Friday, September 26, 2008

Family Vacation to San Diego



Japanese Tea Garden, Balboa Park

We recently embarked on our first family vacation to San Diego.   It took us about 9 hours to drive there.  Luckily, the idea of driving at night worked out for us.  The girls slept the whole way down so we decided to also drive at night on our way home.  The girls had a great time visiting the San Diego Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Sea World and Balboa Park. 
We brought 3 peapods down for them to sleep in but as you can see in one of the pictures, they opted to sleep on the big bed.

Hanging out at the Kiddie pool at the hotel

Enjoying the complimentary breakfast at the hotel


Camels and pandas at the San Diego Zoo

Having a snack and waiting for Sea World's Shamu show to start


People watching at the Shamu show

Visiting with the geese at the Wild Animal Park

Sleeping through the night...

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Happy Birthday to Daddy

The girls helped celebrate daddy's birthday by taking a choo choo wagon ride down to our local Starbucks.  They even helped him eat his morning pastry, but not his macchiato. 


Here is how they all sing Happy Birthday.
"Happeeee to you, baba.  Happeeee to you, baba"

Daddy also enjoyed a surprise birthday dinner with his friends. Here we are at a local Italian restaurant celebrating, a day before embarking on our weeklong vacation to San Diego with the kiddos.


Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Can Sophia be slowed down?

Sophia loves to run and climb around the house.  The other day, she climbed onto one of our dining room chairs and fell.  She didn't cry much but wanted to be carried.   This was right before bath/bed time so I thought she was just tired.  Then we noticed that when she tried to take a couple steps, she was limping.  Poor girl!  So, we think she sprained her left ankle.  There was no bruise and she didn't complain of it hurting her.  And she continued to run (with a slight limp), climb, jump, dance, and play on the slide.  Her limp gradually went away after a few days.  Now she's running, climbing, jumping and dancing more than ever!  There are no signs of her slowing down anymore.  Even with her ankle sprained and the slight limp, I don't think she slowed down much either.


Here are our girls at 21 months old.