September Highlights

It was one of those days when I stood back looking at them and thought WOW they're really growing fast! My little man and little lady, these are the faces that make my heart melt. (jarron is actually a bit taller then he looks but he's leaning against the door)

The kids have a continued fascination with bugs around here. We spend a lot of time surfing the web for pictures of different types of bugs, finding out what they eat, where they live, how they grow. Wikipedia is one of my favorite places to answer their millions of questions. They love to watch bugs when they find them. Last week we were lucky to find two Praying Mantises near our apartment. One a few feet from the front door, the other camping out in our backyard. They even got to hold one of them.



The Fair
We went to the LA fair for the first time since living here last week. Can I just say, Kids make everything much more exciting. As you can see Kaiya loves the petting zoo, this is her third one in the three years we've lived here. As you'll also notice Jarron does not like the petting zoo. Me "hey bud, do you want to pet the animals with me and Kaiya?" Him "NO" very matter of fact, no hesitation, just NO. Kaiya was in love with the chickens she kept petting them and trying to pick them up. I had a deer and two goats try to eat my shirt, YUM!













I made the kids one promise before going to the fair. The promise, we would get cotton candy!!!

A very sticky, yet well worth it sugary mess!

Before leaving the fair we went on some of the carnival rides. Rich took the kids on the kiddie coaster. Oh how I wish there was a video camera above them to record it! Jarron's face was full of pure joy and laughter, you could tell he loved EVERY moment. Kaiya was a different story, she looked scared to death, fear, worry, yet still trying to laugh or scream, couldn't quite tell which. I was in tears from laughing so hard. The giant slide, way fun, Jarron laughing the big belly laugh while Kaiya I'm not quite sure, we kind of left her in the dust. She's that dot in the middle of the slide although she did say it was a lot of fun when she reached the bottom :)

I am a lover of seasons and that is my biggest complaint about Cali, the lack of them! It's the end of September/beginning of October and it should be cooling down, wind blowing, leaves falling, maybe even a drizzle of rain! but the past 10 days have been gross, hot, sticky, high 90's low 100's not my idea of Fall. Sunday night there was a nice breeze out, so I went out to sit and cool down. Soon followed by shadow #1 and shadow #2 who were quickly up on my lap to enjoy the cool breeze with me! They named clouds, found airplanes and then when the sun disappeared started spotting stars.