IT'S HALLOWEEN!
this morning i didn't want to get out of bed. i got up in the middle of the night and walked around a bit. i wasn't sleepy. but then i went back to bed and i was sleepy. dad knew i was up. he asked me why i turned the light on. i just want to look at stuff.
anyway, mom dragged me out of bed and got me dressed at a stupid time. she said it was raining out so we had to drive dad to work. fine. got outside and there was no rain. i sat in the car and mom drove us into town. dropped dad off at work. mom and i went home because there's nothing that needs to get done today. today is all about having fun apparently.
i finally woke up enough to eat some breakfast. mom said i could have a toaster strudel, awesome. ate that up and it was time to use skype. talked to grdad a bit since jammma wasn't home yet. had a good chat with grdad.
mom and i hung out for awhile not doing much of anything. she made me watch some movie called the goonies and then some scary ass thing called: the nightmare before christmas. luckily i only had to watch a bit of the scary movie because mom said it was time to go. where are we going? mom said it was time to start halloween.
got in the car and mom drove us to somewhere i've never been before. we're doing something new! mom didn't know where she was going either. the talking lady told us where to go. we ended up at this big school. mom drove around a bit and found a girl to give us better directions. she pointed us to the zoo. the zoo? yes, there's a small zoo at santa fe college. we're going to boo at the zoo.
after a bit of driving through endless parking lots mom found where we needed to be. she parked the car and we got out. we walked to the zoo. at the entrance i got a candy loot bag. mom donated some cans and we were in.
boo at the zoo was awesome. the students did a really great job. there were different theme worlds. the first one was super heroes. i saw spiderman and someone mom called wonderwoman. there were lots of heroes i've never seen before because mom doesn't let me watch those kinds of movies yet. they were all giving out candy! that's super enough for me.
the next world was alien invasion land. there were army guys with a smoking tank and pretend guns battling green creatures. the army guys were giving out candy and calling it ammo.  some suggested i should throw it at any aliens i saw. we'll see about that.
i made it through alien land and found myself in toystory. i saw a giant woody and slinky dog. slinky dog gave me candy. boopeep was there and so was wheezy the penguin.  we went through gates into pizza planet and i saw the claw machine. it's all real. mom was wrong. toystory is not just pretend.
after toystory we went on a pirate adventure. i found the pirate girls a little scary. they were kind of loud and waving around bottles of rum, singing songs. i did find a nice mermaid and she gave me lots of candy. she had a really nice tail. and that was boo at the zoo. it was good.
mom said since we're here, we might as well visit the animals too. so we walked into the actual zoo part. it's just a small teaching zoo. they don't have any big or dangerous animals. i saw a couple different monkeys and some birds. mom got all excited about something called armordillo.
made our way of the zoo and walked around the different booths set up outside. the booth people were giving out things like fruit rollups and rice crispy treats. awesome. they handed mom a bunch of different flyers. there was a lot to see.
finally visited everything there was and mom took me back to the car. she said- how about we go to the mall? i like the mall. to play? no, to get more candy. so mom drove us to the mall. it wasn't that far. we managed to find a parking space and went in.
mom took me to the information desk and they gave me a candy loot bag and a map. mom read the map and we went around to different stores giving out CANDY! one of the restaurants we visited wasn't giving out candy but they were giving out ICE CREAM! i got a free cup of ice cream. mom and i shared it.
we finished up at the mall and mom was all- how about we go to the grocery store and get a few things for dad's dinner and more candy? what? more candy?! sure enough. we got to the grocery store and i got yet another loot bag. mom walked around getting things on her list and i got candy from the store people.
mom paid for the shopping and we went home. phew. what a long day of doing stuff. i took off my costume and sat on the couch for a few minutes. it was only a few minutes because mom started shouting- time to get dressed! we're off to another event. what? there's a party at the Y, let's go.
