pumpkin patch

I met my friends at Tanaka Farms recently. They have a pumpkin patch set up for the season. Its actually a working farm and you can go and pick out your own pumpkin along with picking other vegetables. We all enjoyed walking around the farm and going through the corn maze. We even went into the small petting zoo and took a wagon ride around the property. It was a fun day and Bodhi had lots of fun climbing over the big pile of pumpkins and running around the farm.

We ran into some interesting things in the corn maze...

Bodhi actually got to visit two pumpkin patches this year as my sister Christina was nice enough to take Bodhi along on trip with his cousins. He got a cute little spider painted on his face and came home with a pumpkin which of course we carved into our jack o' lantern on halloween.

Songs in the key of Bodhi...

A few months ago I was remarking how Dahlia, who is 4 months older than Bodhi, was already singing and Bodhi didn't really sing at all. So now, of course, a few months later, Bodhi is singing pretty much non-stop. Here are a few of his favorites:



Ring Around the Rosie


The Alphabet Song
And finally, a song he actually sings in French. I'll put the lyrics with it so you can see how close he gets.



Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
Dormez-vous?, dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines
Din dan don, din dan don.
So there's our little vocalist... so cute!

Sandcastles

Until this summer, I had forgotten how fun it is to build sandcastles. So, when Jen told me that there was a sandcastle competition down in Newport Beach, I thought it sounded like a whole lot of fun! So we headed down to take a look.

It took a while to get there so the castles were already well under way. We checked out the other entries, then Jen, Bodhi and I built our own competition entry!

Of course it's a train, what did you expect?

Okay, we didn't really build that one, but we did build some castles of our own down by the water. After that, we ate some snacks and played around in the sand some more. We didn't actually see who won, but we had a great time seeing the castles and spending the whole day together.

family vacation

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures from our family vacation. We make quite a group. Of course we went to the Colorado River. It has actually been three years since I've been there though. Last year we didn't have a family vacation and the year before I couldn't go because I had used all my vacation being on maternity leave. This year we traveled with my parents in the RV. It was quite a long drive (over 5 hours) with only one stop, but Bodhi did really great and everyone took turns entertaining him.



We had great weather this time, in the low 100s. I know that doesn't sound great but it's usually 115 or so when we've been there in the past. And of course you spend most of your day in and out of the river to keep cool.




It was really cute to see Bodhi enjoying playing in the water and getting to spend so much time with his cousins. We would spend the mornings down by the river and spend the afternoons at the pool that was at the campsite. They don't normally have it open during the week, but since we were practically the only ones at the campsite, my Dad asked if they would open it up for us, which they did and it was so nice.



Of course we had to make a trip to the store on the campsite to get popsicles and then another day went for a short boat ride to get some pizza and play some video games. It was so great to have a relaxing vacation. We all had such a nice time. All the kids were sad when it was time to pack up to go home. And I don't blame them, I wanted to stay too!

favorite summer pics

Just thought I would post a few of my favorite pics from this summer.

Movies in the Park
Feeding birds at the Aquarium
Spiky hair
He's so cute...
Three peas in a pod.

beach days

We haven't gotten in many beach days this summer because it honestly has been too cold! What! I know that sounds crazy. What's summer without warm days to spend sitting on the sand. We did manage to make it a few times though.

One trip was a bit interesting when a swarm of bees landed on some guys stuff. As they were trying to retrieve some of their things the bees would start moving around again. They started landing on our stuff, so we had to pick up and moved down the beach a bit. It was so strange to see all those bees everywhere.

See the bees swarming around.

The bees have decided to stay

a little fun at the fair

Bodhi I met his Aunt Sherry and his cousins at the OC fair this last Friday. We saw lots of animals this time. The kids got to pet baby chicks and see baby piglets.

Later in the day we sat in the bleachers to watch the pig races. Too funny!

Of course we ate too much fair food and went on a few rides. Bodhi tried cotton candy for the first time and suprise, surprise he loved it!

We also enjoyed in no particular order, ice cream, frozen bananas, frozen lemonade, bbq chicken, roasted corn, and sweet potato fries. Wow, that sounds like a lot of food when you write it down, but we were there ALL day. Bodhi loved going down the super big slides and riding the choo-choo, but he was a bit sad when he found out he was little to go on some of the rides.

There was a big tent set up again with lots of play areas for kids so we spent quite a bit of time there letting the kids have some fun.