We found a new (to us) bubble tea cafe!
…With a Nintendo set up to play! This ginormous controller actually works! Ashland is too ecstatic about the over sized nintendo to bother drinking his smoothy (which Lucian has claimed and guzzling down in the above photo).
Apparently, much fun was had at the beach because Immi and Ashland are playing pretend beach day (blue blanket is ocean and the tan colored one is sand and the pink one is picnic blanket on the sand).
Lucian learned to stack things a long long while ago, but lately he has been quite obsessed with it. He is about to say “Uh oh. It fall down!” (which isn’t grammatically correct, but a nice try…).
Lucian made this little castle a few days ago. I was quite amused!
And then Ashland joined the fun. Each of them making little towers.
…And then collaborative effort in making a very tall one!
Immi and Ashland have been asking to go to the beach for a while now, and finally the weather and schedule worked out.
Ashland unexpectedly refused to leave his dragon in the car (he never complains of leaving his things in the car to go play in the park etc). I tried to explain to him that stuffed toys don’t generally make very good beach toys but he wouldn’t budge. Anyhow, I suddenly remembered that he believes that dragons live in the ocean! …So the blue dragon tagged along our beach excursion. When Ashland saw the beach, he hopped off the stroller with his dragon and said “Common Dragon, let’s go!” and walked towards the sea.
Lucian seemed very pleased to be here and stayed content sitting in his stroller for a long long while.
Super super happy Lucian!
And then occasionally, he tried to un-hat his dad.
Immi is very happy too! She kept making mini sandy hills and jumping on it. I’m not sure why.
Ashland tirelessly ran back and forth picking up rocks from the dry sandy area and then carefully placing them on the edge of the ocean as it ebbed so that they can ‘go home’. He was very careful to mind the rhythm of the ocean and kept his feet mostly dry. He said that he was “scared” of the ocean. I’d say he’s brave for helping little rocks go back home despite his fear 
Lucian did eventually want to hop out of his stroller, and he got to walk around on the sand for the very first time!
Luckily for me, he wasn’t interested in walking into the ocean. Instead, he helped immi make little sandy hills.
I’m so glad we made great use of sunshine!
So we were driving around, and suddenly found ourselves starving. A quick look at Yelp revealed a cheap 4.5 star asian-fusion type eatery 0.1 mile away from where we were, so we made a stop. Here’s Lucian and his favorite drink.
Ashland making a silly happy face while waiting around for food.
After yummy lunch, we sat by the parking lot for a while because it was just so beautiful out! Ashland is trying to eat the mini jello cup thingies the very nice owner (he seemed like the owner…) gave us.
Immi, Ashland and Lucian have been playing with this large cardboard sheet for the entire morning and entire afternoon. At the moment, it’s a house. Don’t be fooled by it’s size — it fits both Ashland (he’s squatting now, and out of view) and Lucian!
Immi made for herself a pretend kite with a towel and shoe lace and Ashland wanted one too, so I made one for him with paper and ribbon. Ashland is decorating it with crayons and hello kitty sticker.
Happy game time with daddy. They love playing Angery Bird in Space lately. Ashland got very good at it actually. Best of all, Immi and Ashland learned to take turns to play — which is something of a milestone, I think Lucian though, he would say “Let’s share!!” and then grab it and run.
We found another park!
I think that Lucian was born on exactly the right month because he got to practice walking and all that inside while it was cold out, and now is completely ready to run around and play outside with big kids!
It makes me so very happy to see them play together, kinda like ‘greater than sum of it’s parts’ type thing 
The park has many trees perfect for sitting on.
It is so very beautiful here today. I would gladly take 364 days of rain just for one beautiful day in a year like this!
Luckily for immi, boys both fell asleep and so she got some quiet time. Hanging out in the tent and playing Angry Birds in peace!
Kyoko on 
Shana on 
Grandad on 
