A girl named Widget

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:

 
             Before Photoshop                             After Photoshop

 

 

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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Gardening with Kong Kong

Ah-ma and Kong Kong wanted to pretty up Uncle Jon and Auntie Karen’s front yard with flowers. I felt like they needed my help so I changed into my overalls and headed to their house to offer my expertise.

Lots of stinky dirt. What fun!

Afterward, we went out to eat because I love to eat even more than I love to garden (but maybe no more than I like to get dirty). Anyway, we went to a new hot pot restaurant that had a huge pot split in half — one side with spicy broth, the other was not so spicy. We ordered a ton of meats and vegetables and just ate and ate and ate.

And then we walked around the corner to get yogurt. I fell off a chair. Ouch.

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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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Another day at the beach, June 2009

It’s been a while since I went to the beach. Now that Ahma and Kong Kong don’t take care of me, I rarely go. But I finally got to go again this time with mommy and daddy and their friends Katie and Hugh and my new friend, Aiden.

He was born one day and one year after me, but he’s almost as big as I am. We wear the same size 3 diaper! He didn’t move much though. I guess that’s what I was like when I was 7 months old. He’s the reason why Katie and Hugh missed my first birthday! Oh well, I guess Aiden is okay.

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ROAD TRIP! San Francisco, May 2009

I went on another road trip, this time to San Francisco. We drove 6+ hours starting Friday night at 9:30 pm. The Jermster and his Mum and Dad came along, too. Jeremy didn’t say much, though. I slept through the night. When we woke up, we went for breakfast at the Ferry Terminal Farmer’s Market. The rest is kind of a blur. We stop in Alameda on the way home and visited with my old friend Shawna and her parents and her husband. It was fun, but short.

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Happy Easter 2009!

Easter continues for me…

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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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No swimming in this lake

Sad day at the lake… there’s no more water! Well, not enough for me to go swimming in. I went to visit the dock anyway to look for treasures. We found several old beer cans, a massive tree stump and clam shells.

It’s a big difference from when I last visited the lake in June 2008, when I was a wee 7-months old. Now I’m 17 months old! Remember that trip? (Image on right…) 

So… because there was not much water in the lake, we got to go into town. Burnett was having its annual BlueBonnet festival but there weren’t very Bluebonnet-related merchandise. But I found some puppet friends. Mommy wouldn’t buy them for me

And we went shopping. That’s where I got these styling hot-pink glittery sunglasses and shiny pink hair clip. Actually, my auntie Natalie bought them because they were having a clearance on ‘High School Musical’ junk. She tried to keep giving me the ‘I love Troy’ headband but I opted for the shiny stuff instead.

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