i got back into my costume and mom drove us to the Y. mom donated a bunch of cans and we were set. in the field they had a bunch of cars and games set up. mom took me around to each of the games, after you finished a game you got to pick candy from the car trunk. i did a great job at build a skeleton. i know your hip bone is connected to your leg bone. the kid in front of us was trying to out physiology my mom, good luck with that kid. another game i did great at was- tossing eyeballs in a cup. the girl said i was the first kid to get all 5 eyeballs in. go me. i was waiting in line for a game when someone came up and started squeezing my head. what the hell man? i turned around and it was my dad! awesome.
i finished up the games so mom and dad took me inside. in the gym they had 2 bouncey things set up. there was a huge slide and a bounce house. i had a really good bounce. i got to go down the slide 3 times. it was soooo much fun. i could have bounced and slid all day but mom said we had to get dad home for his dinner.
got home and now i'm going to fall over. i am all halloweened out. such a fun day.

today i've had some fun. had a lazy morning. mom made us pumpkin waffles. i didn't want to eat any. i told her i don't like big waffles, i want frozen waffles. i ended up eating shredded wheat with some honey and raisins.
sunday is family day so there was lots of sitting around going: what do you want to do today? i don't know, what do you want to do? finally it was decided we should go to the park and i could ride my bike around the lanes.
whoo-hoo, i really like doing that.
dad drove us to the park and i got to ride my bike around. the weather is perfect for bike riding. i had a nice ride. i did my usual 4 laps, which is 1 mile. mom said it was time to go but i wasn't ready yet so dad said i could do 1 more lap. and that's what i did. 5 laps!
after the park dad drove us to walmart for some shopping. he pushed me around and we left mom on her own to get things on her list. dad and i just put whatever we wanted in the cart. we don't need a list. when we were done we found mom and it was time to pay. got  everything paid for and off we went, back home.
hung out with dad watching the sports game on tv. it was good. then mom started it with the- it's time to get ready and go. what? go? where are we going?
got in the car and dad drove us down the street. that's it? we're just going down the street, what the heck?
mom dug a couple cans out of the trunk and across the parking lot we walked with like a million other people. what is this place? mom said it's something called a church. and they're hosting a halloween event. we got to the entrance and mom turned her cans over. oh my god. there was so much awesome.
mom walked me down this huge line of decorated cars. each car was passing out candy. CANDY! the best car was dressed up like a spider. the guy in charge was on top and he put candy down a chute and it came out the spider's mouth. a spider spit candy at me! how cool is this halloween thing?
the line of cars ended at something called the gym bus. it's an old school bus that's been convert to a mobile gymnastic center. i walked on the balance beam and jumped on the tranmpoline. there was even a little slide to go down. it was good fun.
got off the bus and we went to visit the food. they had snow cones but mom wouldn't get one for me. she said they weren't as nice as the other ones i've had. booo. they were also serving hot dogs and burgers. mom and dad couldn't be tempted so we went over to the petting zoo.
i didn't want to go in the enclosure but i walked around the outside. i looked at the sheep and goats. i touched a bunny through the wire. the bunny was soft. mom reached in and touched the funniest looking chicken i've ever seen. it was a walking puff of feathers. i couldn't see any eyes on it.
there was a playground and i got to go play there. i love playgrounds. had a good time running around. saw a strange thing that mom called a ball shooter. it's kind of like basketball. you toss the ball up into a funnel thing which has 4 spouts. the ball then shoots out one of the spouts. i managed to get the ball up there twice. and the funnel is really high, so go me.
it was starting to get dark so mom rounded me up and we went back to the car. dad drove us back home.
now we're going to hang out and do more family stuff. it's sunday night moive time.

