Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Penny has learn how to somersault. I think she learned from Joe Bosco's girlfriend who is helping to put playgrounds together in Mexico. We were over at Jon and Danielle's and I noticed Hubbyhad left Penny in the backyard. I went to check on her and she was playing with Joe and his girlfriends. After about 15 minutes, Penny comes to the front yard and starts somersaulting in the Regul's front yard! She continued to do it all night. I love watching her discover new things!

Out of the blue, Penny has started to say "I'm tired." She could have quite possibly learned this from Mom and Dad because it's not unusual for us to be tired but to hear this girl, who is always on the go, who has endless energy, say she is tired is just plain funny.

Penny is almost to the 20 visit mark! I'd say she is one very lucky little girl. We headed to Disneyland at a leisurely pace and arrived around 11am. Today, we entered the park by horse drawn carriage. We caught it at the beginning of Main Street and it took us to Sleeping Beauty's Castle. After disembarking the carriage we decided to find ourselves some princesses. We found 3! Princess Ariel, Snow White, and Princess Tiana, one of Penny's favorites. After meeting the princesses we went and found ourselves some ice cream and sat and ate our treat at Mickey's Magical Map, an awesome stage show that is just new at Disneyland. The show was excellent, very entertaining with cool hard to find characters like Sorcerer Mickey, Mulan, Pocahantas, and King Louie. When the show ended a bunch of confetti fired out from the rafters and Penny and I have funny playing around with it. Next we went to "Its A Small World" and Penny and I couldn't stand the si...

Thank goodness for good friends! Since we do not have any family close by our good friends Dave and Verona offered to watch Penny one weekend evening a month so that Hubby and I can have a date night or sometimes, go out with friends. Tonight we went out with friends to the movies and saw "22 JUMP STREET." Somehow the girl who never naps for us on the weekends took a big ole 3 hour nap for Dave and Verona. Here she is all conked out on the couch our little sweetie.

Today Penny graduated from her Beginners Swim Class to the Intermediate Swim Class at the Pasadena Waterworks Aquatic Center. She got a certificate and was able to select a prize from the treasure chest. She was so excited and mom was so proud! What this all means is that Penny can kick her legs in the water and float on her back. Go Penny!

Only a month until we leave for vacation in Maui!!! This will be little Penny's first trip to the islands a.k.a. mom and dad's favorite place in the world. In fact, when I was a little girl of 2, I too, took my first trip to Hawaii, where the most memorable thing that happened was me pouring a bucket of sand over a little girl's head on the beach and demanding to eat McDonald's hamburgers for each meal. Penny will mot likely throw sand at meal and refuse to eat any food made by me on the trip. I was talking to my mom today and she remarked "Wouldn't it be neat if Penny got married in Hawaii too?" I have a toddler mom, I'm not looking that far into the future!

I used to want to run a movie studio but then I actually worked at one. Fate decided to make me bump into a studio head instead. Today, I ran into Harvey Weinstein at the tiny little lunch cafe in our office building. It was the last person I expected to see in line in front of me. It was interesting to get up close and personal with the man who heads Miramax. No power suit, just jeans and a run down polo. Entertainment these days leaves the suits to the talent agencies everyone else goes casual. The lady ringing up his lunch asks his assistant to remind her his name. "Harvey" she says softly as if not to get noticed. #MiramaxindaHouse #powerlunching

This time a playdate at a local park.

So instead of getting the same boring cut I usually get over and over, I decided to do something new but not too drastic...I got bangs! I went to the salon and I so desperately wanted to tell the stylist to do something new so during the car ride over I thought and thought about what it is that wouldn't involve making my long hair short and that is when I remembered my friend, Rebe's hair and her bangs! It's fun having a new cut but the bangs do get hot on the forehead though in the summer heat.

Today was a lazy kind of day, for once we really didn't have anything planned except a haircut for me and swim lessons for Penny. After those two things were done were were free to veg at the house. It's been a busy few weeks so it was nice to relax. In the afternoon we decided to get out of the house and take Penny to the movies. We went to see HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2, a stunning animated sequel to the first, which I worked on. It was weird to watch the movie as a customer and not as a person who worked on it.