it's the 1 of may! my birthday is this month. once again it's stupid hot out. mom made a phone call this morning to say our sink was clogged and the toilet in my bathroom needed adjusting. she says we have to get the house ready for birthday visitors. dana bunny and gdad will be coming to town. i had to pick up all my toys so mr hoover can come suck up the crumbs.
mom and i got dressed and we went to the grocery store. tomatoes are on sale or something. mom filled the cart full of canned tomatoes. what the hell! who's going to eat all those tomatoes? dana bunny. they are her favorite kind and our store has them on super sale so mom bought a bunch for her to pick up when she visits. that's really all we went to the store for. our house is already full of food.
paid for the tomatoes and mom drove us home again. mom told me about this movie where two guys travel through time in a phone booth collecting historical figures for their school project. no way. i don't believe you can time travel in a phone booth. that's just silly. so she put on this movie: bill and ted's excellent adventure. we watched it. yes in deed these guys did go around in a time travelling  phone booth. it wasn't as good as back to the future though. i asked mom to put that on for me, so she did.
the doorbell rang and mom said i could get it. i opened the door and said- hi, my name's hardwick. and the guy standing there said hi, my name's rob. mom was right there so she told him to come right in. he's our fix it man for today. i sat on the couch to watch my movie while fix it man worked on our clogged sink. it only took him a minute. all it needed was the right kind of plunging. mom saw how he did it so if it happens again she can fix it herself. then rob went and took care of the toilet flush problem. turns out the handle was just a bit loose. easy fix. awesome.
when back to the future was done it was time for karate practice. mom got me dressed and off we went. karate was pretty good. i fooled around a little but i didn't have to sit out. today we did flying kicks. they were super fun. we also played leap frog to practice our jumping. what a silly game.

it's monday. mom and i didn't feel like doing much so nothing really got done. we hung around the house most of the day. i was really enjoying pbs kids so i didn't want to get ready. mom finally wrangled me into my clothes and turned off the tv. we did some chores. mom took out the trash and recycling. i helped pay the rent.
mom drove us out to walmart. we walked in the store and mom said- how about we get a little snack before we do the shopping. sure whatever. so we went to the little mcdonald's at the front of the store. i ordered an icy fruit drink. there was a big picture hanging on the wall and i said- i want one of those! so the counter lady made me a berry blast and i got a small order of french fries to share with mom. we sat down and had a little snack. how fun.
when we were done is was time to shop. mom got a cart and pulled out her list. up and down, around and around we went putting things in the cart. mom picked up all kinds of crazy things. we got a cooler. what do we need a cooler for? so we can have cold drinks at the seaside. WE'RE GOING TO THE SEASIDE? not today. oh. there was a lot of stuff in the cart. finally mom said we had everything so we paid and drove home. this time all our purchases made it home with us.
that's about it really. it's pretty hot out so we've just been relaxing on the couch watching back to the future.

today has been fun. dad and i have been hanging out all day long. every time mom comes in the room i ask her to leave. this is guy's only. i did agree mom could go into the kitchen butt only to make us some donuts. she hooked us up with some delicious pumpkin spice ones. they were great.
dad and i have pretty much just played video games all day. we took a short break to watch some soccer earlier. there were guys on the field fake falling. i don't see why mom gave me such a hard time.
it's super hot out. dad took me to the Y so we could swim. that did not end well. i am still afraid of the pool filters. there was some screaming. i did not want to get in the pool at all. dad and i just went back home. more time to play video games.

