Girls night out

Diego went off to watch football with daddy so we had a girls night out. We started with Callies first trip to the nail salon. I treated her to a full pedicure with soak and massage and manicure too! She was loving it. She didn't even move the whole time she sat so still and was patient. Her nail lady Nina was amazing with her and even surprised her with some fancy nail art to go with her glitter polish. I'm in trouble because she loved it!

After nails we grabbed some quick dinner and headed to the zoo for some nighttime zoo. Let me tell you that the animals are much more lively at night! We stayed until 9 pm when it was dark dark! We had a fun girls night out that's for sure!

Disneyland 2016

We have returned from the big summer adventure trip! GiJu, Callie, Diego, and I went to Disneyland and stayed two nights in a hotel. This was Diego's first trip to Disneyland and both Callie and Diego's first nights sleeping in a hotel.
Diego LOVED Disney even though I thought he would just be along for the ride. We decided on California Adventure since Callie loves Frozen and Diego loves Cars. It was not a disappointment as they both loved all there was to do at CA Adventure. We were there before the park opened and stayed until after 8 pm. It was a long and tiring day but we did just about everything in the park they wanted. We rode all the little kid rides in Bugs Land, all the Cars Land rides, Little Mermaid, Monsters Inc, and a few at the pier.
Callie was excited to be 40" tall and ride on the "big kid" rides. Well we rode the Cars Land Radiator Springs Racers and she was terrified. She didn't cry or complain but she was super scared, holding on to me for dear life. After that she wasn't going on any more big kid rides. Luckily we got a FastPass for this and so we only waited 10 minutes to ride. I bought the photo of her first real ride even though you can barely see her hiding ducked down grabbing my arm. It did have some pretty good ups and downs over the hill as we were speeding around, even my belly was jumping.
We watched the Frozen musical production which was very well done. We even went to meet Elsa and Anna without waiting in line! We saw a bunch of characters throughout the day and watched the toy parade from a park bench. I don't know how we got so lucky to be able to get so much done without much waiting in one day. My feet sure were tired at the end of the day but was glad we got so much in.
The next day we enjoyed the hotel pools and water park. I made the same mistake with too much too soon for Callie on the waterslide and my weight pushed her into the water so her whole head was gushed with water mouth open and all. Oops. After that she wasn't so keen on riding any more waterslides, and i especially couldn't convince her to do the big ones. We did the smaller ones again and I learned to lift her up when we went together. The kids loved the hotel room which had a bunk bed for them and 2 more beds for GiJu and I. We stayed up til 10 pm waiting for the fireworks show only for it to be cancelled and no fireworks to go off! Ugh!
On our last day we went to Goofy's Kitchen for breakfast to eat with some characters. The kids loved interacting with the characters and eating at the buffet. It was a nice change from the waiting in line for a quick photo in the park. We had a quick swim and packed up to drive home. Its nice to be home. I took over 200 photos but I wont torture you with so many. Here's some of the best. Thanks to GiJu for a fun summer trip to remember,

Monarch visit

Today we had the pleasure of watching a monarch lay eggs on our milkweed and drink nectar from the flowers. It was pretty magical!

Callie and D have new custom shirts too. Callie picked out Wonder Woman and Diego has garbage cans and garbage trucks.

Enjoy these photos for a few days as tomorrow we are off to Disneyland and staying in a hotel for a few days. I might not get around to sharing photos for a few days.

GiJus here

Saying GiJu is here is a bit delayed. She's been here three days already. But I've been battling a yucky stomach issue for 3 days and finally turned a corner with some antibiotics. The kids have loved having GiJu even though I haven't been too fun. Things are finally getting back to normal today. We did a lot of playing on the playground. Took a trip to Home Depot to get the last things to put up the shade sails for the playground. The caterpillars are growing like crazy and one even shed his skin today. Hopefully tomorrow I'm good as new and we can really get to fun summer vacation!

Mireya and Isamar visit

We have cousins visiting from Mexico and the kids are just loving the girls. Callie insisted we needed crowns and party straws when we had dinner there tonight. Princesses! 

Climbing up the slide

Diego wants to be just like his sister and do everything she does. So of course he wanted to learn to climb up the slide. He almost has it but wants me right there for a safety net in case he slips. A little practice and he'll be doing it by himself!

Mommy oops

Without checking the calendar I told the kids we could go to firefighter storytime since it was the first Monday of the month. Well we arrived at the library for no firefighter storytime. Ugh! I went with mommy messed up they are working hard and can't come today. Luckily it was Lego building time. So we stayed to build a few Legos. Callie made a superhero hideout house. Diego worked on car that was a dump truck, garbage truck and then some.