Animal Lover

Isabelle is a serious animal lover.  The poor girl almost cried when she found out there weren't any frogs to catch here.  Our good friends up the street have chickens.  Decently domesticated ones at that.  Isabelle is absolutely loving it!  She takes all our produce scraps to Star's chickens, gathers eggs, and LOVES to hold them.  

O-R-E-O

Apparently a certain child of mine got into Oreos in the playhouse and left one.  Spencer was happy to find it.  He was so happy about it, I couldn't take it away.  So I put him in the high chair and let him finish it. 

I think he liked it. :) 

LAST Week of Training!!!!!!

The final week of training was back to classroom and guest speaker stuff.  SUPER boring after playing with ice cream for 3 weeks. 

One evening Nadine and I drove up to see the Hollywood sign at the Griffith Observatory.  It was PACKED so we just "paused" illegally for a second and took turns taking pictures and then drove home.  Still fun to go see it.

Here's our little graduation. Mike got a participation certificate.  This is Richard, one of the head teachers.

I got a completion certificate.  I've officially graduated from Baskin Robbins training.  

We finished up around 1 in the afternoon.  Originally we weren't going to try to leave Friday, but Mike said, if you can be ready to go by 2, we will leave tonight.....the momma bear missing her babies was literally running around that apartment.  I didn't make it by 2, but we left anyway and only hit a little of the LA to Vegas weekend traffic.  We got to Mike's parent's house at 3:30 am on Saturday thinking our adventure was over......stay tuned for what happened next. 

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!!

Mike came for the last week of training.  He flew in on Sunday, which was my birthday and Mother's Day.  That Saturday and Sunday were the hardest 2 days for me by far. We had planned for Mike to bring the kids to visit a few weekends before, but because of his disaster moving, it didn't work out.  I was happy to see Mike, but was missing my kids A TON!  It didn't help it was Mother's Day and I was missing my big kiddos. Anyway, Mike coming to see me was the  BEST birthday present EVER!!!!  It had been almost a month since I had seen him.  When we pulled up at the airport, Luke could see him a ways before we could pick him up and he said, "That's MY dad!!"  Over and over again.  It was adorable.  So fun to have Dad with us.  Spencer was very hesitant with Mike at first.  He looked at him like, "do I know you?  I think I might, but I'm not sure." Then he warmed right up.

There's a park close to where we were that has a famous old merry go round.  I had mentioned it and Luke had been asking to go for a while, so I decided that would be a fun thing to do with Dad.  We got there and the music was so loud, Luke started crying and refused to even get close to it.  He was SO excited to go, and ended up just crying about it.  He was telling everyone, "Music too woud! I cried."  So we drove around until we found a playground area and spent our afternoon there. 

We didn't really celebrate my birthday that day, but I didn't need anything else except Mike. :) 

Universal Studios

One of the guys I was at training with gave me some free tickets to Universal Studios.  The place we stayed was like a 5 minute drive there.  We were in the heart of studio ville.  I passed the WB studios, Disney Studios, and something else, I can't remember now, in my 10 minute commute.   Our last Saturday we went.  It definitely is not built for little kids.  There wasn't much for us to do with babies, but we still had fun anyway.  There was a big Minion area that was super fun for Luke.

We took a studio tour and it scared the bejeebers out of Luke, poor thing.  To top it all off, he got wet.  He does NOT like to get slashed/sprayed/squirted EVER.  I found the tour interesting.

We saw a show of the "animal actors."  It was all the animal trainers for movies.  They put on quite a show with trained cats, dogs, rats, chickens, birds, and even a pig.  Luke loved it.  I found it pretty cool how they train them. 

They had a playground area in the middle of the line for a ride, and he just stood there at first.  Without the big kids, he really is not an adventuresome kid at all.  He opted to stand in line with us instead, and it was a long hot line. 

 After the ride, he wanted to play on the playground, but NOT the splash pad.

A fun way to spend a Saturday.

Week 3 Training

Week 3 of training was working in a store.  We were assigned to stores and just showed up and were employees, along with learning how to do inventory, inspections, and other owner type things.  The fun part about this week was the different shifts we worked, so I got to go in later.  That was fun to have a couple of mornings with my boys, but hard to come home with them already in bed for the night....total toss up! Anyway, one morning we went to "Travel Town." It is a really cool train museum/park.  Luke LOVES trains, so it was perfect.  He went crazy and loved every second! 

He spent a good 10 minutes just playing in the rocks, there is nothing more fun than rocks when you are a little boy.

Most of the trains you can get in were closed, but there were a couple to get in and he thought that was awesome.

The park had this small train ride that went around the park.  It was a surprisingly long ride for a couple of bucks and Luke loved this part the best! He still is talking about going on a train ride. 

 Spencer enjoyed the day as well and liked his first train ride. 

It was a fun day with my boys and Nadine.

Spencer...back in May

Let's just say, my blogging chronology is really out of whack!  I want to keep up on what's going on, but there were so many things from the last 2 months that I really wanted to blog and am just now finding, so here's a back track one. :)  Spencer during my training... My apologies.

While I was at school, I really missed my baby!  Babies change so much so quickly.  One week he went from mastering the backwards crawl to figuring out how to inch forward. He would often end up rolling over in trying to go forward.  It was so funny!  To see his face after he rolled over, he had this expression of "Wait a minute...that's not what was supposed to happen!"

Got stuck backing into the TV

Reaching and rolling

"Ok, let's try that again"  In which he would for the most part go in circles or backwards.