Earthquake!

We just had an earthquake, centered about 20 miles from our house. It was the boys' first earthquake. Wesley asked why we didn't get under the table. I told him "by the time we figured out we were having an earthquake it was over!"

Dancing Boys

The boys were dancing to the VH1 top 20 countdown this morning when I was cooking breakfast. I thought they were cute trying to dance like each other.

San Diego

Mrs. Squirrel watching the waves and the sun set up high on a rock


Wesley throwing rocks into the ocean

Bryan at the Children's Museum in a dress-up cape

Wesley painting a car at the Children's Museum

Spiderman and his brother

Wesley with Thomas the Tank Engine at LegoLand

Bryan on the KC JR Train at Disneyland

Bryan in line for the Carousel at Disneyland

Well, we made it back from vacation on Monday evening. I will say that we made the most of our time last week, we went to Disneyland, LegoLand, San Diego Children's Museum and of course to the beach, the pool and to the activites that the resort had to offer, not to forget the "dog beach." Story of the dog beach, 2 years ago we went down to Del Mar Beach (it's close to where we stayed in Carlsbad) the sunsets were beautiful, there were hot air balloons behind us on the beach and it turned out to be a lot of fun because there were dogs there. LOTS of dogs there. All of them happened to be purebread with their swanky owners toting them along. Wesley had fun running around with them so we decided that we would hang out there one evening this trip to let the boys have fun. There were about 15 dogs and maybe about 10 humans. Apparently they go there every evening and can remain off leashes until Memorial Day. A little baby poodle ended up chasing Wesley around and a massive 10-month old Bernese Mountain Dog was trying to run Bryan over every chance he got. The kids had fun and we enjoyed the ONE day of sun that we got the whole time we were there. The overcast skys were nice at the theme parks though, we never had to wait more than 5 minutes for a ride at Disneyland. That was GREAT!

Getting Ready for Vacation

Right now, we're prepping for our 7 day vacation that we leave for on Monday, May 5th. (next week!) I've washed & folded about 5 loads of laundry and still have about 2-3 more loads to go. Yes, I do tend to let it pile up until the weekend which ends up being easier to have Jimmie help watch the kids while I do my cleaning. Anyhow, we are going to Carlsbad, CA. down near sunny San Diego for our vacation this year. (about 10 miles from where the triathelete just got killed by the great white shark...nice) Besides worrying about that, I'm working on some of the packing and thinking about ALL of the other stuff that we have to haul around. (2 car seats, diapers, stroller, formula, baby food, feeding supplies, beach stuff, clothes, etc.) That is what I'm doing today. Wesley and Jimmie went to watch the remote control airplanes fly in a competition here in town.
Bryan has the get-in-to's. He's trying to kill himself recently, climbing up the couch, beds, standing on toys, slipping on toys. He first figured out that if he pulled all of the decorative pillows off of the couch and stacked them and then stood on them that he could get up onto the couch. Now, he's decided to forget the pillows and muscle his way up. He can't be left alone for a second. He's completely opposite of Wesley when he was a baby!
Well, we'll post pics of our vacation when we get back next week...

PoSh BaBy

Please everyone take a second to vote for the boys for this Posh Baby Contest that we entered them in. We really want to win the trip! =) THANKS!

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San Francisco

I took the kids to the city today, to Chrissy Fields where there are lots of dogs and there was a lot of wind. When we left our house it was about 77 degrees and when we got to Chrissy Fields it was about 67 degrees and extremely windy! I got a couple of shots of Wesley with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Bryan is incapable of standing up on the concrete so he didn't get in a photo this time. This is his very first GGB pic and definitely won't be the last!

Wesley had a shoot for a Macy's ad today. He had to shoot with a fake daddy for their Father's Day Ad, who by the way happened to be a very attractive young man from Portugal. (I guess my kids look portuguese, I know they don't look half black but I never would've guessed portuguese? HUH) Well, he happened to look quite a bit like Wesley, same skin color/tone etc. He had a lot of fun with his fake daddy Nuno. He put him up on his shoulders, span him around on his back, played baseball with him, ran with him, and they even had to do some facial touching and giggles. It was like having a surrogate father for an hour and a half! They were very cute together and he knew how to get Wesley to laugh and smile.

We started out in an RV where they were steaming the clothes for Wesley. He got dressed and then they took us up the road in a van to the site. Wesley was being very quiet and not talking to anyone. When we got to the site and the driver parked the van he whispered to me "Mommy, am I going to get a shot in my leg?" I thought that was so cute. He kept hearing everyone say that we had to go to get the "shot" done before the sun started to set. And he thought that he was going to have to get a shot. Poor kid. He was sitting there suffering in his mind!

Bike-A-Thon

Wesley had his bike-a-thon at school today. The kids had a lot of fun riding around in circles for about 10 minutes. They biked in the school parking lot and had a policeman on site with his bicycle to teach the kids "bike safety" and encourage them as the rode along. They were pretty cute on their bikes, one little girl kept running over the orange cones and then she would stop. All the kids behind her would come to a screeching hault and almost collide (which did happen twice!) They had a great time and got to burn off energy before class started. The first pic is of Wesley and his classmates. Wesley's buddy Jake, in the green sweater, was a ham today. He rode around the trail without training wheels on his bike AND he would put his feet up on the bar and coast. Doing tricks at just 4 - what a dare devil!