Birthday Party Saturday

First up, a 6th year birthday party for Mazzy!  We rode ponies and played with baby animals.

And, then my friend from school!  I had the fairy make swords for both me and Jordan who was napping during this one.

Field Trip to the Huntington

This week, we went to the Huntington with one of my preschools.  We spent a few hours in the Children's Garden. Luckily, we were given the heads up that there were water features and we all wore our bathing suits.

This instrument made very cool sounds when we dropped rocks through it.

This sand had metal in it and we were able to form sculptures on this magnetic feature.

The mist was so much fun to play in.  I lost my friends and couldn't find them in there.

What a fun "Butterfly Skip Day" at the Huntington.

Jordan's Wordy-ness

Slowly gaining more vocabulary.....but always communicating.

If he can't tell you want he wants, he shows you.

Last week, he pulled Mama into the back yard to try to get her to pick up the poop and then mow the lawn.  Of course, the lawn was mowed two days before.

Recent words:

Bird

Night-Night

"Meme" (for baby)

Up

Out

Move
Cheese/"I want cheese"
WaWa (water - actually not all that new)
Apple
Vroom Vroom (pointing to a car or any other vehicle)
Diaper

Old words:

Stop

Bye

Hot

Cold

Gigi

Juice and Orange Juice

Ball

Bubbles

Go Go Go

Milk

Mama

Daddy

Shoes

Bo Bo (= paci)

More

Yeah (yes)

Hi

I want ____

From the garden and more

This weekend was relaxing with a spring fling at Gigi's elementary school, a beach birthday party and a neighborhood friends bbq before one family heads to New York for the summer.  First, we had a good crop of blueberries and tomatoes to start out our Saturday morning.

Remember spin art?  Gigi and Jordan both made some awesome art I am going to hopefully frame and put up in our play room.

There was a baby alligator for touching.

And Gigi applied her own face paint and Jordan's.

An afternoon/evening beach birthday party!

And music with "Susan" (really, Heidi).   She was George Costanza's girlfriend on Seinfeld.  When we mentioned it in class today, she was so funny and modest.  We all have our past .... we don't talk about our first job, i.e., scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins she said.  Maybe just slightly different that one of her earlier jobs was being an actress on a tv show that 90% of people my age watched or still do!

Setting the table

 Lately (for the past few months), Gigi LOVES to set the table.  She makes sure there are two forks, a knife and two spoons.  Who really uses that many utensils?  Not us, but she insists we might need them.

From our garden...

Well, the new blueberry plants are actually producing blueberries.  The old ones are not...at least not yet.

We also have 5 banana peppers that we have picked.  Maybe mama can figure out how to make something in the Vitamix with them!

Our Mother's Day Hike

On Mother's Day morning, we went to Sullivan Canyon with our friends for a hike.  Jordan was into it in the beginning but became very tired quickly

I showed everyone the mustard flower and we all tasted it.  It tastes like broccoli.

Jordan walked back to the car with Daddy while the rest of us went on.

The wildflowers are blooming!

And we saw some cactuses with beautiful flowers blooming out of them.