Family Pics and Brayden

On Saturday we went ot Griffith Park which is like New York's Central Park, only this one is way bigger! There is tons of stuff to do like horseback riding, playgrounds, cookout areas, tennis, golf, volleyball, a carousel, the LA zoo, and the Gene Autry Western History museum. But this picture is of the three of us (Luke took it!) riding on the little train ride for preschoolers. It was so fun for Sterling. It goes on this little track that goes past the ponies as well as some other little old "western towns" they made to look like the old west. There is also one tunnel and Sterling just looked at us and smiled and laughed really big when we went through it. It was a fun morning.

In the afternoon on Saturday we went up to Northridge so that Luke could watch football all day with Mike. So Erin and I took the boys and let them play at the mall. Sterling and Brayden actually play together really well, and Sterling has started trying to say his name- he calls him "Bay bay"...pretty close.

And this was Sunday at the beach. Ashley took our picture and Sterling actually stood there and smiled for it. We were proud of him for being so good.

Beach pictures

We went to the beach with Sterling on Sunday. He really loves the beach! He hates it when we have to leave. It was really funny watching him chase the birds; he thought they were pretty cool.

Life in California

Lately we've been busy, but it's just our usual routine. Sterling goes to play with Colette and Owen while we have our meetings, so this picture is of the three of them holding hands-- isn't that cute?! They all love each other, but of course also spend a lot of their time fighting over toys and yelling at one another.

Sometimes if we arrive a little early for our morning meetings, we go to this Coffee Bean coffee shop and Sterling has a little bit of chocolate milk. It's a pretty special treat for him. He thinks he's big stuff sitting in the chairs like we do.

Luke and Sterling still go to the park most mornings to play. Sterling has never liked the swings before, but the other day he saw other kids swinging and decided to give it another try. He loved it and stayed on the swing for a long time.

This was just when Sterling and I were messing around and playing yesterday. We got a little bored in the evening so I just started taking pictures of him :) But after this, we decided to go out in the courtyard and walk around. We had baked cookies and were looking for someone to give them to. While we were walking we got to meet one of our neighbors across the way and they have a little boy that is close to Sterling's age. We were excited to make some new friends and hopefully the boys can play together. The other cool thing about that was that the dad of the family works at DisneyLand, and they gave us free park hopper tickets!! We couldn't believe it when she brought them over to us! Now we just have to figure out a day that we can make it to DisneyLand- how exciting!

Sterling's Typical Week

Sterling is borrowing a little booster chair from our friends Mike and Erin, so now he is starting to feed himself a little more- although he still prefers to have us do it! He's kind of lazy that way :) He's sporting his Taylor University t-shirt in this picture to support his aunt Kayla--Good luck at school!

3 or 4 mornings a week Sterling and Luke go to the park to play while I go to the gym. They have lots of fun sliding and playing. It's great father/son time, and I enjoy getting to have time to work out! Sterling loves his time outside--he's always been an outdoorsy kind of kid.

Sterling also got a new pair of flip flops a couple of days ago and he looks so cute trying to walk in them! He actually does a pretty good job for such a little guy. He usually just kind of scoots along. This picture was taken in the elevator we have to take to go to our parking garage. He really likes riding the elevator a couple of times a day, he thinks it's pretty fun.

This picture was also taken at the park one morning when they were playing. Sterling has been experimenting with all kinds of new words. Here he was telling Luke that the cow pictured on the swing set says "MOOOO" It's really cute when he says it!