Decker J, Social Butterfly
Hi everybody! Hope you all had a fun 4th of July weekend! Mine was really busy, but it sure was fun! And boy did it wear me out!
On Saturday morning I went to the Farmer’s Market in SF with my mom and dad, plus Cappy, Pammy and Katil. The Farmer’s Market is really cool, because you get to eat lots and lots of fruit! Pammy bought me some blueberries of my very own (YUM!), plus all the nice people at the market tents were giving away free slices of peach and plum! It was like I’d gone fruit heaven! And there’s this really cool statue of a man walking with a stick, and I love statues, so Daddy and I hung out there for a while too. There was a man playing something that looked like a guitar (Katil called it a banjo), and I liked his music a lot! I clapped and danced along, and then Pammy gave me a dollar to put in his bucket - that was fun!
The next day, Daddy and Mommy and I went to Grandpa Rick and Grandma Chris’s house for a party. There were lots and lots of grownups there, plus two other little boys. I spent a lot of time playing on the slide, and then my uncle Ryan let me climb in the front and back of his big green truck! That was cool! I also played in the paddle pool for a bit, and ate lots of grapes for lunch. Later on I was sitting on the swing and fell off and hurt my nose on the ground. It hurt a lot but mostly it just surprised me, and I tried really hard to be brave and let Daddy put an ice pack on my nose and then cuddled on his lap. A sound nap on the way home helped a lot! I have a big boo boo on my nose now - Mommy calls it my battle scar!
The day after that, GQ and great-aunt Leisa drove down in GQ’s blue van and we all met at the park with the blue garbage cans and the climbing rocks. (Mommy calls it Civic Park). They brought two little doggies with them, named Peri and Max. It took me a while to get comfortable with the doggies, but I faced my fears and even tried to play peek-a-boo with them at the end of the afternoon. I got to climb on rocks, show GQ how I can go down the big kid slide, and count all the blue garbage cans! It was fun!
Then the NEXT day, I let my mommy and daddy sleep in until 7:30 am! Wasn’t that nice of me? That afternoon, they took me to see a real big boy grownup movie called “Cars”! It’s about cars! There’s a red car named Lightning McQueen and a blue car named Doc and another blue car named Sally and a brown truck named Mater and a green car named Chick. They all go really really fast and they were funny and I liked the movie a lot! A movie is like tv, but it’s on a super big screen in an humongous living room with lots of other people, plus they turn off all the lights. Pammy sat next to me and let me snuggle on her lap while we watched. Katil and Tully and Cappy were there too - we all had a very good time!
After the movie, we went back to Pammy and Cappy’s house to eat some peach pie (why do grownups ruin fruit by putting it in a pie? They all seemed to really like it though - I guess Cappy made it all by himself!), and then we piled into Cappy’s red truck and drove to Moraga and walked up this big hill at the park there and put out a bunch of blankets and sat down for dinner. (I had plums and banana! Yum!). There was a band playing music, and Katil and Tully took me down the hill so we could go listen to it and dance- that was hecka neat! Pammy joined us too, and we all boogied down! Then they took me over to the playground so I could have fun on the train and the slide some more. After that, we went back up the hill and all the grownups were really boring and wanted to stay under the blankets to keep warm - but I wanted to play! So Tully let me play hide and seek with her and her blanket for a long long time - thanks Tully! Silly Katil got very cold, so she put my extra sweatshirt over her head,with only her nose sticking out! Then it got dark and you could see the moon and some stars, and then - there were these really awesome lights called ‘fireworks’ that kept popping up in the sky! They were orange and red and green and purple - sooooo pretty! Mommy taught me to say “ooh” and “aah” every time they popped up! When it was over I was TIRED! So we bundled up and went back to the car and drove on home. A long weekend, but lots of good memories!