!!!WARNING!!! Adorable Baby Buns

I should also add a warning that the absolute cuteness of chubby baby buns can cause serious giggles & the desire to "goose" your loved ones.

I know Max is going to kill me some day for these, but what else do you do when its 90 degrees outside, baby has a poopy diaper and a rash? You let him go comando in the yard, naturally :)

Thank goodness for private bloggs!

All Aboard the Ark

Today Max & I met my sister Krista and her kids, Macie & Carson at the Skirball Museum's Noah's Ark exhibit. It was fantastic!

These days outings like this make me tired just thinking about them. However, there is so much for the kids to do and many museum employees helping to herd and watch kids that I'm no more tired than usual :)

It's divided into 5 sections & the 1.5 hr time slot you are allotted was perfect. Max banged on an elephant drum, tried climbing the walls of the ark, loaded the animals on the ark, made himself "dinner", played with the miniature animals, built and knocked down a tower & sat through story time. Macie & Carson had just as much fun exploring and climbing on everything.

Hopefully this talked you into trying it out. We will totally be going again. Thanks to my friend Dana for bloggin this and telling us what a great place it is.

(Max gleefully circling a mini ark with the animals he was able to nab away from his cousin.)

(Macie making the giant giraffe's neck move.)

(Max loading animals on the ark with some big kids.)

(Carson playing with the "mini" ark.)

(Passed out on the way home, he was exhausted!)

Happy Easter

Happy Easter from the Brownstein's

Potato Latkes

I love my husband, I also love teasing my husband. This is how the Brownstein Pesach (Passover- see...I'm learning!) went...

Jewish husband comes home from work a bit early to make potato latkes. Burns oil, burns latkes, scares dogs & almost burns kitchen down...

After opening windows, Mormon wife attempts potato latkes (having never made them before. See how nice and golden brown.)...

Happy Matza & Potato Latkes! Hope you had a wonderful Passover & have a wonderful Easter.

Spring Spring Spring

I like Spring. I don't love it, just like it. Spring brings on my allergies which seem to be worse when I'm pregnant. However, this year spring has been pretty good to the Brownstein's (so far).

We took a trip a couple weeks ago to Disneyland with my sister and nephew. I love the So. Cal season passes that make going for 4 hrs not a waste. Max did take a tumble and got a nasty bump on his head and scratch on his knee on the way in, but it was nothing a lolly pop couldn't fix.

Grandma Gail (GG) came to visit last week and we visited the Long Beach Aquarium for the first time. Max is pretty happy to wander anywhere but I think what little he did pay attention to, he enjoyed. It's a pretty cool aquarium with indoor and outdoor exhibits.

Yesterday we kicked off our goal of getting the yard spruced up, putting rocks by the front gate for Mike to park his car on and starting a garden. We had to buy a wheel barrow which Max loved to ride back in after each load of rocks. He also thought he was hot stuff working along side Grandpa Holmes and his Dad with his own "shovel" (a garden trowel) & generally just getting dirty. He spent the entire day outside & was filthy! Luckily he likes bath time as much as he is enjoying spring :)