 In a couple years, this pic will be replaced by one of them punching each other |
Before Popo left, we had spent an afternoon at Golden Gate Park. We entered the park on the Pacific Ocean side and it was extremely foggy and cold and wet and we were rethinking visiting the park for the day, but we drove inland all of five minutes and it was sunny and warm - a perfect day for a picnic. Typical crazy San Francisco microclimates.
Popo had made some homemade sushi and Cam loved it. I'm actually not sure what he liked better: eating the sushi or saying "sooooshi!" - he was so excited every time he said it.
There were tons of squirrels at the park, and they are sooo not afraid of humans. I overheard a couple call them "vermin" and "wingless pigeons" and I could not understand it - they're cute little critters! They came right up to us, even climbing right onto the bench where we were sitting and posed all cute-like, asking for food. We found out why they're such nuisances pretty quick, though - when they didn't get food they were actually bold enough to jump at us to swipe some food!!! One jumped right at Cam and I pulled him out of the way right in time, or the squirrel would have landed on Cam and who knows what would have happened at that point. We avoided the squirrels whenever we stopped for a snack the rest of the day and had a nice day at the park.
We also visited Fisherman's Wharf with popo. I figured Cam would love seeing the Sea Lions, but he wasn't all that interested and looked for other entertainment after only a couple minutes of watching them.
We took Cam to the dentist for the first time. He was not at all nervous, but that was probably because the first thing he noticed was the Megabloks table - he didn't see the big scary dentist seats and gleaming sharp tools of the dental trade. The doctor was very nice and had a very calm demeanor about him, and Cam was still not nervous when we sat down with the dentist to listen to what was going to happen. Finally it was time to check out Cam's teeth and I had to hold Cam down and of course he cried through the inspection and toothbrushing that the dentist gave him. He was soothed when he got to pick out a "prize" for finishing his dentist appointment - a little plastic dinosaur. At home, he fought and cried when I brushed his teeth for the first couple days, but after that he lets me brush with no complaints, though sometimes he does fight me not to avoid brushing, but to brush himself. It's funny when he tries to brush himself - he just holds the toothbrush in place for a few seconds then says "all done". :)
 Hallowe'en at Taleo |
Anyways, we didn't have any Hallowe'en activity at our home, but my office threw their annual mini-party for families so Sara dragged Cam and Dex all the way out to my work. Not much to say about the party itself except that Cam had fun walking around and helping himself to the candy bowls lying around the office.
The big notable event was that Sara got rear-ended on the way to the office. Sara and both boys were all frazzled and crying, but thankfully it was an extremely low speed collision in stop'n'go traffic and nobody was hurt. The other driver was very sorry and placed a thoughtful follow up call to Sara to see how she was doing, and his insurance company (Allstate) was great about taking care of everything. They even made sure we replaced the kids' car seats, something we didn't think about doing.
I'm quite happy to have replaced the infant seat as the one we had was a hand me down as getting a bit long in the tooth, but I have a hard time letting Cam's car seat go. The collision was extremely light and I can't imagine that any of the seat's cushioning has been compromised by the accident. It's better to be safe than sorry, of course, but I can't bring myself to throw what is a perfectly good seat away so it's currently sitting in our vestibule while I figure out what to do with it. We'll probably stick it in the Lexus as an occasional use seat for when Dex gets bigger.
That's it for now, enjoy the few pictures I've posted.