Dear Levi...

Parker does a lot of writing at school--each day, the kids are asked to either write in their journals or write a letter to somebody. Usually Parker and his best friend write back and forth to each other about all of the fun things they are going to do together on their play dates. But today he came home with a letter to Levi--I thought it was so sweet. They have really been having a lot of fun together lately...

"Dear Levi, When I get home we can play monster trucks and Super Parker and Super Levi! And then we can watch Phinneas and Ferb."

["Super Parker and Super Levi" is a game that they made up that they play together--it usually involves making secret plans in their "Super Lab" to attack Mommy while she's cooking dinner...it's super cute. Phinneas and Ferb is their favorite cartoon that they like to watch together.]

Anza Borrego State Park

We decided to take a quick camping trip this weekend while the weather is still nice out in the desert. We headed out to Anza Borrego State Park on Saturday without a firm destination in mind, which was a little confusing, since the park is the largest in California and is about 600,000 acres of desert! But we managed to pick a good spot and had a nice night of camping after a one-mile hike to some cool caves. We enjoyed exploring a canyon wash the next morning and did some 4-wheel driving before heading home. We took a dirt road for about an hour of the drive home, just to add to the adventure of it all :) 

We have a bunch more pictures (of course) that I'll try to get up on the blog soon.

Levi Reading

Levi is absolutely obsessed with monster trucks, ditto with this monster truck book Jared got for him. He pretty much knows the book by heart, and can fill in any word or phrase as you read it to him. He's doing a very loose interpretation of the text in this video, but he had fun making it up as he went along :)

Made by Parker

Parker loves to play with the photo editing apps I have on my phone. I'm very impressed with how quickly he teaches himself how to use the apps; he usually takes the pictures himself first, too. I often scroll through my camera roll and find all sorts of gems like these:

Staycation

Lisa shared some of her really great photos from our big family staycation at Liberty Station over Labor Day. I'm so glad that other people got some good pics of everyone, I think I was so distracted by Parker's ear infection that I really failed in the photo department! 

Ice Cream Date

Jared and Levi had a special outing together this evening, a trip to preschool for Dads' Night. Since they were going to be enjoying ice cream at their party, it seemed like a good idea for Mom and Parker to have an ice cream date, too :)

Buena Vista Lagoon