Month: May 2022

Now that I have the forward roll mastered, I’ve moved on to backward rolls. These are not coming as easy.

At actual gymnastics class, we moved on to the high bar. The real high bar. It is very high.

Last weekend we went to Portland.

We rode the metro.

Went to the zoo.

Swam in the hotel pool.

Went to see the Oregon Children’s Theater’s production of ‘Last Stop on Market Street’. The Bigs let me pack my own bag. I felt a suit was the appropriate choice for going to the theater. They ignored me when I complained I did not have a nice pair of dress shoes.

After the play we went for dinner at Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine. It was SO GOOD. Plus it was Uncle Chris’s treat, so it was free! Dad had pho, I had teriyaki,

and Mom had the Ginger Delight.

The next morning, it was back to the pool,

and then on to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. They had an exhibit on Leonardo Da Vinci that was amazing – but they would not allow photographs! Here I am using the harmonograph in the physics lab:

This weekend was our last weekend to ski. We had fun day of crust skiing on Saturday. Here I am attacking a hill on the way back to the car.

Afterwards we went to the Midtown Yacht Club. I gave Mom a gift certificate there for Mother’s Day (wink, wink, Pop).

This morning we enjoyed our first porch breakfast of the year.

Then we enjoyed an amazing day of spring skiing.

For our VERY last run of the year, we decided to hike the cone.

It was AWESOME!

I made the mistake of complaining that we always eat the same thing these days. So we had lemon shrimp pasta with fried capers. That wasn’t too bad, but…

the seaweed spaghetti and sesame salad with tahini dressing and thai sticky rice with crispy ginger, chile, and peanuts was NOT my favorite.

I am making a snack for school here. Mom wants to know if all 6 year olds decide to saute apples and cinnamon in butter to take with their school lunch.

This is me doing rings at gymnastics this week.

Here we were supposed to try and hang straight upside down.

I really like gymnastics and want to do it all the time, so while The Bigs were making dinner, I made my own parallel bars.

I use my trapeze to practice some of the things I learn too.

Someone forgot to tell Mother Nature it is spring. We did a snowy ski tour on Saturday.

I skied up and down every steep thing I could find.

And enjoyed a powder day at Bachelor on Sunday. This is me skiing the Cone!

Sunday was, of course, the Day of the Mother. The Mother was special today at two meals and even an afternoon snack. Breakfast:

Mom’s Mother’s Day wish was for a bagel with cream cheese:

This week I started gymnastics. My favorite thing was the parallel bars.

I wasn’t happy with my forward rolls at practice, so I set a goal of doing 10 per day until I got them down (no, The Bigs did not force me into this – or even come up with this plan – this was all me).

I can roll right up to my feet now. Easy peasy.

On Saturday it was snowing hard. Heavy, wet snow. Come on already spring!

Now, this is more like it. Skiing with 40 degree temps and sunshine.

A perfect day to tackle the BACK SIDE of Bachelor.

There was a bowl,

and some tree skiing.

It ended well.