San Diego Trip

This weekend Terise, Christopher, and I all took a short trip to San Diego. With Terise as the mastermind behind our spending we managed to accrue some points on our credit card and stay at the Westin for 2 nights. The beautiful thing to me is that we didn't pay a dime of interest on the account. Nice.

Admittedly, we didn't do too much though, but we enjoyed walking around the Gaslamp District and Seaport Village. I enjoyed the heated pool to myself in the mornings, Terise used the gym, and Christopher loved just being there. Seriously - he was so good the entire trip! Priceless. AND, he had his first experience with a swimming pool! (picture above)

Seaport Village, for those of you who are unfamiliar with San Diego, consists of a block of shops along the water. There really isn't much else there. It's across the bay from a naval base, so there were different military helicopters flying over and ships out to see. I thought that was pretty cool. If Chris was older we probably would've done a tour of the USS Midway. For now, here are a few pictures...

We have a video of him chasing a small bird in the park..but it wasn't uploading for some reason. We'll work that out later.

Brian -

Christopher likes...

Here's are a few of the things Christopher likes at 13 months old:
Airplanes - after the recent airshow we went to at March AFB, cars, trucks - pretty much anything loud , birds, other kids, Elmo, Curious George, any animal that's on TV at the moment, playing with all the neat things underneath the bathroom sink - you don't want to know, his mom and dad (and running away from his mom and dad), his cousins (seriously..he goes crazy when the Thornock girls come over), pictures of all his cousins and of course, himself, water fountains, biting, trying to eat dirt and rocks (luckily he hasn't succeeded at this), spinning the TV, climbing , getting things out of the lower cupboards and wreaking havoc in the kitchen, racing to the refrigerator when you open it. Yeah..that should cover it for now.

French - Canadian Missile Launch

French-Canadian's aren't looking very fierce in this video either (see Hal's blog). I apologize in advance to Marc.

Pics of Christopher

Wise Family Quotes

This side of the family has joked that someday we need to make a family calendar with some of the great Tai-isms and Sally-quotes. I thought I'd post some of the quotes / phrases that have been said by these two. I won't limit it to just Tai and Sally. When other phrases come up...I'll post them too.

Tai:
Uses the phrase "powder your chicken" when somebody is being overly flattering to you. Good one Tai!

Sally's Quotes:
"They say that oatmeal is very good for you to eat. That's why we make cookies with it" - Sally (6/1/2008) after a conversation about whether or not to start feeding Christopher oatmeal.

...to be continued...