California!

We are back from California.  Of course when you get back home, you want to go on a vacation.  However, I'm happy to be back to our house where Zuri has more of a schedule.

Being a big girl at the Denver airport.

Sitting with Dad before we took off.

Zuri had her own seat on the way to California, she played the whole time.  Pedro and I even got to watch a movie!

Oceanside was our favorite part of the trip.  We stayed on the beach and had a nice room with an ocean view.  It is more of a beach town, but definitely not a ritzy one.  Zuri had her first experience at the beach, which was not too exciting, as she was not happy with the cold water.  It was only about 75 degrees out and we were not going swimming.

Zuri was very fussy the first two days in Oceanside.  Her first and second teeth (second is starting to come through) caused most of the issues.  We had A LOT of screaming, just to get her to take her nap. I stayed at the hotel with Zuri dealing with her teething, screaming and napping, while Pedro walked the town.

This is where she sat for breakfast in our room.  She LOVES raspberries (note stains on chair from our food).

After her morning nap on Wednesday, we took her to the San Diego Zoo.  It is an awesome zoo.  The enclosures are very nice and some of the walk areas are pretty tree covered, which makes it nice.  Kind of hard to explain, but we had a good time.

About to enter the zoo!

Not sure when she really grew out of 9 month pants, but as you can tell they are a bit short (not as short as they seem here, but still short).  Her 12 month pants fit perfectly now.

Thursday we were still in Oceanside and instead of driving to San Diego, we stayed in Oceanside.  We found this awesome breakfast place where I had an amazing egg, green chile, cheese quesadilla and Zuri had a whole grain blueberry pancake.  She really enjoyed it.  Pedro had an omelet that he DEVOURED.  It was such a nice little area, we wish we had some areas like this near us.

Then we did a street fare for dinner and took our food down to the ocean to eat.  We got some amazing cheesecake in a cup too!

Friday we checked out after Zuri napped although this is what she looked like when I went in to wake her so we could leave!

 And then we drove to Anaheim.  Anaheim is a big, dirty city.  Definitely not wanting to spend a lot of time there again.  We went to Downtown Disney and we ate at a cajun restaurant.  Where Zuri had a $10 lunch.  So expensive.  It did include celery as an appetizer (which we didn't get), grilled cheese, a side of mac and cheese (they didn't have a side of steamed veggie choice), and a pretty big ice cream sundae, which I ate. We enjoyed our meal, then walked through the rest of Downtown Disney, but had to hurry back so Zuri could nap, before our game.  We bought her Mini Mouse and she LOVES her!

We played 4 games, one Friday and Sunday and two on Saturday.  The two on Saturday were really hard for Zuri because they were right during her afternoon nap and we had to stay at the gym because there was only a one game break between the games.  It was a crazy hot gym and Zuri is very heat sensitive, so by the end of the second game, she wanted to be with me, so she ended up on the bench with me.  Then we had to hurry and get some food and then go back and put her to bed.

Sunday, Zuri stayed back with Pedro at the hotel so she could nap in the morning since our game was right during her nap time.  Of course, she refused to take a bottle from Pedro and then only napped for 45 minutes, which really doesn't even count.  Then when I got back I entertained her for a bit until it was nap time, because I wanted her to take an afternoon nap since we were flying back that night.  She took a 2.5 hour nap but still woke up grumpy.  She is definitely her father's daughter.

Zuri's seat at breakfast in Anaheim.  She enjoyed fresh waffles, oatmeal and banana for breakfast.  Making waffles is a difficult task while holding a baby (Pedro was still sleeping).  Humidity makes her hair curly.

She is definitely WANTING to crawl.  She is driving herself crazy trying.  She sees what she wants and she WANTS it.  She doesn't even really want me to get it for her.  She is close to crawling, but who knows it might be weeks before that happens.  She does have a new skill of sitting and rotating on her butt and getting something behind her.  She also rolls over a lot now.  She will be sitting, try to reach for something, fall over, try to crawl without using her legs, then get stuck and roll onto her back and give up.

The flight was right at her bedtime, because it was delayed.  Great fun.  She wasn't bad.  She was pretty good considering it was her bedtime.  She got grumpy for a few minutes, but then I settled her down after about an hour of her playing, reaching and trying to "fall off the seat" (she likes to lean forward to grab things).  She fell asleep on my lap and slept for the last 50 minutes of the flight.  She was a good baby in the airport while we waited FOREVER for our bags.

Enjoying Mini at the airport and entertaining fellow passengers!

 Then she fell asleep in the car.  She wasn't in bed until almost 11:45pm.  And she was up by about 8:00am this morning.  She is taking a nap now and then we will start our usual routine all over again!