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12/23/2003 | Yesterday, we traveled to Vista to visit Grandma Luene and Grampa Norm for Christmas. Today, we visited Great-Grandma Mabel. Here I'm performing a dance for her. Click here for a quicktime movie of my dance. |
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12/23/2003 | After the dance, I got to play with Great-Grandma Mabel's bears. Click here for a close up of the bears. |
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12/23/2003 | Then we went to the Birch aquarium at Scripps to wait for Cousins Greg and Jill. Here, Daddy and I got eaten by a shark! |
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12/23/2003 | After we met Cousins Greg and Jill, we went down to the ocean to look in tide pools. Today was an especially low tide, so it would be good. |
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12/23/2003 | On the way to the tide pools, we came across a rock that had a lot of shells on it. Daddy couldn't resist photographing it. |
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12/23/2003 | Here I am posing in front of some rocks on the beach. See those gulls? Daddy was fascinated by them. |
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12/23/2003 | Daddy took a long time to photograph this one. |
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12/23/2003 | Here I am with Cousin Greg checking out the waves. |
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12/23/2003 | Finally, we got to the tide pools, which were nestled in the rocks behind us. |
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12/23/2003 | Here Daddy and I are checking out the seaweed. |
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12/23/2003 | And Cousins Jill and Greg are checking the rocks for creatures. |
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12/23/2003 | We found all sorts of fun animals, like this chiton.... |
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12/23/2003 | ...mussels, limpets, and barnacles.... |
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12/23/2003 | ...and sea anemones. |
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12/23/2003 | After looking at the tide pools, it was time to head back. But not before Daddy and I played on the rocks. Click here for a close up. |
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12/23/2003 | It was getting dark and it was definitely time for us to go back. Grandma Luene and I led the way. |
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12/23/2003 | There was no better way to top off the tide pooling than to go out to dinner. Here we are at Rock Bottom, which is the same restaurant we have in Boulder. |
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12/24/2003 | Today, we brought the live Christmas tree in to decorate. Here, Daddy is helping me put the angel on top. |
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12/24/2003 | While Mommy and Daddy finished decorating the tree, I played with the ornaments. Here, I'm lining them up. |
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12/24/2003 | And taking them out to a picnic. |
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12/24/2003 | Here is the Christmas tree all decorated. I'm pretending the be the present -- that is what Daddy said I am to him. |
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12/24/2003 | Also in the box of decorations was this Santa hat. It just fits! |
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12/24/2003 | Look! It helps me ride Daddy the reindeer. |
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12/24/2003 | On Christmas eve, Mommy and Daddy let me open one present. |
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12/24/2003 | It's pajamas! I wonder why they want me in new pajamas? |