Back home for now

We had as good a trip to California as we could have.  I left Sunday, Grammy brought Bobby out on Tuesday. He was excellent on the flight and connecting with no stroller etc.  Same with me on the way home.  Somehow he slept for Grammy on the plane, but our naptime was right during our layover, but he hung in there - even on the flight where we had no window in the last row next to the engine.

A nap is a nap right?

We had the tvs at our seats even on one flight, but the only thing on was about 2 hours of Spongebob on Nickelodeon so we opted for half an ipad movie and playdough.

Once we got there, he was crazy happy to see Grandma and Daddy again.  Well, mostly Grandma.  He didn't go to the funeral, but did really well at the reception with 50+ people.

There was some of this. People hung out for a long time.

Sliding down the hill, I guess he was a little bored of the party

He did great again on the 7+ hour car ride down to Orange County - somehow his first legitimate road trip,  not including the drive from Michigan which we did in the middle of the night and he slept the whole time.  We got settled at Judys and did a quick day and a half of house hunting and somehow found a place.
Out there, you can have two of the three:  nice house, nice yard, or nice neighborhood.  We chose the latter two seeing as how weather is super nice, I figure its worth having a little yard to play in and have the doors open if #2 is napping or something down the road.  All the neighborhoods were nice, but some more planned and community like with playground and parks and such.  This is one is close to the harbor and beach and now I just hope that they are real beaches like outerbanks/topsail or even Santa Barbara and not just a sliver down the hill from a cliff.

In other news, Bobby is getting really big.  Not from food, just from the passage of time I guess.  All his pants are floods, so it better be shorts season soon.  I wonder if I should get his eyes checked sometimes...

Looking at his cousins,  closely.

 This is normal right?  Easiest trip to Target ever.

So pretty

So, on said shopping trip, we got some glitter markers with plans to make easter egg cards and other lovely crafts, but this is pretty much what happened...  It was entirely his idea and execution. 

Better than me with my left hand

In other news

Little Elroy/Elroyetta is growing well, right on track, a whopping 10 ounces.  Which is depressing since I have put on a colossal 10 pounds, or more. Definitely more.

He/she has all the parts in the right places.  I love my doctor here and he's even going to give me another ultrasound in March since the baby was moving/oriented the wrong way to check the right nostril.

Foot

Upside down

Circus

The circus is here and we were lucky enough to get great seats and go see it.  Bobby loved it.  His face was completely lit up. It was amazing to watch him.  He is also adorable when he claps.  He was a little more into the animals and clowns than the acrobats and other performers, but it was all very cool.

Good, but no Seigfried and Roy

Bobbys favorite part

You can't tell, but they got EIGHT motorcycles in there

 I do have a video of the motorcycles, but I don't want to get in trouble for posting it.  I might still, shhhhh...

YEAR of the DRAGON

It had sort of a dragon theme, but it wasn't super tied together.  While super cool, it was a crappy environment for taking pictures - obviously.

Friday night

Rick and Bobby played baseball
Archer and I made a cake
Grammy and Wiley went to church

I'd say 5/6 of us matched our personalities pretty well to the event.
(in addition, that's not fair to Archer, he's really not a fat kid with a sweet tooth, but he was a chubby baby and as a second child, he might as well be)

Saturday morning, we got had sausages and donuts for breakfast then packed off to the dinosaur exhibit at the Coliseum.  We could have used about 3 more adults.  Or sedatives for the kids.  It was comical trying to get a picture of the three of them as you can. But it was a cool exhibit. The bouncy houses and ride on dinos were $6  each in addition to the $9/kid entry. So we skipped them, duh. Plus the line was forever and it was full of 10 year olds (but somehow I think we could hold our own).

Next time, bright yellow matching shirts all around.

When kid3 decides he's done posing and walks away

Another typical attempt. 2 won't look, 3 won't turn around