Easter Fun

Honestly, I had forgotten how much I enjoy Easter Egg Hunts. My mom always used to plan out these scavenger hunts for my brother and I through the house involving lots of chocolate eggs and stuffed rabbits.

This year I was excited that Justin was old enough to really understand the concept, so we took full advantage of our community. First stop was last weekend in downtown Los Altos.

Justin was lucky enough to find a egg that had a coupon for a free cup of ice cream from Baskin Robbins...and who I am to deny a kid ice cream at 10 in the morning??

Then we booked it over to Stanford for more egg getting. Justin was quite happy to receive lots of stickers. Mommy and Daddy had to intercept all the candy, but luckily he didn't notice.

This past weekend, we got together with the AGG at CPC's house for some more egg fun.

Lankha was conducting bow-tieing lessons with the dads...

Mr. Clayton was in charge of fire and meat...

Kaeli gave me a flower!

The kids having fun with the sand and water table. It was quite a construction site going on!

Mommy getting sucked into some manual labor...

"Hiding" the eggs

The kids getting ready for picking up eggs!

Justin picking up the eggs diligently

But he had more fun with Aunty Jelly's dog Lani. Let's just say that dog is a very good sport!

The Mommies!

Sunday morning, I hid eggs around our house for Justin to find. I filled some of them with Goldfish crackers. I guess I should have waited until after breakfast to do the hunt, because as soon as Justin found a egg with Goldfish in it, he just sat down and ate all of them. Then he went around shaking all the eggs and only opened those that sounded like they had crackers inside!

After his tummy was full of crackers, he finally figured out there was still some cool stuff left behind by the Easter Bunny. I was cleaning up eggs and stickers and crackers and cookies all day, but all in all a great day!

Visiting the mother ship

This past Sunday, we decided to visit the Cal campus. Mainly because Jay wanted to buy a Cal lanyard so he could wear it at his Stanford PT job. Heehee! So subversive. He also wants to plaster Cal posters all over his office, but that's a work in progress.

Anyways, Justin quite enjoyed seeing the dinosaur bones at the VSLB. I didn't think he would understand that the bones were dinosaurs like he sees on TV, but he was so excited! He also got into the Cal spirit at the Bancroft Clothing Store. Mainly because he saw some other little girls waving the pom poms too...maybe he was trying to chat up the cheerleaders? Oh boy.

Go Bears!

 

 

Bay Area Discovery Museum

This past Sunday, we decided to make the trek to Sausalito to visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum. I had a Groupon for discounted tickets so we made a day trip out of it. The museum is located at Fort Baker, which is right at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. I always forget how pretty it is, even on a drizzly day.

Justin had a great time exploring the place and settled in with the shovels and dump trucks. He also discovered a tree that needed climbing. What a boy!

Big Boy

Just another weekend breakfast at the Wong household. Seeing Justin like this somehow just underscored what a big boy he's becoming...He'll even say "Cheese" for the camera now! What a ham.

Budding Photographer

Justin has graduated from still life sippy cups to live subjects (Does Tickle Me Cookie Monster count as a live subject?)
 

Trader Joes

Apparently someone couldn't wait until we paid for the bread...

Happy March!

Oops! Has it been a whole month since I last blogged? It's been a pretty mellow month and I haven't taken many pictures since we don't have a camera with a fast enough shutter speed to capture our moving target of a toddler!

Justin has been at preschool for a whole month now and as far as I can tell has adjusted just fine. He asks for the teachers when he's at home and I get a big cheery "Goodbye!" when I drop him off in the mornings. From what the teachers tell me, he's doing better at waiting in line and just needs to work on sitting still (but what 2-year-old boy and most boys for that matter don't still need to work on that?). 

Aside from a head bump during recess (and ensuing phone call and incident report) a couple of weeks ago, Justin is doing just fine. He gets to do art everyday which he loves (especially since Mommy won't let him paint at home!) Here is the first piece of artwork I got to take home for him. Fellow parents tell me that the avalanche is just beginning...

We're pretty sure it's a moon, but we've had votes of quesedilla and empananda as well.

I guess the only challenge with preschool is that Justin is starting to drop his afternoon nap. We're not sure if it's because he's just too wound up on preschool days or if it's just a coincidence, but at any rate, no afternoon nap means it has to be made up somewhere...

At least this time he finished chewing his food before nodding off. 

I just re-registered him for the fall. Even though he'll be 3 in October, he'll be placed in the older 2's class. With California moving the kindergarten enrollment dates up, the preschool is moving their birthday cutoffs too (October 1 for his class). Oh well. I guess Justin is destined to be the oldest kid in his classes from now on. Coupled with the fact that he seems to be big for his age, maybe he has a chance of making the basketball team one day ;)