Best Friends

Piper visits her best friend Grace for a day of fun play. Running, jumping, dancing, peek-a-poo! The girls talked and laughed and were silly the whole morning. It is so much fun to watch these two grow up together. Grace has a baby brother on the way-any day now and we know she will make a fantastic big sister. I am sure Piper will enjoy visits to help Jen with the new baby and to keep Grace company during the transition.

Here the girls pose for the camera with hugs and giggles!

it's house party time!!!

Today was a special day for Piper. We were lucky enough to get into the sold out DAN ZANES and FRIENDS show at the Aladdin Theatre. Piper wasn't quite sure what to make out of the long line to get into the door that spanned the entire block and around the corner until we saw Dan Zanes and Friends strumming their mandolins and make their way inside. Once inside we quickly made our way to the front and got ready for some fun dancing. Piper watched the first part of the show on top of dada and mama shoulders, but once 'Catch that train' started she jumped down and started to boogie down.

Piper and Mama in front of the Aladdin marque in line to get in.

Dan Zanes and Friends come walkin up the sidewalk-mandolins in hand singing and smiling on the way inside the venue. How perfect it was that we were finally near the door when he walked up. yipee



The band having fun!



We stayed afterwards to get a poster signed by Dan and to get a quick picture with him. Piper was pretty tuckered out at this point, so she didn't cheese up for the picture. But we thanked him for a good time-and can't wait for when he returns to Portland.

woohoo. house party time!


Piper meets Dan Zanes. She is a little tired to be as excited as mama was though.

(www.danzanes.com)

Bunny Day

Piper gets a dose of holiday this weekend by searching for eggs we painted on Saturday and finding a basket full of fun toys to play with. No sugar for this monkey...or bunny rather. While all the other kids are getting hopped up on chocolate eggs, Piper makes out like a bandit with safari animal view master disks, bubbles and some nail polish and lip gloss.

Piper searchs for her basket the spring bunny left her this weekend. Complete with Bunny ears!!she finds her basket of toys left by peter cottontail.


We make best of the 20 minutes of sun on Sunday and searched for eggs bright and early.

Nana visits

Nana Julie flies in from Arizona to visit with Piper and take massage classes with mama. Piper enjoys a few days with Nana alone, playing in the backyard and playing with her safari animals. She really had fun showing off her dancing skills all week and watching Peter Pan. Her new favorite.


Piper and Nana play with our neighbors orange cat.

piper shows off her new Minnie Mouse swimsuit that nana got for her. She can't wait to get into the pool this summer and have fun.

Spring time

Grandma and Grandpa Zurbano stayed for a week and Piper was so excited. They had lots of fun going to OMSI, the mall, playing outside. And Piper now calls them Trama and Trampa. It's super cute.

And of course Spring is upon us, the equinox is almost here and Piper enjoys the weekend helping mama, daddy and trampa to weed the garden and do some yard work and play amoungst the daffodils.

Daffy-down-dilly is new come to town,
With a petticoat green, and a bright yellow gown,
And her white blossoms are peeping around.
-English rhyme
Did the flower tickle your nose?

having fun

Piper has been having lots of fun these days. Daddy got a new video game and Piper loves to play the guitar along side daddy and rock out.

Daddy and Piper also made way over to the Children's Museum for a day of fun a few weeks ago. Piper had fun with the new dentist exhibit and office.


Piper is getting her groove on totally rocking out with daddy. They are playing Guitar Hero 2.
Piper does some photo work for a friends movie. She isn't looking very excited right now however.
Mama fell in love with this Peter Pan kids table that Jen and Grace had. We were lucky enough to find one on Craigslist. This is of course THE spot for a spot of tea. Here Piper pours some tea for Marty the cow, kitty and Charlie the dog.
Piper and daddy went to the Children's Museum a few weeks ago. Piper had fun cleaning the crocodiles teeth. She was sure to tell him to brush good and floss. Good girl!

Here Piper takes some important calls.

