BIKER BABE

When the festivities were done and finished at the park and everyone had packed up to go home, Mimi and I took Butch over to the school yard for a while since it was still light outside. As usual Ollie thought he would come with us too. Ollie is so protective of Butch. People at the school yard thought it was hilarious that Ollie should follow us all around the school grounds.

The four wheel bike is what Mimi received for her birthday way back in January but unfortunately the weather was never nice enough for her to enjoy it until now and boy does she really love it.

MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION AT THE PARK

AT THE PARK

Our weather has been amazingly gorgeous lately. As usual dad and Mimi went out to breakfast together just by themselves. Mom was able to get a couple hours of R&R by herself.

In the afternoon while dad stayed home to clean the carpet, Mimi and myself went out to get lunch. However, we past the park and Mimi saw her good friend Alex (left boy). I knew right then and there that it was all over. I was however able to convince her to go with me and get some lunch to bring back to the park. The boy in the middle is her new friend Anthony. Anthony is 4 years old and will be starting kindergarten this fall at Mimi's school.

MIMI AND RACHEL

Since this is a long weekend, there is not much going on at our house. Dad is doing some yard work that needs to get done such as mowing the grass. Mom and Mimi have been working hard at the piano. Mimi has several new songs that she needed to get ready before going to see Ms. Celia on Monday morning. Our Mimi bless her little heart, like many people when they start a new project, hates to do the work but when she does, she loves the end result.

Whenever Mimi gets a new piece of music she has to learn. She just hates it. "It's BORING MOM!!!" she cries. 'I like things that are FUN, FUN, FUN!!!" she will then tell me. We will work each piece through slowly together. However when Maddie comes over to help her, the lessons are "AMAZING" Mimi will tell me. Oh well such is life.

In the afternoon (Saturday) we headed over to our local McDonald's for Rachel's 6th birthday party. All of the kids had soooo much fun.

PIANO LESSONS

I love our neighborhood. It is so family friendly oriented. Friday afternoon Maddie (7) stopped by to help Mimi with her piano lessons. Mimi just adores Maddie. When Mimi goes to school, Maddie and her friends are on the playground at lunch. Mimi always will go over to talk with the girls. To Mimi, Maddie is like her big sister.

LEAVING LOUELLA'S

Like I posted before, Louella lives in the rural part of town. The people out here have horses and cows in their front and backyard. It kind of cool living up here in Washington. Mimi is able to see so many different kinds of animals that she would miss out on had we still been at our old place. We just stopped off the side of the road to take these pictures of mama and baby.

MIMI, NATALIE AND MARCUS

Every Friday morning I try to make it over to my friend Louella's house. It is very hard for her to get out on Friday's as she lives with her son Don and his family and she has to babysit the grandkids on that day. For me Friday mornings are the easiest to get out as we don't have anything scheduled before school. So Friday mornings we meet at Louella's. Natalie (4) and Marcus (2) are always sooooo happy to have Mimi come play with them. They just have loads and loads of fun together. Louella lives in the rural part of town so there is tons of room for the kids to run and jump. This particular day the kids were playing "secret agent" and they were looking for all sorts of clues.

LUGNUTS vs BATS

At last Wednesday's game, the coach had Mimi be the catcher. I must say that she did pretty darn good too. She really kicked butt that day. Mom's family is big time Dodger fans. Now that we live up here in Washington, mom has also become a Mariner's fan. I think that they are doing a great job with their new coach Don Wakamatsu. They are doing soooo much better than last year. Still a Dodger fan too. Mimi loves to watch the Mariners too. Her favorite player is Ichiro. She will stop whatever she is doing at the time to watch him play. I must say that Kenji Johjima is a fantastic catcher too.