Off on my own, sort of...

Well, the day after my birthday party was a BIG day, monumental, a rite of passage that every person must go through... FLYING WITH OUT MAMA AND DADDY. That's right people, I took off into the the friendly skies with grandpa irwin and grandma sue by my sides and no mommy and daddy. How did I handle it? Like a champ. How did mommy handle it? Well, that's another story... Grandma Sue was given strict instructions to text as soon as the plane landed. Only after receiving that text message that we had landed, that's when mama actually took a breath since she had last seen me.

headin to the car

C'mon people, we're going to miss the plane!

See ya

One more shot where you can see mommy, daddy and Remi anxiously watching my departure in the reflection of the windows.

Fishing Birthday Party

I woke up the Saturday after my birthday, very excited, because Saturday was the day of my PARTY. I run downstairs and who do I find? Grandma Sue and Grandpa Irwin!! That's right, the flew in for my party, which made the day even more special. After we had plenty of play time it was time for breakfast, and again, mama out did herself. No, not pancakes in the shape of the number 4, this time, they were in the shape of a fish! Why fish you ask? Because I was having a fishing birthday at my favorite park, with my favorite friends! After breakfast, mama and grandma Jo, headed off to pick up food and balloons and to decorate the room, while the rest of us stayed home, played, and picked up our CSA share for the week.

So we finally get to the park, the room had started to be decorated, but grandma sue jumped in and really helped mama and grandma Jo make the room look great! My friends started coming, fishing poles and worms were handed out the the fun started. A few of my friends actually caught fish! I of course, the master angler, was shut out on my special day, but who cares! I got cake instead! We fished for an hour, then had pizza for lunch, ate a blue fish cake that mama made and then played pin the fin on the fish and it was all great! I had so much fun and was so lucky to have so many family members help me celebrate my turning 4!

"no aaron, this is how you do it."

Michael and his dad

Fishing with grandpa Irwin

Greeting Emiliano with a hug

15 of my friends all came, they all fished, and NO ONE got caught with a hook! How is that for luck!

Charlie and his dad showing off their catch

Even Remi got in the action

And she caught a fish!

And then she kissed it! Isn't that fairy tale? Oh, wait, that's about kissing a frog...

The ladies, relaxing

Leela, havin' some fun

Getting ready to eat!

My fish cake, please don't make fun of it, mama worked very hard on it...

Red velvet cake, to resemble the guts!

Ready or not, here I come!

Opening gifts, my first ll bean backpack

Another hand carved wooden train car to go with my set!

Fun books from Grandma Sue and Grandpa Irwin

There was so much excitement that Grandpa Irwin just couldn't take it... His coping mechanism, sleep.

Even Remi got some gifts

New skates!

Thank you hugs, which were more like tackles as proven by photo 1

and photo 2

And photo 3

August 5th: MY BIRTHDAY

Yeah, Yeah, I know, I'm behind in the blog updates... Lay off!

Anyway, on the 5th of August, I turned 4 and it was a special day. Grandma Jo flew in a the day before my birthday in order to spend my actual birthday with me. Besides my parents, she is the only person to have celebrated all of my birthdays with me on the actual day I was born, very cool. So, the day started out with pancakes in the shape of 4's! That's right, mama is becoming the queen of the griddle (not something she has always aspired to, but is accepting gracefully), then it was off to school. We aren't allowed to bring sweets for our birthdays, so we brought in a yummy watermelon for snack and then for lunch, mama and grandma Jo brought PIZZA!!! It was home for nap, munching on cookie cake in the shape of a 4 and then opening my present from grandma Jo and Grandpa David, a bike! Not just any bike, a big bike, a bike that I can go much faster on, a bike that makes me the envy of every 4 year old in the neighborhood, do you understand what I mean people? A very cool bike... Then it was off to the fire restaurant. My request and let me tell you, I was not disappointed in my choice one bit. After all of the hoopla, I was pretty spent, so it was off to bed for me, after all, I had to rest up for my birthday part that was Saturday...

My 4 pancakes

Celebrating with Grandma at school

Wearing the Frog room's special birthday hat

My giant 4 cookie cake

Singing with grandma Jo

Remi LOVED the cookie cake

Daddy giving me a little send off push on the new bike

Remi at the "fire restaurant

slurping down my mushroom soup, yummy!

FIRE!

Catching up...

Here are some pictures from the past month! Things have been busy here and between camp, swimming, playing with friends and preparing for my birthday party, something had to slide, and it was the blog.

Our friends threw a congratulations party for Daddy and one of his colleagues, Jimmy, for officially become pediatric cardiologists. This is a picture of the cake. It was yummy!

Me and my buddy Sam, just hangin' out. I got to spend a day with Sam at his summer camp and we had a blast. I got to do karate at camp and am now bugging mommy to sign up for karate classes.

yeah, that's right, we have underpants hat day at our house

The underpants gang... We're always looking for new members!

Daddy had been gone for a week, so as a surprise, mommy took us to Art Fair and Daddy met us there. It was great to finally see him! Art Fair is a giant street fair for art that lasts for 4 days and attracts over 500,000 people to our little Ann Arbor. Needless to say it's chaos.

It rained while we were there. Ok, maybe rain isn't the best word, poured may be more appropriate. This is Remi and me in our "bubble."

Remi, skating with daddy

working on my skills

Remi loves to play dress up and put things around her neck. An infatuation that mommy is a bit concerned about for safety reasons.

This is 2 minutes later. The girl put everything that could possibly go over her head on and loved it. I took almost 10 minutes to untangle her!

Daddy knew he was in the dog house... I have been letting him know I don't appreciate his absences, so he came home early one day and we went to the pool after naps. We had a blast! Daddy was shocked to learn that I can swim all by myself and like to dive to the bottom of the pool to hunt for things.

Another special evening with daddy. We took a picnic dinner and went fishing!

"Look, a dirty swan!" "It's the ugly duckling, just like the book!"