Claymates

My Papi met his good friend Jen many years ago, when they were both poor college students working at a newspaper.

Time passed and they both finished college, changed careers, got married, had babies and stayed friends. I was born on January 19; Jen's little boy Clay was born exactly four weeks later!

Last weekend, Jen, her husband Rich and cutie Clay met up with us in San Francisco for a weekend of fun.

We stayed at a fancy, tall hotel in Union Square. I just loved riding the elevators, and would say "Wheeeee!" when we went down.

We took a bumpy ride on the cable car to Ghirardelli Square, where I kept trying to climb into the fountain. Then we walked to Pier 39, where we had dinner and rode a beautiful merry-go-round. When it stopped, I said, "Mas?" but Mami took me off the horsie anyway. I only cried for a minute or two...

The next day we headed out to Golden Gate Park. There is so much to see there! The Japanese Tea Garden was beautiful. Me and Clay explored all the bridges, paths and waterfalls. As usual, I kept Mami and Papi on their toes, and made them chase me all around the pagodas and bonsai trees!

Next was the De Young Museum, where me and Clay roamed around the sculpture garden. The security guard yelled at us for climbing on the sculptures, but how could I resist such yummy looking art?

We headed home after that, but promised to meet again soon in the City by the Bay. We've still got lots of sightseeing to do!

In other news, I am really getting good at this talking stuff. Every day I learn at least one new word, and sometimes a few. Just today, I started saying pasa, queso, Chava, Tio and beso.

Mami and Papi keep talking about how they have to watch their language, but I'm not sure what that means...

We've got another busy weekend coming up! Cousin Ben is visiting from Connecticut, and we're going to a baseball game on Saturday. Never a dull moment for us Bleszinskis...