I love Mr. Guy and The Lady and my family and all my friends and all of their friends and all the friends of friends to the moon and back!
A Month of Me: Day 13 – To the Moon and Back!
A Month of Me: Day 12 – Cookie Monster For A Day
When I am out and about in the world, people always mistake me for some monster named Cookie Monster. When I tell them that I am not Cookie Monster, I am Blueper B, they always seem a little disappointed. I finally had to figure out who this Cookie Monster monster is.
Mr. Guy helped me find a picture of the Cookie Monster on the Internet. He and I have the same color of fur and sort of the same eyes, but Cookie Monster does not have orange horns, or claws, or orange fur on his belly, or orange stripes on his arms. In fact, Mr. Cookie Monster doesn’t have anything orange on him. Why do people get us confused?
Mr. Guy said that sometimes people will lump all monsters with one similar characteristic into a big group even though they may be very different in lots of other ways. He said that this happens with humans too. I don’t think that this is a good thing. Every monster and every person is unique and special. Just because we may look like or be like another person on the outside doesn’t mean that we are like them on the inside too. We probably don’t like the same things, feel the same things, want the same things, or need the same things. I think people and monsters need to look more than fur-deep before they come to conclusions about others. I don’t look like Mr. Guy or The Lady, be we are all alike in lots of ways that others can’t see.
So, since i am always mistaken for this Cookie Monster monster, I decided to try to learn a little about him.
Wow! This Cookie Monster monster is famous! He has been on television for almost fifty years. And, he likes to eat, especially cookies. Cookie Monster is a lot older than me. I am only three. Yet, we still look a like. Does that mean that monsters don’t get gray fur or that their fur doesn’t fall out when they get older? Mr. Guy’s hair used to be brown and now it is gray. I have wondered what color my fur will be when I get as old as Mr. Guy. Will it be gray? Or purple? Or a darker or lighter blue? I don’t know. Now that I see Mr. Cookie Monster monster, I think that maybe my fur will stay blue and orange for ever and ever. That sounds good to me.
I told The Lady that I wanted to eat cookies so that I would know what it feels like to be Mr. Cookie Monster. She said that we could work on that because she had to make cookies today for her food blog, Sifted Together, that she writes with her friend Ms. Tracey. Ms. Tracey and The Lady send messages to each other about food all the time. They make the food, take pictures of it, eat it, and write about it on their blog. They are kind of like Mr. Cookie Monster, especially today since they were making cookies.
The Lady told me that we were going to make Animal Cookies. I wondered why we were making animal cookies. Why weren’t we making monster cookies or human cookies? The animals at our house did not ask for cookies. The Lady explained that animal cookies have nothing to do with who is going to eat them. They are called animal cookies because they are shaped like animals. Okay..I wondered how that was going to happen. We are going to make cookies shaped like animals? This could be interesting.
We began by gathering all of the ingredients.
We put them all together in the big blue mixing machine.
When we did that, the eight ingredients mushed together and became one big blob of ingredient. The Lady called it dough. When we got it all mixed up, we had to put it in the refrigerator to chill before we could make the animals. This was strange to me because we took the butter, one of the ingredients, out of the refrigerator first and we had to put it in the melting machine even though we didn’t want to melt it; we just wanted to make it a little soft. Then after we made our blob dough, we put it back in the refrigerator to make it cold. I did what The Lady told me to do, but it all didn’t make much sense to me.
After the dough got cold again, we took it out of the refrigerator and rolled it so it was one great big cookie. I bet Cookie Monster would really like our great big cookie! Then The Lady told me that we had to cut all of the little animal cookies out of our great big cookie using special plastic pieces with a button.
They worked like magic! I pushed it in the dough, pressed the button, and out feel a dough animal. We put them in the oven and they turned into animal cookies. We made lions, zebras, giraffes, and elephants!
Then we ate them!
I liked being Cookie Monster for a day, but I am most happy as me, Blueper B, a little furry blue and orange monster who is not on TV.
A Month of Me: Day 6 – What Not To Wear
Mr. Guy asked me to go outside with him this morning so that he could show me his zoo-kini. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to see that, especially first thing this morning! First of all, Mr. Guy doesn’t really like to go to zoos because it makes him sad to see all of the animals in captivity. And secondly, Mr. Guy doesn’t seem like a bikini kind of guy, at least I hope he isn’t a bikini kind of guy. So why would he want to show me a special outfit, that I don’t think that he would like. to wear to a place that I know he doesn’t like? Maybe his brain is more re-tired than I thought!
When I asked him about his zoo-kini, he said that he most definitely was not putting on a bikini and that we most definitely were not going to the zoo! Oh, thank goodness!
