From the Mountains to the Sea

Our month of recent travels started the last weekend of July when we went up to the Kelly cabin in Truckee. We enjoyed the cool weather, hung out with Eliot's parents, brother and his girlfriend, and aunt and uncle, and ate some yummy food! The awesome thing about Grandparents is that they just can't keep their hands off a grandbaby...and this lets a Mommy and Daddy do things like read on the couch, go to the bathroom alone...all kinds of crazy things!

No baby bathtub, so Ty and Eliot shared a bathtime!

Grandpa and Ty

Views from the cabin...beautiful!

Eliot speaks to Ty only in Japanese with the hope that Ty will be able to speak back to him in Japanese some day! The cabin is home to many of Eliot's and Vincent's childhood books, so Eliot went through them and found a few to read to Ty. This one was a Japanese alphabet book and Ty was surprisingly quiet and attentive while Eliot read it!

A different sort of tummy time.

 The following weekend we ventured to Monterey (thanks Dad and Maria!!) as an early third anniversary trip. When we told people where we were going, they immediately asked if we were taking Ty. When we said we were, most people offered sympathy. But with our current schedule, we welcomed the opportunity to spend time together....particularly with Ty! Running a martial arts school keeps us hopping so time together is valuable! Traveling with a 3 month old meant we were on baby schedule, but we're always on baby schedule so no worries there. Eliot and I talked ahead of time about how we would enjoy relaxing together after Ty fell asleep, but Eliot fell asleep when Ty did so even though I didn't get to have hubby time, I got to read in bed and sometimes that's a treat, too :)

Ty's first trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium

I wondered how much he would get out of an aquarium trip at 3 months old, but he LOVED looking at everything in the big tanks!

Biiiig fish!

Loving being on Daddy!

Whale Watching

Slept through most of it, including the whale we saw! But woke up to have a blowout diaper, of course. You haven't lived until you've changed a diaper and an outfit on a table in not-so-clean room of a rocking boat!

Happy Anniversary!

Had to slip this cute picture in!