Great Grandpa Bud’s 88th Birthday - 2/11

We went out to celebrate Great Grandpa’s 88^th birthday. All of my extended Riedel family were there. I never see much of them so this was a real treat. And Great Grandpa loved that everyone was there. He let me help blow his candles out after we sang Happy Birthday. We got him a golf cake because he loves to golf.

Then we wanted pictures of each generation so first us kids went. Our first picture we smiled and said cheese.

Then Mommy said we should be goofy so we took silly picture. I sat with Tess which was great since she is my favorite cousin. He always plays so well with me, I love her.

 

Then they took a picture of Mommy and her cousins.

Then it was Grandma and Grandpa and their generation.

Then it was the last generation Great Grandpa Bud and his brother Great Uncle Fred.

Finally we took a picture of everyone there. Or at least everyone around that could fit in the picture. Great Grandpa said “this is all because two people fell in love”.

Mommy was taking a picture of Great Grandpa and Grandpa and I wanted to get in there to.

Here is the picture of Great Grandpa Bud, Grandpa and me. And of course, Barney!

GG's Valentine - 2/11

I made GG (Great Grandma) a valentine at school and brought it out to Estacada to give it to her. She loved it.

A Day at the Newport Aquarium with Wyatt Bull

Our friends, Mr. Tron, Ms. Christine and Wyatt, came down for the day at the Beach House. Wyatt had never seen the Aquarium so we decided to take them there and show him around. Once we got in the doors we could hardly contain ourselves.

We saw the otters, the seals, peguins and ducks.

Then I wanted to go to the Passages of the Deep. Some kids picked up trash from the beaches and made what looked like a set of whale bones from all the garbage. It looked very real. Wyatt and I ran through it like a tunnel to get to the fish. We loved anything resembling a tunnel.


There were fish everywhere. We saw sharks, rockfish, halibut, lingcod, cabezon and even juvenile wolf eels. The swam all around us, over our heads, under our feet.

Daddy picked me up to get a closed look at a sea anenome that was on the ceiling.

I squashed a penny in a machine and turned it in to a Newport Aquarium penny with a wolf eel on the front of it.


On the way out of passages of the deep we found some animals to play on.

Then we went to the tidepool and they let us touch the starfish and anenomies. I always like that.

Let The Wild Rumpus Start...I'm 2!

This year for my birthday party we borrowed the theme from Where the Wild Things Are. Mama and my teacher, Ms. Dora spent the day before putting up decorations. They made big paper trees and a boat going across the water like when Max sailed to the island.

Corkey and I both put on a Wild Things masks and pretended to be monsters. It wasn't too much of a stretch for Corkey.

Mama picked up special Wild Things balloons. The Max balloon was almost as big as me!

Daddy used pages out of the book and put my face on the Max character. I looked just like Max.

Mama and Ms. Dora decorated all my cupcakes, they worked really hard, there were so many to make.

On the day of my party Ms. Dora came over a little early and gave me a special present. She made me a Max cosutme of my very own complete with a fur covered crown and tail, I loved it. I wore it all day.

All my friends and family came over to celebrate with me. It was so much fun. Mama set up my cupcake stand and everyone sang "Happy Birthday to Wolfie!"

I emjoyed some cupcake and ice cream before opening presents.

Senor Thorsten enjoying the frosting off his cupcake! Hola Amigo!

My cousins helped open all of my presents.

What a great 2nd Birthday Party. Thank you all who came to celebrate with me.

playing with Thorsten post-party.

Letting my inner Wild Thing out. RRROOOOAAAARRR!

Happy Brithday to Me

Mama and Daddy invited all my Grandpas and Grandmas over to celebrate my birthday. This way I could just have some time with them before my big celebration on the weekend.

Daddy made his barbeque chicken pizza. Everyone loved it.

I opened my presents from everyone. I got more wooden food items I get to cut like Daddy does when he cooks.

Grandma and Papa Dave helped me cut all of them.

And I got a Leapster Explorer. I wasn't sure what it was until I saw a picutre of Dora the Explorer on the box. I got so excited. That must mean I can watch Dora on it.

We had cupcakes for dessert. I wanted to share mine with my new friend Corky. I love Corky. I got him from Grandma Dee's house. he used to be Aunt Mandi's until she moved away. Grandma Dee said I could take him home for a while. Mama doesn't seem to like him as much as me. I don't know why, he is always smiling and has cute red hair and freckles and the best part is he never goes to sleep!

It was nice to have all of my Grandparents together. Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate with Mama, Daddy and me!