Cousins

There are many benefits that our kids get from having a large family. One of the more obvious, is how much they are adored by their three cousins up North. Both kids look up to them with stars in their eyes and even take the time every night to kiss a picture of them before bed. When we visit, our kids take center stage with their cousins and are happily exhausted every night. Here's a couple examples of how great they are with each other. There's a clip of the youngest teaching them to build with their Mega Blocks and the other part is the middle cousin reading my little girl a story.

Caterpillar dancing

Ever since going to a production of the Nutcracker last December, we have a little prima ballerina on our hands. She absolutely ADORES dresses and dances to any music she hears whether it is on a radio, in the car, a tissue commercial on the television, or her own humming. Needless to say, since her brother idolizes her, he follows suit. One of her favorite sources of music is her toys. This Christmas, her brother got a cute caterpillar toy from one of their grandmas, who, although not technically related (she's my mom's best friend), might as well be.

He likes to push the feet on the caterpillar to make it say the alphabet and their sounds, but her favorite aspect of the toy is that it plays music. Daddy had the cutest little display of caterpillar dancing when he got home from work today, compliments of the caterpillar.

SDWAP

Last week we went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park with Aunti since she is visiting for the week. Despite a nasty incident when we first arrived, the day turned out to be a great way to spend time in the 85 degree sunshine. Everyone had fun and we were all exhausted when the day was done.

Go Baby Go!

We spent the afternoon last weekend with some friends at the racetrack. Although Daddy and "Uncle Jarrod" felt compelled to psych out our shoe-in winner so that he came in 5th instead, Mommy still won for the day and Aunti broke even. Everybody really was a winner though because it was a beautiful 85 degree day and we all enjoyed a relaxing day at the horse races.