Hangin' with Boompah and Mar Mar



Dennis the Menace Park in Monterey



Just as I promised last week, here's more pictures from Monterey taken last week.  I had a chance to go with Boompah and Mar Mar to Dennis the Menace park, then we drove along the coast a bit to Asilomar State Beach, where they let me climb on the rocks and play in some tide pools!  Boompah and Mar Mar say they had just as much fun as I did! 





Boompah and me played on the swings!  Ok, I played on the swings--Boompah pushed!

Mar Mar and me played on the slides,

Time for a little "girl talk".

Our drive up the coast was pretty.

Boompah showed me how to climb the rocks so I wouldn't fall,

And then Mar Mar takes me down to the tide pools the "easy way".

Boompah says it's never too early to start that rock and seashell collection!

Wasn't it beautiful that day?

Playing in the tide pools is fun!  You find all kinds of stuff in there!



On the ride home, I couldn't resist playing "put the stickers on Mommy's hands" game!

OK, that was our trip!  I'm still talking about it!  Even if nobody can understand what I'm saying!



What a weekend!



Mommy and me cuddling in a clamshell



I was so excited this past weekend!  I got to spend time with Mommy, Mar Mar, "Boompah" (yes, I have officially changed his name!), Sarah and Tony at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Dennis the Menace park.  Sorry I don't have any pictures of Dennis the Menace park, but Boompah hasn't had a chance to get those pictures downloaded yet.  But I've still got pictures of the trip I took to the aquarium with Mommy, Sarah and Tony.  I was so excited at every exhibit, I was shaking!  Aunt Sarah was cracking up! (Like she's never seen a kid so excited before!)

We saw all kinds of pretty fishies!

Even Sharks!

Here we are checking out the penquin exhibit!

I don't know which part I liked the best! 

It was probably just being with Mommy someplace fun!

Just 3 girls hangin' with a penguin!

It's a good thing Tony was there to give me a lift when things were too high to see!

I even got up close and personal with some starfish in the tidepool exhibit

This is called a "leafy sea dragon".  Auntie Sarah thinks this is the coolest thing ever--and dares anyone to think otherwise!



It was a long, fun day!  Sarah had to take a nap!  Ha ha, just kidding!



I'll try to get Boompah to post a couple of cute videos of me and some of the Dennis the Menace park pictures when he gets home this weekend.  Keep watching!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everybody!  Not many pictures this time (yet!) but you can see we had fun.  Sorry you couldn't be here, Oompah!  Maybe next year.

No, I haven't been drinking......

....I've been eating a banana!

Mama, Mare Mare, Gramma, Frankie, Paige, and Vickie must have been eating bananas, too!

No, they were just kidding around!  They're so funny!



  The holiday's not over yet.  Maybe we'll have some more pictures tomorrow...we'll see!

A week in December

So, you all know that December is MY month!  First my birthday on the 18th, then Christmas just a week later.  You know I make out like a bandit!

Mmmm, I wonder what I got for Christmas?

I can't think of Christmas yet!  I've still got my birthday to get through!

Oompah says I'M the best present anybody could get!

Don't let the t-shirt fool you!

I know HOW to be nice........

I just don't always want to be!

Ha ha!  Just Kidding!  Are you reading this Santa?

Santa must have bought my "nice" act.  He brought me some drums!

I love hats!

It's exhausting being the life of the party!

Ahhh, sweet refuge!

What a great week!  Oompah says if I keep getting any smarter and learning my words faster, I'll have to start actually writing my own blog, instead of dictating to him.

For Oompah's friends

This is the way the Christmas Story would be told today!

Here come the holidays!

Where to begin?  Let's start by saying I miss my Oompah when he's out of town for a long time.  He was gone 5 whole days last time, so I got some of his clothes out of the closet and decided to play "dress up."  I look just like him, don't I?

Go Bears!

Then, all of a sudden, it was Thanksgiving!  We had planned to go to Great-Grammas cabin for the holiday, but the snow was higher than I am and the power went out, so we had to change our plans and have it at our house instead!  Maybe we'll get back to the cabin next year! 

We didn't have many leftovers last year, so Mommie and Mare Mare cooked two this year!

"Family, getting together to thank God for each other is what it's all about," says Oompah.

Great-gramma wanted a picture of all of her kids, grandkids (and me, of course)

Have you met my other Great-gramma?  I call her Nana.  She was here, too.  We had fun.

Oompah said to "pose".  I don't know what that means!  So I just kind of stood there with Nana.

Just havin' a little "girl-talk".  Oompahs not allowed.

After Thanksgiving, it was time to bring out the Christmas decorations---starting with the tree! 

Mmmm, these ornaments look interesting!  Mare Mare, how about this one?

I tried to untangle the bead garland, but I didn't get very far!

Here's the family Christmas tree, all done!  Cool, huh?  It's 100% Raggedy Ann and Andy.  (Mare Mare's got TONS of Raggedy Ann and Andy stuff!)

 And since I'm a "princess", I get my OWN tree!  And this year, I got to put it up in the LIVING ROOM!

Here it is all decorated.

And lit up!  Mommy and me wanted a pink-flocked tree, but Mare Mare "vetoed" that, whatever that means!

Isn't this a neat tree-topper? 

Well, that's all for now.  I'll try to get some more pictures posted as we get closer to Christmas, but Oompah's going to be real busy until then.  God Bless all of you!  Merry Christmas!