My Favorite thing is to Swing!

Swinging is Lola's favorite thing. She enjoys going to any park that has a swing and just swing forever. Today was a nice warm day in California, so Lola thought it would be a good day for the park and a swing.

birthday face painting

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In the parenting magazines there are always advertisements to have fairy's or princesses or pirates or whatever character to hire to come to birthday parties. I've been curious to see how good they are. Well, at this birthday party we went to this weekend they had one of the fairies come. She did a great job. She did face painting and did a small magic show. She also made balloon animals. The kids all really enjoyed her. We made her a little apron and gave her some playdough animal shape stuff. Lola had a great time and is really getting excited about planning her 4th birthday.

Cook Like a Champ

It is widely known that Prewitt cooking is one of the wonders of the world, and being down here with my brother has given us plenty of time to explore cuisine and yet there is this stock-pot the size of my head sitting around that I have not cooked in yet. Homework: find a recipe to use this monster stock-pot and blow the socks off of people with flavor.

Monkeying around

[slideshow]We took Kiku to Lola's favorite place to climb and jump and met up with her girlfriend too. Kiku was enjoying all the loud kids and learning to cross the rope bridges. Lola could stay all day but they only sell the time by the hour. After playing there we went over to Lola's girlfriends for lunch and to feed the ducks. All the girls had a great time. On the ride home they both fell asleep so mommy grabbed her book and read in the car so they could finish sleeping. Man, were they tired. When they woke up we fed our 'pet blue bird' some peanuts and played with the Dumbo bubble blower. Lola is wearing a new Indian dress that Kiku's grandma sent. She really loves it; we had to go to the store to get some shoes to match it.

fishing with Kiku

It's got my toe! Lola is sporting a lovely pentecost flame she made in Sunday school and her red riding hood cape. Kiku is figuring out how to fish too. It's fun having a little one Lola can play with. Later we went to Daddy's softball game and then Lola was out for the count.

My momma's eyes

I have my momma's eyes they tell me

I think they're fine to have and see

Two green eyes I have, I think they'll do

But mom says when I was born they were blue

I like to look at flowers and see the ocean waves

& see my daddy in the morning and whether he has shaved

Watching the stinky monkeys swing from tree to tree

seeing my reflection in the mirror when I'm dressed like a princess

My Girl

This is the day that the Lord has made

Surely I would not think to trade

A perfect or rainy or a tiresome minute

when I know that there'll be a blessing in it