catch up

i still like staying up late, with my boys sleeping near by. it makes me feel like i'm still on maternity leave. evan is still sleeping in our bed...and dylan is still in his crib. not sure when we're going to start making the transition to other options. i still have our europe trip as a goal to transition evan into the crib, but dylan needs to be out first. who knows.

i didn't get a chance to write about the trip down to socal before work. it was probably the longest trip for me to LA in a very long time. i'm always torn when i go back. it's great to see friends whenever possible, but it makes me sad to see our house so run down and old. the bedrooms are drafty, the bathrooms need to be updated, i mean dad has clear duct tape holding the paint together in the downstairs bathroom. it makes me sad. but it's so nice for the boys to spend time with puo-puo and gong-gong, and i'm sure they like to be in their own element. dylan was a little bit sick prior to the trip, and successfully contaminated the entire family. evan was sick (his case was pretty mild), i became sick, but my parents (mom who was sick earlier from dylan) had it the worse, along with brian. dad had a high fever and went to the doctor, a few days in, but had a lingering cough for weeks. Brian seemed sick for almost a month as well, finally going to kaiser to get some meds near the the end of Feb. we stayed in san diego for an extra night to let my parent's recover.

highlights:
-wandering through target with kathy and christine, after meeting for dinner and picking up some coffee
-visiting with Cindy at her home in seal beach
-experiencing legoland with the boys
-model train museum

low-lights:
-everyone becoming sick
-dylan not into the zoo that much, and getting fixated with the train outside the park
-dylan melting down at the scripps aquarium (at lunch, and then not wanting to wash his hands afterwards)
-the westin at the gaslamp district (a bit too urban for my taste, with the concierge eyeing vagrants coming into the hotel to watch the superbowl)

everyone was sick and low-energy the last few days of my leave. it was all pretty mellow and low key, which was i guess ok. i focused on getting rest and working out. losing this weight is a full time job, which of course is interrupted with my full time job. and that will be another post.