this morning i had a nice long hang out with my dad. have i mentioned lately how much i love my dad. he's the best. we watched some tv and ate breakfast together. dad's going to work today and i have soccer. mom got me all dressed up in my uniform. looking sharp. everyone else got dressed too. mom and i drove dad down to work then it was off to the Y for my game. it's stupid hot out today. i got all hot and sweaty running around the field. good thing mom brought me some gatoraid. so i thought the game went all right. i scored a goal, for the other team. ooops. mom gave me an earful about my playing. turns out i'm not supposed to fake fall. i'm not supposed to spin in circles and i'm not supposed to kick the dirt to make dust clouds. come on now. that just takes all the fun out of it. i was kind of bad with the fake falling, i admit. i was running into kids on purpose so i could fall down. kids were falling down on the other side of the field and i would run over and fall down with them. other times i would fall down just because. my lack of attention got me into a bit of a comedy sketch too. i kicked the ball so far it went into the neighbouring game. i ended up joining in on that game even after the ball was returned to my field. mom just shook her head. i was having fun. that's all that really matters.
after soccer mom and i went home. i got changed into different clothes. mom reapplied some sunscreen on us and out the door we went. where are we going now? it's a surprise. mom knows how i feel about surprises- I LOVE THEM! so we drove a short way and ended up at the airport. what's going on here? mom was all wait and see. so we drove around and mom finally found the place we needed to be. the car got parked and out we went to the university airfield. we walked in to the building and there were loads of people all milling about. i saw a great fish tank so i stood and looked at fish for a while. is this what we came here for? to look at fish? mom said- no we need to go outside.
mom lead me outside and oh man, it was awesome. there were airplanes and cars everywhere. our first stop was a navy helicopter. i got to sit in the pilot's seat and pretend to fly. there were all kinds of screens and buttons to press. very cool. mom and i walked around and looked at the little planes. i wanted to go in them all but mom said that they were private planes and you couldn't sit in them unless the owner said ok. i just looked inside. private planes are really small and there's no tv to watch.
we checked out the cars. there were new cars and super old cars. i saw one car that didn't even have a steering wheel. you just pushed this stick back and forth. what the heck? while we were walking around a navy jet came in off the runway. the engines were roaring and hot exhaust was coming out the back. it was awesome. i watched the pilot climb down out of the cockpit. the coolest thing i got to do was go up in a submarine hunter. this big old plane flies around over the water dropping listening buoys  off the coast. then they can listen to what the buoys pick up and tell what kind of ship made the noise. how cool is that? i got to walk all around the plane. i saw their sleeping/snack station. i got to sit in the listening post. i checked out the radar set up. i even got to sit in the cockpit. it was great. before i got off i got to look down one of the launch tubes where they drop the buoys from. i could have stayed on the plane longer but mom said we had to get off and let someone else have a try.
i got off the plane and our next stop was an armoured personnel transport, that's kind of a big fancy army truck. this one was a hummer set up for desert work. i got to sit in it and check out all the different features. fun. i was getting kind of hot so mom suggested we get SNOW CONES! any time i get snow cones it's the best day ever! mom and i shared a mango lime. oh it was delicious.
we walked around a little more. there were some bounce houses but mom said- no way. i'm not paying $3 so you can jump around, not when the planes are free. so i checked out some more choppers. i got to see the hospital air ambulance. i only got a quick look as they were getting ready to take off. mom and i stood back and i watched the chopper shoot off into the air. there were planes taking off left and right. all the little private planes flew off too. i kind of wanted to go on a plane ride but mom said, no. they were only $90. but but. no, big planes are bad enough. maybe your dad will take you next year. fine. after we saw everything twice, mom said it was time to go. i wanted to stay but as always mom has the final word and back to the car we went.
mom and i had a little rest at home and then we went to pick up dad. i'm going to hang out with dad now he's home.

it's friday. this morning i was all- i want to go to the park. blah blah blah. mom was all we've got other things to do. your request has been received and i will think about it. what the hell does that mean? i want to go to the park. mom and i got dressed. she told me to try on these swim trunks. i was very upset when  we got in the car. what about my pants? what about my underwear? i can't wear just swim shorts! mom was all- you'll be fine and drove around town a bit. mom said there were a couple estate sales today. we went to one place and i guess we were early. no one was there. we knocked on the door and nothing happened. that was a waste of time. mom drove us to the drug store and we got some road snacks. why? i'm not sure. it's not like we're far from home. mom drove us to another place that was supposedly having a sale. there was nothing really going on there either. no sign, no people. we didn't even bother getting out of the car.
i want to go to the park. mom just kept driving. we passed like 3 perfectly good parks. mom kept driving. mom handed me a box of cheese crackers to much on. we drove all the way to the next town. what's going on here? are we going to an easter event? no easter is over until next year. what are we doing here? just wait, you'll see. finally mom parked the car and we were at THE SPLASH PARK! ahhh so that's why i'm wearing swim shorts. mom planned to bring me here all along. sneaky mom. the splash park was awesome. i had a really great time. it all came to an end though when mom caught me sucking water into my mouth and then spitting it out. turns out that's against the rules and kind of gross. mom made me get changed and we drove back home. i won't lie, there were some tears.
mom says she doesn't feel like cooking tonight so we're going to pick up dad and then go get some pizzas. awesome.

what did i do today? not much that's for sure. mom and i have just been kind of hanging out.

this morning started off with me telling mom to make my breakfast and then TAKE ME TO THE PARK! mom says i'm just a little bossy and i better knock it off because she's not my slave. if anything i'm the one who's supposed to do what she says. as if.
after much grumbling and mumbling mom got us ready for the day. we jumped in the car and mom drove us some place weird. we ended up a place we visited during a halloween event. this is kind of out of the way and strange. mom parked the car and we got out. we took a short walk around the block and ended up at a park. awesome! i've been to this park once before. it's not super huge but there's some fun things to do. i climbed the walls and did the slide. i ran around a bit. this little baby thought i was funny so he chased me. i ran some more and we both laughed. little babies are slow. he couldn't catch me. haha. i wanted to stay at the park longer but mom said it was time to go. go where?
mom and i went back to the car. i fell down and scraped my knee because i was shuffling my feet. there was some blood but i didn't cry. mom gave me an earful of 'i told you so.' ugh. i hate i told you so. i told you not to shuffle your feet, this is what happens. blah blah blah. mom grabbed a wipe from the car and cleaned my booboo up. then she grabbed some bags and off we went. mom took me to the friends of the library sale. it happens twice a year. lots and lots of books for dirt cheap. today was 10cents day. what a mob scene. there were people and books everywhere. mom stuffed a bunch of books in her bag and we went to pay. thankfully mom wasn't interested in staying long. i'm feeling kind of tired. we waited in line and mom's two bags of books only cost $1.20. long live 10cent day!
got back to the car and mom drove us off. i fell asleep. i woke up at home and mom talking loud: hardwick, we're home. oh great. got up stairs and mom made me some lunch. i got the usual peanut butter and jelly on toast.
the rest of my day has been pretty mellow. my dad is home now and we're going to hang out.