Passing the time in San Diego

First off, here's a picture of Ty at 10 months. (ok, this was taken well into his 10th month but hey, at least I got the picture) Doesn't he look like he's too cool for school?! My little baby is becoming a boy with an attitude! He loves to explore, climb, and crawl as fast as possible. It's funny how boyish he is. Knocking down blocks with a force, pulling hair, "petting" the cat with his fist. All so boyish and so different from our little princess. :) He also has absolutely no patience. As we stroll through a store, if he sees something he wants, he points, babbles and you better be getting it or else he turns red, balls up his fists and growls. Wow, quite a display. But he's a real lover and enjoys cuddling, laughing and climbing up on my lap to give kisses.

As I wrote in a previous post, we're having our kitchen remodeled and we've been creatively dealing with the lack of a kitchen and sometimes the lack of a house to be in during the day. So here we are, after having a wonderful meal off the BBQ by Daddy, enjoying some smores. Yum! These are my absolute favorite summer dessert! My family use to go camping a lot at the beach and this was one of the best parts. Every time I small campfire, I can almost taste the smores.

And Tatum agreed with me completely. We named our special smore (which is putting a little chocolate bar inside the marshmallow, then toasting it and squishing it between the gram cracker) The Little Black Rain Cloud (after a winnie the pooh story of course).

Oh and does the sugar make you silly! :)

Shauna took the week off work to "explore" her new town of San Diego. First stop was the Balboa Park. After scoring the best parking spot on the busiest day (apparently it was SD residents get in free to the museum day) we took a picnic over to Peppertree Park. Lots of things to climb on and all sorts of animals.

Then we headed over to the Botanical Gardens. Such a beautiful building!

And the photography lessons continued. Tatum took this one, pretty darn good!

I love this cheeky smile!

This is Tatum's photo of her favorite flower in the building. Blue of course.

So much beauty...

and interesting architecture...

And beautiful flowers throughout the park.

Then we rode the train...

and Tatum got two rides on the butterfly swing since a little girl gave her a ticket that she didn't want to use. So fun!

Then yesterday we hit a Hullabaloo concert at the 4S Library. We absolutely LOVE Hullabaloo, great songs and lots of dancing, hopping and bunny ears. :)

Tatum helped Ty with his ears. :)