Cutest Picture Ever and Dolores Park

Yes, coming up is perhaps the cutest photo ever.  And Mimi isn't even in it.

It all started with Mimi impersonating her Mama and me when it comes the bedroom routine.  Each night we bundle Mimi in her pajamas, read her a book, and then put her to bed with her mofu (blankets).  Well, she's decided that her friends Baby, Nyan-Nyan, Wan-Wan, and Bear need to take naps as well.  At first is was just a matter of laying them down.  Then they needed blankets.  Now, they need the whole routine.

First off, Mimi put baby to bed, complete with personal mofu, on the rolling cart from our bedroom.  We use this for our pajamas.  Mimi uses it for trundling her friends around.  I can't help but think Mimi will someday work in a NICU when she has baby in the cart. 

Before long, Mimi decided to head back to her room and fill up the cart with the rest of her friends.  They each got a mofu, just like baby.  

 And here it is, the cutest picture we've taken of Mimi's childhood to date (at least to me).  To complete the bedtime routine for her friends, she made sure each one had her own book to read before bedtime.  Mimi was so proud.  When we tried to eventually move the rack back out of the living room, she wouldn't let us.  "No!  Sleeping!"  I guess Mama knows best. 

We recently were able to sneak out to Dolores Park again on a warm and relatively sunny Sunday.  It's quite a view, isn't it?  

They'd just finished the playground and Mimi couldn't wait to tackle all the new equipment.  

She tried out the bongos...

...and used the steel rings to climb the hill-slide rubber mountain all by herself (she still needed her Papa to help her down).  

But the biggest step forward of all came when Mimi took to the big girl swings by herself for the very first time. 

Sumie and I, though always proud (if sometimes flustered) of our little Mimi, were very proud that day.  At least until she nearly took a header trying to jump off.