Okay then…so what was Mr. Guy talking about?
He has a zoo, well maybe its a garden not a zoo, full of zucchini in the backyard. He has big zucchini that we picked, little zucchini that are still growing that we can pick in a few days, and lots of yellow flowers that will turn into more zucchini soon. It is a good thing that everyone at my house likes zucchini because it may be all that we eat all summer long! The Lady told me that there are many different ways to cook the zucchini. We can sauté it or grill it. We can make pancakes with it. We can even make bread with it. Sometimes The Lady lets me help her cook. Maybe she will let me make something with all of our zucchini.
I am so happy that Mr. Guy has the eating kind of zucchini and not wearing zoo-kini!!!
A Month of Me: May 5 – Give Me Five
The Lady’s picture taking word for today was “five.” Since she is taking a picture of me every single day this month because it A Month of Me…Me, Blueper B, I tried to help her think of something fun we could do together today. I discovered that five is a very hard number for little blue and orange furry monsters. I have one head and one mouth and one tongue and one orange belly, I have two eyes and two horns and two teeths and two arms. I have four claws on each of my two arms.
I have one Mr. Guy and one The Lady. I have one Offspring One and one Offspring Two. Well, technically, they are The Lady’s offsprings. Anyway, that makes Two Offsprings. I live with two canine furry monsters and one feline furry monster
I don’t have five of anything!
The Lady and I thought some more.
The Lady got excited when she remembered a game called Yahtzee. She said it would be perfect for today’s picture taking because it has lots of fives. I asked her what kind of fives. She told me that it is a game that is played with five dies.
FIVE DIES!!!!
This sounded worse than the wreck center to me. I got very upset and told The Lady that I did not want to play her game! She seemed surprised since I usually like to play games with her. She asked me why I did not want to learn to play a new game. She said that it was a game that she loved to play when she was very young and she thought that I would like it too. I told her that she was wrong! I did not want to play any game that meant that five humans or monsters would have to die. The Lady starting laughing at me. That made me mad and sad at the same time. She said, “Not five dies, five dice. D-I-C-E, not D-I-E-S!” Well, I’m glad she didn’t mean five dies, but I had no idea what d-i-c-e were.
The Lady found the box with the game and showed me the things called dice. To me, they looked kind of like square ladybugs without any antennas. These dice things had black dots all over them. The lady showed me that each one had six sides. Each of the six sides had a different number of dots from one to six. I bet that is so you can tell how old each square ladybug is. Hmmm…I thought we were looking for fives. Oh wait, there are five dice.
The Lady explained that playing Yahtzee would help me to learn to count and to add and to multiply because I would have to count all of those dots of the ladybugs dies dice. We went over the rules and then started to play the game. The Lady said that we would stop and take a picture when I dumped the dice out of the cup and we could see lots of dice with five dots.
I think that I like this game especially because I get to play with The Lady. Mr. Guy doesn’t;t like to play games, so Yahtzee will be something special that The Lady and I can do together. Mr. Guy will keep reading stories to me. I don’t have to count the letters or words or pages in the books when we read together, but he does make me read the words sometimes.
I had fun and I learned new things today. It makes me happy to be able to help The Lady with her projects!
A Month of Me: May 1 – It’s Me!
Wow! It has been a long time since I have shared any of my adventures with my friends. Well, the truth is, I haven’t had many adventures lately. The Lady and Mr. Guy have been very busy with things and we have not traveled anywhere near or far. The Lady has been working hard at school and Mr. Guy spent most of the spring taking care of one of the other furry monsters at our house. One of our dog monsters was old and sick. Mr. Guy spent all day every day making sure that he was safe and comfortable. Then it was sad at our house because the big black furry monster crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Mr. Guy and The Lady told me that even though we were all very sad, that losing furry monster family members and people that we love is a real part of life. I asked if it was like when we lost The Captain. Yep. It was exactly like that.
Even though I haven’t been writing much, I have been thinking a lot, about all kinds of things. I have used my crayons and written monster words on little pieces of paper so that I wouldn’t forget all of the things that I have been thinking about. Since The Lady only has one more week of school, she promised me that we would get all of my thoughts out of my furry blue and orange head and off of all my little pieces of paper and make them into real words and sentences so that I can share them here on my blog. I am excited about that! I like thinking and writing, especially when Mr. Guy and The Lady help me!
You all know that The Lady likes to take pictures. This month, she promised me that I will be in her pictures every single day!! That is exciting! I may need to get a new shirt or two if I am going to have my picture taken that many times. And certainly if The Lady is going to take thirty-one pictures of me, I will get to go on some adventures somewhere!
