A little play time

on our way out to breakfast this morning, we made a pit stop at a park and a festival in hermosa beach.





















































A pooped Dylan caught some zzzzz's on the way home and her big brother did the same an hour later.

Art Show at Jamie's Preschool

Vrooom

Elise & the kids visit LA

Elise, Adam and Lanie came down for their spring break. They stayed in Santa Barbara the first night then stayed at our place for the weekend. They went to Magic Mountain, we fished off the Santa Monica Pier, we had some adventures in Hollywood with parrots on the street, the kids on a casting couch and a freak dressed like Spiderman. (In hindsight I can't believe I let Jamie get on his back so close to Hollywood Blvd.) Elise took them to UCLA and the beach. They visited Elise's cousin who just had a baby - you can sort of see Adam holding the baby but Dylan got front and center in that photo. And after all the fun and festivities, below is the hilarious school essay Lanie wrote about her vacation. DB and I and the kids were all fighting various sicknesses which clearly made the biggest impression...gotta love Lanie's positive outlook!

My Break
During spring break I went to southern California. First, I slept over at my moms frends moms house. Befor I went to bed she fed raccoons and skunks. In the morning she fed a bluejay named Babaloo. Second, My Uncle (DB) got food poisening. Then my cusen (Jamie) got pinck eye. then my other cusen (Dylan) got pinck eye. Then my brother and I got food posing and my ant (Taylor) got a cold. I had a greate spring break. Lanie

This Morning at Virginia Park

They fixed the water portion of the park (it was broken yesterday) and even though it was overcast and chilly (70F) we braved the Santa Monica weather so the kids could have some fun. You can tell it's "cold" out because there were only four kids in total in the water. And I kept overhearing old ladies saying in deaf, but loud voices, "well, maybe they're not from here and this is warm to them". Maybe we're all soft from living in paradise too...

The bitee, not the biter!

This is hard to read but in a nutshell. Jamie got a bite on his right hand from a "friend" at school.
They were fighting over a toy. A little ice & TLC and he was a-ok. Naturally, the biter was Will - Jamie's arch enemy in Room #3.

Crazy Flower

This thing hooks up to the hose and sends water everywhere. Jamie calls it the crazy flower.

Jamie's Monday afternoon artwork

spring concert at jamie's preschool

i'm not kidding when i say he truly was the loudest kid there - he was belting it out in between waving to the us in the audience.

DB's prop master background...

totally comes in handy. this fort was tied up to the ceiling fan, the windows & various door handles. the photo doesn't do it justice but it was a super fabulous tent for J&D.

It seems Dylan could care less that Mom is trying to read to her in the front yard.

Hey! Free Pony Rides! Whahooo!

arts + crafts with daddy

making christmas ornaments in may and jamie's super excited face when we started talking about santa & reindeer

my delicious mother's day breakfast in bed

artichoke heart/goat cheese/mostly egg white omelette feast

en route to preschool, they stop for a stroll in the neighbors yard

and about ten seconds after these photos were taken, jamie fell into the center and crushed a bunch of flowers. we all ran away as fast as possible from the 90 year old woman who lives here...

ponies & a petting zoo

at a cinco de mayo celebration at our local elementary school

i'm gonna start pushing more H2O...soooo spendy!

this super scary...

dinosaur thing woke me up today at 6:10AM. just delightful!