Hello Long Weekend! Goodbye Summer...

Its so weird to think its the last weekend of summer... where did it go? Seriously, it seems like we never had summer at times with the late arrival of our sunny weather. At least tacking on our Disneyland vacation in September will help us feel like its that much longer, yay!

Today started out as another rainy day... again reminding me summer is ending and fall is coming. We had breakfast at Dad and Rita's this morning, gotta love pancakes on a regular basis. Ariel had a '2' shaped pancake and then demanded a '3' as well. Ah, that's my girl, 2 going on 3. Sigh.


At 10am we headed off to Richmond for our big 'radio moment'. We arrived at Crave 95 at our appointment time and met with Tara Jean who happened to be pregnant herself. After doing introductions we headed off to the recording booth. It was a very small room with a big fancy microphone and lots of computers. Well Ariel got very wide eyed and kept scanning the room. She focused in on the animated screen saver on one of the computers and kept naming the colors that would pop up, lol.

Tara asked how we should proceed and I explained Ariel should repeat words back as she was doing quite well the night before, however being in a strange room wasn't going to make the task easier. It was decided that we stick to the short 'speaking' lines STOP - Gimme a beat! since we didn't know how it would go. We managed to get a good 'stop' out of her. The rest wasn't so easy, Ariel kept thinking the microphone was a camera and would smile and yell cheese. Tara was cracking up saying she was better suited for tv than radio, and the blooper reel would be better than the actual finished product. I totally agree, especially when she broke into her version of baby beluga which sounds more like baby pika (think pokemon's pikachu).


We did managed to get the rest of the words out of her, and Tara said she had to totally send us a copy since it was just too funny recording her. So regardless if she makes it on the air we had a blast! If they do use her bit, they will contact us to tell us when it will air. I shall keep you posted.

During Ariel's nap today I took some time to research some possible fall activities to sign her up for. Now that she is 2, there are more options available for her. After looking things over, I think we will go for the next round of swimming lessons (H2O Hoppers). It will be nice getting to go to the pool on cold days. I also found a class called Storybook Ballet, an early intro to dance for preschool kids. Then after Christmas she will be old enough for Teeny Tiny Ballerinas! Eek!

Tonight when Ken got home we had a dinner of sushi to kick off the long weekend in style. So yummy and Ariel was dancing around yelling 'ushi'. Not sure what we will be doing, probably play it by ear most of the time. Well, off to enjoy the end of summer, hope you do the same!