When I got home from school today there was a green box waiting for me. Daddy said it was a present just for me. When I opened the box there was all this really cool stuff inside – lots of colors and art projects. Mommy showed me that one project was to make colorful tops to spin and another was to create “stained glass” with tissue paper – we didn’t do that one yet, but it looks like it will be a lot of fun!
I said to Daddy, where did this magic box come from? He told me that he found it online at a place called KiwiCrate. He said he got it for Mommy and me to do art projects together after school and that I’d get a new one every month! How cool is that? Thank you, Daddy! I can’t wait to show you all the cool things we make…
Look at all the fun stuff that was inside! And all for me too - I can't wait to work on all these projects with Mommy...
I showed Daddy how you color the paper with all the pretty colors ...
... and then Daddy showed me how all the colors turn into pretty designs when you spin the top! Cool, right!?
Dad note: how do we know that Maile liked her KiwiCrate? This is what happened when we told her it was time to stop playing for the day....
Last weekend we met Sophie at the California Academy of Sciences. There was a time when I felt much older than Sophie, but now she is basically the same age as me. We ran all over checking out the fishies and making shark cookies. Pretty solid Sunday if you ask me!
The floor was see through! I asked Daddy if we could set that up at home and he said he would work on it!
Sophie and I pretty much checked out everything together.
Sometimes we asked one of the mommies to join us...
We're still little so a lot of the action takes place above our heads...
... but we just stand on our tippy toes and we make it work!
After running around the museum, we headed out back to make some shark cookies. Mommy helped me with mine.
Then Sophie and I compared notes before chowing down!
My mommy is always making my hair look pretty, so I decided to return the favor. First I had to work out all the knots – that’s tough work. After that I straightened everything out and added a “pretty”. Voila!
(Dad note: starts to look painful for Mommy towards the end…)
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It’s been awhile since I’ve seen Hannah. Last week I said to Mommy – “Hannah?” and Mommy took that to mean that she should call Hannah’s mommy and make plans for us to get together. My mommy is smart like that. So on Sunday morning, we packed up and headed to Hannah’s house – it was a little farther than I remembered (and much bigger!) … but it was the same old Hannah!
(Dad note: Regular readers might recall that Hannah and her family moved out of the city a couple weeks ago. They live about 40 minutes away now.)
I didn't remember this part of Hannah's place, but she has this great deck out back of her house and TWO awesome bikes - it was like she was knew I was coming!
Cool bike. Yours too.
We should switch.
See we still share!
Great times with Hannah – I can’t wait to see her again soon!
Still two peas in a pod, just a little further apart now!
Just going to toss this out there Mommy, this doesn't seem like such a great idea...
Maile Girl here. I learned something new about my mommy and daddy this weekend in Vermont – they can fly! Kind of like an airplane. Crazy, right? All I know is that my mommy put on a helmet, walked up a ladder and then away she went! See for yourself…
Dad note: I like the look on her face at the end – kind of says “wait, she’s coming back, right?”
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As Daddy mentioned yesterday, this weekend we went to Vermont (my 6th state!) for a wedding. Auntie Elyssa came too and I had so much fun playing with her. Vermont is really, really, really, really far away though. So far that my tummy didn’t like it. Overall, I’d say that Vermont was 5 stars (out of 5, since that’s pretty much how high I can consistently count), but the car ride there was a minus 1,000 stars (that’s as big as numbers get, right?)
Quality time with Mommy and Daddy was definitely a highlight of the trip...
... but I could have passed on the 4 hour car ride!
(Dad note: Poor Maile Girl got carsick both going and coming from Vermont. Both times right around the 3 hour mark of the drive. She was a trooper though and got back in the car both times after we cleaned everything off. That last hour though, I winced on every bump we went over…)
My daddy has moves like Jagger and I plan on learning every single one!
(Dad note: Maile is in the “I’m-going-to-copy-everything-you-do” phase and I plan on taking full advantage – we had a blast dancing around the house this weekend!)
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Mommy and Daddy said that I must be growing since I’ve been eating so much lately. I decided to measure myself to see.
I think this is the right tool, but not so sure I'm using it right...
(Dad note: Mommy did indeed measure Maile today and it looks like she’s grown almost 2 inches in the past two months!)
Mommy and Daddy took me to see Yoda this weekend. They said that even though I was learning lots of new things at school, Yoda was really the only one qualified to teach me about The Force.
Hello, Yoda. Maile is my name.
I'm not sure who was more excited about seeing Yoda, Daddy or me.
We heard rumors that Boba Fett and Darth Vadar were nearby too, but unfortunately, the building was closed.
I practiced my balance as Yoda watched - balance is a very important component of The Force.
Bye bye Yoda, I'll be back to complete my training. I know you've heard that one before, but I mean it!
(Dad note: we heard about the Yoda statue from this cool San Francisco Daily Secret site.)
Oh, syrup – where have you been all my life? Up until this point if you asked me what my favorite foods were, I’d probably say bananas or maybe even broccoli. Not any more. Syrup rules!
Syrup - so good when it hits your lips!
On Saturday morning, Mommy left the room and I noticed that her toast didn’t have any syrup on it. Luckily, Mommy had left the syrup bottle on the table. So I helped her out.
(Dad note: do we have a Buddy Elf on our hands?)
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