Monday

Today was a fun Monday:

Adventures of Shane:

Ooh, camera!!!

Skinny jeans!

Freedom!  He is usually baby gated out of the kitchen!

So, cute.

Swimming:

We went swimming again, this time with Claire!

Johnny.

(Confusing.)

Mostly to ourselves!  Claire wore her cute "zucchini."

Brrrrr.

View from the playground after.

Sipping hot cocoa together after.

Car Ride:

Claire asked for "that story."  She remembers we 

like to play books on tape in the car.  Sweetness!  

 Shopping:

She helped with a little shopping.  She is

really good at it!

McDonald's Playground:

She wouldn't come down when it was time to go.

After 2 times of going up there to ask her nicely,

she finally submitted to Oliver and let him carry

her down without a fight.

She was tired but didn't like that she had to go home.

We like playing with her too!

Home:

Figuring out that darn roof.

Taking small steps to cleaning out his room.

He cried when he found Mommy threw seed pods

in the trash.  He is a HOARDER!

Tomorrow, we'll go through this junk...we'll

figure it out.

We really like our break from school!

Exhausted

We had a really good, long, fun day of learning in Balboa Park and hanging out at home.  We are exhausted.  Mommy's camera is exhausted too and won't download pictures right now.  She'll post our pictures tomorrow instead.  

(Now.)

San Diego.

Oliver loves taking the little tram at Balboa Park.

Mommy would rather walk....

But he gets so excited, like its a roller coaster, that

is totally worth the ride!

We used Oliver's summer reading coupon

for the Natural History Museum.  

New Desert to Coast permanent exhibit.

Neat exhibit.

Oliver thought the name of this valley was cool!

Waiting to see Ms. Frizzle!

We learned about stormwater and drains.  

Bus ride!

Shopping for arrowheads in the gift shop.

Band in the central area of the Park.  

We went to have lunch in a few different countries:

Mommy had tea with Lady Mary and Lady Edith.

Israel.  The Bureka is so yummy!

We spent time in Ireland.  Oliver is working

on his first school report on his ancestors.  He 

chose Ireland as his country to focus on. 

We love listening to the music in the Irish cottage.

We also visited Sweden.

He wants to learn so many instruments right now.

Supposedly his Daddy signed up for guitar lessons.

Oliver also has Scottish ancestors.

He was really enjoying Scotland.  

We had dessert in Germany.

We've also enjoyed being homebodies this break.