Life is a Dream- part 2

I finally was able to capture some pictures of Andrew sitting in front of the ipod listening to his favorite song from the Cars soundtrack. I just love his smile!

Not the best picture quality, but I just love that he is laughing in this picture. He thought it was so funny that I was taking a picture of him!

3.17.10-2.5 years old

Life is a Dream

Yesterday Nate and my dad spent the day painting Ava's room (thank you Nate and dad). They had music playing in the background and Andrew was very curious about the i-pod. Nate asked him if we wanted to listen to Life is a Dream and of course he said yes. It's his favorite song from the Cars movie and he walks around singing it all the time. I think the actual song is called "Sh-boom." Anyways, Nate played the song for him and we then proceeded to listen to it probably 15 times yesterday. If we went anywhere in the car, he wanted to listen to it. He didn't want to get out of the car because he wanted to keep listening to it. When we got home, he wanted to listen to it. He actually got one of his little chairs and brought it next to the i-pod so he could sit as close as possible and listen to it. Of course he got up as soon as I got my camera to capture the moment. He now likes the song "Route 66" too and asks for Life is a Dream or 66 (as he calls it) anytime we are in the car!

Such a big boy!

Andrew can now say his whole name. It's just the cutest thing. I ask him "what's your whole name" and he says "Anoo Dabid Bayee." Occasionally he gets confused and says that his name is David Andrew Bailey. But now he always says his full name, not just Andrew. He's getting so big!

On another note, last night when we were putting him to bed I started to leave and told him goodnight. He was not happy and wanted me to stay, this is a new thing and happens now at every nap time and bed time. As I was walking out the door he says "no, Abba, Abba!" He wanted to say goodnight to Ava! So I went back to his bed and he kissed by belly and said "goodnight Abba." Such a sweetie. He is going to be such a good big brother!

Vacation tid-bits

I forgot to add some random things that happened on vacation in my last posts.

Andrew LOVED riding on the "city bus" to get our car rental. Yes, that's what he calls any van or bus that is not yellow. He thought he was such a big boy.

He was fascinated with palm trees and loved to point them out to us. The other day he said that he saw a palm tree (we were at home) and I told him that we don't have palm trees here. He asked where they are and I told him California :)

Andrew loves to say "Dinico is all mine" and then crash into people. This is something he picked up from the Cars movie. Not cool if you ask me! Of course he did this all the time to poor Chloe. He had many time outs and talks because of this....thank you Cars movie!

Del Mar Beach

Chloe trying to give Andrew a kiss at lunch.

3.1.10
We spent our last day at Del Mar beach. It was absolutely beautiful and we all had so much fun! We enjoyed lunch at a cute outdoor cafe and then headed down to the beach. The beach had tons of rocks and Andrew had so much fun throwing them into the water. I think he liked that even more than the sand. He didn't even mind getting wet or dirty, which is a big shock for him :) After the beach we said goodbye to the Riedels and headed to our hotel in the Gaslamp area downtown. It was a cute little area, but more geared towards people with out kids. The restaurants were a little more upscale so we finally found a kid friendly place, Hard Rock. After dinner we shopped around and stopped at Ghiradelli for a hot fudge sundae...so yummy!

We had such a fun trip. Thank you Riedels for spending the week with us!

It's a jungle out there!

The 3 of us ventured out to the Wild Animal Park for the day and had so much fun. It was the perfect day to go see the animals, not too hot, but not cold. We took the tram which was a 25 minute ride though the safari and saw so many amazing animals. Lions, giraffes, hippos, zebras and so many more! We watched the bird show and checked out the gorillas which Andrew called mommy nockeys (his word for monkey). I told him that they were gorillas but he insisted that they were mommy monkeys...too cute :)

The tram ride was amazing! We got to see so many wild animals and Andrew loved it. I think Nate and I loved it even more though :)

Such an amazing view!

Andrew had so much fun riding on the carousel! He wanted to ride on the tiger.

2.28.10

A taste of Mexico

After Sea World Barth and Daphne took us to Old Town in San Diego. It's like stepping into Mexico. So cute and authentic. We ate at a little outside Mexican restaurant and even had a couple of guys come around and sing Twinkle Twinkle to the kids. They loved it and it was a perfect way to end the night!

Andrew and Chloe- both very sassy. Andrew loved to boss Chloe around which made for a lot of time outs during the week!