Pumpkin Patchin'

Both the kids liked playing in the playhouse at the pumpkin patch.

Hayrack riding.

Petting alligators. Yep, that's right. The Phoenix Herpetological Society was at the pumkin patch the weekend we went and the kids got up close and personal with an alligator, huge tortoises, snakes, and iguanas. It was pretty cool!

Miss Jovie is ready to go!

Mother Natures Pumpkin Patch.

Cohen's Birthday

Joyride

California

We went to San Diego for a few days last week. We went to the beach, to Sea World, and to the 'World Famous San Diego Zoo.' It was so fun to hang out discover things with the kids. We had SO MUCH FUN at Sea World! It was really awesome! We stayed there from open to close (9a-10p)and by the time we left we were all delerious, but the good delerious:^) Here are some pictures from our trip. Mission Beach. Jovie and I played in the sand while Cohen and poppis went in the cold Pacific Ocean.

Shamtastic!

Jovie was a bit unsure of the dolphins.

Cohen liked to touch the dolphins and feed them jello cubes.

Hey, we know these guys. Sea World had an area that was called Sesame Streets Bay of Play (or something like that) that had 3 kiddie rides, a Seasame Street Show, and tons of play area for kids to run around. It was so great to be able to let the kids run around in between shows and exhibits.

Cake face

Now that I am having luck uploading videos on blogger, I had to share one of my alltime favorites.

Swimming to the Steps

Here is a little video of Cohen swimming. He has been swimming like this for a few weeks now and we are now working on getting him to use his arms.

When it rains it pours!

Yesterday Jovie took her very first baby steps!! Two consecutive little steps!! Can't believe my baby will be walking around soon.

And yesterday Cohen nailed all the major colors. We have been working on our colors for a long time but for the last 3 or 4 weeks I've been making sure we devote at least 10 minutes (that's about Cohen's max for a "lesson") to talking about and practicing color recognition. For the longest time, he knew blue. I would point to something blue and ask him what color it was and he would know that it was the same color as Doc Hudson from Cars, so he would either say "blue" or "that's like Doc". We used this kind of recognition for many of the colors he learned. And last night he nailed all his colors and didn't divert to calling things green when he wasn't sure, which is what he used to do. Cohen showed dad his new color skills when he got home and got them all right again. So cool!!

Also last night, we were playing outside for about 20 minutes before bed and Cohen totally got the hang of pushing his pedals on his tricycle! He was so excitied when he figured out he could make the tricycle move by himself, while sitting down no less.

Also, this weekend we went swimming and Cohen showed me all his new skills he's learned in swim class. It was a huge difference from the weekend before! I guess that's what 3 swim lessons per week will do for you;) He was holding his head under for 3+ seconds, he jumped in and the kept his head down and kicked over to me. And we would go under together and open our eyes too! So cool! I was super excited about his new swim skills and it makes me want to practice more and more! All these exciting developments just bring out the Tiger mother in me and make me want to do more and more with him. Neurons are a firin' and I love it!!