My Awesome New Shoes!

These are pretty much awesome! Thanks MOM!!!!

Cousins

Lelands cousins LOVE him! We were sitting at church yesterday and I passed Leland down to Emily and the horde that was sitting by me all made their way down to Emily to play with Leland. Haven stuck by me she was pretty sad that I didn't give her a chance to hold him! Majel is pretty much a baby kind of girl she gravitates to him wherever he goes, in the pool at church and at Gram's house. Its pretty cute to watch! Porter and Maddy like him as well, so that is fun to watch them play with him, although Maddy was pretty ticked at Gram for giving him her tea set to play with, but other than that she seems to like him a little:) Cienna likes him but is more interested in talking to uncle Brian, and Ethan ACTS like he hates having to play with him but I think he likes it! It has cured him of wanting a little brother though! Quyhn asked if they should take him home and Ethan said NO! So thats a good thing.

Cienna got to hold him, I stayed close by in case he threw his weight around

Emma's kids sat and played with him this morning! They seem to think he is something special and I have to agree!

Great America

Great America is an amusement park out here in California, located in Santa Clara, we went with Gene and Quynh and their three kids Cienna Majel and Ethan,Que Quynh's mom, and Gram and Pops it was a warm day but we had a blast. Gene didn't put sunscreen on and you will see why that is bad when you see his picture:) But Gram, Quyhn and Que took the 3 littlest ones to kiddie land, and Gene Pops Brian and me along with the tallest of the kids Cienna, went off to conquer the bigger coasters! We went on the Vortex, not as fun as I remember:) although it was still fun because Cienna screamed at take off and the lurch to get us back into the loading place. Then we road the Demon, we did this one twice because Cienna thought it was pretty cool! Poor Pops had a black out though on it so we only did it twice.... Then we did Invertigo, I screamed pretty much the whole way and felt pretty dumb cause Gene was facing me cracking up that I was screaming... thankfully he had me to make fun of instead of poor Cienna, I think it scared her more but I could be wrong... She screamed louder. With good reason, this coaster pulls you up to the top and then drops you through a whole bunch of different twists and turns and upside downs up to the other side, and then it drops you back through! Those of you that went to this park back in the day it is a much better version of the Wave. We also did the survivor ride, which was pretty relaxing and it created a nice breeze... Poor Pops gave me his hat, I tend to turn purple when I get to hot, I have since I was a baby, Gram said they used to bring me to her from nursery and say uhmm she is turning purple... Poor Gram always had to have me with her:) Anyway poor Pops bald spot got a sunburn because he gave up his hat to shade his color changing daughter, I have to admit it helped! THANKS POPS! Overall we had a great day! Our last ride was the log ride.... Brian Cienna Que and me all rode in one, Que was scared so she got in the back, and I told her I wouldn't duck... but I did and she got pretty wet... I felt slightly bad... but she seemed all right with it! I only took a picture of Gene and Leland at the park but Quynh actually took him on a ride and got some pictures so I will have to get those from her and add them to the post! We had a blast! Thanks Gene and Quynh!

Swimming

Well a hit at gram's and pop's has long been the pool, and it was for Leland this time around as well! Dad got in with Leland first, and Gram and Mom followed.....

He of course liked to pat the wall, although he got a little too excited and there went his Binky...

A little peek a boo with the pool toy.... Wheres Dad? There he is:) Playing with Gram

And of course some loves from Gram!

More sucker fun

So I let him have the sucker again, he liked to put that whole ball sucker in his mouth, which would have gagged me and I have a much bigger mouth! Anywho he is pretty cute so here are some from after we go home!

I think this is backwards! sticky hands!

I got it! And now....

DANG! Its gone!

On the floor mom won't let me have it back!

Zoo, Zoo, Zoo how about you you you:)

We got a late start today:) Due to my ignorance and stalling on taking care of myself I had to go to urgent care, luckily it was just a bladder infection. But that meant we got a late start to the Zoo... We didn't leave until about 1:30, but the beautiful thing about that was that when we got there we watched the last school group leaving! So we had a Zoo with only like 50 people in it to roam! We had a blast! We started in the African part of it all, and found this bird sunning its wings, it looks awfully painful!

Then we found the giraffe who looked as mom called it a teenager, we took the photo op as a family:) He was having fun riding in the strollerHere is the gorilla that was ignoring us until we got our chips out for a snack then he came over to check us out
And this is the baby giraffe... So cute!we then crossed paths with a peacock who Brian scared and it scared Mom and me with the noise it made....

we watched the penguins being fed, he loved that, he tracked them all over the place! That was fun!
Then we headed to see the baby Tigers. They were so precious! There was one laying right up against the window! How fun to be close! The Mama tiger let them bug her by crawling all over her and she just laid there. Two were particularly playful!

He loves things that are small and furry and I think if he could have he would have squeezed them! But thankfully there was glass involved:) SO no tiger attacks today! He got to ride on dad shoulders which in general made him a happy little camper.

and around 4pm we went and watched the giraffes get some foods, here is the evidence.

Then as is customary, we got him a sucker, he was a sticky little guy when we got home.

and like all the other kids on the other trips, he followed suit and fell asleep, although dad wouldn't let him hold his own sucker:)

Phone Call from Annie

When we got to California Annie called to talk at us! Turns out Leland likes to talk on the phone see below:)