Getty Museum

Our friends April and Adam invited us along for a visit to the Getty Museum. It was a beautiful day and I tried to snap as many pictures as I could. It wasn't easy considering that I am the uptight mother of a toddler who likes to extend his boundaries and explore (climbing up walls, standing in streams, crawling through rock gardens, rearranging flower beds, etc).

Here are a few that I thought were worth sharing.

This is right before he started crawling up the rocky slope.

I tried to snap shots while he was looking at me. He was really on the move.

In the "Family Room" area of the Getty Museum we discovered some fun activities. The boys made masks and enjoyed parading around with them for a little while.

The photo below is of him taking a turn at illuminating some midieval text. The text is from a 15th century Book of Hours manuscript.

Finally, I couldn't pass up a view of Downtown LA and Westwood skyline.

Trains

I can't decide what caption to put on this picture. Maybe it says enough without a caption.

I love the new camera!

The Pink Panther Tribute

In honor of the upcoming release of Pink Panther 2, (or maybe just good timing) here is an English lesson:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

To celebrate the New Year, we watched the Rose Parade.
In order to get good seats we staked out our position New Years Eve at 10:30 am. We took turns during the day and night with some friends and kept ourselves busy playing games, snacking and reading.

Thanks to some friends (Gunns) watching our son over night, I was able to stay out and ring in the New Year with a Martinelli in a paper cup by the fire with my DH.

Finally morning came and we all anticipated the parade starting.

Pure joy!

The adults took turns holding our position for about 24 hours so that there would be room for our big group.


Here we are with Adam and Sam waiting for the parade to start.

Look Grandma!

Trains are the theme for this little boy's holiday season.


Hope everyone had a Happy New Year!