Mommy’s friend, Aliah, recently had surgery, so we brought some dinner to her house in Vancouver, WA.
Aliah loves gardening and she was walking around enough to give us a tour. She took some strawberries from her plant and they were the best strawberries I’ve ever had!
We went to Ikea, and Daddy and I pretended to have a conversation in these matching parenting and child wing chairs.
Me, Mommy, and Daddy did a quick weekend trip up to Kenji’s house in Seattle. When we got there, Kenji was napping, so I took a long walk around the neighborhood.
By the time we got back, I was VERY tired.
But Kenji was awake! I gave him one of my syringes and extension sets because he likes playing with them in the water.
Then I showed him the joys of Minecraft.
Mommy gave him an octopus t-shirt she made and he strutted around like a real runway model.
And Daddy played blanket jail with him. Kenji’s a real goofball.
I went to a kindergarten open house to learn all about kindergarten next year.
I visited one of the kindergarten classrooms with a bunch of other kids, but my favorite place is the gym!
Cedaroak Park Primary is in the middle of their on-going morning talent show, so there was a piano and microphone I liked playing with.
I asked Mommy to take a picture of me waiting for Elle at school, and then I stuck my tongue out at her.
Today, I planned on going to the pool. But it was such a windy day, I decided to skip it and hang out instead.
I went for a walk around the neighborhood to search for Endermite food. (Endermite is a character in Minecraft.)
I had to fight the wind!
And then Daddy had to fight the wind!
Afterwards, Nana wanted to take a family portrait of me, Mommy, and Daddy.
And then I wanted to take a family portrait, too.
On my first morning in Henderson, Papa told me about his days as a fingerprint analyst and showed me fingerprints on the computer.
Then we looked at my fingerprints through a magnifying loupe.
Afterwards, we got to do the thing I was super excited for – The Adventuredome at Circus Circus. I LOVED IT.
Here’s a little video of me having the time of my life.
On the morning before heading home, we had breakfast at HomeState with Crystal & Chris and Veronica and her family.
The little boy is Veronica’s brother, Lex.
I talked to Veronica’s daddy, Kenny, about airplanes and Route 110.
I also took pictures of Daddy, Mommy, and Veronica.
Then Veronica and I climbed the fence that kept us from Figueroa Street.
Goodbye for now, LA. I had fun!
On my last full day in Los Angeles, I was worn out from a very full week.
But it was the day I invited three old friends to come play with me at Shane’s Inspiration playground.
The first to arrive was Sebastian!
We got right to juice drinking and cupcake decorating.
The little boy behind Sebastian is his new brother, Charles.
Then Veronica came and joined us at the decorating table.
Last but not least, Andy arrived and we compared sandy hands.
Andy’s sister, Nicholena, was just a baby when we left three years ago.
After decorating our cupcakes, it was time for me to blow out the candles on my self-decorated cake. It was fun seeing all of my old buddies again!
After hanging out with my friends, I went out to ice cream with Uncle Mike and Aunt Sarah. For some reason, I wrote numbers on their palms.
And drew airplanes and amusement parks before having to say goodbye.
The morning after Disneyland, I went to The Grand Californian Hotel to have breakfast with Nana & Papa and a bunch of Disney characters.
As soon as I walked in to the Storytellers Cafe, I saw Chip and gave him a high five and a hug!
After I sat down at my table, Mickey came by!
I told him a bunch of cities and asked if he’d ever been to them. Mickey has been EVERYWHERE. Even North River, North Dakota, population 55.
I also asked Pluto where he’s been and he hasn’t really been anywhere.
Dale has been to lots of national and state parks, but he seems to avoid big cities. When I asked if he’d ever been to London, he indicated that he’s afraid of airplanes.
And I got to see Minnie again. She was just hanging out at her house yesterday!
Dale and Pluto really liked the horn on my rhino hoodie.
Even though it was time to go, I just couldn’t stop giving the characters a list of places and asking if they’d ever been there. They answered dozens of my questions.
I originally planned to go to California Adventure after breakfast, but it was so rainy and windy, we had to resort to Plan B. So I basically played with the hotel curtains and hung out with Nana and Papa. It was a nice rest day!
