Visit from Grandma & Grandpa H.

Grandma and Grandpa H. were kind enough to come out and see us for a week. We had lots of fun and spent a lot of time in the city. Sean LOVED riding the cable cars. He still talks about them. Here he was happy to discover a lock just like one on his lock puzzle!

We also visited the Wells Fargo museum, where they had some fun interactive displays. It was interesting to read about the stagecoaches, the Pony Express, and the history of Wells Fargo and the West.

We also went to Mission Dolores, which is in San Francisco and was founded by Father Junipero Serra.

Sean enjoyed inspecting all of the different locks throughout the mission museum. This was nice because I could actually read some of the information displayed instead of trying to entertain Sean and tell him to stop touching fragile things!

Another lock.

Still more!

Ok this is the last one.

Sean tries to look angelic outside by the fountain.

Grandpa H. bought Sean his very own cable car at the Mission gift shop. He was VERY excited about this, as you can see. Here we are having lunch at Marvin's in Novato.

We also went to Muir Woods. Here are Dad and Sean sitting in a tree!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for coming to see us. We had a great time!

Just a few photos

Here are some photos from the past few weeks.

Here are Dad and Sean reading before bedtime.

Dad got a pair of 3-D glasses with a magazine, so Sean got a turn to play with them.

Uncle Paul came to visit for a weekend. Somehow we only took one picture! I'm not sure how that happened. Sean had a lot of fun, especially playing with Uncle Paul's gadgets. He got to squash bugs playing one of his iPhone games and take pictures with his camera.

Grandma and Grandpa H. came to visit last week, so I have lots of pictures to sift through. I'll save those for another post.

Teeth. Bird calls. Help. M&Ms.

Not much is new around here, we've just been taking it easy lately.

Sean is growing some molars, as you can tell by the drool drip spots on his shirt.

Sean was practicing his bird calls one day.

Here Dad is trying to help Sean out in saying "help" instead of "hep." L's are difficult letters to learn how to say as well as to teach!

Here Sean tries to decide which color of M&M he would like.

That's about it for now....

Around the house

I like this photo because Sean was actually looking at the camera with a half-normal smile. He's been quite anti-photos lately, so it's been hard to get any of him looking at the camera.

Sean liked my mango cookies. They were more like cakes or muffins rather than cookies, but good nonetheless.

We found a wheel yo-yo at the dollar store last week, so of course we couldn't leave without it. Sean carried it around all the time for a couple of days. Here we are setting off on a post-dinner walk up the hill to see the horses.

There are a few mouse houses around, so we always look in them to see if we can find any mice. I saw one once - the mouse was just sticking his nose out of the ground. He was probably thinking, "What's all this noise about?!"

Checking out the blue reflector in the road on the way home. Sorry I keep forgetting to rotate the pictures!

That's about it. We've been doing some other stuff - we went to a fair and to the beach/hiking too but I took photos on my film camera instead of the digital. Don't hold your breath to see those - I haven't even gotten the film developed yet, much less scanned in!

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Sean turned two on Friday. We had a fun, busy day. Sean first came downstairs in the morning to find balloons all over the place!

Sorry I forgot to rotate this one before uploading.

Grandma and Grandpa Hogan sent this awesome toolbox! Sean loves it.

Grandma and Grandpa Spoonhower sent this really cool board with latches on it. When you undo a latch, you can open a door and there's a picture underneath of an animal.

We made birthday sugar cookies with sprinkles. I was so busy trying to take a picture I forgot to rotate the cookie sheet for Sean! So the cookies right in front of him got a lot of sprinkles.

Inspecting the final product. (I probably should have had him eat more apples before starting on the cookies! Haha)

Waiting for Dada to get out of work so we could go out to dinner.

Dada's here!

Sean got many phone calls from family members wishing him a happy birthday!

Here is Sean at dinner waiting for his favorite food, French fries. He's not really pouting, he just very much dislikes having his picture taken.

He cheered up soon once the food arrived.

Aunt Elizabeth sent a stuffed horse (his new favorite - he says "No more Marley" which is the formerly-beloved cat) and a horse book. We are still trying to think of a name for the horse. Any suggestions?

We had a fun day and realy appreciate all the birthday wishes and gifts! Thanks everyone!