Smiling and Crying

Mama and Daddy tell me that I am growing up, that made me happy, so over the past few days, I have begun to smile for my cookey parents.  Today, we had a lot of fun, we went out to eat lunch at IHOP, and I got to meet a man who makes balloon animals....  He said in about a year, he will make me an animal.  Then after that, we went to what my daddy calls the red-neck paradise, a place called Walmart.  There were sooo many things there, I just didn't know what to get.

Mama and Daddy had some time on their hands today because Daddy had originally thought that there was an ASU football game up in Tempe today.  Then he found out it really was up in Seattle where my mama grew up.  Daddy says that Seattle is a strange, wet and dark place, where there is Starbuck's on every corner, and everyone lists to music from some group that is very Nervous, or something like that.  Daddy said he went up there with Mama a year and a half ago.  He said that there are things called trees there, and also something called grass, which is apparently some type of plant that grows in the ground, and is the color of green.  I am not sure what green is, but mama and daddy promise that one day I will learn about it when daddy eats something bad.....

Now, Daddy wanted me to include the next two pictures in my blog to make sure that everyone knows that it isn't always a "bed of roses" as he would say.  Below, we are both doing a little bit of crying, I am crying because I hadn't been fed that hour, and Daddy is crying because he just learned how my education will cost him over the next 22 or so years....

                  

We are both doing better now though...  Mama came to the rescue with some good stuff to eat, and Daddy is now saying a strange word sounding like "student-loans"..  Now, I don't know what that word means yet, but Daddy keeps saying something like "Well, my parents didn't give me a cent to go to college".  But of course, I have done my research, and my grandma and grandpa told me to ask Daddy about all those times he brought home his clothes to washed by grandma, and to have his car fixed by grandpa...  Apparently, he still does this sometimes....

      

I just want to say a few more things...   I am looking forward to going down to Green (??) Valley tomorrow to see Grandma and Grandpa Morford.  We are going to get to eat at the cafeteria.  I have asked Daddy if I can bring my new friend Guido.  Oh, you haven't met Guido yet?  Let me put a picture of him here.  I met Guido a few days ago, and I am really impressed by his outlook on his life.   I think Guido will like talking to my Grandpa Jim.  We'll see.  

Well, I have to go now, coming soon I will talk about my reviews of all the restaurants that I have been to..

Love,  Ashton