Aquarium of the Pacific June 2009

Amanda and I met up at the Aquarium in Long Beach to take the kids on a fun outing. Bennett and Sam and Max thought this place was great. Bennett and Sam have been there a few times before, but Max was really fun to watch! The kids loved the touch pools the most and got to touch sharks and stingrays. Funny thing was that the guides tell you that you have to touch everything with 2 fingers so the sharks, etc, 1. don't eat your fingers, and 2. you don't scratch them. So Bennett and Sam went around all day holding their 2 fingers up ready to touch whatever they came across! Too cute.

Bennett and Sam in front of the Seal Lion exhibit.

Amanda, Bennett, Max and Sam at the Stingray petting pool. (Note..Sam has his 2 fingers ready to go to touch the stingrays!) :o) Max just loving the first touch pool of the day.

Bennett getting to touch a shark. The guide was holding the shark up so that Bennett could touch him.

Bennett's reaction after touching the shark!

Bennett's First Day of Preschool

Today was Bennett's first day of preschool. It is a summer school at the same preschool that he will be going to in the fall. He was super excited to go to school and play "with the guys" he said. Guys just means kids in general to him. :o) He did really well when I dropped him off...a little hesitant at first, but was ok after a few minutes. I think I had a harder time leaving him than he had with me leaving. :o) I hope he has a great time today!

Just the cutest kid ever.

I just loved this picture so I decided to put it up. Bennett is getting ready for a bike ride with Daddy and he has on my sunglasses with his skater helmut, and he loves just giving the thumbs up signal lately. Too cute.

Legoland June 2009

Dan, Bennett and I drove down the 405 to Legoland in Carlsbad, and it is possibly the coolest place ever for the age 2 to 8 age bracket. We had a blast! Everything is geared toward the younger kids (but enough fun stuff for the older ones too!) We really had a great day. So much to do that we really only got through half of the park. Bennett loves Legos because he and Dan put stuff together all the time, but he just loved this place for all of the rides and attractions that were geared towards his age. Loved firetrucks, airplanes, trains, rollercoasters, cars, cars, cars!

Bennett hanging out with Thomas the Train.

Dan and Bennett on the Safari ride. (Coolest part of this ride and a few others was that they have little areas for the kids to play with Legos while the parents wait in line. Ingenious I tell ya!)

Bennett letting it all hang out in the curve! These were the cutest cars...the kids totally drove them independently...of course their top speed was like 3 mph, but still...so cool. The funniest part was that there was a stoplight on the track, and Bennett stopped at it every single time he went around the track....good habits start early I guess! :o)

Thumbs up on the airplane ride.

We heard about how he squirted the frogs and alligators the whole way home. :o)

Just getting into the park...so much to see...have to take it all in!