More California photos. (Thanks to Erin's camera)

Erin - Why do some of these pics have so much white space? (I'm no too keen on my photo editing skills)

The fastest Disneyland Trip Ever

Hangin' at the Disney trick or treat party.

Can you tell Elliot has been sucking on his binky? It made his mustache and beard look funny.

(I hate that it posts my pics out of order, but I have no patience to fix it so sorry if it bugs anyone else, but at least I got them on my blog at all.... )

What a wild weekend. Just a few weeks ago flight prices dropped pretty low and we jumped on the "Davis family trip to Disneyland" bandwagon. We flew in on Thursday morning went to Disneyland Thursday and Friday. Went to the Friday night Trick or Treat thing (which was awesome). Then hit up Seaworld on Saturday and flew back to Ohio Sunday morning. Whew....is anyone else exhausted?

The best part was we surprised everyone (except Erin & T.J.) No one knew we were coming and Erin just showed up in the middle of the group holding Elliot saying he was lost. It took a minute, but they realized quickly it was Elliot and started looking for J.R and I. FUNNY! Classic J.R. - He told me the only way we could go is if I promised to make it a surprise. I'm not big on surprises, but it got us to Disneyland so I'll put up with it.

Elliot loved Disneyland. He loved the characters and parades, had fun on the rides, and mostly loved just being with his cousins. Seaworld was a major hit too. He was totally captivated by the animal shows and loved looking at the fish through the glass. The only down fall was the major soaking we got during the Dolphin show. I felt like an abusive parent. We seriously got drilled and Elliot hated it. (thanks alot Erin for saving the seats right in the "soak zone" - JK. I would have felt wierd if we left seaworld without a bit of a wet booty :)

The plane flight to CA was exhausting. He was wild, and 5 hours on a tightly packed plane was less then desirable to a busy 16 mo old. He did not sleep on either flight till the last 5 minutes of the plane decending into California. Then we had to wake him just to get on a bus for 45 min trying to get to our hotel. (no he didn't sleep on the bus either) J.R. and I were beat. We put him down for a long nap before we even wanted to attempted the crazy disneyland scene. I'm pretty sure Elliot was exhausted and over stimulated for 3 straight days - (He has napped for about 6 hours each day since we got home) He had no choice but to pass out on the flights home. It was much more peaceful coming home. J.R. and I even got to watch a movie on one of the flights. Sweet!

Petting the Dolphins
I think this Dolphin was trying to eat him
Chilling at the Shamu show

Elliot and his Mickey sucker waiting in yet another LONG line.

(Notice his little monkey backpack. It was great. He could walk by himself and I could keep him within reach)

Riding the rides. Not sure how he felt about this one.

He mostly liked the ones with cool stuff to see. ie: pirates, buzz lightyear, tiki room etc...

Playing in Goofy's house

The flight to California. This is early on the first flight. I think Elliot can sense what is coming....Long restless hours.
The last 5 minutes...everyone around us thought it was pretty funny too.
Hooray, halloween in Mickeytown!

Waiting on a parade.

The gang: Kenz, Ty, Me, Elliot, Erin, Tanner, Shar, Carter, T.J, Andy

This was a fun spot. A little play ground in Goofy's back yard.

Disney & Seaworld video clips

Elliot loved the Playhouse Disney show. It has all his favorite morning Disney shows that we watch all the time. He dances to them in the morning so I wasn't surprised when he busted a move here. So cute!

This is the cutest ever. At any random moment Elliot would stop what he was doing and give Tanner a long hug. Good thing Tanner was okay with it because it happened several times a day. I guess he just needed a little love from his cousin he never gets to see.

This is the first show we saw at Seaworld. Look how cute Elliot is as he watches. He loves it! Even though he may not remember this trip, I will, and the memories are PRICELESS!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho!

Elliot refused to let me take his picture so this is the best I could get. Luckily Halloween is a bit away so we'll have more chances to capture his cuteness. We're trying to get him to say Yo Ho, but no success yet. He seems to have a mind of his own...he won't do much on command, but I catch him doing it by himself later. I wonder where he gets that stubborn side of him???...Hmm...

