Now we've got something for everyone!

Mommy has a therapist.  It's affectionately called....The Mall.  She goes there to feel better or forget her problems.  She doesn't always buy something (since often her problem is that she would like more money to buy things).  In any case....she likes to go to the mall.  But, since Clara Shei and I came along, it's not as easy.  We get bored at the mall and sometimes act up.  Mommy's favorite mall has little for us to do there, besides get bored and behave badly.  At least until now...

Our mall just got an upgrade!  A play area just for us!!!  Right outside the starbucks (of course).  We are all very excited about it!!  Poor Clara Shei was a bit naughty today, so she didn't get to play.  I found lots of ladies to hang with though...yeah, I've got it going on!  ;-)

The Busiest Day!

My mommy was a bit distressed when she figured out that we had 3 really fun things to do all within one afternoon!  She was trying to decide what to do..and then we decided that somehow we just couldn't make a decision.  We would find a way to do it all!  And then....of course, it decided to poor freezing rain down from the sky ALL DAY LONG...just to make our busy busy day very wet (and a little more complicated)

Our day started with a birthday party for Noah.  He is a friend of ours from church and he was turning 2!  He had a train theme birthday party and lots of yummy food.  I enjoyed trying to grab any food I could without my mommy noticing (including snitching bites of the birthday cake before it was cut) and playing with the train set on the floor with all our church friends. 

We had to leave Noah's birthday early in order to make it to Lindsey Wildlife Center because a massai warrior was coming to give a presentation on the natural ways of life of the massai people.  It was so cool to see other massai people, just like me, in California. I got to help him start a fire from acacia tree wood, and he gave Clara Shei and I a massai blessing!  I loved to meet him and remember all the special things from our life in Arusha and the massai people. 

After leaving Lindsey Wildlife, we quickly headed over to BART and hopped on the monorail, into the city for the Chinese New Year parade.  It was really cold...and really really crowded, but oh how I loved it! Mommy held me up for a long time so that I could see the chinese dragon.  At the end of the parade a very nice man lifted me up so I could touch the dragon!  That means I will have good luck all this year. 

What a perfect day!  Oh, and I forgot to mention....Auntie Resa is visiting as well.  She and Uncle Gogo met us in the city to watch the parade and get some chinese food afterward.  I had SO MUCH FUN TODAY!  I was exhausted after this day....but I'm so glad we decided to do it all....I could not have chosen just one of these events today....we needed to do all of them.  Whew....so tired, headed to bed!

Pie for Lunch

Well, pie for lunch can mean only one thing....it must be Valentines Day!

Today when Mommy woke me up she asked me what I thought we should do for a special Valentines treat and I said, "let's have strawberry pie for lunch!".  Mommy was so surprised...as I've never had strawberry pie before.  But, she had to admit, it was a GREAT idea.  We couldn't find strawberry pie, as it's out of season.  But, we did find berry pie....and it was a really fun lunch!  Who get's pie for lunch???

Tonight we exchanged valentines and Clara Shei and I gave Mommy the valentines that we made for her.  And, we got to open our valentines...cards and candy and a few special surprises just for us! 

I hope you all have special valentines out there that love you.  I have lots and lots of love and am so so lucky!

Summer in the Middle of Winter

What a day! 

In the morning we partied down at Growing Tree Preschool where we made valentines, strung macaroni on string to create fabulous jewerly and decorated our own cookies, which we immediately ate! 

After the party, we couldn't let the beautiful weather in the middle of winter go to waste.  Neither could the rest of the bay area, it seems.  We all convened in Oakland at the zoo....and spent the day frolicking among the animals.  What a day, what a family....

Climbing Trees and Feeding Cows

Today I had a special day out at Tilden Park with my Bada and my Uncle Gogo.  Mommy couldn't come as she had some work that had to get done. 

It was such a fun day!  I got to have a picnic on the grass with the family...and climb trees with my uncle.  I got to feed the cows at the Little Farm and visit the museum with my sister.  What a fun day out....I really didn't miss my mommy one little bit!

From Flying Fairies to Flying Beds

I have been living in a world of imagination.  I love love love to read, and it is one of the only ways to get me to calm down.  If I am starting to get too crazy, you only need ask if I would like to read, and I'm immediately sitting in the big red chair in the living room surrounded by my favorite stories.

I also have begun to enjoy chapter books.  I have recently finished my first chapter book with my mommy....Bedknob and Broomstick.  Now, we are on to Heidi.  I love to sit with my Mom at night in her bed and read a few chapters of our story.  It is our special time together.

Here is a sampling of some of my favorite books.  These are those I am currently enjoying on a daily basis.  In  particular I love the Story A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Puck is so funny and he makes such mischief, which I can really relate to.  I had a bit of a hard time understanding Puck's plan to squeeze magic flower juice on sleeping people's eyes in order to cause mischief.  I wanted to do it too, and for a few days I would just go up to people and grab hold of their eyelids and sqqquuueeezzzeee.  Mommy put a stop to that pretty quickly though. I really loved Bedknob and Broomstick and especially when they flew on the bed to the island where there are cannibals.  Sometimes, I will stop in the middle of the day and ask my mommy to be quiet because 'the cannibals are coming and they want to eat us for lunch!'.  yikes!!!  Now we are reading Heidi and I love learning about life in the alps.  It really sounds great!

I have also really loved learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and read the book often (though it's not pictured).  I tell me mom often that Martin told us to meet hate with love and even when people put a bomb in his house he said, "NO VIOLENCE". 

OH, and my Mom also forgot to put Bonyo Bonyo, the Brave Boy of Kenya in the photo.  So, I put her straight and we made a photo of the book by itself.  It deserves its own picture.  I love to pretend to be Bonyo Bonyo, the Brave Boy from Kenya and I plan to grow up and be a doctor, just like him!  (only I'll be the bave boy from Tanzania)