Capitola

A few weekends ago we traveled to Santa Cruz for KC's departmental retreat. Since Jory wasn't exactly suited to the poster sessions or the talks, I decided to drive him down to Capitola beach. When I told Jory that maybe he would see a whale, he responded, "I want to see a dolphin. Two dolphins. Two dolphins and two sharks." I told him ok, Mommy would conjure the sea creatures for him. [ahem]

We didn't see any sharks or whales, but we did see lots of seals and seal lions, as well as a dolphin - a big cartoon dolphin on one of the signs on the beach. Good enough!

We also got to enjoy the cute pastel houses on the beach in Capitola:

And Jory got to chase after an enormous flock of seagulls and ducks on the sand!

C is for cookie

Last night Jory expanded his culinary skills to baking. He wasn't interested in cutting the cookies out from the dough, but he sure enjoyed decorating them!




 

When he wanted an extra cookie before bedtime, we sang the Cookie Monster song instead. We'll see how long that satisfies him!

Trick or treat!

Jory's school has been preparing for Halloween for a week or so, including a "guess the weight" pumpkin game: (I can tell you that it is definitely harder to lift than Jory is)

On the big day, Amanda lent Jory her panda hat, which I coordinated with one of his Chinese outfits to make ... Kung Fu Panda!

At daycare, they took the kids on a parade around the city administration buildings, where Jory was overwhelmed by all the costumes and candy. As you can see, he had a good time:

More Paris photos!

Since our camera met an untimely death under the Zodiac Ceiling in the Louvre, it's been slow going getting together our vacation photos.

Here are a few more great pictures from our Paris trip! The bottom two photos are from the Chateau de Vincennes.