We made the most of our slice, we had a great Thanksgiving Day, with good food, and a trip to the park by our house.
Friday Daddy went surfing in Carlsbad in the morning, and we, (Grandma, Ryan, Evan and Mommy) met him and some of our kayaking friends at Pizza Port. (mmmm---Beer Buddies)
After posing for some pictures, and lots of hugs, Grandma left for home on Saturday morning, we were all sad to see her go. Fortunately, we will all be together again in a couple of weeks to celebrate our "special" Christmas with her! The boys really enjoyed having her here and she really enjoyed seeing how much they have grown in only a month or so!
After we said good-bye to Grandma, we met our friends, Philip, Meredith, and Tobin at the aquarium. I decided that since we had 4 adults, and 3 babies, one of which is not walking yet, we should go sans-stroller.
Now, I've been practicing this being out of the stroller in public thing in spurts, by myself, and it's really not that bad. (It's better than a root canal) The boys are great, the listen, (although they do not obey) hold my hands (in that using all of their body weight to extract their hand from mine way) and we all get a new view on things. (They on their feet and me on my backside with sweat dripping into my eyes)
The aquarium is a great place for this, we go out to the tide pool and touch a starfish or a sea cucumber. We can go inside and push levers, or look at fish. When I'm alone, the best place for looking at fish is the huge floor to ceiling aquarium. There is a little ledge where the boys can stand and screech as fish, sharks, and rays swim by. I just park the stroller and let the boys out and we spend a leisurely half hour or so staring at the fish. (Okay, leisurely might mean something different than what it means to you, but my perception is really all that matters right?) I then calmly (Read: someone is crying because they really don't want to get back in, and someone else is arching their back staying stiff as a board so as not to place his backside anywhere near the seat) secure both boys back into the stroller and we move on to another area where I let the wild animals loose again.
I digress...(more on the out of stroller escapades in another post)
We went to the aquarium Saturday, had a blast looking at fish and hanging out with our friends!
This is Tobin, he likes the fish too!
After the aquarium, we stuck to the day's theme and had fish tacos for lunch, is that a little sick? Obviously, Scott had a carne asada burrito. Ryan tried a little fish, but was happiest with his dino bites. Evan kept making attempts at salsa, if drenching everything in salsa gets him to eat and swallow, bring on the La Victoria!
Today we tried Christmas shopping. Tried is key word here, but I'll save that for another post.
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