California Dreamin'

So we are down to 1 1/2 days left here visiting friends in sunny, burning california. So far, we've gone to Santa Monica, Hollywood, mommy and daddy's old works, Disneyland and Malibu (including eating at Gladstone's where we got married). It has been 7 days and we have taken 475 pictures. Tonight is a costume party at Jay's house- Jimmy is going to be a priest of some sort, I am a Black Widow and Kyan will be Yoda. He is so cute! But due to the massive amount of pictures, I'm going to post a few favorites and link to Shutterfly. IF i can get them all to load to shutterfly!

Pictures:

Kyan at the Santa Monica Beach watching the sunset- with tahini on his lip.

Kyan playing Godzilla on Gozilla's star... naughty Kyan!

Kyan playing with the fountains at Hollywood and Highland.
Kyan riding the seahorses at Disneyland!

Kyan trying on clothes at Baby Gap on Third St. Prominade. Too cute!
address to view is:
alcumbrackmcdaniel.shutterfly.com

Only about half of the pics are up, but we'll add the rest when we're home.

It's my fault!

There are two reasons why I havn't been posting- one is that our new camera broke, leaving us with our yicky, broken, held together with rubber bands camera. The second is an obsession that I am slightly ashamed of:

Littlest Pet Shop. HOWEVER:

I am not the only Alcumbrack-McDaniel dragging poor Kyan to the toy store for a toy obsession labeled ages 4 and up:

My dearly beloved has his Star Wars Galactic Heroes.

But I know that if you are here after the many months of not posting, what you really want to see is this:

Despite the fact that he is chosing to communicate strictly thru temper tantrums and meltdowns rather than words, this seems to be a facinating age. But we'll be EXTREMELY excited when he learns to speak! (for the record, we have one current word and it's non-verbal- he says "all done" in ASL. We blame Auntie Jane.