Last hurrah

My best bud Amelia moved to Utah a few days ago.  I've asked my Mom a couple of times if she's still there and Mom says yes, that she's living there now.  So I guess she really isn't coming back.  At least, not for awhile.  Luckily we got to have one last hurrah the day before she left.

Amelia and Charlotte came over to my house and we built a fort.

Then I taught Amelia how to read with my BOB Books.

It was a pretty nice day so we went for a walk and loved looking at the workers building new houses in my neighborhood.

Then we performed in a concert in the backyard.

I love Amelia.  I hope she likes Utah.

Aunt Kari

Aunt Kari came to visit for a few days and we had so much fun.  We went to the Rainforest Cafe for lunch one day and saw elephants!

And I got to throw some money in a crocodile's mouth!

Aunt Kari made me a fort,

and played cars.

We played lots of other stuff too, like t-ball, but the camera wasn't always around to document that.

And no one from Mom's family can come for a visit without lots of yummy cooking and baking going on.  The de Jongs plan their visits around what they will eat.  One of the new recipes they tried was this Strawberry Lime Cream Cake.

One of the days was actually really nice so we headed to the zoo.  I wasn't too interested in the animals and wanted to just play, so you'll see that we don't have many pics of animals.

Except this cool one of this gorilla.  What a balancing act!

Me in a fox den:

 
As we were getting ready to leave, this man opened up a cart full of animal skins and skulls and we got to touch all of them.  SO cool!

I love it when my family comes to visit.  Grandma and Grandpa de Jong will be here in two weeks.  Can't wait!

BOO!

Does this remind you of anyone?

Think really hard.

What would you do for a Klondike bar?

Make room for Sydney

I love to climb into things and there are plenty of things to climb into at my house.

Ty's tool bench has plenty of room once I take out all the drawers.

I can sit in a drawer AND eat the rest of the pop tart I left in there the last time I sat there.

The best way to play with toys is to get right in there with them.

If I squeeze myself into a little bin, Ty will push me around in it.

And look whose wallet I found while lounging in the shoe bin!  Dad's!

It's amazing how many places there are to play when you're little.