My brother came to stay with us this past weekend and Henley was able to spend so much awesome quality time with his uncle. This visit also coincided with Alex having a week off work for fall break. We decided to take advantage of the free time and enjoy the city around us.
Destin arrived via train on Friday morning and we headed straight to the zoo! FYI, I can get somebody in for free with my pass, so if anybody wants a zoo day let me know. Henley went to his first petting zoo, but he was a little too afraid to touch the sheep. We crawled around and played in wood chips for a long time, and Destin nice enough to give Henley most of his ice cream cone. This kid is already a beggar.
Saturday morning my parents drove up and we went to a local pumpkin patch at Pierce College. The event was awesome but the weather was hot! We took Henley to another petting zoo, but this time he loved it. All the goats and sheep loved him too. They kept coming over and rubbing against him. We took a hayride, walked through a corn maze, ate kettle corn, and Destin and Alex raced up the rock wall. Such a fun day.
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| Na and Henley at the pumpkin patch. |
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| Henley made a new friend. |
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He sat for 20 minutes just playing with hay.
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Saturday night we decided to check out this German restaurant right across the street from our apartment. I had intentionally been avoiding it because it looked pretty sketchy from the outside, and I did not think Van Nuys would have a legit German restaurant. Boy was I wrong! This place was awesome. The place was fully decorated which Henley loved, customers were sitting at the bar in lederhosen, and they made traditional German pretzels. What more can you ask for? Oh yeah, and the chef, also in full lederhosen attire, got up and sang while we all toasted. And Henley even made a girlfriend who gave him her stein necklace. We will definitely be back!
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| Mama's boy eating his pretzel |
On Monday, Destin and I headed to Little Tokyo because I had never been and Destin likes everything Japanese. We had an awesome lunch, followed by tasty mochi ice cream. We also stopped and played in a bush outside the court house. If Henley doesn't get out of the carrier/stroller every 30 minutes or so he gets crazy fussy. I am always finding the smallest area of dirt in the city to put him in.
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| Henley pretty much ate half of this! haha |
Alex and I took Henley to the aquarium on Thursday. It was such a nice day and since it was a weekend the aquarium was pretty much empty. We just let Henley crawl around wherever he wanted. Being there really made me want to set up something at home. I know Henley would love it, but I am not sure how long we will live here and an aquarium is hard to transport.
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| Amazing |
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| Touching a bonnethead. |
I have the 11 month update completed, but I just need to take some pics. I can't believe that he will be a year old in 3 weeks. We are working hard around here getting ready for his big Disneyland trip and birthday party. I am so excited!
xoxoxo
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