First Day of School

I am in pre-kindergarten at a new school this year - Our Lady of the Lake. The first day was last Monday. I like it a lot and I've already made new friends like Audrey, Mimi and Liam. My teachers are Mrs. B and Mrs. Breysse (she's nicey!) We get to play on the playground with some of the bigger kids from the school and I like running around with them. There is a hamster in our classroom named Kitty. It's going to be fun!

Wyoming!

We took the Great American Road Trip and drove to Jackson, Wyoming via Northern Idaho and Montana. It was a wonderful trip. I had a great time and didn't even mind the long days spent in the car. One day we even drove 10 hours! There was so much to look at. When we got to Jackson, we stayed at a condo with Papa and Nana right at the foot of the Grand Teton Mountains. We drove up to Yellowstone National Park, which Mommy and Daddy kept calling Jellystone (something to do with Yogi Bear). We arrived just in time to see Old Faithful erupt and we saw buffalo and mule deer. I searched and searched for bears with my binoculars but no luck.

Playing frisbee with Daddy outside the condo, in the shadow of the Grand Tetons.

Buffalo on the side of the road in Yellowstone

The stinky Mud Volcano

Visiting the geysers with Nana and Mommy

Hot! Hot! Hot!

We are having a heat wave in Seattle and it's way too hot to do much of anything. We tried taking Tashi for a walk at 9 in the morning but it was already close to 80 and the poor little dog was panting so hard we came back home pretty quickly. I've got swim lessons which is nice - being in the pool is the best place to be. Sometimes, we stay for lunch or even dinner. On Sunday, we stayed for over 5 hours!

My friend, Jacob, was there, too, so we ran around and played ball after we were done swimming.

It's not hot enough to give up sleeping with Truffles!

Happy Father's Day, Daddy!

Today was Father's Day, and even though we had to take Daddy to the airport after dinner, we had a great day. I fixed him a big bowl of Cheerios with strawberries and blueberries for breakfast. Then we took him to the Experience Music Project where we saw the Jim Henson exhibit. Mommy and Daddy both took turns playing the Animal/Keith Moon drummer Muppet in a Muppet Show theater and I was the Cookie Monster. Then we went upstairs into the regular part of EMP and played with all sorts of drum machines, guitars, keyboards and even laid down some vocal tracks. It was so cool!

We took him out for lunch and he had a ginormous cheeseburger that had a fried egg on top! Mommy and I thought it was gross, but I guess Daddy likes stuff like that. After lunch we were making silly faces and the waiter took our picture.

Final Ballet Watching Day

I had been taking ballet since September and a couple of weeks ago was our final class. It was parent watching day again and we got to dress up in fancy clothes and we performed for our parents. It was a lot of fun.

Say "Om" Everybody

I have been taking yoga classes on Mondays during Lunch Bunch since September. I can do a lot of poses, including crane, mountain, cobra, tree, hare, turtle and flamingo. Here are some pictures of my last yoga class - we are in the mountain pose, opening ourselves to the universe and chanting "om."

Visit from Auntie Juliet

Auntie Juliet came to visit me from England for two weeks. We had such fun while she was here. We took her to the zoo to see the terrific new penguin exhibit, we went to the doll museum, to the Children's Museum, and to opening day at the pool. We went for walks with Tashi, had a tea party at home and a proper tea party at the Queen Mary Tearoom with Auntie Joyce and her daughters, Anna & Kate. On Mother's Day, we went to the Seattle Children's Theater to see "Goodnight Moon" and it was terrific! Just like the book come to life. We went to Snoqualmie Falls and I hiked all the way to the bottom and back up again - a mile total but Mommy said I get extra points because it was such a steep hill.