it's saturday. today has been pretty fun. i had a good sleep. woke up and dad was still here. we hung out. for breakfast time mom hooked me up with something called a toaster strudel. it's some kind of sweet pastry treat. you stick them in the toaster and then smear cream cheese frosting on them. inside is warm strawberries and more cream cheese. sooooo good.
after breakfast i had to get dressed. we all hopped in the car and drove dad to work. bye dad, see you later. mom and i just drove around doing stuff. we went to a few yard sales. but since it's a bit rainy out people had stuff in their garages. we didn't find much to buy. i got some word puzzle game that's supposed to teach me about sentences.
mom said we were really just killing time. at 10am she said- ok it's time to go to the mall. what you say mom? to play? are we going to play? mom said no playing, we're going to the mall to learn. oh man. we got to the mall and sure enough mom marched me right past the kid's play area. we got to the middle of the mall and there were loads of kid standing around tables. there were grown ups in lab coats doing science. it's chemistry day at the mall! i learned how to make slime. i saw veggies shatter when hit with a hammer. i zinc plated a penny. i saw soda cans crush themselves and clear liquids turn blue, then clear, then yellow. there was so much stuff going on. mom made sure i saw all the experiments. they were all so good.
after learning stuff mom took me off to the food court and we treated ourselves to subway samiches. yum. lunch was good. we ate our veggie delites and then mom rushed me out to the car. she said she forgot her phone and dad was supposed to call. oops.
mom drove us home. her phone had no messages so phew. she called dad and they sorted out a plan. mom says we're going to pick him up at 1pm, that's only an hour away. i hung out and played toys while mom had a quick shower. she got ready to go out again and so i did i. got my shoes on and back out the door we went. we drove to dad's work and waited for him to come out.
dad came out and mom told him it was his turn to drive, so he drove us off while mom programmed the talking lady. the talking lady told us which way to go. we drove past our neighborhood and kept going. we drove out into the countryside, well what passes for countryside around here. it's all sand and pine trees. i fell asleep. but only for a few minutes, it's not that far to the lubee bat conservatory. mom marched me across this field. i told her not to go so fast because i'm sleeping. she said- would a bouncy castle wake you up? yes, yes it would. then dad said he saw snow cones, would snow cones wake me up? SNOW CONES! so i bounced and shouted all the way to the gate. there were people every where. who knew so may people like bats. i walked around with mom and dad. we visited the different booths. one table had different reptiles and creatures. i touched a california king snake. i just gave him a little pet. you could also touch tarantulas or scorpions but i'm not that brave. i didn't want to touch the turtles either.
we walked into the next section which was mostly food. mom and i stood in line for snow cones for ages. we watched the snow cone man change his ice twice. that's how many snow cones he was making. dad came over with a snack for lunch. she got a pot of potato salad. dad paid a visit to the BBQ man and ordered it for her. dad got something called a pulled pork samich. mom and dad both finished their snacks and i was still waiting for a snow cone. mom sent dad off to stand in line for the bat house. it was a reallllly long line.
finally i it was my turn to order, well mom ordered. she got me a lime and mango. oh baby. it was super tasty. i was able to grab a few bites while mom and i rushed over to the bat line. dad was right at the front. awesome. he and i shared the snow cone while mom took pictures of bats.
i devoured the snow cone and then looked at the bats. they were pretty cool. some of them looked as big as me. several of the bats were awake and eating snacks like- watermelon, bananas and strawberries. i like those things! i saw some sleeping bats. they had their wings wrapped around themselves super tight and they sleep upside down!
got through the bat house and what did i see? 2 bouncy castles. i kicked off my shoes and went in the first one- a tunnel/slide combo. there were a lot of kids. some boy's knee hit me in the face, it was an accident. my cheek turned red but it didn't hurt much. i went to the next bounce house. the girl in charge made us smaller kids wait until the big kids were done. that's fine. all the big kids got off and i got to jump for a good 5 minutes. i was bouncing off kids and walls. it was so much fun.
after the bounce house i put my shoes back on and it was back to looking at stuff with mom and dad. we visited a few more booths on our way back to the car. i had a fun day out. mom said she thought i would. she knows i like snow cones and bouncy castles.
got home and mom checked the mailbox. i got a package! mom had to help me open it. out came a tshirt from some place called niagara falls. mom said it was a gift from dana bunny and gdad. they just got back from visiting niagara falls. mom said if i'm lucky i'll get to visit there myself some time.
