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Here I am at the Hipskind's house. They just had a little boy named Logan. He's a cute kid. Anyway, Daddy was taking pictures of Logan, and I figured as long as there was a camera around I should go ahead and pose.

Arkansas Toddler Bags Elusive Woodpecker

DeQueen, Ark.
December 11, 2007

Just one day after a five year old Dewitt boy killed a 450 pound black bear while deer hunting with his grandfather, out of DeQueen, Arkansas comes an incredible tale of a toddler’s first bird hunt.

Jason Carlton, father of the toddler, said “I seen on the internet news where that kid in Dewitt done kilt him a big ol’ black bear. I figured it was time to get my kid in on the action” And so Jason took his daughter to their suburban DeQueen backyard to see if they could find anything for Riley Cate (14 months old) to harvest.

“We’d been sitting there for around an hour or so and ain’t seen nothing. We was running out of beef jerky and it was almost her nap time, so we was about to leave. Then all a sudden, out of nowhere comes this bird zippin through the trees like one of Satan’s bats. Cate reached right up, snagged it out of the air and rung its endangered little neck.”

They didn’t immediately know what they had bagged, until Jason consulted the internet to identify their kill. “At first we thought it was just a garden variety woodpecker, but holy smokes then we found out it was that Ivory Billed one everybody’s been so fired up about. I never thought I’d get a chance to see one killed, what with them being almost extinct and all. I’m just real proud of my little girl.”

When asked for a comment, the Nature Conservancy said that they were “appalled that such a thing could happen in today’s society.” Mr. Carlton replied, “I’m pretty appalled too. I didn’t think the stupid thing would be anywhere near society. I figured we’d have to go all the way to the bottoms to find something like that. But yeah, proud, amazed, appalled… that’s pretty much how we’s all feeling right now.”

The family has yet to decide what they will do with the bird, although they are contemplating a special dinner sometime soon. Carlton said, “I done breasted it out. If we mount it, the breast will be facing the wall anyway, so no harm done there. I’m guessing it tastes like owl, but we won’t know for sure until we actually roast him.”

Christmas Coooookies!

I had been feeling kinda crummy for the past couple days, but I'm feeling better now. So tonight we went over to Granna and Papa Joe's house to decorate Christmas cookies! I think this is some kinda tradition or something, but I sure don't remember doing this last year, because I was just a kid. Here I am going crazy with some sprinkles! If you look really closely, you can see them flying through the air above the plate. Did I mention that I love Christmas cookies? I think I got a little on my face. And you can't tell from this angle, but there's just a little bit of icing up my nose too.
And here I am all cleaned up again with Granna. A good time was had by all!

My Christmas Picture

So last week we went to Joanie's Flower Shop. Mrs. Joanie let us take pictures in front of her trees. Joanie's is the most magical place in the world (besides where Mickey Mouse lives, of course). But we had a good time with Hudson and all the Patterson kids too.

Cake Stats

We went to see our brand new doc last week, Dr. Busheme. She is so nice! She says I'm smart and just the right size! My weight is in the 40 percentile, so I'm a bit petite, but my height and my head are perfectly average! Here are some of the things I can do and say:

Point to Daddy's fake duck and say "Duh"
Point to Santa Claus and say "ho ho ho"
Sing the "baa baa" parts at the right time in Old McDonald, although sometimes it's a bit delayed
Dance by stomping my feet and shaking my tushie.
I can say "peeez" to ask for things and "tank oo" when I get them.

These are the other words I say all the time:
Bye Bye
Hi
Mama
Nana
Dada
Papa
Uh-Oh
OOOH (when I get a cool toy)
puppy
baby (even if the kid is older and bigger than me)
cracker (kacker)
Wow wow woooow (never just one "wow")
No
No maam (no mim)
bath (bah)
church (chuch)
chop
book
rock-rock (when I'm in the rocking chair)

These are the words that come along only every once in a while:
Cool
PawPaw
Aunt Jenn (An Jen)
Meme

I can also sign "milk" and "more"! They work like magic!!

Here are the things I get in trouble for: eating Cheney's food, falling on the floor when I don't want to hold Mom's hand and walk, standing up on the rocking chair, dropping food on the floor when I'm full, pulling tissues out of the box as fast as ever I can

Most of the time I'm a good kid, especially right now because I'm sick sick sick. I'm almost over my dry skinned eczema, but now I have a fever and I just want to be held all day long. Boo.