Parks are awesome

I really love parks. Any park is fine with me. I'm totally non-discriminatory when it comes to parks. Vegetables are another matter entirely, however.

Sometimes I'll pause long enough in my climbing around to let Mom take a picture. But sometimes I like to provide her with more of a challenge and just peek out here and there and see if she's quick enough to get a shot. Every so often, like this time, she wins. But I think we all know who the overall winner is.

I especially love the parks that have a steering wheel somewhere on them. If the way I handle these giant playsets is any indication, I am going to be awesome in a car!

Sometimes the anticipation of going down the slide is even more exciting than the ride itself. I'll just hang out there at the top for a while, until I'm good and ready to slide down. I mean, it's only right that people wait on me, what with me being so important and everything.

The best thing about going down the slide is giving Dad a high five on the way down!

Fishy

This weekend, I went up to Grandma and Grandpa's and went to their pool! It's been documented on this site before, but I am a little bit iffy about the water. I love going in my wading pool in the backyard, but beyond that, I've always preferred to stay mostly dry. At first, I stayed on the side of the pool and played with the pool toys, mostly by throwing them and making Dad go fetch them for me. He does the same thing to Lexie, so I figured it was only fair.

But then, Dad tricked me a little bit and whisked me off the side of the pool and out into the water. Even I had to admit that it wasn't really so bad.

Not long after that I was kicking my legs and everything. Once I did that I said, "I'm swimming! I'm swimming like Shamu!" I'm pretty sure that they are going to ask me to be in the show at Sea World from now on.

I even let Dad show me how to put my face in the water, which for me, is a HUGE accomplishment. I only drank a few gallons of pool water before I figured out how to blow OUT instead of drinking in. Once Dad told me it was just like blowing bubbles, I was a pro.

And look! I'm "surfing!" I don't know why Dad always acts like surfing is so hard, this is way easy. Once I'm done with Sea World, I may just go work for Billabong or something. They'd totally sponsor me.

Here's some live action of my sweet skills. Olympics, here I come!

Dressing up

I'm really loving playing dress-up these days. I know you can't really tell by the look on my face, but I really am enjoying myself. Please don't pay attention to the fact that my skirt is on inside out. I'm really just trying to make a fashion statement.

Here I am dressed up like a bank robber. What do you mean I'm doing it wrong?

Oh, you're right, this is easier! I know everyone can see my face now, but when they see how cute I am, they won't want to arrest me anyway.

Even Lexie likes to play dress-up with her cute bandanas. She's also dressing up like a dog who can't come in the house this week due to her run-in with a skunk, but we won't talk about that. Except to say that the skunk totally won.

In this video, I'm obviously dressed up as a famous singer. I'm singing the "smile song" and trying to make the hippopotamus in my book smile. Please notice the pause for emphasis after the first verse. They say that the performance is just as important as the singing, you know.

Bear 2.0
Thanks to the combined efforts of Grandpa and Mom, Bear has had several successful reconstructive surgeries and is better than ever! Mom even took a nail file and scraped off the fuzz from Bear's nose so that he looks just like he used to. I'm so glad to have my BFF back!

Shamu! Shamu!

Mom and Dad thought it was time for another trip to Sea World this week. Mom apologizes in advance for the lower than normal quality of these pictures, but SOMEONE forgot to charge the camera batteries before we left so she had to use her cell phone. It is getting harder and harder to find good help these days.

The playground part of Sea World has these awesome little doorways to run through, I just go back and forth between them all day. They are a little too close to the water sprayers for Mom's liking, but hey, as long as I'm having fun, right?

It was a pretty hot day at Sea World, even with all that water. You can tell when I get really hot, because the little hairs that escape my ponytail get way curlier than normal. I call it my Botticelli look.

Here I am waiting for the Shamu show to start. I love the Shamu show. I loved this one even more because there was a little girl sitting next to me who had a bucket of popcorn and kept sharing with me. Mom and Dad have tried to give me popcorn a bunch of times, and I told them no way. But if that little girl was eating it, I figured it couldn't be too bad. I am now officially in love with popcorn.

So this is where you think I am going to tell you that I had such a good day that I just fell right asleep on the way home, right? Well, you'd be wrong. This is what happens when I refuse to nap and just play in my room for an hour, and Mom and Dad finally give up on me sleeping and just take me to Sea World, only I fall asleep five minutes into the drive and now they have to turn the normal fifteen minute drive into a forty-five minute one so that I can keep sleeping. Gotta keep them on their toes, people.