16 Month update:

He is eating much better. Still hates noodles and bread, but will eat veggies if covered in something tastey. Chicken nuggets are still his fav!

He kicks his soccer ball around every once and a while and is trying to learn to catch. I'm not an extremely patient teacher so our learning sessions are short lived. I told J.R. it's his job anyway :) Hopefully santa brings him a mini basketball hoop for Christmas!

He babbles like crazy, but still no official words. He does say "Uh-oh" when something falls or if I say it.

He climbs on EVERYTHING and then thinks it's fun to jump off. Fortunatly I'm there to save the day, but one of these times he's not going to be so lucky and we're going to have a broken bone on our hands. I have to watch him like a hawk.

He sings in the back seat of the car. Of course not the words and not nessesarily the notes, but still sings along anyway. So cute!

He climbs up to the "big slide" and goes down all by himself.

He points at EVERY airplane he hears or sees and sometimes mistakes the trains for airplanes and points to the sky looking everywhere. Maybe he'll be a pilot someday?

He's totally comfortable with guys. He'd go to any random guy before a girl anyday. He's not afraid of strangers either.....I know, not good. But it is nice that he's okay going to our friends and even better when I have to leave him to go to work. We'll have to teach "stranger danger" early on.

He loves reading, raisins and rocks and most of all his MOMMY!!!

Go Columbus Crew!

Our friends: Mike and Elizabeth Hess

(I think Beth looks like Bergen, she acts a lot like her too)

Last night we got to go to a Columbus Crew game. It was awesome! Especially because we got to see David Beckham play. Ooohhh, he's so dreamy :) You can see him pretty well in this video.

We had a great time and wish we would have thought to go to more games before now.

THE COLUMBUS CREW ROCK!

More apples please

Here's a little flick from our adventures in the apple orchard.

Pick, Pick, Picking!!!

Today we woke up and headed out to the farm to pick us some crunchy apples. Along with all the apples we could eat and a huge bag of apples to take home, we took a tractor ride around the farm. We had such a good time. Elliot loved the apples. He always had one in his mouth. He was covered in apple juice by the time we were headed home. I can't believe just last year we were out there carrying our little man in his bjorn and now he was running around like he owned the place. Time flies when you're having fun! It was great hangin with the Johnsons, I feel like we never get to see those guys. They are such great friends and always up for a good time!

Me, Elliot and the sweet tractor

Elliot trying his best to tackle an apple almost as big as his head

Cutest kids ever! Elliot, Landon and McKay

Our fam

The awesome Johnsons!

Our loot! The apples are amazing! Yummmy!!!!

On the tractor ride

Sweetest pic ever! Elliot and his daddy!

Dad and son enjoying the ride

More tractor riding

Pumkins galore (is that how you spell that?) Cute, nonetheless :)

Elliot's reading moment

The other day Elliot jumped up into our "reading" chair and started reading to himself. It was so cute, I had to grab the camera and try to catch it. His face at the end is to die for! Maybe I'm biased, but he is such a cutie pie!

Money Maker

We finally figured out how we're going to retire....... Elliot is a natural. He's a whiz at the piano and was shouting orders on how to make the recording better. We're going to take him to hollywood and he'll record music for all the top stars and we'll make MILLIONS.....HA HA HA HA!!! (evil villian laugh)

Costume dilema

J.R. made me whip out our camera as we drove past these guys last sunday because this is something that will always remind us of Ohio, and since this could be our last halloween here we thought we'd capture it on film.
These guys walk up and down the street in the strangest costumes everyday trying to get you to go to the halloween express store. I finally did go into the store and they do have TONS of costumes. You could definitly find anything in there. Elliot loved the figures that made noise or moved when you made noise by them - so he went around the store clapping his hands to see if things would move. Aren't they supposed to be scary? To me yes, to my husband and apparently my son, I guess not.
I'm still not sure what to dress Elliot up as for halloween. We're going to a party so we all need costumes. I wanted J.R. Elliot and I to sort of "match" or at least have something in common (ie: Becca and Pauls little red riding hood get up or Liz and Pat's super hero gear or of course Kev and Kaths mummy extravaganza - although I'm not that into dressing up, so the less work the better) Any ideas?
WHAT SHOULD WE BE FOR HALLOWEEN?