phew. and that was my day. going to hang out with dad now, doing guy stuff. the gators are playing a big football game tonight

today has been pretty good. got up this morning and dad had already left. mom said that she and dad got up super early. why? i don't know. they do that some time. makes no sense to me. i got up at my usual 7am. mom turned on pbs kids for me and i curled up on the couch for a bit.
mom asked me if i wanted any breakfast- no thanks. she had a bowl of something. the computer started beeping and it was time to talk with jammma and grdad in england. i sat and talked with them for a bit. i told grdad to show me a bunch of different things. i wanted to see people's phones and the upstairs. i am very bossy. when i was talking with them mom's phone went off and she left the room to talk.
i talked a bit with jammma and grdad. at 9, mom said we had to do other stuff so i said goodbye to them. mom then clicked the skype button and called dana bunny and gdad. they don't have the best connection so i couldn't see video of them. i told dana bunny to show me gdad's calculator though so i could calculate consecutive numbers. mom said- no showing things just talk. so i had a quick chat with dana and gdad. we didn't talk long because their connection kept stopping.
when i was done chatting with everyone. mom got me dressed and we went off to the grocery store. we got the things on the shopping list and paid. nothing super exciting about the shopping today. on the way home mom asked me if i ever had breakfast time- um, no. can i have some grapes?
mom drove us home. after she unpacked all the things we bought she made me 2 peanut butter samiches. i ate them up because i was super hungry. i got some grapes and chewy fruit treats.
after lunch it was back to the car for our first event of the day: halloween at the library. mom and i got to the library super early. mom wasn't taking any chances with the parking. we found a space no problem, being that we were an hour early for the event. i helped mom return her pile of books and then we went to the kids section to hang out.
the library was good. i played outside for a bit. i got to use the kid's computer for awhile. that killed just enough time for the event to start. mom and i made a quick trip to the bathrooms and i got dressed in my buzz costume. we got in line with the other kids. there were mostly girls so it was all princesesses. one girl came dressed as a ladybug, that was pretty cool. i got a fake tattoo put on- creepy scarecrow face. it glows in the dark. we all sat in the conference room. three of the library girls told a spooky story. when the story was done it was time for games. i did pluck a duck- you grab a toy duck out of the pool and what ever number on his butt gives you a certain prize. i got a plastic top for duck butt 7. after that i did bowling, it's kind of like skittles. i knocked over 6 pins and got a bouncy ball. cool. there were a few other games but the line was long so mom and i went and got a cupcake. i helped mom put some sprinkles on it. she wrapped it up and off we went out the door. mom was all- grab the cake and run. the place was getting full of kids and it was super loud so i was ok with going.
mom drove us back home and the cupcake quickly disappeared. i've no clue what happened to it. hung out for a bit, playing and watching pbs kids. all the shows were about halloween things.
around 5 mom jumped up and said it was time to go out again. what? mom said we were going to a church fall festival. ok. so off in the car we went. we found the place and parked no problem. we were super early so mom and i walked around the neighbourhood a bit. on our walk we found a pretty cool park. i had some play time. i didn't want to leave. i got a little fussy with mom when she said it was time to go. she said- look there's a bouncy castle at the event, and that was enough for me. I WANT TO GO ON THE BOUNCY CASTLE!
the fall fest was good even if mom did try to make me eat a hot dog.
the church did a good job. i went in the bouncy castle first and it was wonderful. no one was really there yet so i got to have a good long bounce. when i got out mom helped me put my costume on and then i put my shoes back on. i walked around and everyone was all- hey it's buzz! i got a bag of cotton candy. there were a bunch of games and i did a couple. i put my hand in the witch's cauldron, i pulled out 2 spider rings and a bunch of chopped tomatoes, gross and weird. i did bowling again and got some candy for knocking down pins. on the ring toss i got a paddle ball for a prize. mom assures me it's a super cool prize. after the games it was time for food. mom ordered a hot dog. there was no way in hell i was going to eat one of those. just the thought of it made me cry. mom loaded up the rest of her plate with carrots, apples and a banana. that's what i had for dinner. all the other kids had burgers and hot dogs, i had veggies and fruit. when i was done mom let me share her brownie.
