Lied Discovery Children's Museum & lunch with daddy!

On Friday Alec & I were able to meet up with Hilary and Catherine at the Lied Children's Discovery Museum. I was impressed with all the displays and interactive materials that kept Alec & Cat occupied for 3 hours:


In the 'Crafts' section for the younger children, they got to paint a coyote. I think Alec got more on his body than the paper.


Alec was giving hugs, though I don't think Cat was a huge fan!



I think I know how to make Disneyland a bit easier for myself in future...

On the way home Alec fell asleep...which means he refused to nap when we got home. Paul and I decided to go to lunch and try out a new Mediterranean place.

Turns out Alec is a huge fan of tzatziki-he perfected the technique of dipping the pita (and his hand) into the sauce each time.

Cute Pictures

Alec's so happy to have his daddy home!! The video chatting apparently worked-he had no problem immediately re-bonding.


It's also nice to have him around in the mornings for walks:



Here's Milo & Maggie waiting patiently at the door until we allow them to come in.

Alec is really into 'Thomas the Tank Engine', he now carries a plastic engine around and constantly wants to call out, 'choo choo'.


We started taking Alec into nursery at 17 months old and he's certainly enjoying it. I can't believe how fast he's growing...

Here he is enjoying his daddy taking off his Sunday clothes:

I was just playing around with color settings on the camera-I loved the dangling feet:

One of Alec's "party tricks" is to ask him to do his 'He-Man'. He tenses up his face & clenches his fists, SO funny!

Some days Alec's just incredibly photogenic and I get loads of cute shots:


Having a good time with Auntie Kelsey:

Updates, dogs & more dogs...

I'm sorry, I know I've done a lot of posts in a short period of time, but I'm making up for lost time. Be sure to scroll down if you haven't visited my blog in a while, there are 3 other recent posts!

Paul's work is taking longer than planned and since he'll now be waiting on another student to get some results that could take 2-3 months, we felt his time would be better spent (and more happily spent!) back home, studying for the actuary exam while wrapping up the PhD before next September. We still plan to move to Colorado, but our plans change so quickly, I'll wait to give a definite date until the moving van is booked.

We did have some good news. The college gave me an additional class, which makes 4, and means I'm eligible for benefits! Yay!

I also wanted to include some updates on the dogs, though I realize few people care. Humor me anyway, I've become such a dog lover recently!

Last week I found another stray dog and brought it home. That makes the 3rd stray I've brought home this year, and once again was able to find the owners. I've also been informed it will be the last one I bring to my parents' home. :) Hopefully I don't find anymore here as I seem unable to resist...

Maggie & Milo (hereafter referred to as 'M&M') are great. We started intermediate classes at Petsmart last week, which has given us more rules to practice.

There's a group of people who let their dogs play together each night at the park and we passed them on our evening walks for over a month. I finally felt M&M were ready to make some friends and get off their leashes, so we tried it out. It went wonderfully and it's become a surprisingly relaxing time of day for me now. I usually drive over to the park and let the dogs run around chasing each other, fetching frisbees, etc. for an hour or so (we take walks in the morning now). I think of it as M&M's playgroup. Alec runs around and hugs them all as well! His favorite is Torque, a 107 pound german shepherd.

Here's Milo with Cheyenne, a german shepherd. Milo likes to steal her frisbee and get her to wrestle. Never mind that Cheyenne's more than double his weight!

Maggie's not as social and I think it's so funny that if any puppies come, they tend to want to play with her. Here's Tessa, a little 8-week old lab trying to get Maggie to play:

My friend Jill's holding up a chew toy, that everyone suddenly wants. (Most nights we have about 10 dogs running around.) Here she has Torque, Loka (her husky), Cheyenne (her german shepherd) and M&M all paying attention. You can also see the two lab puppies in the back right corner wrestling.