Going for an early afternoon walk

With my mom's group we try to get the kids out and often. Last Friday we took the kids to the neighboring city Benicia for a walk along the waterfront. The downtown is really cute and has this old-time feel to it. we stopped at this huge grassy field to let the kids get out and run off some energy for a bit. These are just some of the cute photos from that trip.

On the way back to the cars, Marie and I let the girls walk their babies in their strollers. This was the best idea ever! Chloe took her time walking her baby and Cadence kept running ahead with hers just to abandon it to come and get Chloe. It was so fun to watch them.

Just enjoying the weather

It is rainy season here in Cali and it reminds me of Washington so much. This was a good and sunny day so I took Chloe to the park with some friends.

Ok so with these pictures, you need to click on each of them so they will get bigger then you can see the adorable pose that Chloe was making for a good 5 minutes. She even got her friend London to do it.

I forget how big she is getting until I look at pictures like these and wonder "Where did the time go?"

Chloe making herself beautiful

She sees me putting on my makeup every morning so I guess this is where she got the idea...

Oh how I love watching her grow!

My little fairy

My old neighbor Raquelle dropped off these really pretty wings that she found for Chloe and my mom got her the skirt. Who knew that these would create such a wonderful outfit? (well I guess I did when I put it on her)

Her hair is also long enough to put into two really little pig tails, so for the past 3 days, this is how she has been wearing her hair. It lasts for a few hours which I am totally amazed and loving!

More fun to be had.

Just a group shot of Annie, Dax, Caleb, Chloe and Annie's dog Magoo. (Chloe really likes Magoo)

We had some more fun in the ball pit at Scandia.

This is a picture of Annie and her son Dax. They are our neighbors and Chloe really likes Dax. She will walk around the house just calling out his name. I guess he wakes up in the morning asking for "Co-e". We joke about them being boyfriend and girlfriend.

We always have a snack bar for the kids. They seem to hang out here more than they do in the tubes and balls. Oh well.

We finally decided it was ok to let the kids start riding the rides on the way out to the car. Now we have to do it every time we go, but hey, these are some cheap rides and the kids love them.

Such a big helper

I keep forgetting that Chloe is growing up, and fast. The other day I was in a hurry and was trying to get the kitchen cleaned up. (don't know why now) Anyways, like usual, when I am in a hurry, something usually goes wrong. This time I had knocked over a cup of coffee, a full cup of coffee and it went all over the kitchen table, down two of our chairs, and onto the floor in a nice splatter pattern. Oh boy, so much for getting stuff done in a hurry. Chloe saw me make this mess and immediately ran to the puddle that was still forming and started to "pat" it. Of course this made the mess even bigger. Now it was on my 1 1/2 year old toddler who puts her hands on EVERYTHING!

So now I was in a hurry to get the mess cleaned up before she could make an even bigger mess. I went into the laundry room which is right off my kitchen and grabbed some towels. Of course, Chloe had to do what I was doing, so she grabbed some towels of her own. However, she grabbed all of the towels and brought them over in the laundry basket. Such a wonderful little helper. And she started to help me clean up.

She was so cute. She kept running back into the laundry room to grab more towels, even though they were no longer needed.

Then she proceeded to do some deep cleaning for me.

She got out one of my travel tooth brushes from my bathroom and started to scrub the floor. I guess she thought that I made a really really big mess.

Then she, like mommy, put her dirty towels ( and her personal wash cloths for bath time) on top of the washing machine to be washed.