Week 17: Happy Belated Easter

Happy (belated) Easter!  Hope everyone had a fun weekend.  We definitely did!  I had a three day weekend which worked out so well since Missy flew in Thursday night.  It was a whirlwind though, wish we had more time off!

Missy arrived, yay!

While Missy got ready on Good Friday, Leif had some tummy time with toys.  He's developing his motor skills so quickly!

Then I took Missy and Leif to The Grove, a very chic outdoor mall and Farmer's Market where there are lots of celebrity sightings.  We thought it would be fun to have Leif take pictures with the Easter Bunny there, and I don't know why I thought there would be no one there...but the line was epic.  We ended up buying See's chocolate bunnies and creatively taking photos of Leif with them...heehee.

At the Farmer's Market while eating lunch

Such a happy baby

First "Easter" photo of Leif

So I forgot to mention...usually when we leave Miles at home, we put him in his crate.  Since he's getting older, we decided to try and leave his crate door open since we were going to be gone for a few hours.  When we got home, he was still in his crate!  It looked like he had come out and jumped on the couch, but that was it.  Hooray for our good pup, he got a treat!

We decided to take photos of Leif with all his bunny things just for fun...

At first we tried sitting him up against the couch, but he kept falling over/getting fussy, so I held him

Then we moved to the bed.  :)

Happy baby with his new bunny from Aunt Missy!

The next morning Leif woke us up at 7:30am on the dot, but at least he was a happy baby.

After much debate on what to do (hubs had the weekend off!), we finally decided to go to the LA Renaissance Pleasure Faire.  Hubs wasn't too ecstatic about it once we got there, but overall I had a fun time.

Entrance

Wicker Man?!  We were waiting for Nicholas Cage to pop out...

Leif was definitely a tired baby when we returned home.  When I went to check up on him later that night, he was wildly inappropriate...

Somehow Leif always flips us off while sleeping.

Since Missy had to leave on Sunday and LAX is so far south of us, we decided to take Miles and Leif to their first beach trip ever.  There is a large dog beach in Long Beach and had a lot of fun there!

Miles moved of course when I tried to take a photo, but he was laying on Missy's arm.  And can you see Leif sleeping? He's doing a much better job on car rides!

A very happy Miles frolicking on the beach

Leif's first steps in the ocean! (well, second-hubs had him in the ocean first)

Leif in the ocean!

Miles didn't like the water, so hubs of course getting him acclimated to the water even more.  Not a fan.

Tired Leif on Aunt Missy after the beach

 And again, once we got home Leif was definitely tired out from the long excursion.

Overall, a very fun weekend with Missy!  Already miss her, such a great sister.  Now I'm at work and since there are no classes, the campus is super quiet.  Only one faculty member in today which means I'm leaving early (he's really nice and letting me go).  I can't wait to see Leif!  Hope he's been a good boy this morning.