Decker

Hi everyone! Well, that’s what you chant at a baseball game! “Let’s Go, Oakland! cha cha cha” (at least that’s how it sounds to me!). This week Daddy surprised us with tix to a baseball game, and it was pretty fun! At baseball games, there are all these people down on the grass, and they throw balls to each other and hit them with sticks (grownups call them ‘bats’, but they didn’t have wings). Anyway, there’s also a really big tv and some speakers that a man talks out of, and there are flags, and concrete stairs you can sit on. At baseball games, you get to eat hot dogs (I tried 2 bites - yum!) and have lots of juice boxes. Sutter is just a baby, so he slept on Mommy’s lap the whole time. Daddy took me to the potty like 10 times! (I love my juice boxes). Sometimes the grownups around you get a little crazy and shout really loudly and say naughty words. I bet they had to take a timeout when they went home. Best of all - the very nice security man standing near our seats gave me a REAL baseball to keep! It had been used at batting practice before the game started - it has grass stains on it and everything! I had fun at the game, but I was tired when it was time to go home, and I slept a LONG time in the car!

Have a good weekend!

Hi everyone! April has been very busy, and it’s been a lot of fun so far! A couple of weeks ago, Daddy went down to Arizona for his cousin’s wedding. Mommy, Sutter and I stayed behind and we missed him but we also kept easily distracted because it was Easter that weekend too! So they wouldn’t be lonely, we decided to go over and have Easter with Pammy and Cappy. Katil and Tully came over too, so it was like a big party! Easter is really cool - first, you decorate all the eggs on the night before. I got to help for the first time this year, and I did a great job! To decorate eggs, you make all these different glasses of colored water that look like juice but you can’t drink them. Then you put the egg on a little spoon-thing and you dip it into the water and let it sit there. If you want to, you can color on them ahead of time, so your name will show up on the egg after you decorate it. Cappy got a little bored and very silly, and so he dipped each of his fingers into a different color! His fingers looked like used popsicle sticks! Then after we decorated the eggs, we left them with our Easter baskets by the front door for the Easter Bunny to find. Then we went to bed. The Easter Bunny and Santa Claus have the same rules, and you have to be asleep or they can’ t come visit your house. (I guess they like privacy). The next morning we all woke up and got to look for all the eggs and the baskets! I was a really good egg hunter - I found almost all of them and I also found mine AND Sutter’s AND my mommy’s baskets! They were all really close to the ground - thanks Easter Bunny! Easter baskets are great because they are full of toys and m & m’s! Mmmmmm!

Then, this past weekend it was my Daddy’s birthday! We all went to the Monterey Aquarium for the day, and it was so much fun! We saw penguins, played on a neat indoor playground that looked like the coral reef in Finding Nemo, and then we actually FOUND Nemo! And Dory! We also saw divers who were inside this big tank and cleaning the windows, and we saw river otters and sharks and jellyfish! It was very crowded when we left, and it was rainy outside, so we took a long drive home through Santa Cruz and Sutter and I napped most of the way. When we got home, it was time for Daddy to open his presents. I helped him, but he takes too slow! Sutter and I gave him a copy of The Muppet Movie, and we watched it together that night. It was pretty funny - there is a frog named Kermit and a bear named Fozzie and a pig named Piggy Fun times!

Sutter is still a lot of fun to play with. Now he can scootch towards me, and I let him ‘chase’ me and then he tries to eat my knees. I can make him laugh and he likes to listen to me read my books. He is still a baby, so he doesn’t get to go to big kid school like me. Maybe when he is bigger. We were on spring break last week, but I got to go back to school yesterday and it was neat to be back! This week we are learning about animals that hatch from eggs. Did you know chicks hatch from eggs? And then they say ‘peep peep’! And they are fuzzy and  yellow. Cool, huh?

Have a good week!