The next day was Dave’s dad’s actual birthday, and since we had plans for dinner, we took him out for dim sum. During lunch, I accidentally knocked over some water onto myself, trying to help Peyton with her water. She quickly took her napkin and started dabbing it on me, trying to dry me off. Dave’s mom knew that Peyton was so protective, and it was natural for her to do that. She looked so upset that it had happened, but I reassured her it was just an accident. We took off from lunch to head down to the beach to meet up with three other families and their kids. We were the last to arrive, and the kids were all ready to go in their respective parents’ cars. It was about 330pm by now, and the beach was still busy, despite having some cloud cover. The kids had fun bringing water from the ocean to the area where we had set up camp. There was Brandon (5), Katie (4), Rachel (4), Sydnie (4), Haylie (2), Peyton (2), Megan (2), and Kyle (almost 10 months). Despite my kids not seeing these kids very often, they all got along well! We hadn’t brought any beach toys, so ours to had share and take turns with the other girls. Kyle had fun watching the action, and next time he’ll be right along in the mix. Despite the water being a little cold, the kids had fun sploshing around in it. After the beach, we headed back to the Ting’s and washed the kids up. Mike and Pish were grilling meat on the BBQ, and soon, we had ourselves a meal. We actually had an adult table, and a kids table. 7 kids were seated nicely, eating, and the parents all couldn’t believe it. Brandon came up to us and said, “Mommy, I ate a zucchini!” I think he was trying to act cool in front of the girls, since he NEVER eats zucchini. After dinner, and jello for the kids, and sorbet for the parents, we let the kids play a little longer, then headed home. The kids were exhausted from the day. We each took a kid and plopped them down in the room. Dave’s parents were out for the evening, and we didn’t make it before they came home. We didn’t see them until the morning.
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My mom was headed into town on Tuesday morning. She was going to come in on Tuesday night, but the flights were wide open for the morning. She woke us all up when she called to inform us she was on the flight. That was 730am, and all were sound asleep. It took us a little time to get up and get mobilized. When we did, we headed to the airport to pick her up. Peyton was complaining about something, and had kicked her shoes off. My mom got into the car and asked, “What happened to your shoes?” Peyton replied, “I get cranky.” My uncle Johnny came to get my mom for the day, while we headed to the park to meet up with Deb, Katie, and Kyle. We rode on Small World, Mickey’s house, and went to Ariel’s new ride. Katie hadn’t been on it yet, and this is one of Peyton’s more favorite rides. She is still freaked out about Flotsam and Jetsam, but she knows when they come up she just closes her eyes. We had picked up Fastpasses for Soarin’ earlier in the day, so Dave took the two older kids, while Debbie and I hung out with the younger ones. Katie had never been on it before, and I was impressed she was willing to go with Dave by herself without Deb. Dave said he put her in between himself and Brandon, so at least she knew her co-riders. Good thing Brandon didn’t complain about sitting next to another person. Dave had to sit on the end, because only adults are allowed there. They came out and Katie wasn’t sad, so that was good! Dave said she did fine. We all headed out together; we had been in the sun so much, we wanted to get food and get indoors. We tried to go to our new local favorite place to have Vietnamese rolls, but they were closed on Tuesdays. Just Tuesdays. We went to another place that we don’t get too often. Peyton was asleep through the entire dinner. I just held her across my lap, while I ate my salad. They had forgotten to get me the chicken with the salad, so they brought it afterward. We had compiled food from our meals to give to her when she did wake up, which was just as we were getting ready to leave. She was a bit cranky, as she didn’t know where she was. We fed her back at the hotel, and my mom showed up shortly after with Belle, Uncle Johnny, Kimberlee and Gregory. Peyton was very shy, but polite. My cousins were kissing on her, trying to get her to smile, and Peyton just had her head down, plugging away at her little computer. She looked up at me, with these sad puppy dog eyes, trying to get away from them, but they were swarming her. Brandon was acting out trying to get attention, since all of it was on Peyton, who could care less. While Kimberlee was next to her, Peyton breathed in deeply, and let out a long sigh. Poor