irete's retreat

I took my SECOND trip to NEW YORK last week! Not bad for 4 years old!!

First night we got there we had dinner with my awesome beautiful ballerina cousin, Rebecca!!
And we got to eat at my favorite Jon's Pizza too! Yum! And fun!!

I was sooo happy to see her! I talked about it for weeks til we got there!

Rebecca suggested we got to the Museum of Natural History the next day... the dinosaurs were HUGE!! That was about all I could handle though. We walked through the reptile exhibit, and the African animals exhibit, and then I was pretty much done.

Me and T-Rex. Well, it used to be T-Rex.

Mommy and I went shopping and bought lots of new clothes and some hair clips. I put a new shirt on as soon as we got back to the hotel.

That night Daddy took us to dinner at Ellen's Stardust Diner...
this place has all the non-working Broadway wanabe's work there and sing for us!!
This was our waitress singing to me!

Kinda like at home with all the actor/waiters but here they get to perform while we eat!

And I ate spaghetti...

and drank milk...

and Daddy drank Guinness.

and blew me kisses.

And then they hope to get extra tips for their fabulous singing! I got to put money in the jar!!

And I got a yummy sundae for dessert!!

I ate it ALL!!

And talked with Mommy.

Then Mommy and me made one of those smushed pennies in the machine afterwards!!

COOOOL!!!

After dinner we walked around Times Square...

or I should say danced around...

And we went to the MnM store!!

I got a BIGGGGG bag of MnM's!
And guess what! I don't even like MnM's.

Someone took a picture of all of us!! I love this picture!!

And then I danced some more for Daddy.... I'm such a good dancer.
Maybe I want to be a ballerina like my cousin Rebecca!!

Daddy wasn't paying too much attention to my dancing though.
He was more interested in the gigantic video display...

The next day we went to ToysRUs and rode the Ferris Wheel...

And visited T-Rex... this one a little more recent. He actually still has some skin.

Later, we had dinner at Daddy's favorite NY restaurant... Il Vagabondo.
They had yummy cheesecake for dessert too!

In the morning I did a little singing and put on a show for Mommy in the hotel room.

And then we had lunch with my sister Devon!! She's my favorite sister!!

I told her all kinds of good stories.

And I loved riding the subway!! In fact, I think that was one of my favorite parts of the whole trip!! That and taxi's!!

Later that night we visited Uncle Manny and Aunt Lani!!

I LOVE UNCLE MANNY!! He's sooo funny!!
Remember that time he pulled a piece of candy out of my ear??!!??

The next day, not unlike all the other days, it poured.
But we went out anyway! We took a subway ride down to the twin towers..
and to the end of the subway line at Staten Island...