Hi! Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. I swear I tried but between me locking myself out of my laptop (I blame the computer) and having to endure a two-hour drive to Manzanita with Doc, (who screamed for 99.99999% of the drive), there hasn’t been much time for peace and quiet. Wait, you went on a two-hour drive?, you ask. And what was that about Manzanita? That’s right. I went on vacation!

My grandparents, uncle, parents, siblings, and I went to Manzanita. Doc had having a blast! From picking up shells, to running away from freezing water, to yelling at 5:00 AM in the morning because he was just too excited to start the day, please excuse me if you see a typo. I am still half asleep. In our rented beach house there was an arcade room with a basketball game, foosball, and a few video games.

Every day we went to the beach. At first sand was on Doc’s number one enemy list, but now he loves building sand castles, making wet sand, and flinging it at people while digging for treasure.

It was also my Uncle’s birthday a few days ago! He is a pizza-making, game-building, prank-pulling master. Doc has loved celebrating birthdays in the past, but nothing compares to the fun he had on this birthday, helping Uncle Jakey unwrap gifts, playing with balloons, being a big help at finishing the desserts, and playing with balloons. OH! And playing with balloons. Doc has a few things to say to Uncle Jakey…

And this is him playing with balloons:

Here are a few more pictures of Doc:

Before this post gets too long I have one more thing to share with you. Doc recently showed how skilled he is a reading!

I would just like to note that the book that Doc was holding was a parenting novel owned by my parents

-Grace

P.S. As a challenge, my Aunt and Uncle gave my family the challenge of creating a video of our vacation and turn it into a mini-movie. The only twist… We got to pretend that we were in Hawaii…

Doc has been playing the cutest baby card all day, and you can’t say no to this face!

Or this one!

When you ask him to smile that is his response. While I was sitting on the couch with the family iPad, Doc came and cuddled up next to me which automatically turned on “take pictures and videos of everything mode” and when I hit the “start video” button he said this:

He also proved today that he isn’t planning to pounce on Millie and I think Millie decided to stand down on Doc because this picture definitely shouts: I WUV YOOO MIWIE MOOZLES! and I think it also shouts HAVING A PUPPY AND A TODDLER HUDDLED UNDER ONE ROOF ISN’T SUCH A BAD IDEA WHILE UNDER QUARANTINE! Don’t listen to the overly talkative picture! It is a bad idea!!!!!!! But this is the proof that Doc and Millie will tolerate each other:

Even though pictures are super talkative these days, I think this picture is worth seeing and listening too. Even Mom and Doc had some quality time to cook together!

Also, a week ago, Doc, Hazel, and I went on a treasure hunt which he really enjoyed! There are 3 parts! I hope you like it!

To end this post on a high note I am going to stop here. I hope you had fun reading this post!

-Grace

About six years ago, my family and I went to Disneyland. To me it was heaven. But for Hazel…not so much.

I remember riding the tower of terror, and splash mountain.

This is me on the tower of terror in all of my terrified glory:

And on splash mountain:

Like I said, I loved Disneyland. I would live there if I could and to this day I remember the headboard on the bed at the Disneyland hotel. Hazel and I thought it was the most fascinating thing in the world: A light-up picture of Disneyland!

As much as I loved the characters, Hazel hated them. I would go up to each and every character and hug all of them, whereas this was Hazel’s reaction to not just the characters but almost everything else:

These are the photos of my infinite amount of love for the characters that, now, when I look back at them, might just haunt my nightmares.

Eventually, Hazel found out that the Merry-go-round (or Carousel if any of you are picky) was barely slow enough but bearable, so she and my mom went round and round. She also had a passion for Autopia and Hazel and my mom, who made a pretty good team, bumped around on the tracks for hours on end

That about sums up my trip to Disneyland. I hope you had as much fun reading this post as I had writing it!

-Grace

I have so much to tell about Doc and Millie. First of all, Millie has found some pretty odd rooms to sleep in…

And…

She also was being super weird and going crazy on the couch last night!

There are two videos of Doc that are super funny and you HAVE to see them!

I hope you like this post and like all other posts, this one must come to an end. If you want to see any embarrassing baby stories about me and/or Hazel, feel free to request one. My dad’s blog has more baby stories than I can count.

-Grace

P.S. I just heard about a kid that saved his sister from a dog attack! Chris Evans, who plays Captain America in the Marvel Universe, zoomed with him to tell him how brave he was! This is the link to the video of Chris Evans talking to him: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/entertainment/little-boy-saves-sister-dog-attack-anne-hathaway-trnd/index.html

P.P.S. I was reading my Dad’s blog and found this hysterical video of me and Hazel explaining Christmas and thought you would enjoy! As a four year old (this was taken in 2012) I was very knowledgeable about Christmas.