i got to have one more bounce at the bouncy castle before we left. one the way out we passed the pop corn maker and i watched the seeds hatch into popcorn babies. mom got a bag. i licked one but didn't want to eat any. i did have fun stepping on the dropped popcorn on the ground.
and that was my day. got home and dad showed up a little while later. we're going to sit on the couch and eat candy now.

I'VE GOT CANDY! the stories i've been told are all true. at the end of october people really do just hand out candy. and here i thought today was going to be kind of dull.
got up this morning and hung out with mom. we were off to a slow start. i ate breakfast and just kind of lounged on the couch watching pbs kids for awhile. mom did things in the kitchen. it was kind of late in the morning when she decided we should go out and do stuff. i didn't really want to go, i was comfortable on the couch.
we got dressed and went to the dollar store, everything's a dollar. mom filled her basket full of random things. she said she needed things for arts and crafts. she keeps saying that but we have yet to actually do any arts and crafts. mom got the stuff she wanted. we paid and left the store.
our next stop was- the craft store. mom and i walked around looking at everything. she found a couple things to put in her basket. i just wanted to look at label makers. i am obsessed with label makers right now. they've got buttons you can push. mom got everything she needed so we paid and left the store.
mom turned the car on and the clock said- 12:10. hey, it's lunch time! mom drove us home. she put things away and then made me a peanut butter samich. i ate it and it was good.
after lunch i got to play for awhile until mom started in with the- you need to take a nap business. eye roll. i don't want to take a nap, i want to play. nap now. i sat in bed for awhile and talked with my friends. i did eventually fall asleep, only for mom to wake me up a few minutes later. i'm sleeping! mom pulled the blanket off me- hurry up, time to get up, you're missing halloween!
what? i jumped out of bed and my eyes flew open- IT'S HALLOWEEN? mom said, yeah. there's a couple parties going on, let's go. so she helped me get into my buzz lightyear costume. we jumped in the car and drove down to the university.
it was kind of busy at the university. there were people and kids everywhere. mom couldn't find a place to park any where. she saw a cop directing traffic and asked him where to go. he told mom to try the parking lot across the street and down the block. whoo-hooo. mom found an empty parking garage and we parked the car. it was only a short walk to the sorority party. we got there just in time. the line was not too long.
i got a goodie bag at the entrance with a tshirt and everything. very cool. the trick or treat event was huge. there were college girls every time you turned around stuffing candy into my bag. most of the time i remembered to say thank you. i didn't know where to look. there was so much going on. i just followed mom around. she led me to the pizza station and i got a slice of cheese pizza for my dinner. it was pretty good.
i played a few games at the different houses. we got drinks along the way. mostly tonight was all about getting candy. each house had a splash pool full of candy outside and then girls with buckets of candy. candy candy candy every where. we only made it to about half the houses before i asked mom to take me home. my bag was heavy. mom said- ok, we'll go. there's a few more events this week anyway. what? more halloween? more candy giving? what you say mom? yeah, tomorrow is the library party.
halloween is so cool.
got home and i had some apple sauce with a big cold juice. getting candy is hard work. mom let me pick 1 piece of candy out of my bag so i reached in and plucked out a candy bar. mom opened it for me and ate half of it. that's ok, there's plenty to go around.
dad's home now. i'm going to hang out with him.

