Riding a rocket in the store

I love going to the small Community Store on Ocracoke Island, where I live. But I wish they had cool shopping carts like the big stores in Hawaii have!

Check it out - it's a rocket ship!



Oh, boy - this is fun!



Mommy pushed me, and she even made rocket ship noises to make it extra exciting!

Sidewalk chalk

Tutu Katy lives on a cul-de-sac, which I think is just a fancy word for a big area where you can draw with chalk!

Mommy wrote my name.



I helped Tutu Katy with her sun drawing.



Then Tutu and Mommy traced my feet...





...and then everybody else's feet, too. But mine are the cutest because they are the smallest!



This is a tracing Aunt Kati did around my Mommy. I think the hair part is funny!

Bubbles!

Auntie Annie bought me some really great presents! One of them is this bubble blowing machine which makes LOADS of bubbles really quickly. I had so much fun chasing them around Tutu Katy's yard!









In this picture, you can also see another cool thing I got to play with - a cow lawnmower. It mooed when I pushed it!

Sooo tired!

After my big day going to the zoo, to see the big yellow firetruck, and to Grammy's, I was REALLY tired. I was sooo tired that I fell asleep in the car on the way back to Tutu's house. Then, when we got there, I was so tired that I didn't wake up when Aunt Kati took me out of my car seat and carried me inside. And I was so tired that when Mommy tried to change my diaper to put me to bed, I rolled over and tried to go to sleep right there, even though I wasn't in my bed and I was half naked!

Visiting Grammy

As promised, here's a blog about my visit to Grammy's house. She lives in a big building with a nice pool, so we went for a swim. Then, she made us a really delicious dinner. It was a really fun visit!

Here are some pictures of me with Grammy.

Yellow Hawaiian fire truck

After we went to the Zoo, we went to visit my Grammy Norma (Tutu Katy's mommy). Aunt Kati and I will post a blog with pictures of that visit, but in the meantime, here's another blog. Right across the street from where Grammy lives, there's a fire station. So we went to visit, and I got to see the fire truck! The fire truck where I live is red, but the one I got to see in Hawaii was yellow.

I went to the Zoo!

We went to the Honolulu Zoo and I got to see lots of animals.

I enjoyed climbing on these hippos with Mommy. Tutu Katy said that my Daddy used to climb on them when he was a little boy, too!





Then I got to see some big elephants...



...and a small elephant statue!



I learned there are lots of different types of turtles...





Mommy and I got to go through a tunnel...



...and then pop up in the middle of this fish tank!



I petted a goat. It wasn't as soft as my kitties at home!



Did you notice Honu my turtle in these pictures? Here's one where you can really see him, just in case you didn't yet.



Auntie Annie bought Honu for me at Sea Life Park, and as you can see I really love him!

Wow, giraffes are tall!



I thought this peacock was pretty.



Aunt Kati thought this zoo sign was pretty funny.



It says "This is the best zoo to be found for 2300 miles in any direction." I agree!

Sea life and beach fun

Here's another blog about some of the fun things we did during our trip to Hawaii. We went to a really cool place called Sea Life Park, where we got to watch seals and dolphins do tricks, jump and swim.









We also got to see lots of water animals in big aquariums. I liked looking at them with Mommy.



Check out the cool turtles.



I got to touch one!



Mommy loved the penguins.



We also got to go to the beach a bunch of times, because there are lots of really pretty beaches in Hawaii. I had so much fun jumping in the waves with Tutu Katy and Mommy!

Riding around

One of the fun toys that Tutu Katy had at her house for me to play with is this great push and ride horse. It plays music!

Tutu's house is on a cul-de-sac, which means that there's a big circle for me to play in outside. I liked riding the horse around out there...



...and I also liked putting my sandals in its basket and pushing it around.

In just under one month...

...I'll be two!

Since I'm not at home with Squeakers, Aunt Kati took my picture with the two cute monkeys Tutu Katy got for me.


Smiles...


...and laughs!


Carrying the monkey around!

Aunt Kati says that there will be a party for me, to celebrate being two years old, and that if you want to buy me a present for my party, that would be great! If you need some ideas, you can look at our wishlist here. (Just ignore the things on there that aren't for me - this list is leftover from Christmas.)

A party for me, with presents!

Aunt Kati, Mommy and I went on some long plane rides and now we are in Hawaii visiting Tutu Katy! I knew as soon as we got to Tutu's house and I saw the cool toys she had for me that I was going to have fun with her. And then, today, she threw a party for me! People even brought me presents! This is going to be a great vacation...

A bunch of people came to the party. These are some of Tutu Katy's friends.



And here's some more of my family - Aunt Annie (standing up), Grammy Norma (in the red and white shirt) and Aunt Marian. (And that's my Mommy sitting there at the table with them, but of course you knew that.)



There was lots of great food at the party, and everyone said I was really cute. So here's a picture of me being cute!