This month, we had this conversation at a restaurant over lunch:
Dad: Corbin, do you want to try my root beer?
You: I'm too young to drink beer!
Me: No, no, it's like a soda.
You: I can't drink soda!
We had this exchange with Grandpa:
You, holding up a Twizzler: Mom, look what Grandpa gave me.
Me, intending to be teasing: Did somebody give you a treat?
You, starting to cry: Grandpa, you're not supposed to give me treats!
One day, you gave Grandpa back a couple of little gummy fruit snacks and said, "I've had enough sugar!" You might think that this speaks well of your eating habits, but there was also the day that you ate chocolate pudding for afternoon snack, chocolate pudding for dinner, chocolate ice cream for dessert (delayed from lunch time) and then fried rice and yogurt for bed time snack.
We met our science quota for the month: You and Dad went to the Madrona Nature Center for a presentation about raptors, and got to see two hawks and several owls. Aunt Tabetha's birthday was this month, so you and I took her to see the Space Shuttle Endeavor at the CA Science Center. We got to do a simulated shuttle ride and we watched the IMAX 3D about the Hubble Telescope. After that, we tried to do some other parts of the Science Center, but you discovered the room about water and rivers and after that all you wanted to do was play with the water exhibits. We'll have to do the rest some other time.
We met our sight-seeing quota for the month: We went to the Flower District one Saturday morning, to see the original Los Angeles Flower Market, which was opened in 1921. They had some pretty standard selections, but they also had a huge display of beautiful orchids. I bought a Hawaiian volcano plant, which is an anthurium growing on a piece of volcanic rock. It's pretty cool. Anthuriums were the flower that your Grandma Lam carried in her wedding, so it's kind of sentimental to have one in the house.
We went to the Santa Monica Pier one day. I thought it would be sight-seeing, but it's actually an amusement park. So you rode the child-sized bumper cars and we went on the Ferris wheel together. Then we went down off the pier and played on the beach a little while.
We also went to Griffith Park. We thought we'd go to the zoo, but it was much too hot and too expensive. We decided that we would wait until October or November, and go for either Dad's or Grandpa's birthday. We did ride the little park train twice, and the carousel twice. You even got to have your first pony ride. You were old enough to choose between a slow ride, at a walk, or a medium ride, at a trot. We watched some other kids on the ponies, and you decided on the medium ride. Grandma was watching from the side and she didn't know that you had chosen the faster ride. When your pony started trotting away with you, she thought you were in trouble! Even though it was a bouncy ride, you thought it was a lot of fun.
We even met our quota for traveling this month: We went down to San Diego for a few days to go to that zoo and visit Uncle Alex and Aunt Lena. The San Diego zoo is pretty great--we got to see the pandas and some awesome big cats. It's too big to do in one morning, and it's built in the hills, so that one morning was totally exhausting. Plus, we all stayed in one hotel room, so nobody got any sleep. We came home the next day, instead of staying and going to the aquarium at Scripps.
And after that month, we were all tired out. Good thing it's the start of the school year and we can only do things on the weekends.
Love,
Mom
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