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We have made it a fun ritual to sing Raffi’s song “Brush your teeth” to Tay when its time for brushing to make it fun, and the song is just long enough to brush all the important parts.. with a little jig too. It’s fun. We love it. It will be fun singing all together when baby girl comes.

Travelzoo.com had a killer deal going on a few months ago for The Children’s Discovery Museum in SF. It’s $11 to get in for any age but the deal they had was 2 tickets for $10. Yes please!! So, I grabbed 4 tickets and my sister-in-law grabbed 4 as well. It was totally worth the money.. even if we paid full price it would have been worth it! This place is so cool! You don’t even have to be a kid to enjoy it! There are trails, hands on learning stations, ship wrecked ships and a cool viney fort! It was pouring down rain the day we went, but it really didn’t matter… they have lots of inside stuff to do for hours and hours! I didn’t edit any of these photos because I just didn’t have time to, but I really wanted to get photos up because I wanted to share it with everyone! So, enjoy!

Stay Awesome!

The Greenes

This is a “healthy guy”. the kids had to put in things like exercise, snacks and rest into their shapes and if you did it right, it would light up. Pretty cool!

Then they had a few cooking stations where the kids could make healthy soups made from blocks of different foods. Oh my goodness.. it was so cute to see these kids cook up a storm!

These were sensory stations where the kids could use beakers and funnels to measure beads and things just like scientists do in their labs.

Then we went into another building where they had art crafts such as this fun stuff called “Bubber” made from pumice stone and bees wax. It’s kinda like play dough only a lot cooler!

This was one of my favorite stations!! They had this plexi glass corner filled with colorful paint, aprons, spray bottles and squeegees that the kids to experiment with. Lots of fun!

The girls…and my crazy sis-in-law.

This was the magnet and modpodge room. The kids didnt want anything to do with the modpodge (kinda a good thing) but they played with the magnets for like 45 minutes!

Ariana and Tay measuring themselves based on how high the magnets were. So cute!

Unexplainable…

Then there was the outside… WAAAAY cool!!! Boats, sunken ships, forts, trees, plastic frogs that when you ran a stick over their backs they made different frog sounds, a big bell you could hit and hear from miles around, trails and beautiful landscapes… need I say more? This place is awesome!!

The last building we went to was kinda lame, but could have been cooler if things worked that day. Its called the wave factory where different machines simulate waves and the effect wind has on flags and things.

These two crack me up!

Ok, just kidding, this is the last building we went to! It was just a fun interactive building where the kids could be fisherman and crawl through tunnels and catch crabs.. ya know.. all that cool stuff kids get to do.

Then after all this, we headed to the Peruvian restaurant we go to when we are in SF for some oh so yummy grub!

Well, the day finally arrived when we found out what we are having. We are so excited to welcome this little wiggle worm into our family in July. I can’t believe we are having a GIRL!! Yay!

Well, as you can see, I haven’t posted anything since October and a lot has happened since then. I figured it would be a good idea to just do a month collage of some details from July until now.

July:

For July, we partied with friends for the 4th of July, swam, ate a lot, put air conditioning units in our apartment and had a good ‘ol time just being a family… but boy was it hot!

August:

This month was packed full of fun stuff! Not only Tay turn three, it was our half anniversary and we made it a tradition to do something big  in August like camping or something because in February.. it’s always pretty cold. AND Karla, Calvin and Ariana came home from a long trip to Peru. It was truly a fun month!

September:

September we took lots of pictures and retired an old flag at cub scouts. Now Both Jared and I are serving in the Cub Scouts. Jared is the Cub Master and I am the Webelows leader. Fun!

October:

We celebrated AJ’s ( Tay’s bff) birthday, dressed up for Halloween and even went trick or treating… twice!

November:

WE drove down to Santa Cruz with Rob to take some pics that he needed for work and while we were there, we played a bit. It was gorgeous…didn’t even feel like it was November at all! We celebrated Reya’s ( Tay’s friend who is also sisters with Kaitlyn, Tay’s friend as well who is 3 days younger than him) birthday. Her mom Rebecca is a crafting genius and put together the cutest circus party ever! It was so much fun! Then, for Thanksgiving, we had dinner at Jared and Karla’s place with Grandma O’Connor, Grandpa Paulsen and Grandma Kathy along with Aunt Darla, Armand and his son Rogen who is just a few month older than Tay. It was a blast! We all went sledding but all of those pics are on my iphone and my computer didn’t want me to show them to you.

December:

This month by far the the most monumental month in our lives since Tay was born… We bought a house and found out we are having baby #2 in  July. Pretty cool month if you ask me.I plan to post before and after photos of the house.. these pics are already outdated, but this is all I could do for now.

Last Saturday we ventured to Riverbank to a new pumpkin patch. We LOVED it! It was so fun just wondering around with Tay, letting him explore and play. It was the perfect place for us because it wasn’t packed or crowded… it was just perfect. i loved the time we went too because of the yummy October sun at 5 pm. it makes my soul jump with joy!Here are some pics I got of Tay being Tay, Enjoy! And Happy Halloween!

 

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