Rain, Rain Go Away

Well, week two in California has been filled with rain, rain, and more rain. We finally saw the sun today for the first time all week. It makes me appreciate snow because at least you aren't soaked when it's snowing. The usual nice, warm weather makes up for the occasional rain during our visits.

We spent a couple of days in Monterey. We didn't know the weather would be so bad, and we laughed pretty hard at some points because rain and hail were coming down so hard, and we were unsuccessfully attempting to ignore the inconvenience. We would try to get out of the car and be blown right back in. It worked around our schedule pretty well considering though. We were able to do the things we wanted, including a very nice dinner overlooking the ocean (the girls were fun during the quiet, adult atmosphere!), playing at the beach, walking on the wharf, looking for sea lions and otters, and shopping in Carmel. It would just pour and pound hail in between. We stayed at a hotel right on the water. It brought back a lot of memories because we used to stay there as a family when I was little. The ocean was so crazy and the tide so high, the beach was completely covered with waves. We couldn't go down like we usually can, the waves were crashing right under our window. Mom and I loved listening to the ocean while we slept. It sounded like it was right outside our window, and it pretty much was!

Here's Matisyn right outside our hotel room

My attempt at capturing the crazy weather on film, this was just as we arrived


Yummy, breakfast. Emilyn has been eating so much we ordered her own pancake plate. She ate more than Matisyn, which is becoming a common occurrence.



The rain let up a little the next day so we were able to walk down a ways and find some beach that wasn't covered in waves. That's all Matisyn wanted to do was play in the sand. When we arrived I told her we couldn't go down to the beach because the ocean was covering it, and when we finally went down I told her the currents were too strong to play in the water, and she kept telling me she wanted to go back to San Diego where she could really play in the water! She looked so cute just running around with her little shadow chasing after her!





The mostly deserted Fisherman's Wharf

Loved this little alley in Carmel, it led back to this flower garden


We went out to dinner with Therese, Jill, and the girls. It was an adventure. Matisyn and Kate had to have everything the other one had even if they didn't normally like it. The babies get the prize for being the best behaved. They just both love eating, and were pretty entertained with all the action going on around them. They loved each other. Matisyn was actually pretty good too, which was a nice change in a restaurant.



Matisyn Quotes:

"Mommy, Emmers eats garbage. I thought babies were supposed to drink milk?"
This is in reference to Emilyn shoving another wrapper into her mouth!

"I want to bring a baby brother home. I don't have a brother yet."

"I want to live at Grandma's house forever." This has been followed a couple days later by repeated quotes of "I miss my Daddy."

Matisyn: "Chunk, will you marry me?"
Chunk: "Sure."
Matisyn:" Ah, spoken like a true prince."

Emilyn Quotes:

"ba, ba, da, da, da, ga, ga, ba, ba." That's what we mostly hear, without reference to anything. But this week Ems said her first word and actually knew what it was!

"Ma Ma" Yea for Emilyn!

9 things about Emilyn revised and updated:

• Loves to eat wrappers, paper, toys, especially loves to play with things and putting things in her mouth that aren't toys like other people's fingers, wrappers, silverware, jelly packets, etc.
• Gets VERY upset when she doesn't get what she wants, exactly when she wants it
• Cries when you take something away
• Stops crying almost always immediately after you pick her up and/or give her attention or what she wants
• Can go from shrieking or crying to smiling immediately if someone smiles at her (she was doing that on the plane on the way here)
• Mama's girl, her eyes follow me everywhere, and she sometimes cries when I leave the room, her first word this week was "ma ma"
  
• She is harder to take places than before, because she will only sleep in her crib or carseat, and she gets cranky when she's tired, but when she is good, she is so, so good.
• She gets attention all the time for her chubby cheeks and thighs and her beautiful smile and bright eyes.
• Will try any food you put in front of her and has added broccoli, chicken nuggets, and raviolis to her list of people food that she has tried, she is hard to feed baby food now because she wants to feed herself and she keeps grabbing at her spoon