Flower Planting

I did more of the planting than the kids. They were more interested in running, playing with chalk and getting back into the house to eat cookies.

Cooper

Since I have been so bad lately about updating the blog, I thought I should give some updates on the kids.

This little man is cute. He is growing like crazy. At his 2 year visit he'd grown a couple inches and jumped to the 80% in height and gained weight, but is still only about the 10%. I swear everyday he looks bigger. He's been a late bloomer as far as talking goes, but in the last month it has considerably picked up. He tries to say everything we do and is putting two words together now. He says new stuff everyday. He loves music and dancing. He runs really fast. Sometimes so fast that he trips and takes a nose dive. He's been a lot more independent and adventurous playing outside and on play equipment. He used to get really scared and now he just does it. He's almost got all his teeth in. Two are coming in right now and then he's just got one more we're waiting on. He used to be a great eater; not so much anymore. He's more of a snacker and then on occasion he'll chow down on something, usually at dinner time. He doesn't like to sit and eat, he's up and running around the whole time. He still loves fruit and CHEESE. He asks for cheese all the time and rarely will he actually eat it on a sandwich; he just wants a slice of American cheese. Gross. He's still a pretty good sleeper and takes one nap in the afternoon, but it's usually a couple hours. He occasionally wakes in the middle of the night (not sure why) and wants to come sleep with us. We usually let him even though it means not a lot of sleep for us. He loves his sister. Follows her around and wants to play with her and her friends. They do have a healthy dose of sibling rivalry though, which he takes most of the brunt from. He does however stand up for himself now and tells Savannah, "NO NO!". He is pretty sensitive when it comes to his feelings getting hurt. He's pretty persistent. If he knows we're going somewhere, he goes into "What do we need" mode. He names off what he needs; shoes, coat, etc. and then moves on to the next person. He won't give up until we're all ready to go. He likes to help unload the dishwasher and if we're cooking on the stove, he's very interested in seeing what's going on. He has definitely had some tantrums, over what, I have no idea. It usually seems like something really silly. As of late, he likes to point to my belly and say "Hi Baby" like he's talking to it. He is a BIG Daddy's boy right now. Since Carter works a lot of hours, on his days off, Cooper is his little shadow. Sometimes when he's sad and Carter's working he just cries for DaDa. <3

I'm sure there is much more I could write about, but currently he is having one of those fun tantrums so I best be going.

Cali Vacation Day 4- Disneyland Day 1

We arrived at Disneyland a little after 9 am and were ready to go! Look how excited Carter is!!

The first character we got to meet was Dale. And this was the first of many hugs given by Savannah.

First ride was Dumbo.

Then the Pinocchio ride, which as you can see, they did NOT like.

Then teacups.....do you see how I got to go on all the spinning ones?

Then to Toon Town. Savannah and Carter rode the roller coaster and Cooper and I wandered around. We saw Pluto over there.

Then to It's a Small World.....

Where Cooper fell asleep halfway through the ride. He slept for awhile after that.

At Pixie Hollow (that wait was long) meeting two of the fairies. Iridessa and Tinkerbell.

This Tinkerbell was so cute and she said to Savannah, "I bet people tell you that you look like me, huh?". Can she please WANT to be Tinkerbell for Halloween this year?

This is one of my favorite pictures from the whole vacation.

There was a little gift area right outside the exit from the fairies and we stopped to look. Cooper picked up a fairie doll and kept kissing it!

We then headed over to Autopia, which of course Cooper loved.

"Are we really gonna drive this car Dad?"

It wasn't too easy for Carter to drive that car and help Cooper. He's so small you can't even see him.

Then it was ice cream time!

Then we went and waited in another long line to meet some of the Princesses.

Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were there this time. Kind of cool we got to meet some of the main princesses.

She was an excellent Snow White!

Fighting over the sword.

What?! More ice cream?

We were pretty pooped by 5/6 pm, so we headed back to the hotel. Cooper fell asleep on the walk home, and didn't wake back up. I went out with Savannah and picked up some food to bring back to the hotel. We'd all planned on going swimming, but with Cooper out, and Carter practically too, I took her. We got her some floaties, or as she calls them, floats. At first she was very apprehensive and didn't want to go off the steps. Somehow she must have lost her footing at some point and learned that she wouldn't go under the water. After that, I couldn't stop her. She was swimming everywhere and didn't want me staying too close!

Cali Vacation Day 3

On Monday we headed to my hometown of Chino Hills. We ate breakfast at Bravo Burger, which was a place I went to in high school. They make my favorite kind of hash browns. We drove around the city to see all the changes. We went to the Shoppes, but the kids weren't up much for shopping, so we weren't there too long. We visited my old Borders store, which is closing now. We then went up to English Springs Park, where they have a play area, ducks and apparently turtles, which I don't remember. The kids ran around and enjoyed themselves, while I tried to take a few pictures.

On our drive out to Cali, we thought it might be fun to go see my Uncle Chris at his fire department. We've never had a tour of a station, so it was pretty cool. Funny story. So, this picture below was right before my uncle opened the doors of the ambulance. When opening the doors, the truck makes this loud hissing noise and lowers, for easier access. Well, I think that scared Savannah a little bit. While Carter, Cooper and I looked at the ambulance, Savannah went back over to the game table. Awhile later, Carter picked Savannah up for some reason, and her pants were wet. We think when she got scared, she peed a little. Poor girl.

The paramedics actually got a call while we were there so we got to see them leave really quick.

I really had no idea there were so many different things/compartments on a fire truck.

I also never realized how BIG the trucks are. They seriously don't look so big as they're driving down the street. Cooper got up and sat in the drivers seat, but Savannah was a little scared to do that.

Sitting in front of the station.

After visiting with Chris we went to a restaurant called Pat & Oscar's. Carter used to work at one of the locations in San Diego, so he's been wanting to go back for years. We got a ton of food and it was really good. They have amazing bread sticks that Carter had been telling me about forever, and they sure did live up to the hype.

After dinner we headed back to our hotel. My Aunt and Uncle surprised us with a hotel by Disneyland for the time we were there. It was so great to be close by and not have to worry about traffic each day. Thank you guys so much for doing that!!