sliding, swinging, kicking, and tumbling

The rest of Mom and Dad's visit consisted of lots of playing and lots of eating. Elvis's mom made us yummy homemade pupusas one night, and mom and dad made sure that Suzy got spoiled as much as possible =) While Elvis and i were at work one day, they took her to get donuts for the first time at Mister Donut. You see, since Independence Day is in September, Mister Donut celebrates each year by offering buy-one-get-one-free donuts. People go nuts. You would think that they were offering buy-one-donut-get-a-million-dollars. People line up for hours, the whole month of September just to get their 2 for 1 donuts. But the thing is that their normally only about 80 cents, so the savings isn't that big of a deal, but it's the best publicity ever and people (myself included) literally start craving donuts starting about the last week of August even though I would never think of buying one any other time of the year. Anyway, all that to say that there is a continual line at Mister Donut during the month of September, but mom and dad decided to brave the line one day with Suzy. They tell me that as soon as they walked in and asked Suzy which donut she wanted of the hundreds that were displayed, her eyes lit up and she started yelling "candy! candy!" and pointing at the sprinkle-covered donut. Wait a second, how does she know what candy is if she's never eaten it before?? And how does she know that word, in english, if I've never taught her that word?? My only conclusion is that kids are born with an innate concept of candy. Anyway, mom and dad say that during the whole 30-minute wait for the donuts, Suzy was dying to eat that candy and kept the whole line entertained. All of Suzy's grandparents together for massive spoiling:
Playing at the park:








Here's a video of my little soccer player, after running non-stop for about 45 minutes. It's OK if you laugh at the wipe-out at the end of the video....I do too because I know she didn't get hurt!