So far it's been a splendid Mother's Day. The boys gave me shiny necklaces from target, three bouquets of flowers, an Alamo gift card, and cooked me a delicious breakfast of bacon, eggs, and chocolate croissants. We roasted marshmallows in the backyard and pretending we were camping.
It's been a tiny weekend-my favorite weather. Sam is matching the sky with a drizzly nose. He's been performing some dramatic nose-blows during church. Motherhood is full of mucus. ;-)
The boys got to build porgs at the LEGO store. I brought a friend from home to watch.
Fourth time 3D printing a cookie cutter was successful. My Wookie Cookies were not ready before the boys went to bed. It will be a fun treat for Free Comic Book Day tomorrow.*
*provided no one else gets sick. Ugh. It's been 7 days of one boy or the other having a stomach bug. Fingers crossed the virus is done with our home.
We came. We saw. It was epic. I wore my infinity stone gauntlet and ate a Hulk burger and clapped with joy when Thor lit up the screen with his sparkles. A good movie with good friends. Commence countdown to May 2019.
The last leg of our San Diego adventure was with the Waterhouse family in a house on the beach! The boys were enchanted by this foreign terrain. Sam went over the sea-wall and planted himself there in the sand. I had to coax him farther onto the beach. He was satisfied right there on the edge of the largest sandbox he had ever seen!
Ben and I ambled up the street to order dinner for the rest of the inbound Waterhouse flights. We found this charming Greek restaurant. The owner was so happy to make a big "surprise platter" for us and asked for a picture together for himself "because I make this like I make for my family!"
We had a wonderful time catching up with my family over good food. My folks and Rosina and the Evans all made a delicious barbecue spread for us. Poor Andy got sick at the end of the visit, but before then my boys had a riot goofing with their uncle. Jack and Lexi discovered a partially dug pit that they diligently expanded.
I heard nothing for the next three days except "I wish we lived at the Beach House, I wish we were back at the Beach House, I'm going to buy a house on the beach, etc etc."
The boys were up bright and early each day for Legoland. They seemed to be stuck on Colorado time, waking around 6:30 when the park doesn't open until 9:30. The hotel provides a buffet breakfast that met most of their requests (no whole strawberries? Quelle horreur!).
We used our early access as hotel guests both days to sneak onto rides before others. Day 1 was cold and rainy for a few hours, so some rides were shut down. I worried that the kids would be dour about the weather, but I think I did the most grumbling. In fact, the boys had a total of ONE minor tantrum from Sam on the second day. It was more of a disagreement than a tantrum. The boys were awesome.
Both days were low attendance - we walked straight onto almost every ride, hardly ever waiting more than a couple minutes to load. We rode our favorites twice in a row; it doesn't get any better than that!
Tons of pictures here, mostly out of order.
The Masons are at Legoland! After a problem-free flight we arrived in sunny San Diego. We popped in on my grandparents for an unexpected visit when we realized we were so on-time that it was too early to check into the hotel.
Legoland hotel is absolutely living up to expectations. We've never been to a hotel so fully immersive and designed for kids. I think they are in heaven.
Ben told me this story:
Sam: Dad, are you smarter than Mom or is Mom smarter than you?
Ben: I don't know. I think we're both pretty smart.
Sam: Well. I think mom is smarter. I think Mom is the smartest in the family. I am the fartest in the family.
(If you haven't had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with Sam lately, he is, indeed, very gassy, and gets a lot of ribbing for it.)
