Century City

The kids have lots of fun at Century City

He's a funny one.  

They love to climb on the turtle.

She's being goofy again.

They're very cute together.

Nini loves her granddad.

She loves shoes.  Without any prompting she took me into the shoe store so she could try on shoes.  Nana offered to buy her shoes is they were the ones that Nana liked, alas she wanted the pink sparkly ones and not the pretty ones Nana liked.  

Our Little Goof

Decided she wanted to wear her winter hat.  

Our Little Girl

Has grown up a lot.

Long Beach Aquarium

I'm really glad that right now she really loves going to places like the aquarium and the museum.  

I know that time will come that all she wants is disneyland so for now we're going to cram in as many trips to the aquarium and zoo and museum as we can.  

This time she wasn't scared at all of touching the animals.  She really wanted to grab the freaky looking horseshoe crabs.  But they were just too deep.  Even with me dangling her in it just wasn't going to happen.  When she's bigger I guess.  

But we did make it to the anemone touching tank and she loooved it. 

Mama practically had to drag her away from the tank.  And thankfully she was very gentle and good to the anemones.  

Our Little Baker

So someone decided they wanted cake.  So instead of buying cake we decided to make some.  

Figured it would be fun and if nothing else pretty funny. 

And yeah, it ended up being pretty funny.

She was very helpful though.  She can crack a mean egg.

Posing for pictures with her patented smile.

And filling cupcakes while an anxious mama watches on...

Done!!!

Oh, can't forget the decorating.  

We did end up with a cupcake or two that looked more like a pile of sprinkles though...

After Dinner

She's really a funny girl.  But if you haven't been around her around dinner and after bath you really haven't seen her at her best.  She just a super fun lunatic in the evenings.  Seems to push bedtime a bit but it's worth it.

And the other night Chacha came over to see Quinn and give her a bath.  When people come over I usually hightail it elsewhere to get something done but I heard lots of laughing so I went to investigate.  

And this is what I found.  

She decided to dress up in her ballerina clothes and show Chacha how she does Ballerina.

And she cracked herself up.  

And then she found her Power Wheels.  

Yeah, she doesn't always want to go to bed but she makes the evenings pretty special.  

Tanaka Farms

We had a tour of Tanaka farms.  Everyone got to sit in the back of a truck 

for a tour of the farm and sample tons of fruits and veggies.  

Everyone really liked the carrots.  Much better than the supermarket variety.

They're a funny bunch.

Santa Monica Pier

Too many photos for words.  They had a super fun time.  

Definitely planning something

She loves to wave when she goes by the crowd.

I think mama's had enough...

Not sure what was going on here.  

Tommy is famous for funny faces but Justine has a winner here.

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TAG!!!