Sleep overs are awesome!

Especially when they're at grandma and grandpa's house. :)

Since mama and dada had an overnight trip to celebrate their anniversary, Mason and I got to have a slumber party with grandma and grandpa. Everyone was a little worried about how Mason would do. No one was worried about me because I'm so laid back. Well, I can say that Mason did great. He didn't cry.






While grandma was putting me to bed, I showed her my hang nail. When she said she'd cut it, I jumped on the opportunity. I told her that mama and dada let me watch videos when I cut my nails. Mason and I got to stay up late and watch a full length movie - Toy Story 2.  I didn't tell grandma that mama and dada turn the video off as soon as they finish cutting my finger nails. I'm clever aren't I? In the morning, I got to help grandpa make breakfast.

Thanks for taking care of us while mama and dada were off partying and neglecting their parental responsibilities! We had a blast and never asked for mama or dada. Guess that means we can have more slumber parties with grandma and grandpa in the future! Hmmm...maybe we can even have grandma camp. :)

Six Flags

We had a family outing with the Tai's (minus uncle Mike) at Six Flags today!

Grandma and grandpa wanted to complete their hand print animal art collection. What's that? Well, you paint your hand with paint, press it on a piece of paper, and then the artist turns it into an animal. Ethan already has one. It's a cow. Mason chose a elephant, and I chose a flamingo. Someone's hand is a lot bigger than the other two...mine! =)


















We watched a Cirque Dreams Splashtastic while we ate our lunch. Amazingly Mason and I sat still through pretty much the entire show! We got to ride the rides and see the animals at the park. I made mommy go through the Shark Experience with me four times while everyone else was sleeping.

Mason's still not a fan of all the rides. He liked the train rides, but didn't like the carousel (again). He started out fine, but part way through he tried to get off his elephant. It was probably going a little too fast. I wonder if that means he won't like riding the tea cups with me.

Mama and dada even got to ride a couple of rides. They went on the really big roller coasters - Superman and Medusa. Mama closed her eyes the entire time on Superman. She says she's getting too old for roller coasters. Dada and uncle Jeff even tried to get grandma to ride the big roller coasters. She just laughed. Do you think that means she likes roller coasters?

It was a great day at Six Flags! I can't wait to go back again. Thanks for arranging everything Auntie Jeanette. You work at a really cool place.

Party, party

We had a busy day of parties today. This afternoon, I went Chloe's (from daycare) birthday party at the Little Gym. I saw lots of my friends from school. We had a blast running around the gym and eating cake! Henry was supposed to come to the party, but he didn't make it. His parents said that he could only go if he took a nap...and he didn't.

After Chloe's party, dada and I headed to Uncle Ritchie's house in San Ramon to celebrate his birthday. Mama and Mason were already there. They had spent the afternoon eating yummy food, swimming in his heated pool and hanging out in his jacuzzi. By the time daddy and I arrived, Mason and mama were ready to get out of the water. But I made mama stay in the water so I could swim and play with water guns. I had such a great time playing in the water that I missed singing happy birthday to Uncle Ritchie. After getting out of the water, Uncle Ritchie grilled more food and we ate dinner. While all the other families left (they live in San Ramon), Mason and I hung out for a bit longer. Then we got ready for bed and headed home.

Daddy is awesome

Now you might be thinking, "Yes, I already know that." But let me give you a couple more reasons for his awesome-ness.

• He sacrificed his evening and weekend, so we could play today. He showed up in the middle of lunch to take me to Cisco Family Day. I was so excited to see him that I didn't want to finish my lunch.
• At Cisco Family Day, he let me skip my nap so I could get a tattoo (a shooting star on my arm), jump around a bounce house and get a shark painted on my face. Don't I look fierce?

• He fed me a cookie for afternoon snack.
• He took me to a meeting, where I got to watch Mickey Mouse Club House on his computer.

It was just me and dada today. Dada rocks!

Winner, winner

Talk about a busy day. In addition to meeting Curious George at Matthew's school and Wipeout Cancer obstacle course, we had a block party this evening. It was super fun!

First, there was a fire truck! Not a toy one, but a real one. Mason and I got to sit in the truck.

We had a good time hanging out with our neighbors and meeting new ones. Mama and dada met a new family that moved in down the street. They have 2 girls who are almost the same age as me and Mason. We also discovered that one of our neighbors has a new baby girl who's only 5 months old. Potential new playmates!

There were activities for the kids too. We drew pictures in the street with chalk. Katie, our neighbor, made us balloon animals. We played with bubbles. Mason liked dumping the bubble juice on the ground and trying to blow them. At one point in time, we both sat in a puddle of bubble juice.

To top if all off, there were raffle prizes. The prizes included T-shirts from a local bike shop, mixing kit and cookbook from Whole Foods, gift certificates, plants from a local nursery and an iPad mini! (One of the party organizers works at Apple.)

Guess who won the iPad mini? Mason! Was he excited? Not really, he was more interested in the bubbles.