These days, I am a big boy! I run and jump, talk up a storm and am the man of the house when dad is at work. And, now I am Spiderman! (If you look closely at my shirt, you can tell).
Today, we watered all the flowers and my shoes (trying to get my feet to grow some too). And then I decided to reorganize the kitchen cabinets.
Benjamin
We talked to some of the people and then sat down for a hotdog and chips.
We waited for the Bounce House to be empty and then took off our shoes and crawled inside. I tried to walk and jump around, but it was difficult. In the end, I just held onto the net and then bounced. A little later, the kids came back. One of the girls had dirty feet and they had to be wiped clean before she could enter.
Then, finally, we made it to the pool. I was a good boy and patiently waited while we got ready for the pool. I walked over to the big pool, stepped down onto the first step and then all of a sudden jumped into the pool. Luckily, I had arm floats and I was caught, before, I submerged. There were a lot of people in the pool and I recognized several neighbors and I waved at them.
After about an hour in the pool, I was ready to go home. I helped deflate the floats and pack the bag.
We tried to get a good picture of us at the party. Oh well... here we are.
And, by the way, I now know how to take a photo all by myself. I point the camera, say "chiih" and press down on the big button.
Now, I just have to figure out how to do all those things AND hold the camera still at the same time.
Guess what??! When we arrived at the party, we wrote our names on these tickets and gave them to a lady. She said, they would draw names and some people would win gift baskets. And I won!! I won a basket full of candy, popcorn and two movies. I like pool parties!!
Benjamin
Wuv Va!
When we were finally done eating, mostur and I went outside to play in the play area. The sand was soaked, but I didn't care, I had too much fun!
See, great granddad's boat house with neon lights!
On my way back to the car, I noticed several water puddles. Of course, I didn't pas by them, I passed through them!
Benjamin
First we washed with soap.
Then we rinsed the soap. Omma climbed up a little ladder and rinsed the roof.
I rinsed the head lights and myself.
Mostur took care of the rest of the car.
The next morning, we realized, we'd missed several spots. Oh, well, the car looked sparkling clean in the darkness.
We slept some, since it was still early and later, I tried to entertain omma and lang omma, so they would not get bored.
We made a couple of stops, one of them at this neat store. It looks like it is about to fall apart. Inside, they have lots and lots of stuff.
We went to the Natural Bridge Caverns first. Mostur and omma went on a tour, while I looked after lang omma and mom above ground.
The caverns are very impressive and they enjoyed the tour - except for a few seconds when the power went out and it turned pitch black.
Above ground, I was busy playing and trying to catch butterflies.
Aren't they pretty?
I tried to dig for gold, but only found a few pebbles.
At the hotel, we stayed on the 4th floor and had a view of the pool. I enjoyed watching the kids play in the pool.
Later, we all got ready and headed down to the Riverwalk for dinner. I loved it, because we got to walk along the water canals, surrounded by trees and flowers and on the river, ducks and boats floated by.
We had to wait for a while to get seated and there were so many people everywhere. We finally got a table.
It was a little difficult to sit still that long. We had to wait for a while to get served and there was so much activity around me. A Mexican band played music and it helped some.
The next morning, we had breakfast and headed for the pool.
I try so hard to learn how to swim. I kick my legs and hold my head up above the water. I looked a little silly with the green thing on my head. It was just another (failed) attempt to waterproof my ears.
Lang omma tried to get some sun too.
After the pool, we packed our bags and headed out to town one last time. I went to the park with omma and mostur.
Mom and lang omma went to the mall.
In the end I crashed. Too much fun for me.
Of course, we had to get back home and had a long drive ahead of us. We stopped at a picnic area, played, waved at the cows and a big truck. We finally made it back to rainy Houston.
Benjamin
