Thanksgiving at Uncle Mike's

Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving this year. We had Thanksgiving dinner at Mike's house this year. The kids and I spent the day preparing some food at home in the morning and then went to Mike's for the remainder of the day. Joel was working nights so he came over just in time for dinner and then went off to work. We had a fabulous meal and had fun hanging out there in the evening. A friend of Jonne's had brought a reggae cd over and Jovie had a great time dancing to the music.

First Words

Jovie has been saying mama for the last 4 or 5 months. Her second word was banana and came at about 15 months. In the last four weeks her vocab has taken off. Here is a list of the words she knows: hot (she knows that the stove is hot and which foods are suspect to being hot on her plate or high chair), hat (I got pretty excited when we had a few cold days last week and bundled the kids up), belly (Cohen and her love showing and poking each other's belly, eyes (she points to her nose, ears, and or eyes when she says eyes), head (she picked that body part up super quick), shoes (she says shuzzs, and she loves to get them from wherever and bring them to me), bubbles (she repeated this the other day when we were playing with them and has known it ever since), dog (this was her 3rd word and it is hard to recognize this word but it's the same sound everytime so it counts:^)), and Diego (from Go Diego Go, her and Cohen's absolute favorite show, she says DeeGO).

Halloweeners

Jovie at a local Halloween festival. She is sitting in a pumpkin graveyard.

Superman and Tinkerbell are ready to go trick or treating.

Al and Peg Bundy, Daphne, and an 80's rocker celebrating Halloween.

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.