I Love L.A.!

We're in L.A.! It's so nice here...If I didn't live where I live, I would live here for sure.

We arrived yesterday but I didn't blog because A.) I was crazy tired a B.) I didn't have a cable to download my pics. But today ending up being so exciting that I'm not even going to bother with yesterdays pics--the plane blah blah blah, Pinkberry, gallery, dinner....actually it was really fun--so maybe I will show those pics later? But onto today...

Here are the kids ready to head out bright and early:


Our first stop was one of our old standbys: Nate and Al's Delicatessan. The kids like it for the Yoo Hoo!

Here's the Pickle:
Highlight of the day: As we were walking into the restaurant, who was walking in right behind us? None other than Larry King!! It was exciting to see him, but we didn't have a chance to say anything as he made a beeline for his table to join his entourage.

The kids were begging me to say hi to him but I told him that no--under no circumstances could they approach him at his table. That the ultimate in rudeness! I said maybe if he was leaving at the same time we were they could talk to him.

But it was time to go and we all headed out, but I got waylaid by a phone call and by the time I got to the front of the restaurant none of my kids were in sight. I saw Don and the two little ones outside and turned around to find Andy, Teddy, Patrick and Larry King laughing it up at his table!!

I walked up semi-mortified and Larry was asking the kids all kinds of questions--as nice as can be--and then suggested we go outside and take some pictures! Which we did! Here's the kids with"Uncle" Larry:A little closer up:
The expression on Pickle's face is hilarious! She's like who IS this guy??

Then I joined the party:

He was seriously the nicest guy! He wanted to know all the kids' names and ages and when on about what a beautiful family we had--VERY nice man!


So after all that excitement it was time to visit Grandma. Here are the kids outside her house:
Grandma with some of the kids:

I love this pic of Pickle and Grandma!

And here's a portrait of Pickle:

OK--I want to post more pics--(we had dinner at a fun place that had five kinds of ketchup that I want to show you) but what up with Blogger? It's a nightmare to get the pics in the order I want! They won't scroll! I'll try to figure it all tomorrow--so that's it for today!

Vacation!

We are off to California!

Thank you for all the well-wishes for Gooser. He seems okay--not 100%, but I think he's well enough to go. We have some exciting and fun things planned as well as some sad things (the memorial service.)

I'm going to attempt to blog our trip, so tune in this week for some fun stuff!

And I apologize in advance--I doubt I'll have time to check in on too many blogs, but I'll be back in business next week.

Oh, and we had an open house today which apparently went well--CROSS YOUR FINGERS for some good news!!

Well That Was Fun...Sort Of...

Well, despite Teddy's illness, we managed to have a pretty fun weekend getaway--much better than the disasterous trip a couple weeks ago!

This time, the pool was its usual sparkling self and the kids had lots of fun swimming.

The really fun thing was that we took Pickle into the pool for the first time ever. Turns out, she is a complete water baby! I've never seen a baby take to the water like this one--she was jumping in, putting her face in the water--no fear at all. which is a good and bad thing--I'm going to have to watch her like a hawk!



When she's not in the pool, she's in something I call the "baby corral" which is a little fenced area I created for her. She's not crazy about being in there--but I bought this cute little ball pit ($20!!) and now she loves to play in there.

Here's a couple more of her:


Isn't she cute in her tutu bathing suit!?

Here's Cosmo cowering under the pool bar because he knew we were going to throw him in the pool...

Sorry, Cosmo!

I mentioned before that we were going to a restaurant that had cotton candy for dessert--it was so much fun!! The food was delicious! Check out my strawberry salad in a parmesan cup!

Here comes the cotton candy...

We also ordered some other desserts including a giant s'more--but I was too distracted with eating to get a pic!