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Irving plays a game with Adele where he throws the Caterpillar across the room and Adele has to find it. He asks her, “Where’s the Caterpillar?” and she gets excited when she finds it.

When we were packing up to leave for China, I said, “Don’t forget to pack your Caterpillar!” and Irving and I both looked at each other and decided we should pack it as a joke and take pictures with it for Adele.

Without further Ado… where’s the Caterpillar?

I’ve had a fear of horses for years. It’s irrational, I know, but you couldn’t pay me to ride a horse now. The last time I did, over ten years ago, my horse jumped up and I ended up walking a few miles back to the base while someone else pulled my horse. haha

Well, it appears my daughter has inherited this fear as well… we brought her to the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round this weekend and this picture pretty much sums up that experience:

The Merry-Go-Round is 75 years old and still looks the same as it did way back then! It’s really cool to ride actually. But she was so scared, I felt so bad!
Get me outta here!

Truthfully, I think the music is creepier than the horses. It’s old-fashioned carnival music. It fits the ride perfectly, but it’s really loud and ‘scary-clown’ scary for sure. haha

Even though she didn’t love it while we were riding, for the rest of the day she talked about how the horses went “up and down”.

Feeling braver now that she’s on the other side of the fence. ha!

Well, baby’s first merry-go-round experience… time will tell if there will be a second!

How does THIS:

Become THIS???

I know, I know. The timing of this post is pretty awful given the crazy storms hitting the rest of America… but over here in our LA Bubble, it’s been mid-70s and beautiful! (Don’t send me hate mail!)

Last weekend, I was feeling a lot of anxiety for no good reason. The week felt unbalanced, like I just didn’t have enough time to properly devote myself to anything. I was missing my girl and feeling like I need to re-center myself again. To hit that reset button and to remind myself what’s really important.

So when I woke up on Saturday, I packed up the car with a beach chair, enough pails and shovels for army, a cooler full of snacks and a pile of magazines and books. I drove without any real destination in mind. I just headed west towards the ocean until the right spot revealed itself. I ended up an hour away in Malibu. I almost paid $8 to park in a lot, but then decided to keep going down the road a bit until I found the perfect parking spot.

Yep, this looks like the perfect place to park, yes? No joke, I literally parked on the sand, we were THAT close. And it was freeeee! A good sign this adventure was meant to be!

When I got there, Adele was napping in her carseat, so I rolled down all the windows and read a couple of magazines while enjoying the view. It was so peaceful and quiet. At one point, I looked into the rear view mirror and saw Adele’s eyes quietly looking back at me smiling.

I picked her up and hauled her, a chair, and three big bags across the sand towards the ocean. We found the perfect spot and spread out a big blanket. There were only a few people on the entire beach. It was perfect!

My beach chair soon got taken over by my toddler, but she was so cute, I let her take it.

I got some beach gunk on my phone’s camera lens, so these are a little blurry. But they help paint the ‘care-free’ picture from the day. 
A little beach reading!

We did get a little sand castle building in there too. But really, the most fun game of all is taking all the shovels and pails and putting them on the beach chair… and then taking them off… and then putting them on… Life with a toddler, you get it.

This day was exactly what we needed. It was one of my most favorite days with Adele, ever. Just the two of us, with no plan, no schedule. She had so much fun I think. We’ll have to ‘getaway’ more often. Tear is from the wind I think. Nothing but smiles at the beach, promise!