'Crosse Game

We went to our 2nd professional lacrosse game today. What? You're shocked that San Jose has a professional lacrosse game? Oh wait, we were, too.

Not only do we have a team! They have banners for all the players hanging up downtown:


Here's the Stealth super fans!


I asked BLT Sr to take some action shots ... um this wasn't exactly what I was thinking of:

This is what I would call a BAD EXAMPLE. Fortunately, LT remembered later on that after the fighting, they got a time out on the bench. This is when we have to hold up our signs...



Finally some real action!


It was a very exciting game. We won with a goal with 4sec left to play!

Is it summer yet?

I know we haven't posted in awhile, therefore losing even our most loyal blog readers. But you can't do something fun or picture worthy every day, can you??



Last weekend we pretended it was summer and pumped up the sprinkler ball. I'm not sure it was really quite warm enough, but it was nice and sunny. It was fun. Too bad that night, LT came down with a high fever and sickness that lasted almost 3 days. Guess it wasn't really summer yet? Really, I think he picked it up at the indoor playground where his daycare has been meeting for the last two weeks due to a serious plumbing problem at the house. I like to refer to the playground as "hotbed of sickness." Poor LT hadn't been sick in over a year, probably.




Finally he was feeling better and Wednesday evening we were listening to some cds in his room when the alphabet song came on. I started writing down the letters as they were saying them and then he erased them and took his turn. I was pretty impressed! This is with no help - I did try and tell him the line when on the other side for the d, but he emphatically told me that "no it doesn't." Daddy came home right after "E," so who knows if this was the end or if he could have kept going?? He's a bit of a perfectionist, so he gets frustrated if he doesn't know how to do something and then just stops trying. Hopefully, he'll grow out of that some.

Ano Nuevo

We visited a nearby beach where elephant seals gather around this time of the year to breed. We didn't see any births, but we did have beautiful weather and lots of baby seals.

See more pictures here

Zoo animals, Lego animals

We took a trip to the zoo on Presidents' Day. Apparently, everyone else had the same idea. LT enjoyed the giraffe that looked at us, the kid-size door and brushing the goats (kids?).

Later, LT surprised us with his Lego skills.

A pair of Tyranosaurus Rex

A dog (or was it a velociraptor?), an airplane, and an "elephant T-rex"

(Feels like) Springtime!!

Finally it stopped raining after raining pretty much every single day of January. (Which was fine, we did need the rain!)

We sold off the washer and dryer from our old house Saturday morning, so then we felt justified in getting some new patio furniture. It's great! There are 4 chairs, 2 ottomons and a table, so you can sit 6. The chairs also recline for lounging. See picture #1.

We also had a fire in the Chimnea, tested out the tiki torches (also left by the previous owner) and even made S'mores!

In other exciting news, the hot tub is back in operation and the three of us used it both last night and the night before. Yeah!

Hands-on art

LT dons a smock (aka daddy shirt) in preparation to paint.


He learns to mix colors to make new colors, and invariably everything turns brown.

Handprints are cool too.


I call this piece, "Arghhh!"

Tisket a Tasket

Getting ready for brother!

I've starting getting things ready for baby and then LT got in the swing of things, too. All his animals needed diapering. Then they all lined up for a picture.

The smaller animals are wearing newborn fitted diapers (cloth, but I think that's obvious :)). These are the same diapers LT wore! Panda was not newborn sized and had to upgrade to a premium size prefold diaper. That's a little more old school.

Then Kitty wanted in on the action (diapered over underwear for modesty's sake)...



Very proud of his work!

Natural Bridges

We went down to the Natural Bridges state park in Santa Cruz this weekend, hoping to see some butteflies. It was too late to see the butterflies, they'd already migrated on. Next year, we have to try and make it down in November!

Lucky for us, we were there for a tidepool tour! The ranger showed us a safer way down to the tidepools and we had fun jumping over them and looking at the aneomes and starfish and whatever else there was!

It was really neat and I'm sure we'll be back!

Orange Smiles

Jump!

Do you see it?

Tidepools

Quick Christmas Recap

We are back and getting back into the grove. Okay, we've been back more than a week, but still not a week back at work yet.

Here is a brief rundown of how the trip to Indiana went.

Presets! Yeah! We love presents!


Picture takers everywhere!


All those cameras can make a boy tired!


Look at this nice family sans boys.

Oh wait, one of the nappers has decided to make an appearance!

Note, sorry to Auntie C for the picture with the eyes closed... even with all those cameras, I didn't have too many to choose from!

Of course there was a wedding and all sorts of other fun stuff that may have pictures on the other camera. :D Baby steps...

Hair Cut

LT got his first real all over cut a couple weeks ago, courtesy of Daddy's salon.




Adn then we went to Auntie M's college gradtion. Congrats!
And now we're off to the great-Grandmas!

Merry Christmas from Rudolph LT!

Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas ...

We got the tree up and decoreated Thanksgiving weekend...

Then LT was a tree!

This gingerbread house dwarfed ours!

And all the lights are up now, too.


It's an area tradition that everyone (okay, maybe half?) gets a yard tree and decorates it with large multi colored lights with a yellow or white on top. Our street tree coordinator collected $15/tree back in late October or early Novemeber and then the first weekend in December this large tree appeared on the lawn!

Thanksgiving