Each year, Dana point does not disappoint.
Where is Scout for the Easter Bunny picture?
Too cool.
But really?
Because that 11 year old was already camped out next to the oldest kid hunting area…marked “8-10 years old”.
His loot was ridiculous.
It was 2/3 of a brown grocery bag full.
He spent his post-hunt time separating and organizing.
And then he gave most of it away.
“I don’t really like the candy, I just like the hunt.”
In other news…Dash followed my advice and was much more tame, Pippi only searched for exactly what she wanted, and Navy spent 20 extra minutes hunting for any small treats left behind.
Micah has been working with Pippi for a few weeks on learning how to ride a two wheeler.
He says she is ultra-determined, but…”She is nowhere close.”
Micah was working with her, and it was a bit rough…but she would get a pedal or two in.
After a few minutes, he left to put something away in the garage.
So Navy stepped in to help Pippi out a bit.
And then the stars in Heaven aligned…
And she was off!!!
We were going crazy…so Micah came back out and was shocked!
It was all so exciting!
Even Casanova took a break from kissing the air to cheer her on!
So Daddy…this little girl of yours made you eat your words!
And something tells me that it won’t be the last time.
I don’t know who is worse to sleep with.
Pippi, who literally kicks you a hundred times while you are next to her (with great aim to the face might I add).
Or Navy, who saws logs all night — every night (at a volume that could be referenced with “horrifically loud”).
It’s official.
He has mastered the headstand!
But we often pause and wonder if there’s a reason he’s always on his head. Literally…we have tossed around the idea that something internally is off, and it feels better if he is on his head!!! Not because we are crazy…but because he is really on his head THAT MUCH!
I proudly told Pippi that her P’s and i’s looked great.
Then Scout said, “In a mirror.”
She rolled her eyes at Scout and told us it was like that…because she put it on the back of her paper.
Hah!!!
I proudly told her again…the P’s and i’s look great!
On our way into our neighborhood, I saw the prettiest hedge that was covered in baby pink flowers. I stopped and told the girls I wanted to remember this hedge during the super bloom we are in right now. Little did I know, that when I looked at the photo on my screen, I almost gasped at how old my girls are looking. Apparently, things are blooming all over these parts.
For Christmas, I gave Micah a ticket to see the longest-running Broadway musical, and he seemed excited….until he read the name of the musical…CATS!
My mom laughed so hard, and said, “I have seen every musical out there except CATS! You couldn’t pay me to see that stupid show! I mean… who wants to watch a two hour show about…cats!”
We all laughed harder, when an hour later, she opened up her very own CATS ticket.
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Well…to say the least…not Micah, my mom or I was particularly excited to see this show. But because a friend of mine in college told me it was his all-time favorite musical, we decided to make a great night of it. We went to our favorite Indian food spot, and then headed to the show.
Then the disaster began.
First off…my mom isn’t usually in the cheap seats! So I was already laughing. Then the entire first half was HORRIBLE!!! It was literally the stupidest thing I have ever seen. And the guy next to my mom was a teenager, who crinkled his really loud candy wrapper the entire time. I shushed him once, and then finally said…”time for candy is over”. Someone please tell me why his father next to him hadn’t already put a stop to it!!! Maybe because he couldn’t hear it over his own thoughts of, “What on earth am I watching!” Or because we were in the cheap seats!!!
When the intermission finally came, my mom’s candy-eating sidekick left with his family for good. We contemplated the same, and were just appalled at the show. “This is the worst piece of crap I have ever seen in my life” was the exact quote. (She said she couldn’t act classy in the cheap seats!) Then my mom said her back was kind of hurting her. I asked why…and she said, “Maybe because I have had to slump the whole time because the bar in front of me goes right through the performance.”
I got to my mom’s level, and saw exactly that….the bar was literally blocking her entire view! And then I started laughing. Then my mom was laughing. And then I got the best tears-from-my-eyes laugh I have had in years! For 10 minutes straight we laughed, and I only stopped because my stomach was sore. Moments later, the lights dimmed…my mom slouched…and we watched a bunch of cats in tights sing and dance while Micah took a nap.
Just an afternoon watching my husband and kids compete in a mean game of bocce ball.
Pippi teased Dash.
Dash retaliated.
Dash was punished by telling Pippi three nice things.
They were best friends by the end.
(This will happen eight more times today.)
Look how cute Dash is, as he patiently waits for his buddy Grey to get to pizza.
I think this is the only moment I have seen him stay still in a month.
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