Recent Aquarium Visit

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Can you believe it is March??? Where is the time going? Things are great here. We are gearing up for our trip to Tulsa later this week. Mary has work to do so the whole family is going. We will be able to see my Aunt Judy, the Grein cousins, and also Grandma and Grandpa Hobson...weather permitting. So we are all very excited.

Thought we would share some photos from our recent activities. We went to the aquarium, rode on a carousal, and drove some cars.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Many of the malls around here have carousels and Cole loves to ride. He is just fascinated with how they work, so he spends much of the ride looking at the mechanics of the ride.

Back at Pretend City practicing our driving. He loves these cars.

Fish at the aquarium in Long Beach.

Cole is finally starting to "get" the aquarium. He likes the activity and colors.

Ok, so this is the shark tank full of fascinating sharks. Cole was not interested at all at the huge sharks. Instead he was watching the trainer on the platform who was giving the speech. Very attentive and polite of him.

Driving a boat.

There were a number of school groups at the aquarium and Cole wanted to watch the big kids.

This is a fan that dries you off after you play in the water park. Cole wasn't quite sure what to think of this at first. Then once he figured out how to turn on the fan he thought it was pretty cool.

Lots of Updates

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It has been far too long since our last post and a lot has happened.  Grammie and Papa left at the end of January and everyone was sad to see them leave.  Cole really enjoyed his time with them.  

Right after Grammie and Papa left Aunt Heather visited for a long weekend.  She was in town for the Surf City Half Marathon.  We were all so excited to see her, but unfortunately Cole came down with a bug.  You would have never known he was sick except for the vomit.  He would get sick and then jump back to whatever he was doing.  What a trooper.  Unfortunately this was a pretty serious bug that lasted about a week.  He would seem to be getting better but then be sick in the middle of the night again.  After a little over a week of this he finally was back to himself and back to eating full meals.  (We knew something was wrong when he wasn't eating his normal volume of food.)   And because Cole loves to share he shared his bug with his dad...who has no tolerance for kid germs at all.  Needless to say SuperBowl Sunday was not as fun as we had hoped.  Thankfully Heather was there to help out with Cole and she didn't get sick.  Nor did Mary.  Probably not as fun of a trip as Heather had hoped for, but the weather was decent!

Mary has been traveling a bit for work, so the boys have had some bachelor time together.  We miss mommy dearly while she is gone.  Especially early in the morning when Cole decides to wake up at 5AM.  

For Valentine's Day we headed to Disneyland to enjoy the park for the morning.  We were able to get there early and leave by mid-afternoon as the park was really starting to get busy.  We went on a number of new rides for us and really enjoyed the nice day.  

Other than that life is just getting back to normal.  Cole has busy days with the playground, music class, swimming and story time.  

Crystal tree project we grew on the table.  Cole loved to watch as it grew through the day.

At Gymboree on one of the toys. 

Hanging at Disney with Pooh.

Disney.  Couldn't get him to look at the camera.

Valentine's Day with his Mommy.  Shirt says "I'm Bananas for Mommy"

And here is Cole being a boy.  On top of table outside.

Again, being a boy.  I was in the other room for two seconds and it got really quiet.  Came out to find him up on his desk.  He really wanted something from the shelf.