cardboard car show

yesterday we went to the car show! we got to see mustangs, beetles, impalas, cougars, sting rays and other cars with cool animal names. one nice man even let me sit in his hot rod. dad told me not to touch ANYTHING. i couldn't find the keys, but i almost got it into neutral before dad stopped me.

dad says i am too young to drive and that i need to practice on something smaller first, so he helped me turn this cardboard box...

...into a jeep!


...which lasted for about 10 minutes.

but it was fun while it lasted!

donald's!

we went to donald's! i played on the playground while mom and dad ate big matts. i played with all my new friends there. i sat next to a girl. i don't think she wanted me to sit by here because she kept moving around.

i ate nuggets but i wasn't into the fries this time. i got a saber-tooth tiger with my happy meal. mom and dad didn't like it when i kept scrapping it on the window outside.|

planes and tanks

this weekend we went to more museums. the army had a birthday and we were invited. there wasn't any birthday cake though. bummer.

but we did see tanks. they were kind of scary. and then a tank accidentally ran over a car! it was terrible. but we did get to see some big trucks and little jeeps. the jeep was old. a lot older than grandpa's jeep. we even got to climb inside the tanks.

while we were there we went to see the airplane museum. they had a big plane that i wanted to see. but there was a gate at the bottom so i couldn't go up. bummer.

I sat in a helicopter though. i tried to get it started but there wasn't a key. bummer. i did get to go inside a cargo plane though. after waiting in line for a long time we got to go up in the "cop kit" where you fly the plane. i looked for a key but couldn't find one. dad and i sat in a small plane and dad made a fool of himself. i love him, but it's kind of embarassing to hang out with him sometimes.

we even got to sit in a jet plane. while we waited in line i saw a boy that got a brush stuck in his big hair. bummer.

church

sunday we went to church late. later than normal. we met a nice man in the parking lot. he was tall. he said hello and i showed him my thomas train. with a big smile he said: “i can see where your interests are.” i didn’t know him but my parents seemed to know who he was. i can’t remember his name. something like “l-dar perry”…not sure.

there were a lot of people at church and we had to sit on the hard chairs on the back. i think there was someone important there. people kept talking about an "apostle." everyone stood up when that nice man from the parking lot walked in. the meeting was long. i was good though and didn’t get crayon on dad’s shirt like last week. for some reason, mom and dad took me home without letting me go to nurshry. bummer!

we passed donald’s on the way home. mom said maybe next time. she keeps saying that.

train museum

We just went to a train museum. I’m not sure when because I am only two and don’t have a good grasp of time other than to say it was in the past. I got to drive a model train though. The nice old man showed me how but would only let me drive it forwardbecause it kept falling off the track when it went backwards. The train was neat but they wouldn’t let me drive the school bus. Bummer.

We got to walk inside some old trains that smelled old like grandpa’s cabin. I even got to sit in the conductor’s chair. Dad got mad when I wouldn’t stop standing up in the chair. Mom got mad at dad for getting mad at me. Those two are crazy some times. My favorite part was the toy train sets they had set up. There were a couple of other kids my age playing with the train sets. All of their parents just sat there and looked tired. Like mom and dad.

On the way home we didn’t get to stop at donald’s (McDonald’s). Mom said maybe next time. She keeps saying that.

at the zoo

today we went to the zoo. i liked it because i got to see big animals. dad said he liked it because it was free. mom and dad wouldn't let me get a plastic animal. bummer. i did get to ride on a couple of rides though. that was fun. i rode in a magic carpet, a car, and a firetruck.

we also saw some animals, including lions, tigers, but not bears, oh my! they were all asleep though because we came during their nap time. the giraffes were not asleep because they were too tall to lay down.

it was fun. on the way home we passed donald's but mom said maybe next time. bummer.

where are we?

i think we moved recently. i have no idea where we are other than the fact that they put a bunch of clothes in aunt lindsay’s car one morning and we drove for three days and now I can’t see the mountains. we drove a long way and even got to stay in a hotel. one hotel had a buf-fa-low in the lobby. he stood really still.

dad also let me drive the truck in front of the hotel. unfortunately i couldn't figure out how to get it started. bummer. there were no doors though like grandpa's jeep, so that was cool.

our new apartment is awesome. there is less furniture and more room to run around. i wonder when the rest of our stuff will get here. although i am not missing that old crib. grandma blair let me borrow a spider-man sleeping bag that has a raft on the bottom. mom and dad bought a new mattress for me to sleep on but I don’t like it. there is no picture of spider man and no raft on the bottom. now they stick it in front of the windows to block out the light in the morning. I hope it wasn’t too expensive.