Cold Water

Another beach picture. The water in the bay is FREEZING cold. This is the first year I've been in it past my ankles.
Parker spent most of her time running from the sand into the water. Then turning around and running all the way back. Over and over again, until she was exhausted and then we'd take her back to the condo for an afternoon nap. It's rare these days that she consistently takes a nap, but in San Diego, she konked out every day, and then again at night.

Cousin pics con't

Cousin Closeups

More San Diego pics of Parker and her cousins.

Carnival pics

Here are the carnival pics I promised. At the beach, there is a permanent carnival set up. We usually go once when we're there and ride the rides. The big question is whether or not to get a wrist band or buy individual tickets. You have to ride x amout of rides to get your money's worth, and it's not recommended for kids Parker's height because the amount of rides is limited. Turned out, we had no trouble getting our money's worth! All of her cousins were so great about riding with her too.

Merry Go Round

submarine thing that wen up in the air and back down

driving a boat

Tilt-A-whirl....she rode this 4 times! It flings you around in circles. I couldn't believe she rode it so many times!

At the carnival

More carnival pics coming soon.....

Sea World

I'm going to try to post some chronological pictures of the stuff we did on vacation. Here are some from Sea World:


At a 3d movie w/ cousin

Looking at the Clidesdales w/ another cousin

Walking around. She spent as much time as possible holding hands with someone.

Jumpin' Cousins - Foot update

This was a fun game Parker played until all the big kids got tired of it. This is one of her cousins...Bob's sister's daughter.

I was just reminded that i never gave an update on Bob's foot. He went and got Xrays and nothing is broken. He got good marks for keeping his cuts clean, they were very impressed considering he'd been at the beach for a week.
He received a velcro shoe to limp around in and promptly mowed the yard when he got home!
If you aren't easily grossed out, here's a link to the pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/gp/41254716@N00/MQ6J28
It continued to swell through the week, to the point that his toes didn't touch the ground at times!
You'll notice that he's wearing a dishwashing glove to keep his foot clean from sand and showing off his sunburn from Sea World.

Parker's first sand dollar

She wasn't terribly impressed, but it's a cute picture.

Beach Pic-1

Here is the first of many. I'll try to get them up sporadically during the week. As you can expect, we have a lot to do. We (hoped)expected Parker to have a droopy sleepy lazy day today, but to our (horror) surprise, she's the opposite, running everywhere, thrilled to be home and playing with all of her toys. So today should be a busy day. Bob's going for foot xrays in a while, I'll report the findings when we get them.

Vacation report

It's Thursday here ;-) we are still having lots of fun. The weather has been amazing. Sunny but cool. Bob's foot cuts are healing nicely, but we're wondering if his foot might be broken. Adding insult to injury, he got a really bad sunburn through his shirt at Sea World.

Parker is having such a wonderful time with her cousins. Today we went to a little carnival and she rode a lot of little rides, including the Tilt O'World, which slings you around in circles. She loved it, to my suprise, and rode it twice!

Milestone alert:
Parker can skip now. She says "watch my new dance".
I'll try to get video of it.

Hi from San Diego

No pictures yet, sorry. I'm borrowing a laptop to post this. We having a great time! The flight was fairly easy....Parker slept most of the way. Before getting on the plane, when we drove up at Park and Fly, Parker said:

"Where's the California?"

Today we are going to Sea World, which should be interesting...Bob injured his toes last night falling off a skateboard. We are probably going to have to push him around in a wheelchair. Seriously.
Parker is having a wonderful time playing with her cousins. It's like having free child care because she's constantly entertained and the center of someone's attention.