Father & Son's Campout

On their way to the annual Father and Son's camp out a couple weeks ago.  Cody was so excited he could hardly stand it. 

Green Tiger

Yesterday Cody advanced another belt level to green tiger.  He is very excited!  It hard to believe that he has now been taking kung fu for eight months.  Way to go Cody!

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On Monday night, while David was at school my parents took me out to dinner to The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate my birthday.  The weather was great so we sat outside by the fire.  It was pretty perfect, minus the fact that David wasn't able to join us.  Tyler is in town this week and was able to come so that made it extra special.  I also received lots of phone calls and emails from all the wonderful people in my life.  Thanks everyone!

Scandia

Last weekend Cody, Grammy, Poppy and I went to Scandia to go miniature golfing.  It was Cody's first time.  Despite the hot weather we had a lot of fun.

A Change In Plans

It has pretty much been raining all week long. A little bit of a disappointment for the week of spring break but we are making due. This morning Cody had plans to go with a friend to a local kids museum but twenty minutes before I was planning on dropping him off they had to cancel. He was pretty disappointed so to salvage the day off to Chuck E. Cheese we went. We spent about an hour playing games. I love to watch Cody as he concentrates. His little tongue pops out every time. Cody earned himself 152 tickets for which he was very excited. He picked out a couple prizes and we headed to McDonald's for lunch. We are now home for about an hour and then off to kung fu. I'm hoping to get one more fun thing in before we head into the weekend and back into our regular routine.

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

To kick off spring break on Monday I took Cody to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. My dad was kind enough to come with.

One of the first things we did was take an elephant ride. Despite the super uncomfortable ride Cody loved it. Next, we hit up the bird show at Cody's request. He had remembered it from the last time he was there with Grammy and Poppy about six months ago. I was really surprised how much he loved the birds. Right after the bird show we hit up the dolphin show. It was pretty amazing. I had seen it before -- many years ago but I had forgotten how good it was. We scored a seat in the sixth row and Cody was worried we might get wet. Luckily we just enjoyed watching others, some unsuspecting, get soaked.

We hit up a few rides throughout the day and ended with the race cars. Cody was trilled when he learned he was tall enough to drive but once it came time to get in the actual car he was about five inches short of reaching the pedals. He was disappointed but as you can see from the pictures he had a great time anyway.

Oakland Zoo

Just prior to spring break Cody's class took a field trip to the Oakland Zoo. Some of you may know that I am not a zoo fan but Cody really wanted to me to go so how could I say no? I will admit that it was an enjoyable little trip. It was fun to chat with some of the other moms who attended, the weather was perfect and we were only there for about three hours (which was plenty of time in my opinion).

Below is a picture of Cody and his little friend Bryn. Not only are they in the same kindergarten class but they also take kung fu together. She is six going on sixteen and has a little crush on Cody. Cody often comes home with little "love" notes from Bryn.