woke up shouting this morning, it was early. dad came in to check on me since he was up already. i told him i was dreaming about a war, but it's ok. the war was just pretend. dad left and i sat in bed for awhile talking to blueberry about the dream. got up and said good by to dad. now it's just mom to hang out with. i was planning on having a lazy morning of watching pbs kids. mom had other ideas. ate breakfast and then mom got me dressed. before i knew it we were out the door and off in the car. where are we going? mom said- how about to the Y?
the Y? i like going to the Y. it only takes a minute to get to the Y because it's just around the corner from our house.
mom dropped me off at the kid play room and went to the gym. the play room was full of girls today. they all wanted to watch dora the explorer. there's a lot of spanish in that show. i found some cool things to play with. i spent a lot of time playing with a red plastic heart. i have a heart. it pumps blood around the body, from my head to my toes. mom came to get me and i told her all about the heart.
got back in the car with mom. we drove right home. i sat on the couch and watched some shows while mom had a quick shower. she says the gym made her stinky. i'm pretty sure she was stinky before we even left the house.
mom got her shower and then i got my lunch. win win for everyone. had a good lunch, the usual- peanut butter and jelly. mom asks me if i want anything different, no thanks. when eating was done mom said it was time to go out again- oh really?
we got back in the car and mom drove us into town to the book sale we went to the other day. there were people every where. we had to park blocks away and walk to the sale. it was so crowded. mom said that everyone loves 10cent books. i walked around the sale with mom. she found a few books to put in her bag. by the time we checked out the bag was pretty full. the checkout lady only wanted $1.20. mom says we made out ok. she got a bunch of random books she's going to use for projects. yeah, right.
mom drove us home just in time for a nap- boooo. i don't want to have a nap. mom made me have one anyway.
nap was ok. i do feel slightly better. i'm in a good mood. can't wait until dad gets home

today's been ok. mom and i got up this morning. well mom got up first. by the time i got up dad had already left. mom said she shouted me a few times but i didn't hear anything. oh well. i'll just have to hang out with dad tonight.
mom and i had a nice lazy morning. we ate breakfast. today i got cinnamon crunchie oatie pillows. mom is trying to get me something different to eat each morning. i wonder what i'll find in my bowl tomorrow. watch some pbs kids while mom tried to figure out what to do with the day.
eventually mom decided we should visit some charity shops. we visited the humane society one today. we've never been before. it's pretty big. i followed mom around while she poked around in piles of stuff. she dug out a couple pots and some kind of glass bowl/dish thing. mom said it was something called pyrex. we looked at books and toys. i tried to talk mom into getting me a dartboard with no darts but she wasn't having any of it. but mom, but mom, but mom, but mom. no buts, i said no. eye roll
mom paid for her stuff and off we went to 2 other shops: the salvation army and goodwill. neither of those shops really had anything good. we poked around none the less.
we finished up looking at stuff and went grocery shopping. i sat in the cart while mom picked up a few things. nothing super exciting. unless you find broccoli exciting. mom says she's going to toss it in dad's stir fry for dinnertime.
got home just in time for peanut butter samiches. mom decided that we should do the laundry. she gathered up all the dirty clothes and we went over to the laundry room. i got to push the coin slider in to start the machine. that's my job. mom stuffed all the clothes in the machine and off we went to the little park next to the pool. mom checked the mail on our way to the park. i got a package from england. wheee-heee.
mom said i couldn't open the package until we went home so i just ran around the park and played. i dug in the sand a bit. i buried acorns. it's not the most exciting park. finally mom said we could go check the laundry, so back we went.
mom put the wet clothes into a dryer and i got to push the coin slider again to start the machine. since the dryer takes a super long time mom said we could go home. got home and mom noticed my feet were covered in sand. she told me to just jump right in the bathtub. so i had a bath. there was lots of shrieking and screaming. i don't like the shampoo mom bought. she says it's for baby's and the bottle says no more tears. i still don't like it. i got clean in the end though.
after my bath mom let me have the package from england. it had a really fun magazine with mr tumble and picture of jammma and grdad in it and some other pictures too. i read the magazine and played while mom worked in the kitchen.
