Fine Dining

With all the traveling I do I should have a show with Discovery! I just got back from another fun trip to Carlsbad with my Paga. We did the usual stuff, swimming, aquarium, beach, and eating of course! One night I had a real treat. I went with my Paga to The Palm restaurant in downtown San Diego. It is a really nice, fancy restaurant that has yummy food (and no kids menu). I drank apple juice out of a real glass, enjoyed fried onion straws, and ate steak and lobster! We finished it off with the most delicious carrot cake in the world. I was on my best behavior and didn't even throw any food. Hopefully I'll get to go back some time.
The way to my heart is definitely through my stomach!

A Beachside Pool

A couple weeks before family camp I met my Aunt Jen, and cousins Brooke, Kate, and Buzz at the beach. I always like hanging out with my cousins, but this time I had a special treat. Aunt Jen and my cousins built me and awesome pool! It was pretty deep and had some good walls around it. The water would occasionally come up and fill the pool and I could jump around and play in it. The best part was the water slide! The beach pool had a built in boogie board water slide. It was the most fun thing I've every seen!
Hey, could someone get this thing working?

Brooke, stop digging and help a cousin out.

Aunt Jen finally came to my rescue with bucket after bucket of water. She poured the water behind me and down I would slide! It seriously never got old....for me.

Thanks Brooke, Aunt Jen, Kate, and Jen for building me the best beach side pool ever!

Aspen Grove Family Camp

Me Monkey, You Funky! That's right...me and the other monkeys (all of my mom's side of the family) headed up to Utah to Aspen Grove for Family camp a couple weeks ago. I had the best time! There was so much to do there, plus I never get bored when I'm partying with my cousins.
One of the best parts of family camp is the food. It is served like a cafeteria so there is lots of stuff for me to choose from! The best part was all the different drinks I tried. I think blue powerade is my favorite. We also had lots of tasty snacks in the cabin. Paga knows how to party! and that means lots of candy.

Speaking of parties, Axel and I had a joint birthday party while we were there. Since we are six weeks apart, family camp fell in about the middle of our two birthdays. It was a Mickey Mouse birthday. Mom and Aunt Shalaine planned lots of fun stuff for us to do. We decorated Mickey Ear party hats, found hidden Mickeys, and played Don't Forget the Lyrics with Disney songs. It was such a fun party.

Here are the cousins decorating their Mickey hats. Don't they look Snazzy?

Of course there were Mickey cupcakes. For my 1st birthday I wasn't that into the cake...but this year was a whole different story. This is the before shot...

...and this is the after. You can see a tiny crumb of chocolate cupcake left in my hand.

Some of the time we just hung out in the cabin. Me and Cozi are chillin' on the couch in our awesome tie dye shirts that Aunt Jen and Aunt Lou Ann made for everyone. I call it my "fireworks" shirt.

Me and Cuz are hanging out eating licorice. We were waiting to go to our class with the other 2 year olds. Notice our matching "Got Spam" shirts? The whole family had them. They were a big hit at camp. (we also all had monkey shirts...we were quite the matching family).

My cousin Corrie and I liked to go out in front of the cabin and look for "cats" (mom says they are chipmunks...but they looked like cats to me). This is the appropriate stance to look for cats.

One of the most fun nights was Frontier Night. They have a whole cowboy town set up at camp and it was a Western party! They had a train, leather branding, axe throwing, target practice, Indian stories, and all sorts of other activities. We topped it all off with snow cones...which I'm not sure what that has to do with cowboys, but they were delicious.

Everyone knows I love the pool, and Aspen Grove had a fun one! There was a baby pool and a big kid pool. I discovered kick boards and had a great time with them. I think a boogie board is next, what do you think mom?

Me and Mom are in the big pool. I'm sporting a life vest because you had to wear one if you wanted to....

....go down the water slide! That's right, I'm shooting out the one on the far right. I didn't cry, but it was not my favorite thing either.

Right by our cabin was a big trampoline with nets all around it. I spend a lot of time jumping in here with my cousins. I begged mom to get one at home, but no luck yet.

AHHHHH, it's a BEAR! Ha ha, just kidding. It's not real. It was pretty fun to ride on though.

Turtles too....although not as fun to ride on.

We had a great week in the mountains. I'm grateful Paga took us all to this fun place. See you in three years Aspen Grove!

When We're Helping, We're Happy

My Mom works so hard to keep the house clean. Lately I've started giving her a hand, you know, to make things easier for her. My very favorite chore is cleaning the toilet. I can be found at any point in the day (when the bathroom door is left open) sloshing water around the toilet bowl with the brush and saying "clean, clean". Some times I take the brush and clean the floors around the house. For some reason Mom feels the need to come behind me with disinfecting wipes...I try to tell her that the floor is already clean, but she does it anyway.

I also like to help load and unload the dishwasher. I can only do this when the lock is left undone and I'm not using the door as a mini trampoline. As you can see I have my dishwashing outfit on and I'm simultaneously loading and unloading the dishwasher. Aren't I helpful?

Sometimes I get tired of helping with the chores and use the dishwasher parts as a giant car. It rolls so nicely around the house...although those little spikes make it hard to sit in!