Monday, October 15, 2007

Our trip to Disneyland with Mikey!

Today Kylie and I took Michael to Disneyland for only the third time in his life!! He was so excited, but I think I was more excited for him! In the morning when I came downstairs to get him I was in my PJ's and said, "you don't still feel like going do you?". He was so shocked and popped up and said "YES!!! I am already all dressed!!!". It was so adorable!

Mike was such a good sport too! There were rides he couldn't go on because we had Kylie, and he was so good about it! He even went on a few all by himself! Even waited in line by himself! I was so proud! It was pretty busy since it was a Monday, but we were there a total of 10 hours and managed to get in every ride Mike wanted, some even twice! Mike didn't even complain when we took over an hour lunch break so Ky could crawl/WALK!!! (she is taking a few steps now!) around! He was very patient and didn't freak out about missing ride time! He was such a good guy about all of my obnoxious picture taking too! In fact I am convinced that was his favorite part as you can tell by his ridiculous and hilarious poses and faces in all of my pictures! We had such a good time and I am so glad we were able to work it out for him to go! Kylie of course LOVED having big brother Mikey with her all day too! :)

Kylie was NOT so into taking this pic!!

Big brother Mikey always pushes around the princess!
Well, at least he kept himself busy in line for the rides!

Kylie trying out this new walking thing!
It shouldn't be this hard to snap ONE pic of Kylie with a hat on!!!


I think Mike's favorite part of the day was when I told him that at Disneyland, just McDonald's fries and a coke count as lunch!
Who knows??!!!
Ky loved watching the Splash Mountain boats glide beneath her!
Notice "kitty" on the ground! By the end of the day that thing was trashed! But she still slept with it that night! :)
I told her to keep her pants clean, I guess she listened!

Walking again! Check out Mike's face in the background - we were so excited!

I love this shot! Of course done manually!
Check out the next two pics...does Michael take after his Dad or what?!

Nap time!
This was the funniest picture...the boys are NOT allowed to hold Kylie, but I really wanted Kylie in the pic with Mike, Mickey and Minnie so I had to bend the rules! I was so nervous so I told Michale to hold Kylie and squeeze her tighter than he has ever squeezed anything in his life!! :) I told him if he felt like he was going to drop her, he needed to go down first! Ha ha! This probably explains the look on Ky's face!!!
Michael is such a good big bro! He is constantly alerting me if Kylie needs milk, water, food, diaper, a tissue, anything! He was taking care of her all day!
All Mike really wanted ALL day was a churro! He was so excited when he finally got one!
We were going to skip "Small World" since it was a waste of time for Michael, and Ky and I could go on it anytime we wanted...BUT the minute we turned the corner on our way to Toon Town and Kylie caught a glimpse of Small World, she went nuts! She started clapping and bouncing up and down smiling and laughing. Now how do you say no to that?? Obviously we jumped right on the ride!
Here is Mike entertaining Kylie while in line!
It is some type of law in our family that you HAVE to take a picture in the fake jail looking like you are crying. Here Mike carries the torch!
Little Kylie has become quite the monkey! She was climbing up everything at the park! She got up here all by herself!
Here is Mike on the Toon Town roller coaster...he waited in line all by himself! He is the little hand sticking up in the middle! :)
And now on the Matterhorn all by himself! I won't even ride that with someone! To make matters worse, when we got to the front of the line, they put poor little Mikey in the front seat!!! He looked a little nervous taking off, but was SO happy coming back in!


Acting like a dork on the merry go round!

I love these shots from the teacups. The lighting is a little off, but I love how the lights are all blurred in the background.
Is this the coolest or what?

On our way out of the park (we closed it down!) Michael really wanted me to get a picture of him in mid-air jumping in front of the enormous acorn! It took a few shots, but we finally got some good ones!

OBVIOUSLY this was the end to the day!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

A walk with my big brothers!

After much protest I finally got Jimmy to join Ky, Mike and I for a walk! Here are a couple cute pics from our trip...


I joked with Mikey the day before that he could take this "free" couch home to sleep on at our house since we took away his room for the nursery! Today I told him he forgot to take it so he went right over and started to pick it up! I was so grossed out that he would touch it that I whipped out my camera to capture the moment! He pointed out to me later that he pulled his sleeves down over his hands for protection! Too cute!

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Our trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

Today Jim, Jimmy, Michael, Kylie and I went to Mr. Bone's pumpkin patch in West Hollywood. It was pretty crazy and different to go to a pumpkin patch in the middle of practically Beverly Hills! There were paparazzi allover the place waiting for the next big celeb to show up! I am talking standing on all the corners, out front by the entrance, in front of the parking lot, and in their SUV's surrounding the block! You know me, I was PRAYING we would see someone, but then again, Britney could have been right in front of my face I wouldn't have recognized her! I am so bad at that! Unfortunately, there wasn't much action in the celebrity arena, so we just had to enjoy the patch as is! BUT, as we were leaving, the employees were closing off the parking lot and the paparazzi were pulling cameras out and pointing through the open windows of their SUV's!! I wanted to stay to see who was coming but the boys and Kylie had enough, they were dying to get out of there! Oh well! I guess I will have to pick up a copy of People to see who I missed!

The pumpkin patch was really cute with a bouncy house, face painting, petting zoo, pony rides, and tons of pumpkins! Kylie was a bit overwhelmed and just wanted to stand there pounding on one pumpkin the entire time! The boys were bored out of their minds after about 20 minutes and Jimmy even tried to take a nap on a pumpkin! Oh well! And, to top off the day, we paid $20 for ONE pumpkin! Even I was a little shocked at that! Luckily the lighting was perfect so I was able to get some practice in on my new camera! Here are the pics!

Jimmy, Rachel, Kylie and Mikey
Kylie loved the stems of the pumpkins! She even tried eating them (of course!)


Kylie wasn't even scared of these freaky guys!
I love this shot...I think the colors and light are so pretty!
Pointing at the ponies!
Checking out the petting zoo from the outside! (They wanted $4 a PERSON to go in there!!)
I love Ky's eyes in this pic!
How do you explain to a baby that the white thing is a chicken when it looks NOTHING like the chickens in her books? She didn't get it! She kept saying 'tweet tweet' like it was a bird instead!
Farmer Kylie chewing on some hay!
Happy girl!


Ky's big bro's taking care of her!
Starting to get bored!!

Kylie did NOT like the wagon! She even swung a leg over trying to get out!
OOOhhhhh!
I LOVE this shot...if only she would smile! After taking this we got in trouble for putting Kylie in with the pumpkins! Apparently there is a non-existent sign that says "Do not sit on the pumpkins"...Hmmm, wonder how we missed that? :)
Not happy about picture time!
Kylie is permanently pointing!
Love this shot! I am starting to figure out how to shoot manually, and got just what I was attempting here! The hay looks so great in the background too!

The boys have had it!
Apparently it wasn't so fun for Ky either! She spent 15 minutes emptying and refilling my purse!
Daddy found our $20 pumpkin! :)
I am obsessed with this pic! I feel like it should accompany a story in the LA Times! :)


Friday, October 12, 2007

I'm Back!!

After a LONG break - due to the insane work it took to plan and pull-off Kylie's firts birthday - I am finally back! Check back soon to see the updates! In the meantime, I will leave you with the biggest thing that has happened since I last posted (note: this video is over a month old). Enjoy! Rachel