Poor baby crying about something.
Grace took a picture of the clay fish she made me for Mother's Day.
As well as the mutant lemon someone at church grew.
Grace loves "helping" make blondies. Her favorite parts are eating brown sugar and licking the bowl.
On Tuesday, the weather was nice, so we drove 10 minutes to Natural Bridges State Beach. The weather wasn't as nice there - super windy. It made for nice waves.
We loved the tide pools. We saw crabs, sea anemones, sea urchins, and tons of mussels.
Crashing wave.
We had a hard time finding places to walk that weren't covered in mussels!
Alice loved picking up rocks.
Paul tried to protect Charlie from sand blasts.
Cool rock patterns.
Grace and what remains of the natural bridge.
Cute sisters.
They tried to escape the wind by hiding in a big sand hole.
When it got to be too much for us, we made our way to the visitor's center. Alice liked the magnifying glass.
Then we walked the stroller-accessible route to a monarch butterfly observatory, but they aren't in season now, so we just danced on the stage.
We had a great time, all so close to our house!
Me and my baby.
He's so happy and cute! You can kind of see his one bottom tooth in this picture.
Grace had friends over for a playdate on Wednesday. Charlie joined in the dress-up festivities.
On Thursday, Paul's class got to go to the Exploratorium, newly relocated to Pier 15 in San Francisco. He asked if he could bring his family, so we kept Grace out of school and we all got to go for free! (Of course, parking was $20.)
Paul had meetings for 3 hours while the kids and I explored. We tried to count the rings on the giant log.
Discovering a termite colony.
Learning about light.
Fun with mirrors.
Scary!
We ate our lunch outside. The weather was perfect, along with the view of the Bay Bridge.
Charlie was loving it all. He got his second tooth while we were there.
Alice enjoying the lunch we brought.
Then back inside for robot animation.
The room that turned everything, including people, black and white was AWESOME!
When Paul got out of his meetings, we had 2 hours until the place closed. I fed Charlie while Paul took the girls to the outdoor part.
They loved climbing around.
Then we showed Paul our favorite stuff.
And went to see so much more. Capturing a water droplet.
Fun with magnets.
Giant, medium, and tiny chairs.
Toilet drinking fountain.
Obvious photo op.
Cool mirror. We looked/played with stuff for a total of 5 hours until it closed. We didn't get to see/do everything we wanted to, but we had tons of fun, and wore ourselves out.
Cute boy.
I can't get enough of these two.
Paul and Grace like to wrestle.
Grace can hold her own.
We found Paul's old music from that semester he took tap dancing. Grace was inspired and danced and danced.
Three cute siblings this morning before church.
Do they look alike? They all have the same size head!
