Zeke pilots a 747

There is a small aviation museum near us in San Carlos. It consists mainly of a sizable collection of old and new aircraft. But, there's also an old shell of a Boeing 747 aft section, which includes the cockpit. How exciting to be in the right seat of one of the World's finest jetliners. Too bad I can't reach the yoke, see out the windows or feel the pedals on the floor. We'll have to come back when I am bigger.

Happy Easter 2008

I've been busy out in the yard. While I was playing in the park, the Easter bunny must've come and laid some eggs for me. They were everywhere, in the bushes, on the lawn and up high on the flower boxes. Not to worry, I found them all. There was even bread and cornflakes in some of them - how yummy for me. Some had chocolate, some had jelly beans, but I still like finding the ones with crunchy munchy cereal inside.

There were so many eggs that I was already looking to find the next one before the current one was in the basket. It has been a good Easter. That said, the questionable phenomenon of the Easter bunny being able to lay eggs confuses me to no end.

GrannyM's birthday

GrannyM and Pop-pop came to visit me this weekend. We had a very busy time while they were here. It had been Granma's birthday a few weeks earlier but she was sick and had to stay home. So we made up for it. We had dinner with everyone on Friday evening (and I got to skip my bath).

On Saturday, we went to the park with my bicycle and I showed everyone what a good cyclist I've become. Then we went to see Cirque du Soleil's lastest incarnation, Kooza. This is the non-animal troupe from Montreal which often features an eclectic mix of traditional and not-so-traditional circus acts. You have to see it to understand its appeal. Afterwards we met up with Uncle Billy and Auntie Carolyn for a fine meal at the same restaurant where Mommy and Daddy were married. Phew, it was a big day for me - and I got to skip my bath again.

On Sunday we got up and had bagels for breakfast, and then headed down to Happy Hollow in San Jose to see the animals. Lots of playing and feeding at the petting zoo, but no swimming this time. It wasn't quite warm enough to do that. My favorite part may have been pretending I was a goat and dominating the little mound of rocks in their enclosure. I'm sure they didn't mind that I was king for a while.

Lastly, we found a little cave to climb in next to the lemur exhibit. It was built so small people could have a secure, appropriately-sized place to watch the animals. We came home and had a big lunch, a nap and Mommy finally gave me a bath. It was nice to be clean again.

I can't believe it's Monday already. GrannyM and Pop-pop have gone home and the house is quiet. It was a fun, but exhausting weekend. We also lost an hour's sleep to daylight savings time, so don't mind me if I'm behaving a little crabby. It was totally worth it.

Zeum with friends

I know, I know, you're asking what is Zeum. I am not sure myself because I never went inside, but our friends in the first picture did and I'm pretty sure they had fun. Zeum is a multimedia arts and technology museum in San Francisco, but I'm still a little young for those things. Besides I was also feeling a bit under the weather from a virus I probably picked up from my new classmates last week. Our daycare has increased from the three older boys (me, Yusef and Aaron) to include three additional infants - Dou Dou, Yuen Yuen, and Wade are all new members to our group. Hua and Yang Duo have their hands full with the new babies.

Back to the picture though, the two girls are daughters of Mama's childhood friend, Molly. Their names are Tori and Casey and they also happened to be our neighbors when we lived in Montara. The boy is the son of a different childhood friend, Aeky. His name is Andrew and they live out in Sacramento. We went to visit them last summer and swam in the big pool near their house. We try to get together at least once a year to catch up.

There is a nice play area in front of Zeum where we spent quite a bit of time in the beautiful spring weather. Luckily there was a fountain with cascading water, a big sandbox, and several large slides. The second picture is me climbing down the stairs leading to the big slide because I decided it was too big once I was at the top. I think Papa really wanted to try the slide but felt funny going down by himself. Next time.