I don’t know if any of you have missed me, but I can say with all of my monster heart that I have missed all of my friends. I hope that you will follow me during my My Month of Me!
My B-Day
A few days ago I celebrated my b-day! It wasn’t really my birthday since is was not the day that I was born (or made); it was the day that Mr. Guy and The Lady brought me home to live with them. So, it is still my “b-day” but the “b” stands for “brought home” day rather than birthday. I don’t know when I was born, but I do know that I was a very young and lonely little blue and orange furry monster when The Lady and Mr. Guy found me. Now I am a grown up and loved very big blue and orange furry monster!
Because it was my b-day, we celebrated with lots of things that began with the letter “b”…
Like bubbles…
Mr. Guy blew the water from a magic jar and the bubbles floated all around me! It was fun to look through them. It made the world look all crazy and then they were gone! Some floated way up in the sky. I don’t know where they landed. And some of them just disappeared. The bubbles made me smile even though they didn’t stay close for very long.
The Lady also gave me a bag, another “b” word. She said that the bag had a present for me because of this being my brought home day. I hoped that it would be a new t-shirt, but I didn’t say that out loud in case that there wasn’t a new shirt in the bag. I didn’t want to hurt The Lady’s feelings. I knew that even if it wasn’t a shirt, it would be something nice because The Lady knows what kinds of things I like and what kinds of things that I don’t like!
She told me to go ahead and open my present.
I was a little confused when I pulled my present from the bag. It sort of looked like a t-shirt, but not quite. Then I remembered that we were celebrating my b-day with things that began with the letter “b.” That’s why I did not get a t-shirt. T-shirt starts with “t.” My new shirt had no sleeves. It was a broken shirt. Broken starts with “b!” I thanked Mr. Guy and The Lady for the broken shirt. They smiled and told me that it is not a broken shirt; it is a tank top. It is not supposed to have sleeves. I thought shirts without sleeves were called vests. This clothing thing is getting very complicated! The Lady explained that tank tops really are just t-shirts without sleeves. She thought it might not be quite as hot for me to wear in the Texas summer since I have all this fur. She also told me that she thought the words on the front were perfect for my b-day. It says, “Have fun all day.” I like to have fun all day every day!
And, my new not broken shirt has blue and orange on it! I think maybe I might learn to like this shirt with no sleeves. It shows my pretty orange arm stripes!
After I opened my present, we went inside for more fun. I got balloons…blue and orange ones…and a brought home cake!
We had my brought home cake inside because there were bugs outside. And even though bugs start with “b,” they were not a good thing that starts with “b.”
My cake had a “2” on it because of the two years that I have lived with Mr. Guy and The Lady. I guess the longer you live with somebody, the bigger your cake gets. It will take a big cake to hold F-O-R-E-V-E-R and that’s how long I am going to live with Mr. Guy and The Lady!
Mr. Guy told me that he would light the candle and I should make a wish and then blow it out.
I wanted to tell him that I wished that we would all live together forever and ever, but before I could say all the words, he told me that my wish had to be a secret or it won’t come true. I hope he knows that I want to live with him and The Lady forever and ever!
I cut my cake into four pieces – one for me, one for The Lady, one for Mr. Guy, and one for me. Did I say me twice? It was too hard to cut the cake into three pieces. Four was much easier because all I had to do was bisect the cake twice. Bisect?? Why does that big book, that dictionary, keep coming back to haunt my words?
I cut my cake all by myself because Mr. Guy said that The Lady was not allowed to use knives because she used one to cut her finger. That sounded to me like it would hurt! I was very careful not to cut my claws.
I was glad to share my cake. I don’t think The Lady and Mr. Guy noticed that I had two pieces!
My brought home day with bubbles and bags and balloons and broken shirts and bisected cake was a lot of fun and made me a happy monster. Mr. Guy and The Lady told me that we are going on lots of trips in July and that would be part of my brought home celebration too. We are going to Pittsburgh where I will get to see some old friends and meet some new ones and we are going to England. I am excited about the adventures that I am going to have during my third year with Mr. Guy and The Lady.
A Month of Me Day 30
Most of the time I like holidays when Mr. Guy and The Lady get to stay home. I’m happy that we were all at home today, but the reason that we have the Memorial Day holiday is sad.
Tonight Mr. Guy built a fire in his fire bowl. I liked all of the orange colors in the fire, but it was a little scary at first. Those orange flames jumped way high and it got really hot. I was afraid my fur might melt! Mr. Guy said that everything would be fine and that my fur would not melt. He is very careful when he makes the fires.
