Rainbow Nails

Thank you Sally Hanson for your beautiful rainbow or summer colors!

Moo loves her colorful fingers and toes.  Hello summer!

Santa Monica

It was a little chilly, but we still had to get our toes wet.

Even if they are super fabulous toes.  Moo seemed to fit right into the celebrity strewn city.

Toots, of course, was sleeping.

She did wake up eventually and we all had a great time walking around .  Even Rapunzel.

My Girls!

San Diego Fair

We went with some friends and their kids.  Moo wants so badly to be 13.  I'm glad we know 13 year olds nice enough to let 5 year olds hang out with them.

                                                        It's okay, the big kids got them too.

               If she's got Irish blood in her, she should be good at Pub games like throwing darts, right?

Woohoo!!!!

                                              I can't believe I won!  And it's a UNICORN!!!!

                                                     Hey Dad, did you see me??!?!?!?!?

                                                                        Best Day Ever!

*well, since the last Best Day Ever anyway.

Another Seaworld Trip

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 Yes, you read that right.  We went to Seaworld.  Again.  As I said in our last Seaworld post, we have gone a lot.  Moo is *sure* she wants to be an Orca or Dolphin Trainer when she grows up, so we will undoubtably be here quite often between now and then.
 
 Right off the bat, you can see Moo has embraced the Seaworld idea.  Her shirt is the one she picked from the gift shop the last time we came.  It reads "Melt hearts, not ice caps".  My little activist.
 
  Upon entering this time, we met up with Penny penguin and had to do the photo-op since we were wearing our penguin tee.  It was her idea, even though this photo makes it look like I'm making her stand next to a giant killer penguin telling her to smile for the camera.  Next we hit the new dolphin show, which was pretty good.  I like to see the trainers actually swimming with the animals, I think that's cool.  Moo did too because she was BEGGING to go in the water with them throughout the show.
  
   Then we hit up the penguins, because we all love those.  Then the new Turtle Reef, which was neat.  Lots of turtles, even a turtle video game for the kids to play where they had to get from point A to point B without getting eaten by sharks, choking on an oil spill or eating trash.  Moo had fun playing it, even though she didn't really get how to use the controller and our turtle was practically dead by the time the game ended.
We had to see the starfish touch pool, we LOVE to get in there and actually touch something.  
  
   We also found a giant milk bottle outside of the Petz Rule! arena.  Moo just had to strike a pose.  Does anyone remember those milk commercials from the 80's?  The ones with the skinny little kid looking in the mirror, then seeing himself a big hunky football player, saying "I may be small now, but I'm drinking milk!".  This shot made me think of those old ads.  Too funny.      

   Of course, we can't forget Toots.  She spent her time peaking out of the stroller at all the wonderful sights and sounds of the park and sleeping.  Mostly sleeping.

Good Morning Mommy!!!

The Summer Fun List

  Many of you may have noticed a craze that has hit the blogosphere lately, the Summer Bucket List.  All kinds of Mom Bloggers are posting about their family lists and what's on them.  Well, hello bandwagon!  Might there be room for one more?
  This is our Summer Fun List.  We don't have a cute floor to ceiling chalkboard or handmade literal bucket like some families do.  I just unrolled a sheet of butcher paper a little wider than my arms can stretch and got to work with the crayons.  Moo had fun thinking of things to add, but I have to admit I did a LOT of vetoing.  No, we can not go on a rocket to outerspace, that's just not in the budget this year.
  While I ended up adding most of the ideas, there were some really good ones Moo thought up all by herself.  I'll give you a few, just because that's what all the other Mom's are doing and if I'm jumping on the bandwagon, I might as well go all the way.  Why not?
 + Moo makes us dinner  (We already did that one.  I made pizza dough and got out a bunch of fixings
              and let Moo go at it.  We ended up with some very interesting combinations, but she was SO
              proud.)
+ Make ice cream
+ Have a fancy, girls only Tea Party with some good friends
+ Cover the driveway in one giant chalk mural
+ See a fireworks show
+ Have a water balloon fight
+ Paint some "pet rocks" for the garden
+ Have a "spa day" at home
+ Learn to play T-Ball
   The list goes on and on...and on.  We may get through it all and we may not, but it is nice to have a list of fun ideas to pull from everyday instead of the eternal "I'm bored, but what is there to do?" rut that we seem to fall into.  We are having a great time making wonderful memories, what else is summer for?  I think this Summer Fun List is going to be a tradition for this family.  In just one short month Moo will start Kindergarten and as much as I am glad she'll be going, I'm a little sad too.  I can't believe she's already that old!  So we will begin to fall into the school time table and making our summers count will be important next year.  When I'll only have my big girl all day for two short months of the year.  Sigh.