Ginny's 21st Month

Here's a photographic sampling of Ginny's 21st month of life (more or less)

Of course, no summer is complete without a trip to the Wild Animal Park!

Here's Ginny pointing to the herd of elephants in the distance.













Shades checking out a deer (look, ma! no fences to keep me in!) lurking in the woods off of the path.









Yummy!













Happy 4th of July!


















USA! USA!










Big girl trying out Big Girl panties for the first time! She thought she was hot stuff and kept striking model poses (sticking her leg out, etc.) proclaiming "Big Girl! Big Girl!"

Fair Festivities

Today, we took Ginny to her first county fair!!!

We meant to take her last year, but never made it. In any case, I think this is the first year that she could thoroughly enjoy it...and she loved it! The food! The animals!! The rides! And, of course, the pig races!



We started off, of course, with some food. We tried to make it semi-healthy with sweet potatoes (hey, I can't control how they cooked them)











Yummy! Then, it was off for some chocolate covered bacon, deep fried butter, and for dessert, deep fried avocados!!!!







ha ha - just kidding!


After watching some cloggers (they tried to recruit Ginny!), we were off to see the animals! Ginny loved it! There was an abundance of goats, but Ginny wanted to say hello to each and every one of them!









This one was quite vocal-it scared ginny a bit, so she insisted I pick her up. Once she was out of "harm's way", she was back to chirping and saying hello back to the goat!









This year's theme at the fair was taste the fair, and we found people carving statues out of butter!!! That's right-those figurines behind Darwin are made entirely out of butter! (I just read in the paper that the enclosure is kept between 55 and 60 degrees.







It would not be a trip to the fair without watching a round of pig races!!! Ours was the pig in the green cover...











He didn't win that round...Ginny had mixed emotions over our pig not winning, but the joy of watching the pig races while eating a California burrito.

















Hi bunnies! We saw some bunnies that were white with PINK eyes! Serious!











Ginny and Mommy in front of a giant avocado...I wonder how they get that whole thing into a deep fryer...
















Too cool for shades.












Last, we went on rides. Ginny and Mommy rode the choo-choo with a animal theme (how appropriate for our day).









Choo-choo! Wow this thing goes fast!











All in all, a great day at the fair. Ginny can't wait for next year!

Sunday at the Beach

After church, we spent this morning at the beach. we got there nice and early to avoid the crowds.














Ginny was much braver this time, and actually went in the water with her Daddy! She went in at least 4 times for 5-10 minute spurts-she loved it! Mommy stayed behind to watch all of our stuff, up on the beach.


The marine layer never broke while we were there (it was about to when we arrived, but instead, it pushed further inland), so we only stayed for a few hours.









Hooray for the beach! I'm sure this will be just one of our many visits there this summer.

Disneyland-Cousin Edition!

This weekend, Ginny went and spent a day at Disneyland with her cousins Noah and Micah (who are 2 and 1 year older than her, respectively). She had such a blast!



She got to ride all by herself on Flick's Flyers!!! (ok, ok, Mommy and Daddy were in the same car as her...but she did have a bench all to herself). As you can see, she loved it!










Here we are, hanging out with Micah and Lauren on a bench made out of popsicle sticks!!!!












All 3 kids were so jazzed to ride the big Choo-Choo (Ginny's face isn't quite showing it here, but trust me, she was jazzed).











Here they are, waving to all of their adoring fans who saw them off at the station :)












Partners in crime...had to make them all stand against the fence while the dads put the strollers back together after the train ride, then it was off to Small World.










They all loved playing in Goofy's backyard at Toontown. Did you know that Goofy has a slide in his backyard?











Then, we went on Storybook land, where we got to ride in the front of the boat! That means that Ginny and Micah got to sit on the top, not in some measly old seat like the rest of us...uh oh! What does Ginny see? We're about to be swallowed by Monstro!!









Wow! Everything is so tiny here!














Here's Ginny next to shades..., oh, I mean, Noah.


























Then, as if our day couldn't get any better, we got to ride in the every back of the monorail, all by ourselves. (Or is it the front....?)












It was too cool! It was a little bit of a bumpy ride in the back, and Ginny fell asleep before we could return to Tomorrowland (it is a long ride to get from tomorrow back to today back to tomorrow...)








We rounded out the day with a trip to see Pooh and his pots of honey. We went on so many other rides, but lucky for you, we didn't take pictures of all of them ;)

Thanks Noah and Micah, for such a fun day!

Ginny's Hospital Visit

For those of you who haven't heard, Ginny got pretty sick earlier this month, and we ended up in the Emergency Room (twice!). The people at Children's Hospital were wonderful to her, and since it was such a momentous occasion, we decided to document it with some pics.



They had to sedate her at one point to do some tests, so she got all hooked up to the machines to monitor her heart rate, etc. We didn't get a photo op with all of the wires attached to her, but here is the aftermath...what a sad face!















She even had a brace on where they set up her IV line. She was a tough sport that day!













She cheered up a bit once she was able to drink some Pedialyte and read some of her favorite books (after the first emergency room trip, we had a hospital bag packed for her...we came prepared!).















A big thank you to everyone at Children's who helped take care of Ginny!

Zoo Trip

Peek-a-boo!











Oh! this way is much better!

My little valentine!

Here are some belated Valentines Day pictures. As you can see, we spent the day at Lolo and Lola's house.





































































Playing the piano with Unkie Dex.