September 10, 2011

We decided to try out the latest culinary craze and eat lunch from a food truck today.  Charlie found a website for the "Lobsta Truck" and we tracked it down in a parking lot in Costa Mesa.  The lobster rolls were quite small for $12 (about the size of a hot dog), but there was lots of lobster meat in them and they were yummy.  Still my all time favorite lobster roll is the one at The Surf & Sand in Laguna Beach.  

September 9, 2011

Karl (Charlie's father) loves to hunt and fish.  He thought it would be fun to take Isaac fishing so we went and bought a little fishing pole for him.  Don't let the picture fool you - Isaac still doesn't have quite enough patience for fishing.  Karl was however quite patient with Isaac.  They tried for 30 minutes or so but didn't catch anything.  I'm not sure how well the little Woodbridge lake is stocked anyway.  

Mr. Chubby Cheeks came along too.

September 8, 2011

My parents and Charlie's parents are all in town right now for Luke's blessing this weekend.  This evening we all headed over to the Lagoon that is down the street from our house (Sandy's family came too).  The the lake is on one side and the other side is a sandy area with a swimming pool.  We had dinner, went swimming, had a camp fire with s'mores, and the kids played in the sand and fed the ducks.  Janelle was trying to help Isaac break off little pieces of pita bread for the ducks, but despite her best efforts, he kept throwing in entire pita's!  

September 7, 2011

I missed Back to School night because Isaac was sick (with croup) and Charlie was out of town, so I scheduled another time to go meet with Isaac's teacher one on one.  Isaac seems to really like Miss Abbey.  He talks about her often at home and while we were there he kept wanting to talk to her and show her things.  They have a cute classroom and Miss Abbey says that Isaac is doing very well so far.  Sorry it's such a lousy photo.

September 6, 2011

We usually make it through the summer months in Orange County without a lot of heat.  And then it always seems to hit us in September.  106 degrees.  Yuck!  Especially since we have no A/C in our condo (unless you count the portable unit that we drag out of the closet around this time every year).  

September 5, 2011

We had dinner at Chili's tonight.  The service was terrible and the food was very average.  After finishing our meal, I was sipping the last little bit of water in my glass when I looked down and noticed a lemon that didn't look quite right.  I fished it out with my fork and just about lost my whole dinner when I realized that this lemon was totally rotten and moldy!  I told our waitress and she brought over the manager who was very apologetic, but that did not ease the queasy feeling that I had for the rest of the night.  I don't think we'll be eating there again anytime soon.  Totally disgusting.  

September 4, 2011

Isaac has become very interested in things like "bad guys" and guns, fighter jets, battleships, etc.  That whole nature vs. nurture thing?  Yeah, we totally did not teach this to him.  In fact I still try to avoid using the word "gun" and instead call them "shooters."  Anyway, today Charlie and I were helping him build airplanes out of the Trio blocks that a friend gave him for his birthday and before I knew it, I was the target of a fighter jet that shoots missiles and fire.  

At least this little guy is still oblivious to any concept of violence.

September 3, 2011

The movie Cars 2 came out just a few weeks after Luke was born.  My mother in law Janelle was here at the time and she took Isaac to see the movie.  Well Isaac has been talking about it ever since and asking all sorts of questions about the characters and their names and everything else.  I figured I would need to go see it with him eventually and today was the day!  It was kind of fun to have a little date with just Isaac and I.  And we were the only ones in the entire theater.  Only bad thing was that I have been giving Luke a bottle just about once a week so that he could drink from one if needed.  Well of course the one time we actually needed him to he totally refused to take it and Charlie ended up texting me towards the end of the movie to let me know that Luke was quite upset with that bottle.  

September 2, 2011

The new fence is finally done so we were able to leave Cracker's dog door open to the yard while we went out for the evening.  The only problem was we used to have a bunch of bricks blocking off the space under the gate, and the workers must have thrown them out.  We still had a few left and Charlie thought there was no way Cracker would be smart enough to escape.  I wasn't so sure so I added some construction vehicles (um yeah, not so hard to get through it turns out).  When we came home 4 hours later Cracker came running up to our car in the parking lot to greet us.  He obviously has no desire to run away, he just wanted to go with us.  And though he is smart enough to get out, he was not smart enough to get back in.

September 1, 2011

A few weeks ago our microwave went out.  I was warming something and suddenly it just stopped.  We weren't sure if we should bother having it fixed or just replace it instead.  So we went a couple of weeks with no microwave.  It wasn't horrible, it was just kind of inconvenient.  You really can cook/warm most things on the stove or in the oven - it just takes longer.  Anyway, this guy came out took the whole thing apart.  He quoted me $191 to fix it and once I gave him the go ahead he replaced a switch and had the whole thing back together and working about 5 minutes later.  Cheaper than a new one anyway.