Christmas on the Prado

This little girl was NOT afraid of Santa. We'll see how she is next year.

Check out Santa's belt buckle and red cowboy boots. AWESOME!

She was just checking him out.

She loved the music.
We are imitating Mary and Baby Jesus. It was Amelia's idea.

Apples

A before and after shot of the apple Amelia ate. The little things that amaze us.

I cannot get this picture to turn. It's turned right when I add it, then blogspot turns it. ugh. Maybe I can fix it later. It's worth twisting your neck to check out.

Merry Christmas

Wishing you and your loved ones a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Ocean Beach, CA

Thanksgiving Time

Amelia LOVES the carousel. She was waving and petting the horse the whole time. We love it when Daddy gets to play with us.

Halloween

A SCARY DRAGON

Amelia and her besties

Pretty as a Peacock

Pumpkin Patch

We went to Oma's Pumpkin Patch on Saturday. I have never been to one before and it was quite nice. Next year will be better when Amelia can actually play on the structures and pet the animals. We got our pictures, looked like all the other crazy parents trying to get her to smile. I think we will go back to this pumpkin patch next year. I like the idea they have to get measured every year.

Activities at the pumpkin patch:

Pick out a "Jack" pumpkin. This was a small pumpkin that all kids 1 and up picked out with their admission fee. We got a pretty big pumpkin for $13. I feel like that was a good price. But you have to take in to consideration that we paid a $6 admission.

The goats to pet were in the middle of the patch. I think there was a fee to pet them. They had good sanitation stations. We'll do this next year.

After the goats was a cotton hill. Yes, it was cotton. It was sloped up about 20 feet. There were boards and other stuff for the kids to "slide" down the cotton hill. I thought it was pretty cool.

Then there were two little playgrounds. One for 5 and under and a big kid one. I like that they split them up. My one complaint was there weren't enough baby swings. But I haven't been to a playground where there has been more than 2.

There were a couple picnic areas. It looked like one was for parties and another for individual families to eat lunch.

And there were diaper changing stations.

The whole place was very stroller friendly.

The worst thing about the patch was the hornets and flies EVERYWHERE! On the way in Jared got stung. You can probably see some in the pictures. But I can't really complain because I don't know what they can do about it.

Hopefully more pictures to come with a carved pumpkin.