we went back out and got our clean dry laundry. on the way back to our house mom spotted a dead lizard on the path. i ran over to poke it. it's dead mom! and then i picked it up and brought it over to show her. mom was all- yes, it's dead, you're not supposed to pick them up though, you're supposed to wait until we get a bag. so i carried the lizard up the stairs and mom got a container to put him in. i had to get my hands scrubbed.
and that's been my day. i had a good dinner. mom and i watched back to the future3. mom did work in the kitchen while i played with my friends. dad got home a few minutes ago so i'm going to hang out with him now

today's been ok for a monday. i got up this morning and dad had already left for work. booo. i had a good lie in though. mom and i didn't get up until 7.30. we bummed around the house a bit waking up. mom got me a bowl of crunchie pillows with raisins and honey. i ate everything up. mom got me dressed for the day.
i talked to jammma and grdad for a bit on skype. i told them about my weekend and the different games mom bought me. they had to go do things so i clicked off the skype. mom tsked at me because i'm not supposed to touch her computer.
mom got dressed and we headed out for our morning adventure. i figured we'd just do the usual stuff- shopping and getting things for dinner. instead mom took me to the park. whoo-hoo! i like the park. i ran around and climbed on stuff. mom walked around and gathered up pine cones. she said they will make nice decorations at christmastime.
after the park mom and i went to the grocery store. we walked around and put stuff in the cart. the only thing we really needed was some sausage for dad's dinner but we ended up with a bunch of things. mom was all- oh that looks good. how about some of this?
we paid for the shopping and mom drove us back home. it was lunch time so mom made my peanut butter and jelly samich. i ate it up and then had a banana. mom had a peanut butter samich too. they're really good.
so lunch was eaten. mom said there was a book sale going on in town. we jumped back in the car and drove to town. on the way we stopped at a charity shop we've never been to before. mom found me a really nice toucan. she showed me. i grabbed him up and gave him a big hug. i will give him a happy home.
the friends of the library club have a secret stash of books and twice a year they open it up so everyone can shop. their club house was packed full of people and books. i walked around with mom. she found a couple books to put in her bag. i just kind of spun around. there was so much to look at. when mom was done we got in line and paid. the check out lady said: make sure you come back wednesday, everything is 10cents.
and that was that. mom and i went back home and we've just been hanging out. she put on back to the future for me to watch. i introduced the new toucan to the rest of my friends.
dad's home now and we're going to hang out doing family stuff

today's main activity was educational. mom dragged me and dad off to the butterfly fest. it was pretty good actually. there were a bunch of kid activities set up. i tossed bean bags into a wooden frog's mouth. i got to blow some bubbles. there was a sack race too but i didn't want to do that. we walked around and looked at all the different booths. one person was selling honey and they brought along some of their bees. the bees were all in a glass box, buzzing around.
the snow cone people were there. mom and i went and picked out a cone. i decided to go with watermelon. the snow cone girl piled the shaved ice up really high and then poured a bunch of watermelon flavor over the top. she handed me a spoon and a huge cup full of bright red ice. so exciting. mom took me over to a table and we sat down to eat my treat. i shared a little with mom and dad but i ate most of the cone. it was very tasty. and kind of sticky. when it was all gone mom took me into the natural history museum to wash hands.
got my hands washed. when we got out of the bathroom dad had disappeared so mom and i walked around looking at all the inside displays. there was so much cool stuff. i saw a box full of toads. mom tried to get me to touch one but- no way. there was a guy with some different skulls. i touched a caiman tooth. they are related to gators. and i touched a alligator gar skull, they are a kind of fish. there was a parrot in a cage. i said hello to him but he just whistled at me, fair enough.
eventually we found dad again. we took a short walk through the museum looking at fossils before heading back outside. mom led us back around the museum to the wild flower garden and we actually saw a couple real butterflies. it was close to lunch time so we headed off back to the car.
