95 degrees in Pacific Beach?!
Well, September has arrived and for San Diego that seems to mean that summer has also arrived...we've been having a heat wave here the past week! As the rest of the country starts to enjoy the start of autumn, southern Cali begins the hottest months of the year. September and October are notorious for their dry, hot days. October is usually when we experience wild fires due to these conditions. Feeling very fortunate to have air conditioning in the house right now...keeps it nice and cool and also provides a great white noise to help the kids sleep through one another's cries! Poor Myke has his home office set up in our garage--which is NOT air conditioned. So he is feeling the burn, literally!
We have our tickets for our trip to the east coast- we leave in one month from tomorrow. Besides a bit of stress with all the little details we need to work out with arranging transportation for five of us, three in car seats, etc, we are excited to see friends and family. I'm hoping for some crisp, east-coast autumn weather when we get there! There something that just doesn't seem quite right about taking the kids to pumpkin patches in October in San Diego--it's always so hot! Hot apple cider isn't quite as tasty and comforting when you're sweating bullets! I guess I could try an iced version!
I've been starting to look for some fall-type clothes for the boys for the trip. Right now they wear 3-6 month sizes and some 6-9 month. I'm assuming in a a month they will mostly be in 6-9 month size. There are some cute little outfits out there with fleece vests, pants, little cute caps, etc. I'd look for clothes for Chloë, too, but I'm sure she'll insist on wearing her Wisconsin Badgers basketball uniform every day! Kidding (kind of)!.. I did find some cute tops and leggings for her at Old Navy a couple weeks ago which we'll be taking.
Today, being Thursday, I have all three kids all day. No preschool for Chloë. After everyone ate breakfast we headed out in the new stroller for a walk to the park. It was my first time taking them all out--before this new double stroller, I have felt basically "stuck" in the house unless I go somewhere close which Chloë can walk to. Our triple stroller is SO heavy and difficult to push but this new double one is light as a feather and easy to push with one hand. So we headed to the park on the bay (3/4 mile walk). I had Chloë and Owen in the seats and Eli in the Baby Bjorn. Not to mention that I was pushing the stroller with one hand and holding my cell phone up to my ear with my other hand talking to my mom along the way. And it was easy-peasy! I'm definitely impressed with the Double Bob and highly suggest it so far! I got it so I can jog with the kids (still have yet to try that) but it also works great for an every day stroller as far as I can tell. It was so easy that we walked from the park on the bay to The Catamaran Resort which is further along down the bay walk. They have parrots and big fish in their atrium and on their grounds which I thought Chloë would enjoy checking out.
Parrots at The Catamaran Hotel
Waterfall in the hotel lobby (notice Chloë's outfit!)
big fish!
After stopping here we continued our walk by crossing to the ocean, walking down the boardwalk, and then back up to our house. Nearly 3 miles of walking. I definitely hadn't planned ahead for this spontaneous adventure. I was in flip-flops, hadn't eaten breakfast, and was carrying a 15lb infant on my front. Needless to say, I was sweating and VERY happy to get home and collapse in the A/C (A mom of 3 can only collapse for about 2 seconds..then she has to get up because inevitably someone will need something at any given time...there is NO rest time (except now, a few hours later, while all 3 are napping--a rare treat!). I better have lost the last 10lbs of my baby weight with this outing! Ha! I wish :)
On another note, we have a new grill! Myke's parents gave us a gift card for a new grill for our anniversary after learning that our current one broke. At first we didn't think we would really use it considering I am vegetarian, Myke is vegan...AND now with his gluten free diet, he can't even eat veggie burgers anymore! However, this one has 3 settings: a traditional grill, a wok, or a pizza stone! It's awesome and we've used it almost every day so far. We've grilled corn on the cob, Myke sauteed a bunch of veggies (in picture) for a green curry dish with veggies & tofu (that was AMAZING by the way), and we've done pizzas as well (Myke uses a yummy gluten free crust that he has found at Whole Foods). We'll have to host a pizza party some time soon.
Putting together his new toy
Yummy veggies! Doesn't this look so healthy?!
Grillin' it up!
Wow--this has been a nice little break while the kids all nap. The boys are now almost 4 months old (9/16) and as of this past weekend they are no longer sharing a crib. They have just gotten too big to do that, which is sad in a way. My babies are growing up! We have both cribs in their room now and they each sleep in a different one. When I go to feed them in the middle of the night usually they have shimmied down to the end of the crib and their feet are sticking through the rails. We don't have bumper pads on the cribs (apparently they aren't considered safe these days--though we used them for Chloë from birth until this past Spring actually).
Uh, oh the power in our house just went out--that means everyone's noise machines (and the A/C, oh no!) have cut off.....time for everyone to wake up I'm sure! Until next time....
**Update:
We have power back-I was unable to publish this post until this morning due to a massive power outage in southern California which affected some 5 million people! Power went out at 3:30pm Thursday and came back on sometime in the early hours of Friday morning. All went well and we had no major problems. Chloë actually enjoyed having her bed time stories read to her by flashlight. Okay, going to post this now!
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