After our trip to Boston with a 2 year old Chase we swore we would wait until he was at least 5, but we went against that and decided to take him to San Diego a couple of weeks ago. All in all, a pretty good trip. As long as you are OK doing things a 3 year old would like, which we are pretty much OK with by this time.
It started with us driving around San Diego Monday night just checking things out and Chase saying he had to go to the bathroom so we pulled over by a beach. Instead of going to the bathroom he takes off down some stairs and heads to a beach that I had read about. It had some cool rocks and hundreds of seals hanging out.
Our next two days were at the magical world of LEGOLAND. This is like every 3 or 4 year old's dream. Basically it is ride's catered to someone who is 40 inches tall. We also went at the perfect time since we had no lines. We literally rode one roller coaster called "the dragon" about 40 times. We tried to use the water park which we thought would feel warm at 70, but still was slightly cold. It didn't stop Chase and I from going on this water boat ride that drenched us and he was shivering uncontrollably. His first comment, "let's do it again"
We also inspired a house building contest at one of the lego stations and I was able to replicate some master builders duck that they had built. I tried to leave it on the shelf with the other one, but we went back the next day and it was gone, not cool.
We tried the San Diego zoo the next day, but we learned that Chase is more of an action guy. He would walk up to a cage, look at the animal for about 2 seconds, and then say, let's go to the next one. This also involved a lot of carrying a 40 lb kid, which is exhausting for me as well. We finished off our vacation at a couple of weeks as the weather finally got into the 80's.
To the worry of my dad, the next day I had to drive up to LA so I just dropped off Laura and Chase at a park and they had to taxi it back to the airport. They were just fine and ended up finding a pretty cool train museum that was one of Chase's highlights.
Miles gave me the cold shoulder when I got back for around 5 minutes, then we were all good. So Chase set up himself and his brother for future trips as of now.
Monday, April 29, 2013
We finally nailed a birthday present!
Chase turned 4 last week which is crazy in itself. Historically Laura and I have been hit or miss on his presents. Last year it was a set of golf clubs that we have used about twice. Then it was a train table at Christmas that seemed like it couldn't miss. It hardly gets played with. So for birthday number 4 we went with his first real bike.
It started out suspect as it was his last present of the day and as we pulled it off he tried to climb on and he could barely touch the pedals. He immediately jumped back off to go back inside and play with a dice game. After a few adjustments we decided to try it again and by the end of the night he had pretty much mastered it.
It led to the following conversation almost happening last night. Me - "Do you want to have movie night", Chase - "No, I want to ride my bike outside", Me - "Sorry kid, I want you to sit inside on your butt and watch a movie, not play outside" Realizing that wasn't setting a good example, we ended up going for a ride.
Only two wipe outs so far, but I'm sure we will have some good ones coming up. Thanks to Grandpa for putting it together so I did not have to.
The birthday cake this year was themed after Wreck-it Ralph. I wanted her to build the full tower, but Chase let Laura off the hook with a simple face on top. It still looked awesome, so if you want to hire Laura she will just charge you like $200 bucks a cake. Chase repeated his habit of just taking a bite right out of the cake instead of waiting for us to cut it. I'm wondering how long that will go, hopefully he still does it when he is 18.
Other present highlights included some legos (which I am enjoying just as much as he is), a game with 100 dice that he got just for the dice (including the smallest dice I have ever seen), and some cars and track which I think Miles enjoys just as much as Chase.
So one more year down, if you guess next year's cake I will give you $20 bucks.
Pictures will come later...
It started out suspect as it was his last present of the day and as we pulled it off he tried to climb on and he could barely touch the pedals. He immediately jumped back off to go back inside and play with a dice game. After a few adjustments we decided to try it again and by the end of the night he had pretty much mastered it.
It led to the following conversation almost happening last night. Me - "Do you want to have movie night", Chase - "No, I want to ride my bike outside", Me - "Sorry kid, I want you to sit inside on your butt and watch a movie, not play outside" Realizing that wasn't setting a good example, we ended up going for a ride.
Only two wipe outs so far, but I'm sure we will have some good ones coming up. Thanks to Grandpa for putting it together so I did not have to.
The birthday cake this year was themed after Wreck-it Ralph. I wanted her to build the full tower, but Chase let Laura off the hook with a simple face on top. It still looked awesome, so if you want to hire Laura she will just charge you like $200 bucks a cake. Chase repeated his habit of just taking a bite right out of the cake instead of waiting for us to cut it. I'm wondering how long that will go, hopefully he still does it when he is 18.
Other present highlights included some legos (which I am enjoying just as much as he is), a game with 100 dice that he got just for the dice (including the smallest dice I have ever seen), and some cars and track which I think Miles enjoys just as much as Chase.
So one more year down, if you guess next year's cake I will give you $20 bucks.
Pictures will come later...
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