mom and dad decided we should try this fast food place: sonics. it's kind of like a drive in. you sit in your car, and press a button on the speaker to order. when the foods done a girl on roller skates bring is out. kind of neat. there is a sonics right near our house so when the food came out dad just drove us home to eat it. i got some french fries and a chocolate/banana shake. awesome. mom and dad made me share the shake. that's fine, it was kind of big. the food was nice.
after lunch mom and dad decided i should run around outside a bit to burn off some energy. we all got back in the car and drove to the park with the running track. dad got my bike out of the trunk and i got to ride my bike around the track while mom and dad walked behind me. we went around 4 times, which is a mile. i had a great time.
we went home for some relaxing time. dad put on some tv for us to watch. and now we're just going to hang out doing family stuff

today has been pretty fun. for something different this morning we all got dressed and jumped in the car- before breakfast! dad drove us across town to the IHOP. awesome. i ordered my favorite chocolate chip pantakes. the pantakes are pretty big, i was only able to eat half. they're so good though. after breakfast dad drove us to his work. he got out of the car and went off to work.
mom drove us to a place we'd never been before. we went to the fancy side of town because mom said there were tagsales going on. eye roll. we drove around some very swish neighbourhoods and stopped the car at different houses to look through their yard junk. mom found a couple things to buy, as usual. she actually found a couple things that i like too. she got me two hand held electronic games: hang man and battleship. she says i can play with them today but then they are going in the closet, they are only for long car trips. mom bought a bunch of lego toys but then she hid them. i don't know what she's up to there. i don't really care, i'm going to play battleship.
we only made it to a few of the tagsales before the clock hit noon and it was time to head home again. mom drove me back to our house for lunch.
mom and i decided to just spend the day hanging out watching back to the future movies. we watched 1 and 2 before dad showed up. now he's home and we're all going to hang out watching the 3rd one. not a bad way to spend the day.

happy rapture day! mom and i are just having your usual kind of friday. got up this morning and dad had already left. booo. i wanted to talk with him. oh well. it was kind of cold when i got up. i curled up on the couch under blueberry and then asked mom to bring peach. so she went and got peach and i snuggled down under 2 blankies to watch pbs kids. mom kept asking me what i wanted for breakfast. nothing. leave me alone lady, i'm trying to watch my shows.
i heard the computer ping and it was grdad calling on skype. i talked with him a bit and then jammma showed up and i talked to her too. i actually sat and talked a bit. usually i just say hi and then run off to do something else. mom shooed me off the skype so i could eat breakfast. so she shut down the computer and got me a big bowl of crunchie pillows with honey and raisins.
i ate breakfast up and then mom and i got dressed to go out. we drove in the car to a couple places. mom is on a craft supplies kick. apparently we have to make christmas decorations this year. eye roll. i'm more of an abstract artist. i just want to slap paint down, i don't want to make anything that actually looks like something. you know what i mean.
so we walked around the dollar store and mom filled up a basket with things. then we went to michael's which is a big craft store. we didn't buy anything there. mom says my incessant chatter makes it hard for her to look for things in such a poorly designed store. it's not a bad thing, it just is what it is. we left michael's and went over to target.
mom got a few things at target. she says it's much easier to shop there while i talk. we got a cart full of pizza for tonight's dinner. whoo-hoo. i like pizza fridays.
after shopping mom and i just went home since it was lunch time. i ate my samich and strawberry jam squirted all over my pants. mom was not impressed. i had to get cleaned up before snuggles on the couch. mom and i curled up under peach and watched part of national treasure: book of secrets. i got sent off for naps.
i don't usually take naps much any more but mom thought it would be a good idea. i don't want to be grumpy for my hang out with dad tonight.
and that's what i've been doing. i'm going to play with my toys and do stuff while mom does the dishes.

have no fear readers, i am still here. blog will resume shortly with new updates.
i had a wonderful few weeks visiting with dana bunny and gdad up in maryland. we had lots of adventures. mom and i have been home in fl for a bit now just enjoying some down time with dad. it's been all go go go since we moved to america. it's nice to have a relax. mom's wrists are feeling better so she can type again. so new updates soon.