kill me sometimes. I knew doing that would get smiles. HAHAHAHA

Well everything turned out really good and Mommy and Daddy are really happy, no palate surgery, no speech issues, so we are good!

Oh did I mention we saw the dentist.....not happy, not happy at all about that. Mommy also told me that she made an appointment with another one to get my teeth cleaned....yeah I am not excited about that either. I mean hello?! I DO have a toothbrush, but I guess I am not doing a good enough job by myself and I don't let Mommy do it for me. They ARE my teeth, you know!
Maybe I should let her do it sometimes.....

Anyway here are some pics!!


Taking in some sun...


Chilling with Daddy


Me with Titi Chell's Harry Potter glasses.


This was me and Lollie at the beach. I LOVE my cousin, She is so much fun!!!
Yeah we have more pictures of me and Lollie, but Mommy left them on her camera and didn't send it to me. This one she had on her phone and was easy for her to email.


Here is me in the waiting room at UNC. You can see the truck. I wasn't being cooperative for the pics, but Mommy wanted me to put this one up.