art walk (and other ramblings from the week)

or make that art run, jump, dance, wiggle, sing, and sit.

nana joined us to meet our friends in san clemente for dinner at avila's
where we enjoyed some "awesome mama!" carnitas and cadillac margaritas. after dinner the boys enjoyed running through the downtown art walk with nothing short of unabashed joy. highlights include owen patting some surprised woman's "tushy" and then suddently stopping to sit in front of a local artist's rendition of the san clemente pier sunset. and then off again. then more laughing and screaming and eating ice cream and then dancing in front of the old hotel cafe to some swingy big band music where both boys danced and stomped and cheered with zest (youtube is down, so no videos yet) when we were leaving owen put a dollar in the tip jar and shouted "more singing please!".

it was a much needed respite after a week of stuffy noses, phlegmy coughs and lots of ickyness that put owen on a wonderbread and saltine diet (and of course the traumatic doctor's visit--owen just screamed and screamed "owen go home!" while crying so hysterically that he turned all red and splotchy despite the fact that lola was a doctor and "fixed" everyone with lotta's birthday present and we rehearsed with a pretend stethescope and said "aaah" and had loads of fun weighing ourselves on mommy's scale. but he did manage to say "thank you" rather sniff-ily to the "nice doctor lady"). anyhow, we called in the reinforcements and papa cooked us up some yummy dinner yesterday (some ground beef and black bean burritos with some lovely peach salsa) and nana stayed on to help bulldoze through our upstairs (which is starting to resemble a landing station of the goodwill) beginning with the catch-all that is owen's closet (but sigh, can it really be that those adorable newborn rompers were two years ago!) anyhow, it's been a hectic, exhausting week and we miss daddy like crazy (home in 7 days!!!) but we're continuing the adventure-ing in toddlertime with family (sal & jenn came out last weekend and we planned nana's retirement party--lots of yummy stuff on the menu! watch for that next weekend!) , friends and neighbors.