Rocket’s Pad

Dressing up but then taking everything off and changing into board shorts 5 minutes later

Running through the sprinklers

Water balloon fights

Treasure hunts

Pirate Pinata’s full of loot

Sword fights

Hot dogs and Pirate cake

Best of all…all your pirate mates showing up to share it with you!

Thanks everyone for coming and making Danny’s birthday so fun and memorable for him. Thank you Christie for the awesome cake and Jim for the hours of sword fighting you engaged in. Swashbuckling fun!

We did a little bit of exploring Baja yesterday. The kids loved the bumpy off-roading and we enjoyed many renditions of Danny’s “bumpy rugged road song”. If you are ever privileged to hear it you should know some history behind it. It was written in February last year by Jason, Kyle and Danny while they were taking the bumpy road short cut to the park. It is sung exclusively by boys cuz girls can’t sing it right.

Here’s Carly picking wild flowers.

I just discovered this picture, its from a couple months ago. We went out to our favorite little neighborhood restaurant to celebrate a friend’s birthday. They serve cactus with the chips and salsa, have great margaritas and I guess the waiters all noticed my napkin obsession as they bring me about 100 napkins as soon as I sit down.

Carly cooling off in the igloo with her cousin Keren who’s visiting us for a couple weeks. The Santa Ana’s blew in and it was in the 90s and extremely dry. Carly & Keren are both 2 and get along great.

Carly had an accident in her pants and I was trying to encourage her to use the potty. “Carly, you know princesses don’t go poop in their pants, they always use the potty.” Then Danny piped in, “You know Mom, I’ve read some books about princesses and I never saw anything about them going poop, I don’t think princesses go poop at all.”

Our princess received her first rose today at Costco. She was admiring the roses and smelling each one and the employee working nearby took one and gave it to her. She was so thrilled, she walked all over the store with it showing people, “Look, my rose, Carly’s rose, it’s pink”, which garnered her even more attention. Notice Danny checking out the electronics.

Danny informed us today, “You know after thinking about it I don’t want to be a fireman anymore I want to be a garbage man because they drive bigger trucks.”

February is Museum Month in San Diego with all 32 museums 50% off. I found out in the last week of February but now that I know we’ll definitely plan more for February next year which will be perfect as they’ll be 4 & 3 and able to understand even more. In the meantime many of them aren’t even that expensive.

We did go to the Birch Aquarium and the kids just loved it. It’s very well done. Some of the exhibits were over their head but they loved the shark feeding and hands on tide pools full of sea stars and urchins and the deep sea diver show. It’s 30 minutes long and a diver in a huge tank full of a variety of fish and sharks teaches the kids about them. He has a mic on and we could hear him over the loud speakers. Danny was especially fascinated and sat real still with wide eyes the whole show. There was also a question and answer period at the end. It’s a fun excursion for a rainy Saturday as most of it is indoors.

I’ve been having some technical difficulties with this site and have been unable to upload any photos. Once this is fixed I have lots of photos from Jan-March to post.

Every day is a dress day for Carly, meaning that she will cry if she has to wear anything but dresses and occasionally she will consent to a very twirly skirt. But that’s not all. Once she has gotten dressed in her dress of choice she must receive approving comments about her choice. She especially enjoys getting these from her brother and he is usually the first person she goes to for an opinion on her outfit. Danny indulges her with lots of compliments.

You look so pretty Carly.

You look just like a princess.

That’s the most beautiful dress I’ve ever seen.

And today’s was especially sweet…

Carly you look so beautiful - you’re even more beautiful than Mommy.