We sat outside on the patio and watched the sun set and the fire burn. It was nice and relaxing. Even the four-legged monsters seemed relaxed.
My Month of Me is almost over. I only have one more day. It sure has been fun writing something every single day. I hope I can keep writing when it’s not the Month of Me anymore and becomes the month of June.
A Month of Me – Day 28
Tonight was another night that Mr. Guy and The lady weren’t home. They went to hear some sinfully music. That didn’t sound like a good idea to me. Why would they want to listen to that kind of music? I was a little worried about them, but I know that they will go to church tomorrow so they can repent for their evening of listening to sinfully music.
I stayed home and watched HGTV and ate patriotic candy that our friend Mr. Jim brought us from his trip to Philadelphia. I’ve been to Philadelphia, but I didn’t get and red, white, and blue candy when I was there. I was not watching sinfully TV or eating sinfully candy. I was being a very good blue and orange furry monster! I even kept The Lady and Mr. Guy’s spot on the bed warm while they were gone.
When The Lady and Mr. Guy got home, they seemed all happy. They didn’t seem ashamed at all to have spent their evening corrupting their ears with sinfully music. I asked them if they weren’t just a little bit remorseful (I learned that word in the dictionary the other day.) for how they had spent their evening. They looked at me strangely, like all of the sudden I had turned pink and had no horns. The Lady asked me what I was talking about. I told her that I thought she should be sorry for leaving me at home with the other furry monsters at home all night and going out to listen to sinfully music. She started laughing at me and said, “Symphony! Not sinfully.”
Oh! I was so relieved! I will sleep much better tonight.
A Month of Me – Day 26
Usually the first thing that Mr. Guy does when he gets home from school is checks for the mail. The second thing he does is put the mail in the recycling bin. This happens every day. I don’t know why the mailman keeps bringing the recycling back after Mr. Guy puts it in the big blue bin. Maybe Mr. Guy needs to color over his address on his recycling so the mailman doesn’t know where to deliver it.
Today Mr. Guy asked if I wanted to go with him to check the mail. I opened the mailbox and there it was again…all of that recycling. Mr. guy said that I should look carefully before I just put everything in the big blue bin.
On the bottom of the stack was a puffy white plastic envelope with green letters.
It said, “It’s here!” I asked Mr. Guy what was here. He told me to look at the name on the envelope. It was for me! I got mail! I had no idea what it was. Then I remembered that a few days ago Mr. Guy told me that he had ordered me a present. I had already forgotten that so I was super surprised that the envelope was a present for me!
I asked Mr. Guy if it was OK to open it right now. He said, “Sure!” I stood right there at the mail box and tore open the envelope.
“It’s a brand new shirt!!! And it’s blue! And it has lots of other colors too!”
Mr. Guy said that he ordered it for me last week after The Lady had frosted my claws and then the colors crashed with my fur and my shirts. He thought this one would match almost any color that my claws might be. I like all of the different colors, but I wasn’t sure about the design. It has all those different colors of pizza where the pieces are not cut evenly. Someone is going to get a great big piece and someone else is going to get a little tiny piece. They seemed like very unfair pizzas to me.
Mr. Guy explained that they are not unfair pizzas, but rather, they are peace signs. I know what peace is, sort of, but I don’t think I have seen a peace sign. I have only seen Stop signs and Stop signs are fair signs. All of their pieces are equal. I would think that a peace sign would have equal pieces. Hey…those two peace/piece words sound the same but their letters are different. I am glad that The Lady helped me use the right letters in the right words.
Mr. Guy and The Lady tried to explain to me why this shape is called a peace sign. It involved a lot of history going back to 1958. That is a long time ago!!! Mr. Guy said it was not THAT long ago, only 58 years. He told me that he has one more year of history than the peace sign. Anyway, I didn’t understand most of the history stuff they were telling me. All I need to know is that this sign is now a symbol of piece peace. It means good things.
A Month of Me – Day 17
I got a new pillow case for my bed. I like the orange, but I was a little scared of the words…be awesome today. That is the first thing I see every morning when I wake up. That means that today is every day and I have to be awesome every day. I don’t know if I can do that! I told The Lady that I was worried about being awesome every day. She said that was not something that I needed to be concerned about.
The Lady said that all I have to do to be awesome is be myself. She said that being nice to people makes me awesome. Smiling makes me awesome. She said that showing love and respect to everyone I meet makes me awesome. Is that all? I can do that! I already do all of those things! I like to be nice and I like to smile and I always show love and respect for the people I meet. Now I’m not scared by my new pillow case. Phew! I can get a good night’s sleep so that I can wake up tomorrow and be as awesome as possible!