My Secret Garden

Momma started reading a new book she bought for me with my birthday gift card. The book is called, "The Secret Garden" and is about a girl named, Mary Lennox. She seems really sad and lonely. I think she wants her parents.

It's a chapter book and has hardly any pictures. But I sit and stare at the pages while momma reads. I imagine I was Mary. I wish I was Mary because I would find the door to the secret garden. I would grab all the ivy and tear it away from the wall to let myself in.

We finally got to the part where Mary found the buried key and discovered the door behind the ivy. I could hardly sit still with the excitement with what she would find inside. Tonight, I get to meet Dickon and I can hardly wait!

Is This a Stay-Home Day?

I ask this question nearly every morning. It's not that I don't like school, but I'd much rather stay home with Momma and Daddy. We call Saturday and Sundays "stay-home days" although that's rarely what we do. This Saturday was fun, fun, more fun, followed by a little extra fun on the side.

First, we went to August's birthday party at the Skate park. My scooter was so fancy with ribbons, flowers, and pipe cleaners.


I left the party a bit early to go to my Saturday dance class. After dance class we hung out (literally) at one of my favorite parks - Pioneer park. It's built on an old cemetery and is one of the coldest places in San Diego no matter the weather elsewhere in the city.

After the park, we met up with Marissa and her mom to get our tickets to Gator by the Bay for food and Zydeco music. I ate some hush puppies, jambalaya and a bite of a po-boy.

Marissa and I made some silly hats.

Then, we danced to the music.

Until it got too loud and too crowded.

After the festible, I rode a big, red double-decker bus back to the car with Momma and Daddy. I got a little sleepy on the way home until I heard my parents mention dinner. I started chanting, "Shakespeare's! Shakespeare's! Shakespeare's!" And it worked. We stopped at Shakespeare's pub for dinner. By the end of the day we were all a little pooped and crashed on the couch to watch a movie. Tangled!

Stay-home days are the best!

Mother's Day Tea

Today is the Mother's Day Tea at my school and I'm so excited! I wore last year's Easter dress because Momma still won't let me wear this year's Easter dress to school. Does she not realize Easter is over? Mostly, I can't wait to eat cupcakes with lots of icing and chocolate.

My Favorite Things

My favorite things this weekend in Vegas were as follows:

- Bob's Big Boy burger in Baker
- Free fruit delivered to our free hotel room
- Despicable Me in bed
- Swimming in the Tropicana pool
- Sliding down the railing of the Tropicana hot tub
- Frozen pink lemonades poolside
- Gummy worms from Clint at the tennis tournament
- The buffet at Nikki Beach
- Adventuredome at Circus Circus with Daddy
- Frog Hopper at Adventuredome at Circus Circus
- World's biggest plate of nachos at Treasure Island

And my most favorite thing....

The snail during the finale of Mystere!


Here I am doing my swan move after the show. If I don't end up a pastry chef when I'm bigger, I really would like to join the circus.