BABY LOVES DISCO

Mama and Papa and Piper headed down to the Crystal Ballroom for "Baby Loves Disco", an event that is sweeping the nation. An afternoon of disco music spun by the 94.7 DJ's that do a weekly kids show on the radio called"Greasy Kids Stuff". There were bubble machines and tents and games, shakers and lots of organic food. Beer flowed for the parents as well.

We were all overwhelmed. There were so many kids and parents. Piper had a blast dancing and playing and going up and down all the stairs and of course getting her picture taken-such the ham.

We even got interviewed by OPB about the fun event. while a bit on the pricey side, it was well worth it. This will be a monthly event that we will be sure to go to again.


bubbles and dancing...who could ask for more.
Mama and Piper get down to some serious disco dancing
Papa shows Piper some of his dance floor moves
Mama and Piper get interviewed by OPB
A little face paint just for fun
Piper makes some new friends while being silly.

new picture

Piper was having fun posing for the camera to update her extrasonly portfolio. This one was too cute to pass up for posting and boosting!

My silly girl-getting bigger and smarter by the hour.

Piper has McKenna over to play

Piper got quite the treat last Thursday when her friend McKenna came over to play for the day. McKenna and Piper are almost 1.5 years apart, but are the same height and shoe size. Piper is a small girl for her age.
They had so much fun together and Piper was quite the mother hen looking after McKenna and sharing her toys.

Piper and McKenna enjoy the day by reading a few good books!
Piper has fun teaching McKenna how to drum on mama's drum



Piper and McKenna play with Dora the Explorer sit and spin and share a kodak moment.



"and you put the money in the pig right here! good job"

Time for McKenna to go home. Hugs and kisses goodbye until next time.

Another Snow Day-Family style

We got hit again with a ton of snow this week. Piper was so jazzed to see 5 inches come falling down and stick to the ground. This meant fun time! Since it snowed so much and the roads were horrible, we opted to stay home for 2 days and enjoy the white wet wonderland. We even got daddy to stay home on Wednesday so we could all play outside.



Piper gets a mouthful of yummy snow on a cold winter day. yummmmA little snow angel- Piper is having fun in the snow!

We don't know of any hills in the area, but since our backyard is big, we got out the sled and mama and papa got some good exercise pulling Piper all over the yard. She thought it was a bunch of fun...mama thought she needed to get into better shape!!!

And of course, the making of a new and bigger snowman was in the mind of papa! We will make him bigger and stronger....

...and give him a mohawk? sure why not! and a feather boa to match. We know how to style out mr..or ms. snow..person.

Piper gives our happy snowperson a quick kiss! how sweeeeeet

Portland Children's Museum

One of the big things I really love about Portland is the amount of family friendly, child oreiented and even animal oriented places to go eat, events, you name it. My favourite alternate radio stations even has a program called 'greasy kid's stuff', which is all kinds of silly, kid oriented songs by all kinds of bands, every saturday morning. We steer our kids in different directions here in Portland. We veer away from the cookie cutter TV generation. We go outside to play, listen to the radio, explore!

We have memberships to OMSI and the Zoo, but had yet to be to the Children's Museum-and were we missing out. Needless to say, we bought a year pass when we left. IT was that good. We missed the 'Baby Loves Disco' at the crystal ballroom- but we will head over next month for that one.

Piper and Mama met Mama's friend Andrea from their Intel days. She brought her Newphew Garrett to the museum and we had so much fun. The kids were worn out completely. After 3 hours of play ending with the Marachi band playing in the children's theatre that Piper was absolutly glued to.

This water play area is three times as big as the one at OMSI, which makes Piper very happy indeed.
Here Piper and new friend Garrett play around in part of the playhouse

What a Look!!!! Little miss Piper is taking a good look at herself before transforming herself with the face paints.

Arrr matey! Watch out for the notorious green beard!

Piper and Garrett get into a little impromto jam session with some other kids at the CM.
Andrea and Garrett show Piper how to make music on the xylophone. pretty music