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.

Are we there yet?

I must have said this 100 times on the way to Vegas. But finally I saw the castle and knew we were near the Tropicana. We got to our room, but this time no living room! And no chocolates on the pillow. I promised daddy not to mention this when we thanked Linda for comp'ing our room.

Shampoo Shelly

This week was my last swim lesson with "Shampoo" Shelly. Daddy gave her that nickname because all we've ever seen of her is head and shoulders. Now I have Jean as my instructor although I'm not sure what her nickname should be. We're working on it.



Also, I had a scary moment in the pool last week. I always play around by the shallow end steps before my lesson. But I got into the deep end by mistake. I frantically kicked and paddled back to the steps until I could touch again. Momma nearly had to jump into the pool wearing her work clothes before I finally raised my head out of the water and gasped a huge breath. We both then gasped a huge sigh of relief before I explained to her, "I can't breathe under water!"

Lessons Learned

Monday was another school holiday. Daddy worked from home while I played upstairs in my room.

I did a great job entertaining myself running a hospital for babies. But I learned two important lessons. The first is baby powder can make a huge mess:

The second lesson is babies with electronics shouldn't go in the bath or be rubbed with Vaseline.