Immi is a 2 year old who spends her day organizing her tiny little toys, taking walks, and playing with kitties. She won't go anywhere without her little purse. Her favorite food is cucumbers and olives. And she is obsessed with Hello Kitty and Doraemon. Take a peak into her adventures of daily life!
Immi and her brother are totally into legos. Ashland keeps grabbing a piece and poking immi with it (I think he wants immi to help him stick it on) but she is too busy building her faery princess castle.
The sun has set, and immi is still playing with legos.
Immi made this diorama type thing — she took it to the kitchen, I think because she didn’t want Ashland to take it apart. It’s a princess tea cake party with circus entertainment.
Immi is making a bracelet.
I got out nesting plastic cups that immi used to play with for her little brother. She is far too smart to enjoy nesting/stacking now but she found new use for them! It’s a field of plastic flowers for her twin Hello Kitties to sleep in…or something like that. She is quite specific about where each cup goes, so it’s like an installation right?
And here’s the variation this time created on a kitchen floor.
Immi got out this wooden puzzle (I had it put away since it’s far too easy for immi but a bit early for Ashland). Ashland was totally happy about just chewing on it, but Immi showed him how it works and now he is trying to do the puzzle (he is just slamming the puzzle pieces onto the board, but it’s a nice try!). Immi is now supervising and helping along sometimes.
We were out having our Saturday Coffee yesterday morning…and it was such a *blah* of a morning! When I mentioned this to Todd, he totally agreed. We talked about how some days are just so *blah* and it’s pointless trying to work hard on those days since nothing good will come of it anyways.
So then we got to talking about cure of *blah* …and we both thought “beach!!”. It’s only 1.5 hours away and we really didn’t do it justice last time having spent only a few hours (when we had intended on taking a mini vacation at the beach). We went home and I got packing and Todd finished up a few things and off we went. We made it to the beach long before sunset!
Immi of course is really really happy. (She even says “Happy!” these days!)
You’ll be so bored of immi-and-the-sunset-at-the-beach photos, but hey, there are far worse things you can get bored of 
After the sunset, we drove 10 minutes from Cannon beach to Seaside beach where we had booked for a night at a Bed&Breakfast while driving down here. We found a candy shop and immi is excited trying to pick out few special ones.
When we woke up this morning, we walked down to the Seaside beach, and then had morning coffee at a coffee shop named “The Coffee Shop”. Immi seems to think that the jelly donut is heaven.
We decided that we like Cannon beach (we think that the beach is much prettier, there’s less people, and has cuter town) a lot better so we drove back to Cannon beach and hanging out for a bit before heading home.
Immi is playing in the play ground at the Mt. Tabor.
This little mountain is actually a lot bigger (with very tall trees!) than I thought it would be considering it’s sort of in the middle of Portland.
Immi is having lots of fun painting.
Immi going Jackson Pollock on her paper.
Here’s the finished piece. Just so there’s no confusion (i.e. You offer her $8000 for this painted piece of paper — several pieces of notebook paper stuck together actually — and then tell me she didn’t possibly do this on her own, I take the credit for purple dots on the left hand corner. I did those when she had just started on it ).
Here’s another one:
Immi is THREE! How amazing is that!? She wanted sushi of course, so that’s what we got on her birthday eve. She was excited about the spring roll.
We had quite ordinary (though still special!) day for her birthday since we can’t really top going to the beach! Immi had the bestest time with her ice cream factory. She always says “nununununu” when she squeezes out “ice cream” — she is totally into onomatopoeias (of her own creations), she uses them about as much as a Japanese person would speaking in Japanese.
…And then she took a nap with her Hello Kitties
And then after that we went to ToysRus (when we drove past by the other day, she wanted to go in) and she got to pick which ever toy she wanted. After walking every aisle, she picked out Strawberry-Shortcake-mobile. Actually she’s wanted this several times at Target but we never got it, so I’m glad she finally got exactly what she wanted (and I’m glad she picked an reasonable item what I didn’t need to veto!). She has been obsessed with this thing since then and still playing with it this morning.
Today is a very special day because it is Immi’s 3rd birthday! This weekend we decided to just go to the coast because Immi just loves the ocean so much. These are a few of the photographs I took, they turned out pretty…well – see for yourself:
Immi Reflections on Cannon Beach
Metaphysical Immi
Immi Exploring Cannon Beach
No name for any of these photographs yet, going to be few more posts soon because we go too many great pictures.
We are on our way to the beach because it’s almost immi’s birthday and she loves the beach. It’s afternoon, and the drive lulled immi to sleep.
It’s a really beautiful beach, and it’s a beautiful day! We don’t even need a jacket.
Immi is splashing about at the edge of the ocean. I had no idea that rain boots had such use!
Immi’s dad took off his shoes to cross the river to take photos, and immi is pleading him to let her take off hers. (The answer is “NO!”, it’s nice out, but the water is cold. Really cold.)
beach
Immi was splashing about so much and the bigger wave came in and the cold water got in her boots. So I offered immi her jacket thinking she might be cold, but then she got really mad! As it turns out, she was upset at the sight of jacket because she thought that it means we are leaving, and she didn’t want to leave the beach!
I’ve been noticing that immi’s lego creations are, increasingly, showing off both her understanding of ‘real’ world and her creativity. This little truck hardly captures much (her super castle-sanctuary for zoo animals with a flower forest got destroyed before I got a picture!) but I think that it looks a kind of realistic with window in the front. Of course it’s topped with a faery wand because…it’s immi’s creation!
Immi has also been really into putting her little toy friends to sleep. She made a cozy nest for her monkey and kitty on top of the ice cream shop. She tucked in teeny tiny toys under their blanket because that’s what she likes to do for herself when she goes to sleep.
We think that she thinks that she can take things with her to dreamland as long as it’s with her under the blanket. …Why else would she insist on sleeping with seemingly random assortment of not particularly cuddly toys (wooden kitchen toys, legos, glowsticks…)?
It’s really nice out and Immi, Ashland and I walking about and wondered into a store called PaperZone. They have lots of office paper, stationary and scrap booking stuff. Immi is having fun at the crayon station.
Immi sitting at the Pearl Bakery watching his brother hanging out in his car seat.
Immi taking a walk with her dad in Pearl District.
Having coffee at Flying Cat Coffee. Immi, wanted to jump up and down on the couch because her little brother was jumping up and down on his daddy’s lap. So I had to tell her that she is too big for jumping on the couch, but that big immi gets to have a super yummy organic lollipop with vitamin C in it. She was happy with the arrangement 
We are at the Children’s Museum with our new friend and her 3 year old girl from a meetup group. We wanted to come here while they had Clifford the Big Red Dog exhibit because Immi LOVES Clifford (she is the one who pointed out about this event in the Portland’s newsletter!).
Immi, her dad and her brother are learning all about the history of the Big Red Dog.
Immi is playing with the translucent shapes on the light table. She is, for some reason, obsessed with the isosceles (she won’t even look at the equilateral…). She stacked up all the isosceles triangles into a neat pile and won’t let anyone else touch them.
Here’s immi at the kid-sized [pretend] grocery store.
It’s been interesting having more opportunity to watch immi interact with other kids. Immi is quite specific about what she will share and what she won’t. She is willing to share most things actually, but not the very few selected items (…like the isosceles triangles).
Immi got her immi-sized HelloKitty pillow, HelloKitty and HelloKitty-sized HelloKitty pillow and appropriately sized blankets for each of them for a [pretend] nap time.
Immi loves making play-doh ice cream. She is just getting started here, prepping her little factory.
She loves making swirls in ice cream cone and making cup full of sprinkles!
