Aquarium of the Pacific

We have fun tagging along with Collin to all of his field trips - this time we got to go to Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. We even dragged Grandma & Grandpa along this time.

Collin's favorite was the Lorikeets. He got one to land on his arm - and about 20 bites on his fingers

I finally gave in and bought him some food (Mostly for the photo ops :)

Then he became every birds' favorite friend...
He got a little nervous but had a great time.

He met a friend and learned his favorite game - he likes to play with the cup then drop it on the ground - he had Collin trained quickly to always pick it up for him so he could do it again. Everyone who works there was glad so they didn't have to play with him so much This is the after shot - imagine standing there when all these birds suddenly decide they need to be behind you - you just stand still and hope none of them fly into you.

Kelsey just liked playing with the door

Grandma was so nice and let K take pictures of everything - some of them even turned out

Kelsey's so nice to actually pose for me whenever I ask

Cousin Ellie was on the trip too - though we didn't see her to often

Collin and some of his buddies from church

The lady recognized crazy-picture-taking-mom and let me go behind the touch tank to take better pictures of my kids

Collin loves learning about all the sea life

K and the sharks

Shark petting - they feel like sandpaper

Cousin Ellie again - and G'ma, G'pa and Collin petting sharks and rays

We had a fun day - luckily we were able to stay late so we could actually see all the fish instead of just the birds, sharks and playground...

Our Days at Disneyland are Numbered...

We're running out of time - both because we hit block out days in the summer and because I'm getting less and less able to make it with the pregnancy thing

See - I do get in pictures every once in a while. We waited in line twice to see all the characters - Pooh Corner is so far from the rest of the rides that I didn't want to have to come back again :)

For our something-new we went to Tom Sawyer's Island (which has since been changed to Pirates' Lair- since that's more popular than Tom Sawyer - who?)

They had fun running around - I just tried to keep up -whew!
Luckily they stayed at the tree house for a while and just went up and down over and over while I sat and watched

They only got in trouble once for disappearing on me - I put them in a time out - for the amount of time it took me to find them :) (Kelsey doesn't like to be in trouble - good thing she's not very often)


Collin decided he wanted to go see the Jedi Academy - but instead of choosing him they choose the cute little girl about 10 kids down from him... they were asking how old she was - I tried to yell out that she was 3 but since they didn't see me she told them she was 4 (notice all the knots in her robe to make it small enough)

she had a great time though she wasn't as fast as some of the others
Darth Maul came out and did a cool show which I taped...

...when he was done he walked up to me and stared me down. I told him to please be nice to the little girl in the green dress - he just sneered at me. (Collin was hiding behind me the whole time)

Kelsey was the last one to fight against Darth Vader. Collin and I were taking bets to see if she would do it or if she would run scared. As you can see she wasn't scared at all

You'll have to watch the video - hopefully it's clear enough. It's a little wobbly at times cuz I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes - I'm so proud!

Kelsey was so proud of her Jedi diploma!

Kelsey told us what she did to Darth Vader - I went whuf - whuf!

The proud (and envious) big brother

On every ride Kelsey shows how brave she is by raising her arms and whoo whooing. Here we are on the Casey Jr. Train :)

Kelsey's Birthday Party

I'm not a cake decorator (obviously) but that never stops me from going crazy on the kid's cake -This year Kelsey wanted a Fairy cake.
Kelsey with her mom and dad :)
The Loot

Princess Kelsey

Disneyland for Kelsey's Birthday

For Kelsey's Birthday I took her (just her) to Disneyland...

At the show outside the Animation Studio on the back lot of California Adventure Kelsey saw Cinderella come over towards her as she sang her song... Kelsey thought she was coming over to her and ran up to give her a hug. I stopped her in time but Cinders noticed so when the show was over she came over to K and gave her a hug and walked her into the building for pictures.

Kelsey is so brave and likes to go on all the rides that Collin doesn't - Monster's Inc, Snow White's Scary Adventure, Pinocchio's Daring Journey...
For a special treat we went to Ariel's Grotto for lunch

Kelsey loved seeing all the princesses!

Kelsey met some little princesses and had fun playing and dancing with them.

Everything was exciting for K

We got to met Cruella - K didn't know who she was but thought she was funny

K in Toontown

So Strong!

K's favorite ride it the teacups (but since she rides with me I spend the whole time trying to counteract the spin and make it slow down...)

Kelsey had fun at the New Dance Party Parade - She danced the entire time

I'm Pregnant

No, this isn't the big announcement - though it's a bit less subtle than the video... This just my all consuming excuse for most everything. Why I miss activities, cook less dinners for the family, do fewer dishes, take more naps, and blog less...

I have actually gone to my mom's house to use her computer to upload my pictures so all but the most recent are just sitting in my drafted posts box, just waiting for me to get around to adding captions and post them.

So, it things seem strangely out of order - Cinco de Mayo on the 25th, Kelsey's birthday party in June (or July by the time I get to it) just roll with it and since you weren't there it's not going to matter too much that everything is at least 2 months behind - just accept that it seems like Collin is going on a lot of field trips during the summer. Most people would just skip it if it was so far out of sync but sine I do this more for my own journaling and scrapbooking you just have to bear with me - sorry.

Someday I might actually get around to blogging about actually being pregnant - but what fun is that. So you may get a glimpse of belly every once in a while but for the most part I'll still focus more on the kids - they're cuter and I take more pictures of them than they do of me...

(This is a picture Kelsey took of me at the end of April)