Happy 4th of July!  Since it’s still unbearably hot, we escaped to the beach in the morning.  (Sorry no pictures from that.)  In the afternoon, we headed to the festivities in Redwood City where David decided to swim in the fountain to cool off.  I have to say that I can’t blame him.

To escape the heat, we headed to the beach this weekend.  We all had a great time!

Chris took a few days off of work to play with David.  We’ve had a busy week, but we had a lot of fun, too.  We really enjoyed having Chris around!  We went to the end of the year picnic for David’s preschool, played t-ball, went to David’s “recital” at the Little Gym, went to Happy Hollow, joined friends for burritos and Hot Harvest Nights, went to the beach, had friends over for brunch, and met friends over at Kennedy Park.  While I’m sure Chris enjoyed his time off of work, I have a feeling there might be part of him that is looking forward to going back.

End of the year picnic at Little Hands

T-ball

End of the year “recital” at Little Gym

Happy Hollow

Yesterday, David and I went to the Hiller Aviation Museum, which is right here in San Carlos.  David loved seeing all of the planes and especially enjoyed watching the planes that were taking off and landing at the San Carlos Airport next door.  He very quickly learned the term “plane take off” and kept talking about it for the rest of the day.

Yesterday, David tried his first soccer class.  He had a ton of fun … although he especially liked that Chris came, too.  To make the day even more exciting, David and I rode the Caltrain home from Millbrae.

David was in his first parade today!  We walked with our preschool (Little Hands) in the San Carlos Hometown Days Parade.  David seemed to have a good time.  He especially liked the police motorcycles.

After the parade, we went to the toddler section.  David got to ride a train and a ferris wheel, and even got to play in the petting zoo.

Although David seem to enjoy the big festival, his two favorite parts where (1) the construction zone across the street and (2) the grills that they were using to cook hamburgers.  He went crazy when he saw both of these.

In addition to the busy day we’ve had today, David has been enjoying climbing … climbing, climbing, and climbing.  He has started to climb up and over the fence at the playground, so he climbs out of the tot lot, then runs.  Also, he can pretty much climb out of his crib, so we’ll need to figure out a solution soon.

David has also been riding his “mo mo” (aka motorcycle) a lot.  He goes really fast and says “weee weee weee” the whole time he’s riding it.  (Thank you, Georgia, for giving it to us!)

And here’s a cute pic of David and Chris just because …

Last week, we had some incredibly warm weather.  We took advantage of it by going to the beach up in San Francisco and swimming in a friend’s pool.  We didn’t get any pictures of the pool, but you can see from the pictures of the beach that David LOVED it.  He didn’t stop giggling the whole time.  David liked the pool just as much … and I was surprised that he was so comfortable with the water.  The little daredevil especially liked jumping off of the side of the pool.

Unfortunately, it’s gotten colder, but we’ve still been having fun … David has been enjoying climbing, climbing, and climbing … and riding his new motorcycle/bike.  I’ll try to post some pictures soon.

Admittedly, I’ve been a little lax when it comes to blogging.  Here are a few photos I just downloaded from my iPhone from the last few months.

Climbing the ladder to the big slide with Daddy

Eating chocolate frozen yogurt in the backpack (maybe not my brightest idea)

Jogging with Mommy

Playing trains with Daddy

Lining up all of the trucks in the sandbox

Eating bananas and spaghetti sauce

Wearing construction hats

Putting down the sprinklers

Looking at a window display in San Francisco

Hanging out up in SF

More hanging out in SF

Walking by the bay

Hanging out at PetSmart

Going on a date with Mom and Dad at Town (and eating chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream)

Going down the slide with Daddy

Playing with other kids’ toys in the sandbox

Playing in our neighbors’ sprinklers

Running away from Mom and Dad at Laurelwood Park

We were lucky to have Paw Paw and Gigi come to visit us this weekend.  It was a really short trip, but David LOVED the extra attention.  Even though our beaches don’t compare to those of the Gulf Coast, we still decided to take Gigi to the ocean.  David enjoyed playing in the water and sand, and we even got to see whale spouts off the shore.  We hope Paw Paw and Gigi enjoyed their visit, and we hope they come to visit again soon!

Happy Easter!  David definitely enjoyed all of the Easter festivities … and they’re not even over, yet.  We’ll be celebrating again next weekend with our friends the Donovans, since they were out of town.

Our Easter celebrations started with a public Easter egg hunt near city hall.  It was crazy!  There were so many people, and the hunting area was really small.  David wasn’t really sure what was going on, but he seemed to really enjoy it.  Unfortunately, he stole another poor kid’s Easter basket.  Soon after the hunt, David dropped a gigantic rock in his basket – crushing the poor peep and jelly beans that he got at the hunt.

After the hunt, we colored eggs with Paul, Jee, and Ginger.  The kids seemed to have a good time, and it wasn’t as messy as I was expecting.  The eggs came out … well … let’s just say they looked interesting.

Easter morning, we had a small hunt in our apartment, then David and Ginger hunted eggs in our back yard in the afternoon.  Ginger was really excited to find the eggs and put them in her basket.  David pretty much just wanted to eat what was inside the eggs (goldfish, animal crackers, and mini-oreos.)  After the hunt, the partners in crime got into the garage and took Dad’s car out for a joy ride.