Recent Outings

I'm trying to get caught up on blogging again. Here are some pictures from some of our recent outings. I broke my camera and didn't have one for a while so I missed a few things...

Here are the kids from a couple of our favorite parks.

Paige loves the swing

She cracks up laughing when I push her

Here is our little monkey boy

Here is Paige chewing on a little stick. She is so tired here as you can see from her giant bags.

Our monkey boy again swinging on the ropes

Paige loved the middle section of the rope

A photo of my hot husband

As part of our anniversary gift we got to go to a few Galaxy Games. We had season tickets the last three years and this year we passed on them since we are moving to Utah soon. Of course, the Galaxy were undefeated, figures.

Dad and Paige watching the game

Our family at the game

Paul loves reptiles. Here he is pictured with some of our close friend's reptiles.

One of Paul's favorite places to visit is this indoor ball place. It is a 3-story play area with a huge ball pit in the middle. You collect a bag full of balls and then head to the top to shoot them out of these air pressured guns.

Here is Paul at the top shooting his gun

Here is Paige in the bouncer

Paige in the toddler play area

Paul and Paige

Here are some photos of one of my favorite days. We went to our favorite park with Paul's best friend. They played together in a little mud puddle for about two hours and then rolled up and down some grassy hills. They seriously had a blast together.

Showing off their muddy hands

Rolling around together in the grass

Trying to get mom dirty

Still chasing mom trying to get her dirty

Here are some photos from the Children's Garden at Huntington.

Paul, Paige and Mel playing in the water fountains.

Crazy Paul and Mel dunking their heads in the cold water

Paige wants to play with the big kids and the poor girl imitates a lot of what they do. Paige also dunked her head in the water.

We often find these two sitting somewhere together hanging out.

Paul and Mel

Paul and Paige sharing the rocking chair

Paul riding a lion

For my birthday this year, my friends were nice enough to take me out for a pedicure and lunch at one of my favorite spots. It was so fun to have a girls day out. Thank you again!

Pedicures that were much needed

The girls

Fancy Feet

Lunch at my favorite, Tokyo Wako

Incident #2 at Eaton Canyon

If you read one of my previous posts, you know that Paul thought it would be fun to go #2 in the stream at Eaton Canyon Park. Well, we decided to go back today but with a swim diaper and had a really good time.

the pretty ladies

Paige loved the dirt and water. She especially loved trying to sneak a rock into her mouth while mom wasn't looking.

Here she is again in the water.

Here is Paul fishing in the water.

the kids at play

So we ended up having another incident at Eaton Canyon Park. Paul told me he had to go pee so I told him to just go in the water since he was wearing a diaper. Well, he took his diaper and shorts off and squatted down in the water to go pee. I told him to stop and pull his diaper back up and to go in the diaper. He was pulling his diaper back up so I turned my back to him and attended to Paige again. When I looked back I found him sitting with his bare bum on a rock going pee. Of course, Melania wanted to join in the fun and did the same on a nearby rock. To make matters worse, he asked if he could go #2 in the water again. Is he for real?

Look Who's Standing

I feel like I haven't posted enough about Paige so I thought I would post a blog just about her. As you can see from her smile, she already has a mouthful of teeth. She got her first 2 at 3-months-old and at 8-months had 8! I think she is getting 2 more on top of that. We have another active one on our hands. She started crawling at 7 months old and a couple weeks ago at 9-months started standing on her own. She is such a sweet girl and we love her so much! Here are some pictures of Paige taken yesterday.

Easter

We had a really great Easter this year. Paul really enjoyed the Easter Egg Hunts. He is still asking me to go to another Easter Egg Hunt.

Easter Egg Hunt #1. We got together with a bunch of mom's at a nearby park and had an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. It was so fun and this year Paul was one of the older kids that actually got eggs. He was really serious about it and filled his bucket really fast. Plus, it didn't help that his mom was a little competitive about it.

Paul sharing his eggs with Paige.

Paul sitting with his friends after the hunt.

Paul and his full basket.

Paul eating his basket cupcake.

Playing in the fire pit after the hunt.

Art project with Peeps. We did this last year and he loved looking/touching it for months afterwards. However, this year it didn't work out so well. While I wasn't looking, Paul bit the heads off all the chicks and the ears off all the bunnies. We had to get rid of it so he didn't get to the rest.

This was the finished project.

Easter Egg Hunt #2 at our house.

We filled most of the eggs with money and he enjoyed putting the coins into his piggy bank afterwards.

Easter Books.

Decorating Easter Eggs with Dad.

Dying the eggs. Paul loved this and dyed each egg about 2o times. We got some funky colors.

Here are the eggs.

Paige with one of the eggs.

Paige with one of the eggs.

Easter Egg #3 at a friend's house.

Looking for the eggs.

Here is Paul with his basket.

Paul and Melania with their new necklaces.

Here is Melania feeding Paul one of her chocolates. It was really cute.

Swimming in the hot tub after the hunt.

Paul drank about a gallon of water but had a good time.

Best buds.