YOU WERE RIGHT!!!

Thank you everyone for your comments......You were RIGHT!

I did it, I bought a bike (well, J.R. bought it for me as my early bday present) and I LOVE IT! It makes our day so fun and is a great way to get exercise while entertaining a child. Awesome! I got a little trailer to pull Elliot behind which he doesn't LOVE just yet (actually he can only last a few minutes before he feels trapped and wants out) but we're building up time and it's much better when he has a friend in there with him.

So, here's to my health and weight loss goals! (cheers)

ps: I got the bike at 5% over cost just for asking for last years model...sweet deal - sweet bike!

Fun at the park with dad!

This is just too cute.

J.R. thinks Elliot is one of his mice in his lab...set the bait and wait for the results.

ps: Happy Birthday Elder Diesel. We love you!!!!

A "BOWL" lot of fun ( He he he!)

Not sure why he loves to do this, but he does.
He digs in the cupboard till he finds this bowl then just hops inside. Maybe it feels like the womb? Hmmm....could be.
Anyway, he's cute and makes me laugh!

Tucked inside

Getting out always seems to be harder than getting in

Sometimes he gets stuck here and whines for help

Nope, this one was a success!

Congrats Elliot you made it in and out without a scratch and boy it was FUN!

Labor Day Fun - long story, watch out!

It was so nice to have J.R. home with us all day. After Elliot's morning nap we took off with the Clement's to Alum Creek. It's a pretty big lake with beach similar to Bear Lake. Elliot loved the water (no surprise) and unfortunatly loved to eat the sand. Maybe that's why he threw up that night...(that comes later).
Along with the fun in the sun we also had an intersting encounter with our friends south of the border. As we were setting up our little space on the beach and J.R. was getting out the video camera to take some shots of the lake there was a little posse of mexies that wondered over and just hoovered right by our stuff. They weren't watching anyone and didn't even sit down. Just hoovered, sneekily looking back at our bag with our camera's in it. J.R. noticed right away and staked his spot on the chair to keep an eye. Once I noticed J.R wasn't being very social and saw the posse I told him to just take all our valuables back to the car so we don't have to worry about it. - It has now been about 2 hours and these guys are still standing and hoovering - J.R. then packs up and heads for the car. I watch the posse and sure enough they turn right around and following out to the parking lot. AAAHHH....I start to get all nervous wondering just how far these guys would go to get a camera, so I followed right behind them. They watched from the curb as J.R. walked to the car. I figured they would probably try to break into the car as soon as he left so I signaled to J.R. to get in the car and drive around for a minute. The posse finally walked over to the rest of their gang and a few minutes later J.R. came back to the beach having parked the car further away and in plain sight of lots of people. Whoosh he was safe!
We played for a bit longer then headed back to the car to go home. As we were walking to the car I noticed that pretty much the whole beach was covered in Mexi-fries. I wonder if they would have helped the posse or us if things had gotten messy? Luckily we left the beach with everything we came with and we were safe. Not too great an impression for my first time to the Creek. Huh.

After an adventurous day at the beach & another nap for the boys we headed to the Clippers baseball game. It was dime-a-dog night and seats were pretty cheap. We each got 5 hotdogs for a dime each dog. Logan scarfed down about 5 on his own and Elliot wouldn't even lick one. Go figure, best friends and completely opposite appetites. The game was crowded, but the fireworks at the end made it worth it.

Over all it was a great day. Glen and Sarah are a blast to hang out with! Let's do it again guys, you ROCK!
-Oh yeah, about the barf....when we were about a mile away from home Elliot threw up EVERYWHERE! All over him, his car seat, the diaper bag that happened to be wide open under his feet, and the back of the seat. Nasty. Poor baby. I felt terrible. It was almost 2 hours past his bed time and it had been a very busy day. He hadn't eaten anything all day so I'm surprised there was anything in his stomach. He must have felt bad all day. So sad!

At the baseball game

The Clements

Watching the fireworks