Easter Egg Hunt at the Zoo - 4/11

Now before you read this post I wanted to include a disclaimer about my pictures for the next few posts. I was helping Mommy unload the grocery cart and pulled it on top of my face. It landed right on my nose and scraped my cheek. Long story short… I didn’t break any thing and it looks worse than it really was. It didn’t hurt too badly after the first 20 minutes.

With that said….please continue.


Mommy took me to the zoo one Saturday. However she didn’t realize that the Saturday before Easter they do an Easter Egg hunt for children of all ages….that means me! We saw all of the kids with their neat Easter baskets and some of them were dressed up so nice. I didn’t have anything to hold my eggs in. “Not to worry” Mommy said as she rummaged around in the diaper bag we had with us. She found a blue plastic bag so me to use. Normally we put my dirty diapers in these but she promised me it had never been used so at least I had a bag to hunt with.

When the bell went off I started running around hunting in the grass for all of the neat goodies hidden. I think I want to go back next year. I got to join in an Easter egg hunt and see all my animal friends at the zoo. What a treat!

Meeting My First Fireman - 3/11

Mommy and I were headed to Safeway for our weekly grocery shopping and boy did I get a surprise. When we pulled in to the parking lot there was a FIRETRUCK!! I couldn’t believe my eyes. I always look for them whenever I hear the sirens. I love firetrucks. Mommy says firemen help people. Any time we hear their sirens we pull over to let them through so they can get to the people to help them.

I met Fireman Jeff. He offered to show me some of the neat tools they use to help people.

First we looked a the hose on the front of the truck. I played with it for a while.

Then he took me around the side of the truck and I got to hold an axe. It was sooo heavy. Fireman Jeff told me they use the axe to break down doors to find people in trouble.

Then he showed me a crowbar and said it helps them to open car doors if people get stuck.

He even let me sit in the firetruck!

Then the other firemen came out and Mommy wanted to get a picture with all of them. But I was so busy looking at the shiney panel of fun-ness I didn’t want to look at the camera.

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.