Take him to... Detroit!: Trip to Michigan Part 1

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Eating leftover breakfast with Dora at the car rental office

Taking her very first bubble bath

Giving her cousin Christina a kiss

For some reason she decided this is how she wanted to dress to go for a walk

These are the Hartz Mountains of Asia. A terrain so rugged, so treacherous, no country will claim it. Worse then Detroit? I'm afraid so.

While Grandpa and Great Grandma were off at a christening, Mom, Grandma, and Grace went to the zoo.


At the entrance to the Detroit Zoo

Hanging on the fountain at the zoo.

Riding the train at the zoo.

4 generations of Bihun blood. In a year or so, Grace will be the 2nd shortest on the couch.

Fancy Nancy Party

Grace went to a party at the library to celebrate one of her favorite books, Fancy Nancy. Everyone had to wear fancy clothes.

Walking downstairs to the children's section.

Listening the librarian read the new Fancy Nancy Book.

Libertyville Days Parade

Last weekend was the Liberyville Days Festival. Grace was still too little to go on any of the rides but she liked watching the parade with Mom and Grandma.

Grace's First Concert

It was a busy day today. First, Grace had her final swimming lesson. Then we went to Highwood to have lunch with dad's family. Finally, we took Grace to see Ralph's World at Ravinia today. It was her first concert and we almost didn't go because the weather was so bad.

We had lawn seats but we walked over to the pavilion to see what was going on.

It was a sold out show but it had been raining so much that most people didn't bother to show up.

Grace and mom with Ralph. Still not liking having her picture taken.

Her signed CD cover.

Her signed ticket stub.

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This is a giraffe. Just testing out a new blog thing.

That's not how I remember it. Besides, if we wanted to see Japanese people we could have gone to the zoo.

The weather was nice and it was a long holiday weekend so we decided to take Grace to the zoo along with 10 gazillion other people today. We only managed to get two pictures of her...

... One of them was in a toilet.

The other was of her riding the "pengy" on the merry-go-round.

Here's a giraffe.

Homer, don't start stalking people again. It's so illegal. Remember when you were stalking Charles Karault because you thought he dug up your garden?

We had a big gardening project this weekend and Grace helped out.

That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer.

Mommy's ballet recital was last weekend so she was very busy.

Grace and daddy went to the park to play.

She really liked this horse.

Giving mommy her flowers after the recital.

Grace got a special treat from the dancers.

Misc.

Putting necklaces on an unwilling Jake

One of those rare moments when they both look at the camera at the same time

Swimming by herself (and the help of a floatation belt)

Luca had his birthday party at the Kohl Children's Museum of Bullying and Bad Manners. Here's Grace working at the grocery store.

And here she is testing out her car on the race track.

Olivia's Birthday Party

Olivia celebrated her 2nd birthday this weekend.

Playing umbrellas with Olivia and Uncle Tony

Everyone playing

Watching Olivia open her presents

She Thinks Someone is Chasing Her

Dancing Fools

This is Grace, Kaitlyn, Olivia, and later Liam, dancing to The Wheels on the Bus. The song kept stopping and they would stop dancing until Grace pushed the button again. This is only a minute or so. It went on and on and on and on and.....

Grace Discovered a New Noise Tonight

Oh, that's all right. He can call me flower if he wants to. I don't mind.

Playing With One Of Her Trains

She's getting pretty good at putting everything together.


Checking out the station.


One of those rare moments when she'll look at the camera and smile.


GOJIRA!!!