Aventuras Con Ari

Hola mis amigos!

Were you confused by the title? It means "Adventures With Ari." I decided to start off this post in Spanish, to show off my mad bilingual skills.

Mami's first language was Spanish, and she and my Papi have been doing their best to teach me. I speak my very own form of Spanglish most of the time...if I want more cheese, I will say, "Mas queso, peeze?" (peeze means "please.") If I want to get out of the house and go somewhere, I go stand by the window and say, "Buh bye, casa!" It's a funny mix of languages, but it works for me!

Last weekend I really got to practice my Spanish because my friend Ari came over. His parents are Mami and Papi's best friends, and I just love it when we all hang out together! Ari is a big boy; he is almost 3 years old. So he talks Spanish and English really well! I hope to be like him when I grow up.


We spent most of the time playing with my toys and chasing each other around the house, screaming with glee. Then we all decided to go visit Goblin Gardens, which is this pumpkin patch near our house.

It was SO cool! The first picture up top is of me and Ari riding this old, metal airplane. I swung back and forth and made it bounce up and down. There was also an old-fashioned teeter-totter that we rode with our parents. I just loved going up and down.

There was a big old pyramid made of hay bales, and me and Ari climbed to the very top with help from our Papis. There was a corn maze and a hay maze, and we ran around trying to find our way out. I wasn't even scared, it was fun in there!

But the very best part was the hay ride. We climbed onto this flatbed truck and sat on hay bales, and a tractor pulled us around the farm. We saw pumpkin patches and sunflower fields, but the very best part was the corn. We had yummy, sweet fresh corn right off the stalk. Mami peeled it and I bit right into it.

WOW! It was like an explosion of flavor in my mouth. I just couldn't get enough. I even started saying it over and over, "Corn! Corn! Mas corn, peeze?"

We finished up the day by posing for some silly pictures and picking out our very own pumpkin to take home. I chose this little one, and named him "Punkin." We took him home and put him on our coffee table. I like picking him and and playing with him and I've even tried biting into him a couple of times. Didn't taste very good...oh well!

The autumn weather has been just beautiful here in Sacramento, and we're still taking lots of trips to the park to do my very favorite thing...SWING! I love the swings more than anything. Papi pushes me way up high and I say, "Wheeeee!"

Guess what I say to Mami and Papi when they try to take me off the swings and go home?

"Mas whee, peeze? MAS whee, PEEZE?"

Works every time...