We woke up this morning to HOT weather! Finally. It has been an uncharacteristically dreary summer here and the Santa Anas have finally kicked up (seasonal winds from the east) bringing all that hot desert air out to the beach. While most of the rest of the country is pulling out their sweaters and peacoats, we’re finally pulling out our swimsuits and sunblock. Unfortunately, this also means fire season is upon us here in socal, but with no real forest to speak of in the densely populated LA basin, that doesn’t effect us much. It did smell like a camp fire all over LA county last year with the Tower Fire, but that’s as bad as it got.
We met our friends, the Mellers, in Hermosa for a little breakfast on the strand. Their son Luke is in Tucker’s class at daycare and they are becoming THE destructive duo! We had time for short walk along the beach with all the health nuts and had a great time. The boys fell asleep while I walked off some of the carne asada and eggs I had for breakfast.
Tucker and I came back to do a little napping and sweating outside to finish out the afternoon.
Tucker went to school for the first time yesterday. It was really difficult… for Ben and I. From what I heard Tucker cried a bit in the morning and then had fun as long as a teacher was with him. (This guy is all about the attention).
The first three pictures are from our initial visit two weeks ago. You can see Tucker and Luke playing together too, although “playing” at this age is just being in the general vicinity of each other.
This picture was taken right before we left for school on his first day. Ben makes that exact same face when he’s anxious.
Tucker and i took a walk around the park and the little man LOVED IT. Once we finished threading the crowds of old women cooing over my attractive son, we made it over to the playground but there weren’t many kids playing on a wednesday night. So we kept moving and took a leisurely stroll around our new neighborhood, snapping some pics along the way.
Yeah, some of these pictures look pretty similar, but I just couldn’t decide!
This is the favorite time of evening.
Sunday morning we went to breakfast and were surprised to see my friend/co-worker Holly along with her husband and boy Luke. Luke goes to the school Tucker will start at in a few weeks. You can see they’re already thinking of all the trouble they’re going to cause.
Tucker is a very very active baby. About the only time he sits still is when he’s nomming on something. His first food was a cucumber. Not the one pictured below, we’ll upload that video soon. But here you can see his noms go from the edible to the not so edible.
Once Tucker discovered the sand at Beach Yoga he was obsessed with it. I did not have much time to work on my half moon pose since he was intent on mastering his face plant pose.
