A Little Culture

Continuing on with the marathon updates, we took W and N to a place I've always wanted to go but never did.  I know, it's hard to believe such a place exists.  I feel like we've taken them everywhere!  A friend invited us to join them at the Skirball Museum to play at Noah's Ark!  It's small and you have to make reservations, but it's so amazing and creative.  I think the kids had a lot of fun.  At first I thought it was weird you had to make reservations.  But now I see that it really is for the best.   Since the exhibit is small, you can't have a bunch of kids crammed in there.  It's designed to let kids explore the ark at their own pace.    Can't wait to come back again :)

How little W is still.

We're getting an lecture about Noah's Ark.

W and his museum goer friends.

Adorable E picking up fake poo.  You heard me.

M loves art.  He and I are going to be good friends.

Apparently horses eat giant apples.  

Proudly showing papa his artwork.

Look at M's face.  Totally into playing make believe suppertime!!!

Full and happy!

Do you see the noodle being slurped in?  She's soo funny!!

Over What Hill?!!

It's been a few years since we celebrated P's birthday.  We've been busy with the kids and well, I was pretty much bedridden with pregnancy woes last year.  So, I really wanted to do something to celebrate this great day.  We started off by heading to my mom's.  My uncle (mom's bro) was visiting from Toronto and they had yet to meet the little men of our family.  The last time we saw them was at our wedding!!  And now we have 2 kids!  How quickly things can change in just a few short years.  

It was good to see family.  I rarely do and though I took it for granted when I was younger, I can see how important it is to remain in touch with them.  

N was chill as always but W had a blast with my uncle.  He doesn't have any kids of his own so I'm sure he had energy to burn.  Energy...what's that?!

So far, no stranger anxiety.  Phew!

Getting ready for cake.

My mom loves P.  Look how happy she is to ready the cake.

Hi!

I think this is first time eating a piece of chocolate.

He likey!

These two don't age.

Fetch Buggie!!

Still got chocolate on your face?!

W copying Buggie's poo poo spin. LOL!!

Sea? Food? What's that?!

My in-laws are like any other Koreans of their generation when it comes to cuisine.  They LOVE seafood!  So for my MILs birthday and for Mother's Day,  we decided to try something new and meet up for some fresh seafood by the coast.  After some help from the good folks on FB, we set out destination for San Pedro.  Ports O'Call to be exact.  They have a bunch of restaurants all bunched together.  The menus are almost identical so you really just have to gamble.  They even have a free bus that takes you from port to port.  It was actually really nice there and W had a blast with his grandparents.  N was chill as ever, of course.  I think we'll be hanging out there again before the year's end.

Finally something to distract W from his Leap Pad!

Which fish should I pick?

Even with the rubber bands, I'm still afraid of these things.

Hammi and Habi!  Now I can have some fun!!!

This smile.  

I think he's having fun, don't you?

Jellyfish!

We have memberships to a bunch of different places.  The Aquarium is one of them and it's a great place to go if we just want to kill a couple of hours and have W nap in the car.  His new obsession?  The jellyfish.  Boy does he love the jellyfish.  And I loooove the way he imitates them with his mouth!!!  He hasn't really taken to the sea otters like I thought he would, but that's probably because those guys are always sleeping when we go.

He could stand there forever.  Admittedly, they are mesmerizing.

W loves all things that go round and round.  Including a school of fish!

Hi shrimp.  I eat you for lunch.  NOT!

Come here, sting ray!
  

HERE I AM!!

LOL!!  I think the ray scared him.

Look at how he's standing!  Such a big boy now.

I love this picture.  W is smiling as ordered, but N is clearly thinking WTF is that lady wearing?

My fav.  My babies.

New Kids On The Block

I know.  It's been crazy in our house.  Nothing major, just your everyday life stuff.  But somehow, with two little boys, it's crazy.  Just getting out of the house takes an hour!!!  And we've done a lot since that Day Out with Thomas.  So I decided instead of rambling on about how many loads of laundry I do a week, I'm just gonna post a bunch of photos up to catch us up.

So some of us mamas met up with our new ones in tow.  It's insane because now we have DOUBLE the amount of kids from the last time we got together!!!!  It's like that footage you see of the chromosomes dividing themselves into two.  Lots of fun!!!

That's my little man N and his new friend R.  He's teary here but mostly, he's all smiles and giggles.

Big brother B..... being brave on the slide all by himself!

Normally he doesn't like potato chips.  But I guess he's already falling into peer pressure.

Nothing puts W in a better mood than a good hike with his pals.

Here's W, belting out the birthday song to his auntie.

I hope these boys always play nice with each other.

Surrounded by squishy, squirmy cuteness!!!   LOVE IT!!!!

This picture is upside down.  Don't have a clue how that happened.

That's better.  Aren't they adorable?

Studs... all of em.

I think R is teething.  There really is no other reason for sucking on a friends foot.