Hey, you’re a horse, right?
Ladies and gents, this is a horse.
We all went horsie riding up in Estes Park the other day. I had a great time and have already decided that my first horse’s name will be Lollipop.
It was part of a trip to the YMCA for the Japanese exchange program. (We exchanged Zoe to the Japanese for a middle reliever and two draft picks.)
The coolest part of the YMCA …
… was this old-school cafeteria tray thingie.
The arts-and-crafts house was nice too.
Dad was really impressed with my snake, but I was kind of phoning it in by then.
Little sis needed new shoes for her crawling-feet, so we headed to the MALL.
She seems to have enjoyed herself.
Dad deposited her in this dinosaur intestine egg.
The other kids were climbing on the prehistoric duodenum egg and playing with Zoe.
(These are Zoe’s old shoes. We visited the lizard ileum egg before we went to the stores.)
I asked to go to the “TV store” so I could chill out and rock the new-school Minnie Pearl look.
Then I had to go to the food court with my parents omg ugh.
Just kidding! I don’t yet realize that they are lame.
Besides: Lemonade!
Aunt Judy sent me about 200 pounds of keys from New York, including these.
I brought them with me to the mall today. See?
Lemonade!
I am 1 and Riley is 3!
Hooray.
Beach Grandma made us special magic vegan cakes! (They were really good!)
We brought the cakes to the WOW Museum and invited some of our closest friends.
For instance, there’s … this guy! (I kid, I kid. This is Riley’s friend Levi.)
Tia Peggy was there, so that was great.
CHUGGA CHUGGA CHOO CHOO.
While I played with the kid stuff, big sis was off in the engineering department.
She also checked out the Newtonian Physics room.
Hooray for 9.81 meters per second per second!
Riley is not usually allowed on ladders.
After playtime, we all gathered in one of the rubber rooms party areas for cake and presents.
Riley’s incredibly good at this.
Oooh! RedFruit!
GAH IT IS SOUR!
I still like it, though. Ooooh–cake too!
Riley’s friend Isabella (aka Rosabella) helped me with my burfday crown.
The WOW Museum is serious about scheduling their rubber rooms party areas.
After we overloaded on vegan cake and RedFruit, big sis opened up her presents.
This equine music box was a big hit.
Someone showed Riley how to pretend to care about the cards.
“Oooh! A card! Just what I wanted!”
“Seriously, where are the presents?”
YES! Pipe cleaners!
After much clapping and merriment, Riley went to the costume-and-stage area.
The “princess dress with crazy-lady bag and construction hat” look is the new black.
Riley actually got Dad to try this hat on later. Go figure.
Dad says it’s eerie how much Riley looks like Aunt Danielle sometimes.
(This is what Dani wore to her MIT interviews.)
Well, folks, see you again next year when Riley is 4 and I go completely nuts.
It was Easter, so we all gathered in a field to pick up fake eggs that we pretended were put there by a bunny who cannot even know how to lay eggs because that is what a chicken does and besides what does that have to do with anything?
Zoe was cool with it anyway.
See?
So, yeah …
… eggs.
There’s one. Can’t miss it.
Dad says he never cranks the saturation like this, but if CS4 has a “plastic eggs” settting, he’s going to use it.
Part of Easter is getting dressed up and eating foods with Elisha.
These balloons are all over the place because it was Dad’s birthday on Easter–and it was Zoe’s birthday just four days before that.
SURPRISE CHEEK PINCH!
Dad says this seems a bit posed for his tastes.
Zoe! Quit posing!
Better.
Ba ha ha ha ha!
Zoe can count on one hand the number of times she’s gathered bunny eggs in a field.
I don’t think this holiday makes any sense at all …
… but you know, I guess that makes it just like all the others.
Ahh … I feel better.