True Story...

This is a real conversation I had with Archie the other day:

Archie: "Milk, please!"
Me: "The milk is all gone."
Archie: "Dada drink it all?"
Me: "Yep."
Archie: "Get more at a garage sale?"
Me: "Is that where we get our milk?"
Archie: "No, from Mama's boob!"

Oh my gosh! This kid cracks me up! :)

Disneyland Fun!

A couple of weeks ago, most of my siblings and their families met at my parents' house to say goodbye to our brother, Jake. He is going on a mission to Germany for 2 years. :( Anyways, while everyone was together, we decided to go to Disneyland! The kids and I hadn't been in a while, so we were really excited to go and it was so much fun for all of the little cousins to go together! The boys loved it and we can't wait to go back!

Grandma let Mason drive! He loved it!

Mason with Grandpa on Dumbo

The boys' favorite: Buzz Lightyear!

Mason and Archie with their cousin, Alice. They had so much fun together!

I just had to post this picture of my mom and Mason on Buzz Lightyear. They are both concentrating really hard on shooting the bad guys!

Lego Geniuses!

I think my kids are Lego geniuses! Every morning they wake me up with their latest creations. The other day Archie came in to our room to show us his tower. Max and I could not believe our eyes. His tower was in a perfect pattern! When he brought it to us, it didn't have the Lego on top. He said, "one more" and went and grabbed the next Lego. It was a green one, which fit the pattern perfectly! We were so amazed! Mason is a little more advanced with his building. He made a dragon the other day and honestly, it is better than anything I could have built. We are so impressed with our little building geniuses!

Archie's tower (notice the colors?)

Mason's dragon, complete with a head, legs, and tail. Wow!

Hiking!

We have been wanting to check out the hiking trails at Mission Trails Park for a while, and we finally did last week. It turned into an all day activity, when we realized we had to hike a mile and a half to get to the river. Now, that may not sound like that long of a hike, but with two boys, who don't walk very fast and stop to look at every little bug, it seemed to take forever! Plus, Max and I each had to carry a sleeping boy all the way back to the car. Nonetheless, it was a fun family activity and the boys loved it!

Part of the hike was paved...not that cool!

Mason testing how deep the water is.

Crossing the river

San Diego River Dam

They loved finding sticks!

Funny Story

I swear Archie is the smartest 22-month-old (I can say that because I'm his mother)! The other day I was out running errands and when we passed the bank he said, "Bank!". Then I pulled into the post office parking lot and he said, "Boring! Boring!" I said, "The post office isn't boring." To which he replied, "A little bit." I about died! It was the funniest conversation I've had with him. Love him!

Typical Archie

...that's what I call this picture. This is what he wanted to wear the other day. He is such a funny kid. Once he makes up his mind about something, he has to do it, and he will not be distracted. It drives me crazy most of the time, but this outfit was just too funny! I love him and I guess I'll keep him. :)

Ignore the mess in the background. It only looks like this about every other day. :)

Museum Fun!

Last week I took the kids to the "dinosaur museum" otherwise known as the Natural History Museum. It's free for San Diego residents on the first Tuesday of the month, so I decided to take advantage of it since it is usually expensive. I had taken the kids there before, and they had a special dinosaur exhibit with real fossils and dinosaur bones. This time, they had a special snakes and lizards exhibit with all kinds of exotic reptiles. At first Archie was scared of all of the displays, like the dinosaurs and polar bears, but he warmed up to them. There was a whole room full of taxidermy animals and Mason would point to the animals and say, "Why is the mountain lion dead? Why is the bird dead? Awww." I hope he didn't freak out the other kids. In the lizards and snakes room they were showing a movie and we sat through it twice. Both of the kids were enthralled with it! Mason and Archie both had a blast there and we will definitely be going back!

Mason inside a cave petting a snake! (It's fake).

The kids loved this exhibit. You spin that little black wheel and a dinosaur hatches from one of the eggs.

Mason was very impressed by the size of this snake...

...and this lizard!

If you look closely, you can see the boys through the display case. They were making the dinosaur and monkey run and climb.