Three to be, you and me

I can't believe Julia and I forgot to tell you about all the fun we had a few weeks ago at Taryn's 3rd birthday party. She had it at Kids U, which is this fun hybrid of Little Gym and Incredi-Bills. Julia had a blast navigating her way through the jungle gym and slides...


I enjoyed that too, but also had fun on the rocking horses. Here's a video of all the fun we had there.



Happy birthday again, Taryn!

Open your heart

Want to know how I spent Valentine's Day last week? Opening my cards. Two cards in particular: a Thomas card that makes an engine sound when it's opened, and even better, a Lightning McQueen card that plays "Life is a Highway" from the Cars movie when it's opened.


Julia had a musical card too, one with Disney Princesses.


You can see the card in the above photo, but I'm sure you weren't looking at that. Instead, you were concentrating on the dozens of barrettes and hairbands in her hair!


She went a little crazy that day: apparently she likes either nothing in her hair—or everything! Here's a view from the back:


And here's a Valentine's Day video, showing me with my two favorite cards, and Julia with all of her crazy hair accessories.

Sushi special

As I mentioned yesterday, all that Mom wanted for her birthday was to go out for sushi as a family. So we all visited the sushi restaurant that Mom and Dad get takeout from at least once a week. Henry and I had never been there before, and we really enjoyed it. When we sat down, they gave each of us a hot hand towel. How fancy!


I kept wiping my hands with mine, and came up with some other fun uses for it too.


Henry, meanwhile, was content to drink his water and suck on a lemon (just like I used to do!).


Mom had gotten us special chopsticks for kids, which I was playing with while we waited for our meal.


I quickly got the hang of it, and picked up my napkin with them as a test run.


Then it was finally time to eat. First up was shumai (dumplings)....


Mmmmm, delicious! I had some chicken satay as well, which I really enjoyed. Mom and Dad got me an avocado sushi roll to try, but I passed on that this time. I think trying two new dishes was enough for one meal!

Henry also figured out how to use his chopsticks.


But then he devised his own way of using them.


Here's a video of our first family sushi outing:



What a great meal! And this also marked the debut of photos and movies shot with Mom and Dad's new and improved iPhones. We'll still use the camcorder for most of the videos, but it's handy to have another option when we don't have the camcorder with us!

Happy birthday Mom!

Saturday was Mom's birthday, and Dad, Henry and I made sure that she had a fun one. (Actually, it was all Mom: we spent the day doing things that she suggested.) At night, we had a Carvel ice cream cake, which is her favorite. And Babcia and Dido came over to celebrate with us as well.


Earlier in the day, the four of us drove into the city to attend a special children's theater performance of Princess and the Pea. Henry and I got to sit right up front...


...and interact with the prince and princess on stage. They were so silly!

That wasn't all we did for Mom's birthday. For the first time ever, the whole family went out for sushi...but I'll tell you about that tomorrow!

Asleep in aisle 3

I can admit now that I was not on my best behavior for much of the fall, especially during the week when Babcia was watching me. But so far in 2011, I have been much improved, to the amazement of my parents and both sets of grandparents. Of course, I still do have the occasional day where I'm in a rotten mood. But more often than not, it just means that I'm really tired. And because I refuse to nap anymore, I inevitably end up falling asleep from exhaustion in the car, or on the living room floor...or even in the shopping cart while Mom is grocery shopping:


Shhhhhh! I'll be in a much better mood when I wake up, I promise!

Have a good weekend!