Baseball Stadium Food

Joe took Makela to her first baseball game today. He scored free tickets from Fish & Richardson, so they were sweet seats -- 13th row right next to first base. Not a bad way to start, especially with a Padres win over the Mariners.

But the funniest part of the adventure happened in the car on the way there. Joe was explaining all the fun things that they have at the baseball stadium, and the following is a snippet of this conversation.

Daddy: "Do you know what they have to EAT at the stadium?"
Makela: "Hot dogs!"
Daddy: "How did you know that?"
Makela smiled.
Daddy: "Do you know what ELSE they have to eat?"
Makela: "Pizza!"
Daddy: "Pizza? How did you know THAT?"
Makela: "Daddy, I'm good with stadium food."

Best. Sound. EVER.

I've always loved the sound of children's laughter. But I'll never forget hearing it like I did today. On the way home from school today, Makela started giggling in the back seat. Charlotte laughed at her in return -- first time she's laughed other than being tickled* -- and pretty soon they had me giggling, too. They went back and forth for a couple of minutes. It was the BEST sound EVER.

(*NOTE: I thought Charlotte might have laughed at me earlier this week, but I wasn't sure. Today there was NO question!)

Voracious Reader

Makela now wants to read anything and everything, usually out loud (although she recently started reading silently, telling us that she "can hear the words inside her head").

Joe took her to her swimming lesson at the YMCA today, and here's what happened:

While waiting for her lesson to start, Makela read the "One Long Whistle" sign at the pool all by herself! It includes the words apologize, inconvenience, aquatic, policy, requires, emergency, and participants, with participants being the only word she needed help with....

Future Crayola Exec

Recently, Makela told us that she wants to be a toy designer when she grows up. To do that, she also decided that she'd be willing to design toys for boys every now and then. Then she came out with this announcement today:

"Daddy, I think Crayola is a really good company. They make really cool stuff. Someday, I think I would like to go to work for them. Maybe I'll write them a letter and tell them."