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In Loving Memory

So today was a very tragic day in the world as earlier in the morning Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer and later in the afternoon Michael Jackson passed from a cardiac arrest.

I personally never had much of a connection with Farrah Fawcett as she was not really my era but I was aware of her battle with cancer and how she was nearing her end. It is sad that her death seemed to be surpassed by the death of Michael Jackson so I felt the need to give her a little tribute here on Tyson's blog as well.

Michael Jackson on the other hand has been very saddening for me. He was just so HUGE in the world and has had an influence on a substantial amount of people, myself included. I completely remember my mom having the BAD record and waking up and taking the record and playing it really early in the morning. It was and probably still is one of my favorite. I also remember watching the movie moonwalk repeated times. I have always liked Michael Jackson and always stood by him through everything he ever went through. I was completely SHOCKED by his death and I still feel a little bit of denial as if he is going to come back.

Thinking about his influence, I can not think of any other person who has inspired and influenced so many people. EVERYONE knows who he is. Even kids who were born way after he was a big deal. He is the one musician that has completely TIMELESS music. And the main thing is that ALL OF HIS MUSIC is timeless. Not just one or two tracks. There are other artist who do have timeless music such as the Beatles for example but I personally do not feel that even they have inspired such a WIDE range of people and genres. Michael Jackson touched every age, race, culture, genre, and creed. and it is amazing that through everything he's been through people still stand behind him 100%.

I just felt the overwhelming need to show my respects and be apart of honoring his death. Also being that I actually live in LA, I am a fan, and have the opportunity more then others, I wanted to go somewhere and show my respects. I never really venture into the LA/Hollywood area that much but being that Friday (the day after his death) we had a mommy group in west LA not too far from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, we decided to go visit Michael and Farrah's star.

It was MADNESS down there. We stopped by Farrah's star on the way b/c we parked right near it and it was on the way to Michael's. Hers was easy bc there were not so many people blocking it. Michael's star was INSANE. There were media and cops everywhere. They had completey blocked of near his star and they were only letting people walk down the street one way. There was a group of people in line to walk past his star and pay their respects. Only a few people were allowed to walk by at a time so it took a while for us to get through. Tyson was in his small stroller too so it was hard bc it got so crowded not counting it was probably over 100 degrees outside. Towards the end Tyson started crying and trying to get out of his seat and he was getting crowded over thatI had to get him out of seat while holding my HUGE purse/diaper bag, my camera, adn his stroller. I lifted him up and some nice people helped my fold his stroller that then had to hold as well as Tyson was crying his head off. But were were so close to the front I was NOT going to turn back. We finally made it through and I was able to put Ty back in his stroller before my arm was about to fall off.

I wanted to take a picture of Tyson during all of this so when he gets older and he hears about how big Michael Jackson was, it'll be great for him to have a picture knowng that he was part of his memorial and tribute. I mean I would love to have a picture of me at Elvis' memorial, i think that would have been a cool picture to have BUT then again, I wasn't born when he died. :)


Here's Tyson next to Michael's Star.... even he looks sad... Or just hot!

Here is a picture of all the news trucks and media in front of his star

Here is a closeup of just the star and all the flowers and notes and pictures

Here is the picture of Farrah's star and all her flowers and pictures.

REST IN PEACE MICHAEL JACKSON 1958 - 2009

REST IN PEACE FARRAH FAWCETT 1947 - 2009

Mommy Group: Play

Today we did some messy art at Play in West LA. This was a very fun place. There was a room set up with easels and paint and all the kids got little smocks and got to go to town. Tyson LOVED it. He loves getting messy so he got in right away. He was mixing paints and paintbrushes, painting all over his paper. He kinda stayed to the right side of the page and it started getting really thick with paint that after a while I had to rotate his paper so he could the other half done. He ended up making two paintings then he was done. He kept trying to go to other easels to paint on. Play also had another room that kids could play in so we could wait while the paintings dried. This was a new group I hadn't gotten to meet with yet so I again got to meet some more new mothers. It was fun and I'm sure I'll meet up with them again sometime soon.

We now officially have Tyson's first painting on our fridge. I LOVE IT!

Dr. Suess

This was so cute... i looked over and Tyson had grabbed his book, sat down, and started reading. Or acting like he was reading. He loves books as he has so many and he loves when I read to him. Now he's trying to read himself

Happy Birthday Alex

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Today we went on a play date for baby Alex's first birthday. It was at Katherine's house and was so much fun. Of course her house is totally baby proofed so it was safe for all the children and she had tons of fun toys. All the babies were loving the play house. They kept crawling in and out of the door and climbing all over it. Tyson was interested in all the food. He kept flirting with whomever was eating trying to get some food. I was funny b/c without food he wasn't paying them any attention. We spent a couple of hours here which was nice b/c all the moms got to totally hang out while the kids played and we didn't have to watch them TOO close. I think I like indoor play dates and want to try to do them more often.

Mommy Group: Hansen Dam

Today we went to Hansen Dam Aquatic Center in Sylmar. It is a huge wading pool which is perfect for the little ones. Sorta beach like, it's very shallow around the edges and gets deeper in the middle. Tyson loves the water and being that this was pretty shallow, seemed like a fun opportunity.

When we arrived most of the mothers were already there and had tents set up with blankets and food. It was a very nice day to be outside. We had a little picnic and ate lots of snacks. One mom had a wagon there and Tyson fell in love. He wanted to play with the wagon all day.He was climbing in and out of it, pushing the other babies around, and he even took a ride in it himself. We didnt get in the water for too long because it was really cold and it he didnt really want to get in too far but he was splashing around in it.

I am in about 4 or 5 mom groups and 3 groups were at the dam this day, one in which I never got to meet with before this so I got to meet a few new mothers whom were all really nice.

Overall we had a fun day and it was so fun Tyson took a 4 hour nap when we got home. So maybe we'll do mroe things like this more often. :)

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day Dad!

(and grandpa Alfonso and Neal, great grandpa Frank and Jerry)