Yosemite 2013

Holy moly.  Little Papa came to visit and we took a 3-day trip to Mariposa and Yosemite and had a blast!  It is so unbelievably beautiful!  Our house was fantastic...lots of beautiful outdoor space and vistas and a great back porch with outdoor eating.  We spent the first day in the valley, and really had a great day with the boys.  We walked to lower falls & Vernal halls, and Ezra did a really great job hiking -- made it all the way to Vernal.  Arlo slept well in the hiking backpack, although was awake for the walk in and the falls.  The next day we went to the south entrance and rode the Sugar Pine Rlrd and went panning for cold.  A sweet slow talking feller taught us how to pan for gold and warsch out the rubble real well.  That was a lot of fun, and we went to the Sequoia grove afterwards and got to see some huge trees, but unfortunately, we pushed Arlo too hard and he was too pooped for another hike -- did not want to sleep in a backpack two days in a row, and I guess you can't blame him!  Last day we spent throwing rocks in the Merced river and walking around.  Oh, and this was after Caro, Ezra and I did some morning boot camp at the house.  The boys like to climb on my back when I'm trying to do push-ups.  Makes it kind of challenging.

It was really nice to grill food and eat outside at night on our porch.  A great trip.  We also got to listen to the musical stylings of Ezra in the car-ride.  "Zippity doo dah, zippity ay.  My oh my what a wonderful day.  Plenty of sunshine heading my way.  Zippity doo dah, zippity ay.  Mr. Bluebird on my shoudler.  It's the truth.  It's actual.  Everything is sexual."  Yup, that's right.

Arlospeak

Arlo's at that fun age where he is starting to talk more and more.  And he kind of has his own little language.  Some examples:  Nap=yes or yup.  Bow=cat (trying to say meow).  Woof=dog.  Weird breathy snore sound=sleep.  So if Arlo says bow snore sound, you know he is trying to tell you the cat is sleeping.  Right now, as I try to write this blog he is saying "all done, all done" meaning mom, get off the dang computer.  And "push push" which means let me pound on the keyboard please and get out of my way!  Ahhhh, the joys of language acquisition!