Merry Christmas party at His Kids school program

Yesterday I had my first full fledged party at school. It was great to see mama, dada, and Ga all together in the middle of the day! When they walked in the room, I quickly "left my tape" spot and ran over to them.
This is perhaps the only moment all the kids stood still before mayhem broke loose. With the exception of the girl in pink pants, we were all, all over the place. Me especially, no surprise.

We got presents after performing.

I got my first Veggie Tales book!

And then we all sang happy birthday to Jesus, ate cake, and went home to take naps. What a wonderful world!

Sickie, sick. I do love school, but since I've started going, I've been, you know it, sick, sick, sick. Seems like every Monday I get a new bug. This weekend I was, yep, sick, and mama and I stayed in jammies and watched LOTS of Wonder Pets and ate chicken noodle soup. We are conserving energy for our trip to Minnesota for Christmas.

Goal oriented
On Friday morning, I finally earned the green racing car that's been sitting on the shelf tempting me for 6 weeks for pooping in the potty with dada. I didn't go at all for mama on Saturday, went three times in my big boy underwear on Sunday, and then yesterday, it all came together and I earned four cars. I am a pooping machine.
Today, Ga emailed mama and told her to pick up cars on the way home! We were out. As soon as mama walked in, I pooped, then pooped again, and here I am picking out my next car. That's two more cars tonight! Mama told me I'd better take a break until tomorrow. So goodnight, I'm pooped.

It's beginning to "sound" a lot like Christmas.

Turkey, guacamole and margaritas? Yea, baby!

The plan had been to spend the long Thanksgiving weekend at Ga and Papa's house at Crystal Beach, but since those crazies are still camping out with no lights and climbing up a ladder to get inside, the family decided to head south to Mexico for turkey day. And we were all so thankful!

We stayed at the Paradisio Resort, 20 minutes south of Cancun airport, along the Mayan Riviera. How hot is that? The resort was beautiful, with a huge pool, and easy access to the white sand beaches and crystal clear water. I could barely contain my excitement!

I had a ball playing in the water, where I could actually see my toes the whole time!

Dada and I built sandcastles, or tried to. The sand was so fine, it was hard to make it stick.

The hotel had two parrots that I always wanted to go visit. I thought it was very cool that they ate strawberries and melon, so that's what I ate at every meal too.

Mama (who was recovering from a doozie of a cold) and dada were also able to relax, as we all took naps every day in our king size bed in the hotel room. Of course, I got to wind down with The Wonder Pets, which is my absolute favorite thing in the world right now. What's gonna work? TEAMWORK!

Here is Ga and me posing outside of the hotel room. We liked to perch on the window and check out the scene.

I have to say that the food was awesome. I ate lots more than anyone would have thought I could squeeze into my little body. I made friends with the waiters and waitresses, who all learned my name and thought I was pretty funny running around like a nut.

Mama and I got to spend the morning in the pool when dada went fishing one day. How pretty is that water? I also really enjoyed the swim up pool bar. I was only drinking orange juice people, really!

One afternoon, mama and dada and I went on an adventure to a zoo. No one knew quite what to expect.

First, we saw tons of crocodiles. Tons! They were big and kind of scary.

Then, I actually got to touch a crocodile. Mama was glad that the crocodile's head, with all those scary teeth, was facing the other direction.

It was very cool to see one of these guys so close up.

Hey, what's that?

OH, it's just Jessica the monkey, here to get some peanuts. I was happy to give them to her, because, as I like to repeat, "peanuts make me sick." Jessica is actually a wild monkey that stays at the zoo, even though she could leave, because people like me like to feed her peanuts.

Jessica can be a naughty monkey though.

Next we saw some snakes. I wasn't too sure about it, but I did eventually decide to hold the boa constrictor for awhile.

Look at the hairless Aztec dog. He was very sweet, but very expensive - they cost $5000 each in Mexico, and you have to put sunblock on them before you can take them for a walk!

At one point on our tour, our guide opened a chain link door so that we could walk into a fenced in area. Soon, we noticed that there were 40 CROCODILES JUST HANGING OUT, WAITING TO EAT US. We had to move very slowly, and mama was quite freaked out about the whole experience. Me too - check out my expression when the guide told us to sit in front of this crocodile for a picture. Don't think this is going to make the Christmas card!

Next we got to feed some deer, and I got to ride on one. All I could think about was my friend's dad's in Texas, who would like those horns displayed on their walls.

It was very cool to feed them, though.
Uh oh, what's that?

Oh, it's just Jessica here again, wanting another peanut snack.

And this time she brought her baby monkey along - look how cute she is!

Back at the hotel, we had one special dinner at the Mexican Restaurant, the Tequila Grille. I stopped to dance with the Mariachi band before we ate.

Mama and Ga both had this delicious marinated cactus salad as an appetizer. I ate more strawberries and melon.

The resort had a nativity scene set up, so we had to check it out. The only problem was that baby Jesus was missing. We think that some drunk person, not that there were many around, but come on, it was an all inclusive, stole it.

At night the resort was beautiful with all the lights and bridges crossing over the water.
But, before we knew it, it was time to pack our bags and head home. It was definitely sad Monday around there, even if I did have a new Wonder Pets book to read.

Papa helped to make it better, especially when he bought me letter shaped gummies to eat on the plane!

Trip to the Montrose Firestation

My friend Liam's daddy is my hero - he's a fireman. I kept hearing about him, so I asked mama to set up a playdate with Liam and his mama to go visit the firehouse. Serious connections, people.

William, where are you?
Here he is! How cool is that? Liam and I got to crawl all over the firetruck. I even got to drive. Look how huge the wheel is!

We got to play with all kinds of contraptions. And I even got to hold the firehose. William said I showed promise.

What a great trip! Thanks to William and all the guys for making us feel welcome - we even got coloring books and stickers. And, we PROMISE to bring food next time!

It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas...we're taking the easy route this year since we'll be in Minnesota freezing our touches off...pre-lit mini Christmas trees!

Trip to the Houston AquariumMama had to work last Sunday (hence the seriously interrupted blogging), so dada and I drove down after my nap to visit her and take her to dinner. We got "the pass", which allowed to do all sorts of fun stuff. First we rode the ferris wheel. I wasn't so sure about it, until mama pulled out the John Deere gummies and then everything was just fine.
Can't beat gummies up in the sky!

Next we rode on the train, which was very cool since I'm all about trains these days. I even plan to ask Santa Claus for a train set.

At one point, the train stopped inside a big tunnel. All of a sudden the lights turned on and we were surrounded by SHARKS! Dada, look out, there's one headed straight for your head. I kept saying "get out, get out now!"

Mama thought it was cool when a big shark passed over us. I was still saying "get out, get out now." Eventually they let us out.
I was much happier on the merry go round, although it took me five tries to decide which sea animal to ride on. I eventually went with the sea horse.

While we were waiting in line, mama and I crawled on these guys.
We also got to tour the actual acquarium. I stared at this huge fish. He was cool!

Dada showed me his favorite fish, the arawana. Dada used to have an arawana in his fish tank, but he stopped buying them after his favorite one jumped out of the tank and stunk up mama and dada's old apartment.