Road Trippin' and Growing Up

I'm sure I write this a lot, but WOW I can't believe it's been a month since my last entry. Cody and I having been keeping busy with swimming on Mondays, art class on Tuesdays then fun adventures the rest of the week. I had a good 14 week ultrasound where they were convinced it was a girl and also said everything looks good. Yes! I put a pic up on the end of the last blog of her.

We had a real birthday party for Cody at Burton Park in San Carlos only 3 weeks after the real deal in Central Park with the largest ever Diego cake. He's really grown up too-he's been going pee on the potty (3x today!...for stickers and M&Ms of course) he's repeating back everything we say, he started going part time to his new big kid daycare where he's the youngest and loves being with the older kids, and rides a tricycle (actually went himself and threw out his binky in exchange for it-I just wish the helmet fit him better.) He rode on a bunch of kiddie rides all by himself on the Santa Cruz Boardwalk while Greg was fishing with friends. It was so awesome as 1 other random couple from this area arrived as the rides were opening and Cody and his new friend he met-Dylan went on ride after ride-I was psyched to watch and take pictures and not squeeze my pregnant belly into mini ride seats!

Greg and I are having summer fun too. After his bday party we got a sitter and went to String Cheese Incident at Berkeley's Greek Theatre. Yes, they were still awesome and that's without 1 beer! Then last weekend with Cody we took the new Subbie into new areas for us of Northern California. First we drove at night to Garbersville which is the start of Avenue of the Giants (Giant Redwoods that is.) The next morning we drove through trees, Cody played hide and seek on the trails, and we worked our way up the coast to Patricks Point State Park. It's cool on the coast in summertime. We walked through Eureka and had a snack before setting up our camp closer to Trinadad. Cody totally took advantage of vacation and hopped into our bed each night including our sleeping bags in the tent. I think he's too big for the pack n play finally-well we got a lot of good use from it. We made good camping food-which a little skunk that night really enjoyed Cody's maca crumbs and nearly scared me silly (silly=locking myself for a couple minutes in Subbie-while Cody slept unknowingly in the tent.) In the morning, we hiked to the ocean and explored tidal pools filled with crabs, anemone and starfish. We also "hunted" for agate-semi precious stones. It was such a green, lush, cool, beautiful environment, but it was time to heat it up so we drove I-238 inland to the Trinity Alps which is south of Mt. Shasta. We stayed right outside of the gold mining town of Weaversville; it is so beautiful and not touristy. The Griggs Family of 4 met us up at our VRBO house and Nolan and Greg tried hard to catch the epic salmon run up the river. Christy and I, when our angler husbands weren't fishing, managed an also epic 10-12 mile river kayak trip through some gentle rapids-totally preggers safe and super fun. There was a nearby super cold but pristine swimming hole near our place that felt awesome in the 90+ heat. On our drive home Greg and I contemplated our next trip there and buying a boat and kayak-that passed the 4.5 hr ride as Cody slept and then watched Toy Story on the Ipad. Perfect Cali Stay-cation.

This week I found out that my petition was accepted to SFSU for their Master's Program for the Fall so I quickly got my application in and am just waiting on a couple of recs so hopefully I'll start classes my first real day back to work-August 27th. Gotta get back to the Olympics-they've been keeping us up to midnight!