Since it has been over 6 months since I’ve written any updates, I’m going to give the major highlights for each month that has passed in order to catch up and, hopefully, get better about keeping current…

February 2013
We found our favorite kid-friendly outing! We became members of Kidspace Children’s Museum and we love it. It’s fun indoors and out and Jack always has a ball. Here he is discovering their indoor early learning area…

March 2013
Our favorite mode of transportation in March was via wagon ride! We took many walks around the neighborhood looking a lot like this…

R had his birthday, which meant breakfast in bed…

We also had fun on Easter! Kidspace hosted a huge egg hunt organized by age, which was awesome. Here is Jack finding eggs wearing his Easter best…

April 2013
Jack took his first steps shortly after his first birthday, but he then continued cruising furniture and walking with his push toys until he was close to 15 months old. He would walk short steps here and there, but he didn’t really go full force into walking until early April. It was just in time to watch all the big trucks coming and going when they repaved our street…

In April, he fell madly in love with his baseball hat and wouldn’t go anywhere without it, including breakfast in our kitchen…

In non-motherhood news, I was selected to be one of 5 apprentices to my company’s founder, Sheila Kelley, and we had our kick-off dinner at her house in April. Here we are just before we realized we’d talked and talked and talked until 11pm. I’ve come to cherish my fellow apprentices so much…

And I got to have a night out on the town to celebrate the bachelorette party for my friend, Alexis, which was really fun…

May 2013
May was filled with fun and celebration! First, on the 1st, we celebrated our 3-year anniversary! Can’t you tell how much my hubs loves it when I make him pose for a photo? And look at the thoughtful gift he gave me: a leather (for 3 years) wrist wrap bracelet. Perfect…

Jack was featured in a cute poster at his daycare which showed his focus and curiosity over how things work. They call him the little professor…

As a Mother’s Day gift to myself, I painted our bedroom, which brought me so much joy…

I got to go to Maui for another S Factor retreat, which was awesome. It was one of my favorite retreats to date. Here is the resort looking out to the water and a photo of all the teachers before the retreat started…

On the last evening, some of my fellow retreat teachers and I jumped off the rock that you can see in the first photo, which was so fun and exhilarating…

As if May wasn’t awesome enough already, I also got to celebrate my birthday! Some of my S friends planned a birthday dinner for me after a staff class. This turned out to be my favorite birthday celebration since moving to LA (which is 10 years ago now – what!?)…

And finally, May was the month that Jack first fell madly in love with pony rides…

June 2013
June got us out and about to explore fun local things to do! We visited Travel Town, where there are awesome old trains to walk through and other fun old moving vehicles…

We rode more ponies…

We hunted vintage car gatherings around town at which people are more than happy to let Jack sit in the driver’s seat…

And I attended the launch party for my friend’s new country/folk album at the House of Blues…

Her name is Jenny Weaver and you should download her album on iTunes or via her website www.jennyweavermusic.com

And that brings this long, super duper catch up to an end for now because it’s midnight and we haven’t yet convinced Jack to sleep in.
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