My first day of school!

Pictures from this past week...

Walking the babies before having neighbors over. Bumped into Sharon who just finished baking the cupcakes. She is holding one of my boyfriends (James)

Here we are eating the cupcakes

And, a play date with Nanny G and two friends!

Happy 10th Anniversary, Mommy and Daddy!

Cheers! Happy Anniversary to Mommy and Daddy! 10 years :)

I brought baby with me to dinner for the celebration. They brought a high chair and I strapped in my baby.

Then, while waiting for dinner to come, I read to my baby.

I brought my fishing pole (goes with my fish puzzle). I was fishing at the table and caught the butter knife.

This was our beautiful view. We couldn't have planned dinner better. We were the ONLY people who were there at 5:30 and only one other table came before we left. So, we had the whole outdoor balcony to ourselves.

After dinner, we took a walk. Look at the beautiful sky! Perfect celebration.

If only we would all smile at the same time!

More Swimming in San Diego

Today, I went swimming 3 times for probably at least 2 hours each time....I had 3 swimsuit changes and Mommy and Daddy had to wear wet bathing suits for the last swim! Only I was smart enough to pack 3 suits :) I probably jumped in at least 150 times....at dinner, I suddenly said, "I'm tired....stroller". Mama put me in the stroller and I was asleep in 30 seconds at the dinner table.

San Diego!

Duckies in the pond in the morning!

Swimming!

Post-swimming in my Elmo towel!

Visiting Dr. Acacio!

This was the first time I met Dr. Acacio (well, sort of) in January 2008 when I was 4 months old...now I am almost 2 and here we are again!

We drove down to San Diego and on our way down, we stopped in Laguna to visit Dr. Acacio. We also saw his wife, Lisa. We had a great visit!

Jumping with Safia

Gigi's turn...
Safia's turn...
Gigi's turn...

Hug for Bryon...

Elmo's Portrait by Mama

Happy Birthday, Baby Gracie!

Today, we went to Baby Gracie's birthday party at the Santa Monica Pier Carousel. You all know by now that I love horsies, so I couldn't wait for the party. I fell asleep 10 minutes before arriving (we were 45 minutes early), but I woke when Mommy transferred me to my stroller. The hope by Mama was that I would sleep and then wake up refreshed and ready to party. Once I saw the carousel, there was no sleeping for me!

(from Mommy....Leigh -- I have read your many birthday party travails and let's just say, this party definitely intimidated me regarding my plans for Gigi's party in 3 weeks. There were games (Lion Toss/Ring Toss), Decorating Polaroid Picture behind a Clown Peekaboo thing (see below), a clown making balloon flowers and dogs, as many carousel rides as you like, NAME TAGS....who does name tags for a kids party, goodie bags with a picture of the birthday girl and the goodie bag recipient on it, beading necklaces, the lemonade was put in carousel sippy cups with straws....and more. I am not so much intimidated that I couldn't do this party either if I didn't work or if I wanted to throw over $1,000 at a 2 year old birthday, but I guess I was just thinking this is nice, but just over the top. She is 2....Hmm. Do I need to rethink? I was planning to go themeless, invite her friends and our friends (all 4 of her grandparents will be here), cook some good food (okay, Allen was going to cook the food), let them play with her many toys and call it a birthday party....no goodie bags, no special this or special that. Just a regular party.)

The theme was Carnival/Carousel....Here is the Lion Toss....or Lion Drop for me and Gracie.

Here's the pretzel and lemonade stand....oh, and hotdogs, too.

Gracie and her Mama

Decorating a Polaroid picture taken of me...

Here's the finished product

Using the ring from the ring toss as a hula hoop

Bye and thank you, Gracie.