baby. Her back was to the rest of the room, so Dave couldn’t see her expressions. Dave was sad for her since we were going to Legoland the next day with the pair of kids and my uncle. He thought she’d be tortured all day long. She did fine, and was able to ride some of the rides with us, barely. She is just 36” tall, and that was the minimum height for some of the rides. Brandon is 48” we’ve learned, and was able to go on the faster roller coasters there. The roller coasters are more watered down, but still thrilling for the little kids. I had to bribe Brandon to go on the roller coasters, and told him if he did three, I’d get him a surprise. After hearing him complain for 30 minutes, while we waited, he enjoyed his ride. He wanted me to go with him, and “hold him”. I did my best to honor his request. After that ride, he wanted to get moving on the other roller coasters so he could get his surprise. I dragged it out, and our last ride was the final coaster. Coastersaurus! We all went, even Peyton. She was a little scared, but I think she had a good time. She kept talking about it after we were done. My uncle had taken off around 3pm, and we stayed until about 7pm before leaving to get dinner. Dave was on a mission to eat good Mexican food, since we were in SD. Peyton was having trouble at dinner, since she hadn’t taken a nap ALL DAY LONG! She was cranky, and didn’t want to eat in the restaurant. When I took the food back to the room, she ate it all up. The next day, we headed to the water, to look at the air craft carrier, The Midway. Dave had checked it out the previous week, when his reception was onboard. Since he had already been, and Peyton was a little too young to appreciate it, I let my mom take Brandon for the tour. She had a few hours before her trip back. Dave, Peyton and I hung out along the wharf and pier, while Brandon, my mom, and the camera went onboard. I told my mom to take plenty of pictures. She got some good ones of Brandon in the bridge, and around with some of the planes that were on the top deck. Peyton (and I) enjoyed watching some of the sailors training underwater alongside the carrier. I told Peyton to wave to the boys, and she did! They didn’t see her, but she waved nevertheless. While looking out past the harbor, Peyton said, “That’s a lotta boats!” Then she said, “What is the red balloon there?” I told her it was a buoy. She kept asking what they were. I said, “Look at me, look at me, BOO EE.” She studied me, and repeated, “BOO EE?” I told her she was right. She kept repeating it. Peyton took a nap while we continued to stroll. She woke up before we met up with them, and the only way I knew she was awake was that she said, “Where’s Grandma?”
We dropped my mom off at the airport, then headed back for lunch/dinner. We got another round of Mexican food, and headed back to the hotel. We wanted to take the kids to the pool, since it’s like the beach, only minus the sand. There was a 1 foot wading pool which was perfect for us. The water was nice and solar-heated, and the kids had fun with their squirt bottles. I was using Peyton as a human shield, and shooting her brother with the squirt bottle. I learned this trick from Brandon who was doing this at Legoland, by ducking under the cannon while firing at the boats in front of him. He strategically placed himself to shoot but not get shot.
We got happy hours tapas, since we’d had a late lunch. We both had a drink, while the kids munched on the hot apps and hummus. We got them down for bed, while Dave headed out to rent some movies. He came back with a romantic comedy, which we started to watch while the kids slept. We had a kid sleeping in each bed, but since we were watching it on the laptop, we moved Peyton over to Brandon’s bed. At one point, she sat up, and was at the edge of the bed. She stretched, and arched her back, and was headed for a backflip off the end of the bed. We saw it happening in slow motion, and I jumped up off of our bed, and dove to catch her head. I got her just in time, and my heart was racing from the adrenaline rush. Not wanting to do that again, we brought her over between us with the computer pushed back. Because of the light, she woke up with about 20 minutes remaining of the movie. It was a pretty funny movie, and maybe our laughter woke her up as well. In any case, she joined us for the remainder of the movie, and was totally into it. I thought she was just lounging around, but her head was focused on the screen. It reminded me of when Dave was on paternity leave with me, and we were watching Netflixed movies like crazy, with Peyton sleeping in between us. Although this time, she was much larger, and talked back to us when we asked her something.
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