Legoland

Legoland. As I might have mentioned we went to Legoland while we were in Carlsbad for spring break with the Pezzelle's. Did you know that? Legoland. Just wanted to type it one more time in case you missed it the first sixteen.
So, we went to Legoland with the Pezzelle's. We had a great time as always. Megan's kids had not been there in years. Actually since the first or second year it opened. So they were excited to see everything. Lego's are a big deal you know. Max signed up to take a robot building class. He got to see all the major cities miniature sized out of Lego's and he even ran into one of his hero's. See Alfred up there! Law and Billy also got to pose with a... thing of some sort. A Bionicle, I think. We aren't quite there yet. Billy is still a Duplo kinda kid.

However, the really big news from this trip has more to do with Squish than anything else. She has officially graduated to the 36" mark! This is big news in the theme park world. It opens up a whole new level of ride to her. No more kiddie land for this girl! She got to ride her very first roller coaster without ANY hesitation at all. This girl worries me... If you think back to older posts, perhaps the "An Artist" one where she inked herself, or what about the "High School Football Phenom" one when she danced for the news camera? I can recall too many to list. She's fearless. It's concerning as a parent. Just look at her face...

Gearing up....

Getting pretty excited...

Holy! What is this crazy thing!! You can tell she is kind of lost between sheer excitement and fear. Remember that feeling?

Well it turned itself over into complete exhilaration. She had so much fun on that first roller coaster ride that when she got off she came running over to tell me about it and lost all 7 of her words and just decided, spur of the moment, to lift her shirt over her head and show everyone around why we call her Squish as she squealed with excitement. L.O.V.E. her.
Later that day (and still) whenever you ask her about it she says, "I go up. I go down. I say WHEEEeeee!"


Not to be out done, her Daddy-O put on quite a show for everyone as well. Here he is with Law and Billy. See the kid on the right? He thought it was funny. Here are some more pictures of fun. Notice poor Billy is not in them? He, unfortunately, has not moved out of the 36" bracket and still can't ride the big kid rides. It's sad really, but if he would eat something beside snacks maybe I would be writing about celebrating his graduation to the 40" mark. There's always next time, poor kid.

Theme Park Extravaganza!

As is tradition (and everyone who is anyone knows I am BIG on tradition!) we spend the 4th of July at the beach with our fabulous family. This year was no different. The kids and I were really only home from Carlsbad long enough to unpack, repack and spend a day at the lake with friends. 48 hours max before we all piled back in the workhorse of a SUV we lovingly refer to as the Dingo and headed back to the gorgeous weather of the North County. This time with a daddy in tow, thank goodness. We had a busy week planned. Last week while we were there with the Pezzelle and Engisch families Amy and I took the kids to SeaWorld, at her request, and we had a pretty good time, but the summer Fun Card special we had to purchase meant we can go back anytime, as many times, we like for the rest of the year. So, of course, the kids wanted to take Daddy-O to see Shamu. Emily was so excited to sit in the Splash Zone after seeing what it entails last week. Can't say I was as excited, but I do love her so we got there early, sat and prepared to get wet. As you can see from the photo she was not happy with me because while I do love her, I refused to sit in the front row. Splash Zone rules say rows 16 and down get wet. I choose row 14. She was only bummed until the show began and she got wet. It's cold water!

Abigail, 1 year and 350 days. Remember, she's C.R.A.Z.Y. for animals. No different with really large fish (she doesn't understand the whole mammal thing yet).

Billy, 3 years. Can you see the thought process happening? "That is one big fish." "And it can do tricks, wow!" It was cute. I still think he has no idea what he was looking at.

For our next theme park we loaded up and went off to Legoland. It's right around the bend from the Beatsch House and Grandma & Grandpa were nice enough to get us tickets for Christmas this last year. SeaWorld is neat and educational, but Legoland is all fun and that's all the kids really cared about anyway. They love Legoland. It's the perfect theme park for their age group and even little, too short for everything, Billy can go on roller coasters.

He was so happy! He loves roller coasters as much as his big sister does. The Dinosaur one was the "scariest" one he made the height requirement on so, let's see....I think they rode it 15 times. The lines weren't bad and Squishy was sleeping. It worked out great for me! Daddy had roller coaster duty and his story may be a little different, but fun was had by all!