I love the North Shore

This morning we got in the car very early and drove to the North Shore. It's about an hour and a half drive but it's definitely worth it. We stayed at the Waimea Beach Park for 2 hours and Sarah actually swam in the ocean. It was the first time since we've been here so it was pretty amazing. Sarah also made some friends which always makes her day. Dann and I took turns swimming; I love swimming it gives me such a huge sense of freedom. I can't wait until Julia learns because I know she's gonna love it with the rest of us. Julia and Sarah did have a lot of fun making cakes and sand castles. Julia was making chocolate budge cake for her friends; she is so funny. It was a nice Stay-cation.

Sarah went with Dann to the game store yesterday. Dann told me that she kept waving to the clerk until he noticed her and then she said hi. When they were about to leave she did the same thing to say bye and then she gave him an air kiss! I am in for some trouble.

I started a garden a while back and on Sarahs' birthday we planted sunflower seeds. She got them as part of her present from Aunt Mary. Today they came up and I was so excited. So all day Sarah and I have been just playing in the dirt. She keeps saying she's a big girl and that she wants to share her life with me because big girls share there lives. She really is growing up fast.

My 4 year old keeps telling me that she wants me to be a princess one day so that I can be pretty and wear dresses. She makes me feel so loved.

Sarah had her birthday on the 9th and she had an amazing time. She opened most of her presents in the morning and she got Dora Saves the Mermaids from us. So she spent hours watching that because she was waiting for that one since Christmas. I made her favorite Macaroni meal for lunch. Then we picked up her Dora, Swiper, and Boots cake with flowers. She'd been asking for that for a week so she loved it. We took the cake to Grandmas and swam there. Once dinner got started Sarah could barely sit down because she was so excited. I got quite a migraine because the whole day she was shouting about her Birthday and playing the Chicken Dance song that her Nana got her. Betty got her this Chicken Dance skirt that has the music box in it. Sarah took the music box out and carried it everywhere with her. Luckily she left it at Grandmas. But she had a great time so I wasn't too worried about my migraine.

Dann, the girls, and I saw Kung Fu Panda yesterday. Well Julia and I didn't as much because she kept needing to "use the potty"; which was really her excuse to push buttons on a arcade machine. I was a little peeved but realistically that's to be expected of a 2 year old. The 20 minutes we saw of the movie was funny especially because Sarah was laughing hysterically. Just hearing her laugh like that made it worth coming. So Julia and I eventually ended up going to the price buster store that was next door to the movie theater. It was lucky we did because I found kid hangers and I looked everywhere for them; so it was a happy accident that I sort of found them by dumb luck. I love when that sort of thing happens. I also bought a float ring for when Julia gets in the pool. It's a really cute poka dot hippopotamus; she called it a Backyardigan at first because it looks alot like Uniqua the poka dotted hippopotamus. But it helped her stay in the pool last night with Dann and Sarah which was awesome. Usually she gets in the pool for about 20 minutes and then she's done but she had so much fun floating around.
After they were done swimming in the pool I made shrimp cakes with pepper cream sauce. I kept messing up and having to fix up my mess so I wasn't sure if the shrimp cakes would turn out all right. But everybody liked them. We had to drink milk with them though because they were so spicy. We also got our Play Station back after weeks of it being out of service. It got replaced by a new one so everything was wiped clean. But Dann was presently surprised we got it back so soon. Because it had been only a week since we had actually sent it in. So we were very happy to get it back especially Dann because now he'll be able to play Metal Gear Solid when it comes out.

The Brokers Open House was fine. Only 5 people came to this one and everyone was pretty nice. Dad might want me to do more which would be nice. It's great to get out of the house for a couple of hours where it's nice and quite. The house was beautiful; I wanted to live there.

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Yesterday Dad asked me to sit in on a open house for him. I just need to literally sit there so it should be easy enough. It's nice to know I can do him a favor since he and mom are doing so much for us.

Sarah is becoming a really good swimmer. She jumps in the pool now and sticks her head under while she's swimming. She just loves the pool. Dann convinced her of how fun dipping your head under water is and she; it took a while for her but she caught on and is having a great time with it.