Fun with the family in March

The past couple weekends we have logged a lot of time on the beach. First we went to Carmel to celebrate my birthday. Steve and I enjoyed a nice stroll downtown Carmel while Gavin went to the store with Nana. We had coffee and pastries, window shopped, bought cheese, it was awesome. The weather was perfect and it was nice to get up and walking around before many people were out.

We planned to go to the beach when Coleson walked through the door. Nikki and Aaron surprised us with a visit. The whole family came down to Carmel. Gavin was very excited to see Cousin Coleson and of course cousin Keaton. We decided to get a picnic lunch and head down to a park to run the kids around. We were very busy at the park then headed over to feed a bunch of birds. Gavin is doing really well with his big boy undies and promptly does the pee pee dance when he has to go. No accidents at the park. Yeah! Kids fell asleep on the way home.

Nana babysat that night for all the kids while Nikki, Aaron Steve and I went to PF Changs to use our Xmas gift card from Dad. We sported the dinner since we have enough on the card. When we go to Pleasanton, we get Cheesecake Factory on them! Great dinner, yummy drinks, and delicious cake. We had a lot of cake this week.

Sunday we went down to the beach and played until it started to rain a little. We saw a break in the sky further south so we jumped in the car and headed down Highway 1. Steve found a great little trail hike along the cliffside. Very nice. We then heads to Rocky Point cafe. Gavin behaved nicely as we ate (yeah). He played with the sugar packets. It was a great day. We headed back to SLO with my new navigation system that I got as a present from my mom and Nikki. I am finally caught up with the times.

Gavin's new saying this week: Yeah yeah, sure sure. I say, Gavin, do you want a peanut butter and jelly... "yeah yeah, sure sure". It is funny. He says I love you a lot more. He also says "Leave me a-yone" when we have told him not to do something. "A-yone= Alone".

We took an adventure to the Monarch Gardens in Pismo. Monarchs all left for the season but it was a great day. Had fun playing in the dunes. Gavin got tired then mommy had to carry him. All was fine until I looked down at my legs and saw they were infested with nats. Then I started feeling them in my ears, they flew into my mouth. No more fun for mommy. They were everywhere. We quickly departed for the car at that point.

Sunday we took a mini adventure at Port San Luis and climbed along the pillow lava rocks. Gavin loves to climb rocks and does a really good job. He likes to squish the annemonies so water squeezes out. He also collected a pocket full of shells. He had to go potty and we were by ourselves near the rocks. We said.... just pee on the rocks. It was so funny because the pee sprayed up so high it almost when as high as his head. He really had to go. He was laughing and so were we. Hopefully he doesn't like it so much that he does that all the time. He didn't get wet by the pee but he then proceeded to jump in almost every puddle of ocean water he could find. Good thing we have a spare pare of clothes in the car!

Wonderful Weather

We stayed local this weekend and soaked up the sun. It was about 70 degrees and it is March. Gotta love it. We had a nice dinner with our friend John "Wiggy" Wigmanich on Friday. He brought over a great bottle of wine that we will have to search to find if we want another bottle. Called Brother in Arms 2002 Shiraz. Yummy. Gavin called him "widgy".

Gavin is going on about 3 weeks of big boy undies and we have only had a few accidents. Pretty good for starting out.

Saturday we planted plants in the backyard while mom did the taxes. Hoping we don't have to pay and we get something back.

Sunday we went to the beach. Gavin says "I LOVE the BEACH". We made sand castles, rock walls, stick castles and chased each other with seaweed. Gavin walked in the tide pools and got a little cut on his foot. He says "Mommy, I am OK!"

Good thing we had the "porta potty" in the trunk. At lunch Gavin said " Mommy, my pee pee is coming out". We wiped open the back, pulled out the little potty, and Gavin didn't have an accident. The question was where to dump the pee? Out on the park lawn... good fertilizer. Now if only they can make one of those for grown ups. We had a great lunch and the seagulls didn't steal our food. Gavin fell asleep as usual on the car ride home and we just leave him in the car until he wakes up.

It was a good weekend but a little too fast as usual.