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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

California Part 2

When we got to San Diego, we ate lunch at a Korean market and then headed to La Jolla Cove with family.

We visited a few scenic coasts, a hang gliding park, met up with Julie, and she directed us all to Mount Soledad after dinner in the food court in a nearby mall.

San Diego day 2 (Friday) was Sea World! Noah loved the "jumping whales" and touching the fish in the touch pools.

He also loved the rides in the Sesame Street portion of the park.

We visited Sunset Beach before heading to dinner and home.

On Saturday morning we ran a 5k with Julie downtown - SO much fun!

We also visited a Torrey Pines State Reserve, walked a trail, rested on the beach, and ate dinner with friends from our in-laws' church.

On Sunday, we went to a Korean picnic with the church and then Julie met us in Coronado and showed us around. We ended the trip with dinner at Souplantation and headed home Monday morning.

We were so blessed by family and friends. Noah did fantastic, and we were refreshed by the times of activity and rest.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Last month we got to take a vacation to CA. It was a really sweet time as we felt like it was our first, real family vacation. I know, we do get to travel fairly often, but our trips historically have a very specific goal and/or feel like work bc of all the logistics. This was a very restful time for all. Here's some pics so I can remember this ever happened.

Noah loved the plane train and the airport.

Noah's first In N Out burgers, fries, pink lemonade, and milkshake.

Chilling at grandpa's condo in Palm Springs.

Dinner with Amy and Tyler.

Breakfast with uncle Dan(ny) and grandpa.

The Living Desert with grandpa and Tyler.

Park and dinner with Dan.

Breakfast with Dan, Peg, and fam. Most delicious wafflewhiches ever.

The Shed

Was supposed to post 8/29 but never loaded:

Cleaning out the shed took 6 hours on Saturday, but it feels so good to be done! I just want to remember what once was and hopefully prevent the shed from looking like it did ever again (I know, probably wishful thinking).

We started to pull some stuff out and discovered a rodent had made a home on top of my Christmas decor. Shin went to work and left me to tackle the mess.

I didn't have the energy to go through all my Christmas stuff, but a cursory glance into the tubs looked like things were all okay.

This first wave of stuff outside didn't include the things on the shelf, which I was not looking forward to because I saw movement and heard rustling that let me know the rodent was still in the shed.

Here's the entry, and massive pile of pellets. We eventually saw the cutest little mouse and gave him the scare of his life. We got it all cleaned out, thankfully Shin returned and sealed the hole. So much nastiness.

Then came the good part. Husband built a new shelf out of some of the scrap wood! I love additional organization.

Everything got sorted, a ton of stuff was thrown away or set aside for recycle/donate. We believe we have exterminated our pest problem, know where our belongings are, and even fit in a work table that Shin has already made use of!

An exhausting, though satisfying 6 hours.

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Remember

I'm not doing a very good job at recording my two-year-old's progress here. There's generally been a lot of fun interaction and not a whole lot of time for musing and blogging.

Today at the dog park, it was the biggest leap I've heard him make with his imagination. He was calling the roots of this tree "crocodiles". I thought he was absolutely genius.

Then we played outside with chalk, and the mosquitos were coming out. Playing with chalk INSIDE was amazing to him.

I don't think I can overstate how much Noah loves "gu-shash". This is the word he has used for many months to describe using the YouTube kids app. We have no idea why this is the word, but the struggle against screen time is a real one around here. Password protection is a major help, but it's still amazing to me that he could and would sit and gushash for an hour if I'd let him.

He's sleeping through the night by himself! Woo hoo! He's been taking shorter naps, but generally sleeping from 9pm-6am by himself and then I go lay with him for morning snuggles until I have to get ready for work.

Buddy loves dinosaurs, trains, cars, and tractors (he also still loves puzzles, but no longer calls them "bagush"). I did not teach him these things nor did we specifically expose him to these things over stuffed animals or books. He just gravitates towards things that are big and/or mechanical and I think that's kind of cool.