Fall is Here

And it's getting chilly here in California...yesterday was the first time we DIDN'T turn the air conditioning on, it was 70 degrees. :-) And today, Will had to wear...JEANS to preschool! But was still in a short sleeve shirt... :-)

Have You Ever Had A...

Hot Stone Massage? If not, go get one. Jeremy surprised me (big time, no idea it was coming) with a massage at the LaCosta Resort and Spa, just a few minutes from our house. He said it was a gift of congratulations for nursing Molly for one year. I spent all morning and half the afternoon at the spa...it was truly amazing, the most relaxing experience I've had at a spa. I actually texted Jeremy and told him I wasn't sure I would come home. :-) I started with the massage, incredible, not sure I can do any other massage again, then sat in the jacuzzi with the jets on my back, then sat in the "Roman shower" which pours gallons and gallons of water down on your shoulders, which felt like, yet another massage. Then I had a Bellini and Farmers Market Salad poolside while I disappeared into the world of the Twilight series. Below are pictures of the spa:

The courtyard leading to the pool

Woman only jacuzzi area ("therefore, clothes optional" they informed me. :-O )

Gorgeous entrance to the spa
Next is a huge conglomerate of photos that I have taken over the last month since we've been Californians. It starts with our trip to the airport to "fly home," to our CA house.

This is the play area at Seatac, Will is sliding down the suitcases.

Molly flying the airplane.

Will and Molly checking out the runway after we landed in San Diego.

My mom took this picture...our first pic in front of our new home.

This is Molly's most favorite past time right now...she climbs in and out of this wagon and will ride in it all day long, even laying down!

This is what our garage looked like for a very long time, all the paper from our boxes...Will LOVED jumping in them like "a pile of leaves."

This has become Will's new routine in the mornings...it drives me nuts, like he's royalty or something, "what else can I do for you, your highness!?"

Will trying on Daddy's sunglasses...I love this picture, I think he looks like a 70's airplane pilot.

Will was in washing his hands, but was very quiet and taking a long time, so snuck in and luckily had my phone with me...this is what I found him doing. "Doing his hair, making it all spikey, like Daddy." He does this every morning now.

Will is walking Chocolate Chip (name of his doggy) to the park, he's actually skateboarding. This was sooooo cute and he really did "roll" the whole 5 blocks to the park, I was giggling so hard I had tears in my eyes.
Molly doing some work at the toolbench, she loves the drill. Which I find funny b/c Will was scared of it (he said it was too loud) for like 6 months, he literally cried when it turned on...Molly, not so much.

Will is running through the new firetruck sprinkler my mom got him, it's really cute.

Molly's other favorite thing right now, trying to climb in to her highchair when she wants to eat. Love that smile.

Jeremy was laying on the floor and Molly crawled up and put herself in this position...she's such a cuddler, we love how snuggly she is.
The next two pics are of Will playing in our fountain/pond with the boat that Papa bought him. I think he looks SOOO big in these 2 pictures....

Jeremy made a big clubhouse for Will out of a bunch of our moving boxes...Will played in it for days, brought toys out to it, blankets, stuffed animals and decorated it with markers and stickers.

I love this picture of Molly b/c you can actually see her teeth...she now has number 4 coming in, so she'll have the two bottom and two top.
I thought this was helarious...this big beautiful beach and Will chooses to play in the sand back by the parking lot next to all the cars (no where near us). He's looking up b/c he was watching some boys play football.

Molly's actually laughing here, although it kind of looks like she's crying. She was having so much fun in the sand...unfortunately she thought it tasted good too.

Playing with his firetruck again, you can actually see all the different sprays of water.

Will's first day at Central Montessori School. I love these 2 pics b/c he's showing so much of his personality, no standing and saying, cheese for this boy. If you can, look closely at his hair, he was very proud that he did it himself.

Will loves pushing Molly around and thankfully, Molly loves being pushed. (Notice the personality from Will again.)

Sweet and innocent Molly, love this little smile.

My mom giving Molly a ride.

Will splashing in the waves with Daddy.

My newest favorite picture of Will.

Happy Birthday Dear Molly

I wanted to post about all the activities and people we've seen in the last month but I just couldn't get around to it and didn't want to put off sharing Molly's birthday any longer...Molly turned 1 year old on September 17th. We did her 1 year dr's appt. early so that we could do it with our dr. in Kirkland, WA...her stats: 19lbs 6 oz (25th percentile), 29 inches long (75th percentile). So long and lean. She's got so much personality right now....I love this age for that reason, their personalities start to pop! We're DONE nursing, thank the lord for that!! So she has become a little less clingy to me, just a little though. When she's hungry, she crawls to her highchair and tries to climb in. She follows big brother, everywhere and always has to do what he's doing. She loves to be outside, we have to be careful leaving the backdoor open, cause she'll be out there in no time. She climbs the slide, but still needs help getting down and LOVES the radio flyer wagon, she climbs in and out and likes to be pulled around. She goes up and down the stairs, we taught her to turn around and slide down the stairs on her tummy. She does this with anything she has to climb down or out of. She's such a fast learner, show her how to do something once and she's got it. And my goodness, she's FINALLY got teeth, only 2 and a 1/2 though. :-) The first came at 11 months, the second at 11 1/2 and the third just a day or two ago. But none of them are fully in yet, so if you put the three together, they might equal one tooth, so helarious. She's not walking yet, but loves to pull herself up to trucks/wagons/strollers and push them along, she gets stuck pretty often though b/c she can't turn yet. She's still just the happiest, smileyest girl out there. We've got a ton of nicknames for her: Molly Sofia, Molleroo, Mol (Wills favorite), Sissy, Missy (my favorite) and of course Punkin. Happy Birthday, Punkin!Here's to sharing her big day with all of you!!! There's a ton of pictures so I will let them do most of the talking.
HUGE hugs and kisses to my mom for flying down to see us just to spend Molly's birthday with her...even though she'd just been here a week earlier. We love you, Mom, thanks for loving your grandkids so much!

I found these awesome yard stakes at a boutique store in Gig Harbor while shopping with my step-mom, Karen. Thanks for taking me, Karen, we are sooo going back to that store! :-)

This was our dry run with Molly's hat to see if she would wear it...it's a go!

Mommy, Daddy and Molly in her birthday outfit, a pink tutu and a shirt that says, "I'm the birthday girl, now gimme some cake."

Molly loves her brother's "shaker" cars, she actually giggles when they rev-up, so I found a pink one for her!

This was pretty much how present opening went, Will starting and Molly saying, "hey, give me that!"

Our sweet sweet Sissy.

So, we also got Molly a pink "Toddler Tunes" car, and we hid it from Will b/c we knew he would go ba-serk for it if he saw it...well, he and Grandma were playing in the garage and let's just say the cat was let out of the bag. So Will was DYING to drive this thing to Molly as her "one more present." Here he is coming out of our not so good hiding spot.

And comin' around the corner, here he comes.

Will was soooo excited about this car, he's about to lift her in himself!

I LOVE this picture, Will is saying, "TA-DA!"

Gimme some of that cake!!

Giving Daddy a yummy cake kiss.

Aaahhh...this is the life.

(Notice Will has conviscated the car already. :-)) Happy Birthday Molly!