The Amelioration

Last weekend we went to Santa Barbara for the day. We spent a few hours at the zoo, which is one of my favorite zoos. It overlooks the ocean and a lot of the exhibits are open and you walk through them. Check out the prime piece of property this giraffe has in the collage. You get to be so close to the animals and the landscaping is genius. I highly recommend it to anyone who goes up there. The weather was perfect so after we headed to the beach. Amelia is funny about being dirty. She wouldn't cross this line of dried out seaweed for about 5 minutes. Finally after she figured out no one was going to come and get her, she screamed as she tippy-toed across it. Then she refused to put her feet on the sand so she sat in this position until finally crawling on top of me where not one inch of her was touching the ground. When it was time to go sit on Phil's lap, she walked to the end of my feet and jumped to Phil's leg as if the sand were hot lava. I know I say this all the time, but seriously, Amelia is definitely a city girl.

Amelia comes in our bed in the morning when she wakes up at 6 and goes back to sleep only if she is being snuggled. This particular morning she was so squirmy and started to cry. I asked her what her problem was and she responded, "I need more room. I'm falling off the bed". Look closely. Not only is she not falling off the bed, she has my pillow!!! And people wonder why I am so exhausted half the time. I think I need my own bed.

I'm sorry, but is this not the cutest baby you have ever seen?? And I am trying to figure out his eye color. I used the eye dropper (picks the color of whatever you touch for the non-techies) on his eyeball to make the background color of this collage. Seems like grey to me.