Baseball

This week Grandpa Wheeler came to stay with us as part of a "Boys Weekend" Brian had with him and his brothers. They got to go to a few Padre games in the area. While Grandpa stayed with us, he took Robbie to play a little baseball of their own at the park.

Kidspace Museum

On Wednesday, we met up with Danny, Laura and girls in Pasadena. We went to the Kidspace Museum, which Robbie loved. It was nice to let the cousins play together.

Ashley, Alyssa, Robbie building
painting
These steps went up a few stories and Robbie and the girls made it all the way to the top.
on the way back down, looking through the step
Alyssa and Robbie
climbing the vines
lounging on a bench
playing the drums with water guns
At the climbing wall, Grandpa was a big helper.
Robbie and Grandpa
checking out a hissing cockroach
climbing the spider web
Ashley and Robbie at the top of the spider web
crawling through the ant hill
riding bikes

Football Season

We are excited to have football season back! We are hoping Chargers have a better game tonight than BYU did this weekend!

touchdown celebration

Have fun at the game Uncle Danny and Aunt Laura!

Conversationalist

Robbie can say the funniest things sometimes, and this morning was no different. Here are a couple of things we have talked about.

Conversation #1:
M: Robbie, are you just too tired?
R: No, I'm only one tired.


Conversation #2:
(Background- we have wild rabbits come to our backyard at times.)
R: (looks out the window) They're not bringing eggs anymore.
M: Who?
R: Our bunnies.
M: They only bring them on Easter. That's a long time away.
R: Maybe after your birthday.
M: Actually, it's after Christmas time too.
R: (looks at clock) Hmmm...It's on the 8 and the 6.
M: That means it's 8:30.
R: I wonder if that's Christmas time. Hmmm...

Mormon Battalion Center

The second day of our trip we went to the Mormon Battalion Center in Old Town.

They just re-opened it after a remodel in Jan. They did such an amazing job with it. I was very impressed how interactive and informative it was. After the presentation they had an area where you could participate in some of the activities they would have done.

Robbie played a fiddle.
made some bricks
washed laundry
and panned for gold.
I looked through the list of members in the battalion at the end and saw that one of my ancestors was part of it. His name was Jesse Bigler Martin. He was actually at Sutter's Fort when they first discovered gold. He and his cousin Henry Bigler were a few of the men to pool their money and buy one or two cannons for the fort. This is one of the cannons that he helped purchase.

San Diego Zoo

We actually got a way this weekend for a little bit down to San Diego. The first day we went to the San Diego Zoo. The weather was gorgeous and we had such a fun time together. Robbie loved getting his picture taken in each of these boards.

There were quite a few animals that were active for us. The polar bear was playing with his ball.

These crocodiles were getting fed. I was amazed at how their trainer handled them.

We saw the sea lion show.
the gorillas
the giraffes (my favorite)

the rhinos
the elephants

Robbie Starts School

We have started preschool here at our house. We have it 2 days a week, and I come up with the curriculum. For the first few weeks, we are studying Houses and the letter "H".
This first day, we made an "H" collage from letters we found in a magazine,
practiced writing "H",

read "The 3 Little Pigs", constructed the 3 homes from similar materials, and talked about D&C 88:119 (Establishing a house of order, a house of prayer...a house of God). We talked about how if we want to build a strong home that we have to build it with strong materials like the 3rd little pig, which for us is prayer, fasting, order...etc. He loves it so far and it's been fun for me to get back into the mode of teaching again.