Beach in February!

Our first February in California was a great one.  Two trips to the beach and lots of playing outside this month.  Colin is getting good at riding his big boy bike, scooter and swimming.  He loves to be active and has so much energy.

He's getting good at sounding out words and reading isn't far off.  Hopefully we'll have a video of him reading for next month.

Happy 90th Birthday Grandma West!

Rybarczyks with Grandma West

Some of the great-grandchildren

Enjoying the beautiful February weather by going to the beach.  Got some swimming in, chasing the waves, but no pictures of that.  Here he is burying mommy's legs.

On Feb 6 there was a snow storm in New England and Colin was disappointed her couldn't play in the snow, so we got our the kiddy pool to play in. 

This is Maya at her doggy training class.  We were practicing having the dogs come when called when off leach. 

Daddy needed a helper to build a new fence for the doggies. Luckily Colin has his tool set ready.

Here is Colin helping with the new doggie area.

We needed to get a new bike helmet after Maya ate Colin's old one.  It is comfortable enough that he sometimes forget that he has it on.

Mr. DirtyFace.  After playing in the dirt pile.

Hard at work.

Everyone loves a good dirt pile.  Fun for the whole family.

King of the mountain.

A boy and his dog.  He followed Hobie around carrying his chair until they agreed on a good spot.

Silly boy with a silly hat.

Being silly with Declan.

Fun at Katie's birthday party.

Legoland.

Get your tickets to the play. Staring Colin and his dog Pink Bear.

Helping with the cooking.

The Cockrell cousins came over to watch a movie.

Fun at the dog park with a new friend.

Here is a link to a new swimming video.

A Wet January

It's been quite rainy for southern California.  We've still had plenty of time to play outside and go see some things around San Diego.  We had sleepovers with cousins.  Yaya and Uncle Timmy came to visit.  And we've finally had time to try out all of our Christmas loot.  The only downside to this month is Everyone getting sick at the end of the month.

GaMommy is Colin's assistant.  He has a lot of "important work" to do at his desk

 Bike helmet?  Check.  Safety goggles?  Check. 

He found some work to do with some firewood and his tools

             
We took another trip to eh Safari Park

Planning out the route we are going to take today.

Some large pelicans were flapping their wings.

 We finally saw the bird show and it was very entertaining.

On a walk through on a scenic path

We were stalked for a bit by this bird

 Some adventures at home:

Sometimes you just need to take a break...in the driveway

Can you see the ginormous grasshopper we found??

Captain Colin driving his play structure/ship

 Yaya came to visit

Off to Coronado

No shoes on the sand...time to turn on the speed

There were some big waves and no changes of clothes

We did find some cool sand castles

On our trip to Ikea for dinner Colin measured some furniture

Playing with Yaya

Uncle Timmy came and we visited Old Town

There was a cannon

And a covered wagon

Plus a museum with stagecoaches

Mckenna slept over one night.

Bikes and scooters

We visited the Zoo, which was quite different from the Wild Animal Park

A leopard was spotted from out tour bus

Taking a minute to figure out where the polar bears were

These couldn't be polar bears...they weren't white.
They were, just very dirty and without ice/snow

In case you were wondering 

He wanted to climb the big one but settled for the baby statue

These jaguars walked around right next to us

Our favorite game was a made up game that
only Colin knew the rules to.

Not quite as many pictures this month.  Daddy has been a bit busier with tutoring and working at the challenge course.  Some prerequisite classes have also started now for the teacher credentialing program next fall.  Maybe next month we'll be able to add some mommy pictures too.