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05/20/2005 Archived Entry: "out, about, here, there, everywhere"

Wednesday morning I got the idea to walk to the mall, so off we went. I didn't have Daisy's stroller or the Baby Bjorn though, so I used one of Tabitha's old strollers. Of course, the minute we left, Daisy needed to eat, so I carried her while feeding her and Tabitha got to realize one of her fondest dreams of pushing a stroller. I have a rule of children not pushing strollers because they tend to push them in to people, but since we were on an empty sidewalk and the baby was not in the stroller, I said to go for it. Once I could not carry the baby any further I laid her down in the stroller and she was okay with that for about 20 minutes but then she very much wanted to sit up. She was lifting her head and grunting as she leaned forward from the laying down position. So I decided to try it. She can sit up in her stroller because it has 5 positions so we just put her in the least straight one when she wants to sit. But this stroller only has two positions, laying down, or sitting straight up. So I sat her up and used a blanket on either side of her for extra support and that made her very happy. And she barely tipped, so bonus :)

We stopped in Toys R Us on the way to the mall and meandered about for awhile. I ended up buying a card game based on Rock, Paper, Scissors. Basically it's like war and I knew Tabitha would enjoy it. Plus, I like that it's a quick type game since it's just once through the deck (unlike war). After that we went to the mall and had lunch. I was so pleased to see that our Hot Dog on a Stick now carries the veggie corn dogs. Yay! Usually we can only find them in malls in higher income bracket neighborhoods so we were very happy to see them here. Tabs had one and later when Chris joined us, he also had one. I'll buy them often just on principal, kind of like when we're at Dodger Stadium I always buy a veggie dog to encourage them to keep them on the menu.

As I mentioned, Chris did join us at the mall and then there was soccer for Tabitha, then we had dinner with my mil where Daisy proceeded to remind us not to take her to dinner. It was early, but she was screeching something fierce. They where happy screeches, but schreeches nonetheless so Chris and I took turns of keeping her in the foyer. My mil then took Tabitha to hula and I dropped Chris and Daisy off at home and then went on to hula.

Yesterday, Chris stayed home at my request, but then we ended up at Disneyland. Actually, we hit California Adventure first and found two new characters! We saw Chicken Little and Abby Mallard from the upcoming Chicken Little movie (do I need mention that the Character site is updated?). It was one heck of a long day because after Disney we went straight to Tabitha's acting class. Her last one is next week and she's pretty much decided just to do "Scenes from 'Joe' " and not do her monologue. She hasn't been rehearsing her monologue at all and with all her hula dances crammed into her head, something had to give. She knows her lines for the play though. We can't wait to sit in and video tape :)

Tabitha practiced one of her dances for us this evening. We're working on fine tuning a lot of her movements, such as placement of her hands and taming her koholos. Our goal is daily practice between now and the ho'ike. We've gotten past the part where she felt she was good and knew it all and didn't need any help. Both Chris and I have talked to her enough about always being able to get better and it helps that she desperately wants to compete in a couple years so we told her how nitpicky the judges are and that we need to fix everything now. So her practicing with us this evening went really well and she took to heart what we were saying. She still needs quite a bit of work, but as long as she's open to what we have to say, I have no doubt she will continue to improve.