Pink is all the rage

It all started with a game of Bocce Ball with Granny Z. The game was hot, the stakes were high. Then a cute little girl in her brand new pink tutu showed up and the paparazzi went wild!

This girl knew how to work the camera.

Stoic.

Pensive.

Pouty.

Playful?

Then, we added a pink flamingo hat.

She liked the flip flops.

Cackaaaw!

Run away!

-Nat

Easter Eggs!

Pearl really got into the concept of Easter eggs and Easter egg hunting this year. This was mostly fueled by a visit by grandparents from both sides of the family before Easter which they used to prime Pearl for the event as much as was humanly possible. Pearl was in candy heaven.

Granny Z had a great time teaching Pearl to fill her own eggs with candy.

You can imagine how much of that ended up in her mouth as soon as she realized she was allowed to snitch. Grandparents never seem to have a problem with snitching. ; )

Then Granny Z had this idea that we could decorate our tree with eggs after Pearl saw another tree decorated with eggs when we all went on a walk and didn't want to leave it. I think we will keep the eggs and hang them up in years to come.

Then Grandpa and Grandma B participated in an epic egg hunt which mostly involved Grandma B standing behind Pearl and pointing out eggs that were in plain sight to Pearl, so she would finally notice them. Pearl would let out little gasps and exclamations as she "discovered" eggs on the ground.

Pearl's little neighbor friend Jos came on the hunt with her.

Then Grandma B had the pleasure of showing Pearl that the plastic eggs actually had treats inside of them. Wow! That was the greatest discovery of the day!

Thanks to both sets of grandparents for making Easter fun for our little girlie!

-Nat

Glenwood's Great!

We recently went on a little over-nighter to a hot springs about 2.5 hours from Denver in the mountains called Glenwood Springs. It was way fun to just relax and hang in a nice warm pool together and take it easy in our hotel. Pearl even learned to kick and paddle to move herself around in her little floaty tube. I think I can finally see the end of being Pearl's personal slave/sherpa whenever we go swimming on vacation!

The edge of the pool had all these mineral deposits that made it look pretty cool.

Really, the pool is longer than it looks. The big pool pictured in the distance spans over 2 city blocks!!!

-Nat

Oh, Florida

Yup, Florida. We went because of a conference for Bryan's work in Orlando and a few days afterwards he also got the chance to get a new magnetic nose as long as he agreed to be the guinea pig for some anaplastologists who were teaching the technique at a conference in Tampa. In between the two commitments we were able to squeeze in a visit to Norm and Diana, our Jewish Fairy God-parents in Miami. It was pretty exciting in that Pearl became very sick during the trip and had us pretty worried. But she came back alive and well, so it turned out ok.

Bry's conference happened to be in Seaworld, so the first day while Pearl was still well, we went! Here Pearl is standing at the baby stingray tank. I got to touch and feed the big ones and Pearl thought that was hillarious.

Pearl absolutely loved the penguin exhibit, so we went through twice. Then I played one of those carnival games for her afterwards so she could have a stuffed penguin to play with. She walked it around and talked to it for quite a while.

Bry joined us after his conference was over and we saw the dolphins frolick and were able to touch them! They had all these scrapes and cuts along their backs so I naturally thought that people had tried to scratch and cut them, but I later found out that dolphins are like puppies and like to nip and bite each other for fun. Wo.

I was pretty psyched about the manitees too because they are so disporportunate. Tiny heads and fins but HUGE bodies. They were eating lettuce. This one weighs 2,500 pounds!

At Diana and Norm's house in Diana's backyard.

Diana had a way with Pearl.

We spent a lot of time in the hotel since Pearl was sick most of the time. We got really familiar with the TV. Luckily the hotel staff cleaned up a lot of the puke messes, which was a huge bonus.

While in Tampa for Bry's nose, we were able to drop by NCECA (a National Ceramic Organization) to see Dad Burningham in his element. He introed us to his compadres and we got to see the awesome ceramic show that was going on. Dad couldn't resist chasing Pearl around a bit. She loved it ofcourse.Here are some really cool pots that were at the show. I adore the glaze!

This picture is just illustrating how my father-in-law is such a rebel. Nothing new. Barefoot down the sidewalk in downtown Tampa.

-Nat

Basserina

Lately, Pearl is trying to dance like a "basserina" or ballerina.

-Nat