Oh my God Mommy that was AMAZING!

Those are the words of my 21 month old to describe our first trip to the beach. I have some cousins in Santa Cruz and we took a day trip up there on Saturday to hang out at the beach and meet their kids (3 years old and 13 months - shout out to Thomas and Madeline!). Court had never seen the ocean, so we thought it would be fun! Well, not so much. She had great fun with her cousins, but the beach wasn't a big hit with her. The water was too cold (ohh, frio, daddy!) and she didn't like getting any sand on her (she's such a girly girl), so her and hung out on the towels with a bucket of water so that she could rinse her hands every time she got a speck of sand on them!

But on the way home, she kept saying "oh my god, mommy that was amazing!". I don't really know where she learned that, but I was cracking up so she kept saying it. It warmed my heart like I couldn't even describe!




The 3 kids on the way to the beach! She's never even been in a wagon



First time in the ocean! Not really digging it. Don't you just love the little dimples in her fat legs, though? Just like mommy!



Still not looking too thrilled!



I LOVE this picture. She looks so pensive.

That's it for now.

Will update again soon

20 Months going on 16 Years

Where or where has the time gone? It may not be that much time but a lot has happened developmentally with Court in the past couple of months. Here are a few of the highlights:

1) Can count to 10 in English and Spanish (the kid will count anything...she loves it, I swear)
2) Knows her ABCs
3) Can actually identify about half of the letters by sight (her favorite letter is B for some reason)
4) Knows her colors (I found this out when I tried to give her a popsicle the other day and she said, "no, I want a red one"...there's no fooling her)
5) When listening to the radio in the car, she stops us when station surfing and says "mommy, I like this song" (She sang "My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas in the car yesterday...not good)

She's really coming into her own and having her own, very vocal, opinions. She knows what she likes and more importantly what she doesn't like.

Current Faves:

Favorite Color: Green
Favorite TV Character: Barney, Dora the Explorer, Wiggles
Favorite Animal: Monkey
Favorite Drink: Prune Juice
Favorite Food: Chicken Noodle Soup
Favorite Snack: Yogurt covered raisins
Favorite Pastimes: Coloring, watering the flowers outside, reading
Favorite Song: Apparently, "My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas, and of course, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Favorite Toy: her "naked baby". It's a cheap plastic doll from Wal-Mart that she refuses to leave clothes on. She takes it in the bath and to swim class. She calls it her "naked baby". Weird! I need to be careful who she says that around.
Favorite phrases:
"No, I don't want it"
"Ootsi, mommy" It's her version of oopsy!
"Are we going to dinner?" Maybe we take her out to restaurants too much
"Oooh, mommy, pretty" and then I of course buy it!

Boy, am I going to have my work cut out for me!