A girl named Widget

May I have more please?

Now this is swimming!

I just spent a few days at Ah-ma and Kong Kong’s time share at Lawrence Welk, far away in the desert badlands of Escondido. Boy, was it hot la! It was so hot I couldn’t walk on the pavement at the pool! Since this was the first time in my life I’ve ever experienced that, I just stood there and cried until Daddy figured it out. Good thing there were five swimming pools and lots of adults to carry me around. I’m not counting the adults-only pool the old-timers viciously defended with their walking canes right by our time-share. I threw my poopie diaper over their fence in protest.

Do you think swimming 2 to 3 times a day requires extra naps or early bedtimes?. Absolutely NOT!!

Here’s a longer video of me, some of it captured underwater by my silly daddy.

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My first train ride

We stopped by the mall today to eat dinner and what do you know? Daddy spied a choo-choo train running loose in the mall with no train tracks at all! Of course, we hopped on for a ride. Daddy took video while Ah-ma and Kong Kong rode with me.

Ya, pictures are blurry. That’s because of the low lighting in the mall and the fast moving train. (Click on video on right to enlarge)

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

(After such a long day of swimming and playing, I didn’t fall asleep till after 11:30 p.m.)

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Happy 4th of July, 2009!

Big night for me. I saw fireworks… and wasn’t scared! In fact, I wanted to get closer and shimmied out of daddy’s arms to get a front-row seat. Unfortunately, none of those pictures turned out because it was too dark. But I ran one photo through Photoshop and lookie:

 
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Here are some pictures and a video from earlier in the day, when I got to see my first Fourth of July parade (Huntington Beach’s 100th birthday) and playing with dirt and boys at Jeff & Mary’s FoJ shindig. It was hot! But fun… I didn’t want to take a nap. Who would? 

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Water fights, a pinata and a 40th birthday party

My uncle Jon turned 40 this month, making him 40-times older than me. That’s old, isn’t it? I can’t really comprehend that because I’m a mere 19 months old. 

He invited me to his birthday party and there were all sorts of things to do besides eat meat (and lots of it).

We had water balloon fights, ran in the grass, played with my cousin Daphne and picked up lots of candy. I don’t know what happened to all my candy — I think my daddy ate it all.

But what was really fun was the pinata because Auntie Theresa went crazy and nearly took out Uncle Jon’s friend John, who was maneuvering the pinata. My daddy took the video and he missed recording it but captured the sound. He was wondering if he should go rescue John. He didn’t.

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Egg hunt

My first Easter egg hunt. Mee mah even got me a new outfit. It was a little bit cold though so I got to wear my cute tulip cardigan that Kong Kong gave me. Thanks!

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Meeting up with the Milks

My oldest friend is Mia, who lives in Texas. I didn’t really remember her at first but we got along swell. I think I’ll remember her from now on. She has a new brother named Nicolas, who she blogs about on her own blog.

Here’s a little video of us in the park:

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My first year… in video!

Mommy made this video for all the people who don’t want to wade through the first year of the blog. She meant to have it done by Nov. 6, but got sidetracked with taking care of me  

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Meet Widget, the dancing girl (!!)

I haven’t been blogging much since I learned how to walk. I’m keeping everyone a little busier these days. Just to keep them on their toes, I’ve already moved on from walking, now I’m dancing!

Happy 15-month birthday to me! Let’s eat soup!