- Sat, Oct 31, 2009 /
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At the VERY end of September, Kae's cousin (actually dear friends of the family - and family at heart) arrived in Irvine to belatedly celebrate Aunt Debi's birthday and go to Mickey's Halloween Party at Disney's California Adventure. The two little girls dressed as butterflies for the Halloween Party - they were SOOO adorable! Debi & I got some amazing pictures of them of course! We also spent some time at Disneyland, which of course was all dressed up for the holiday!! It was a wonderful weekend. We also took the girls to the Pumpkin Patch at Irvine Park Railroad. The girls had a wonderful time, and Kaelynn picked out a pumpkin just her size - she kept calling it her baby pumpkin, it was so cute! The weather cooperated and was not too cold, we even got to go to the pool and do a BBQ one evening!
At the end of the week, right after Debi, Travis, and Allyssa left Mom & Dad arrived from AZ to spend some time here with us and go to San Diego to see the Lion King. A surprise that my sister, Haidee, and I had cooked up when we saw that the show was traveling to San Diego. They arrived on the 9th of October. They stayed at the Candlewood Suites down the street - so that Dad didn't have to climb 3 flights of stairs to the apartment day after day! We went out to eat at some of our favorite places - The Yardhouse (which actually lost our business that night as they never brought Paul's entree!!! Though the company was delightful!) That weekend, we attempted to take them to Disneyland, along with Haidee, but Dad was having trouble, so we ended up just heading home and hanging at the hotel and watching a movie instead. We took them for lunch to the best Mexican place in town, a family run business called El Cholo - YUM!
We just spent lots of time playing and hanging out at the hotel for the beginning of the week. It was nice and laid back. Mom sat in and observed our Speech Therapy session with Christian on Wednesday, and then we loaded up the car and headed for San Diego! We stayed at Beth & Al's house - since Haidee and Marek are still in the apartment while their house is being remodeled. It was nice to have the big house to ourselves!!!
Thursday afternoon, Aunt Kalin came and picked up little Kaelynn for an afternoon of fun at Amber's soccer practice and playtime. Apparently she was a big hit - trying to warm up with the girls and running all over the soccer field! She was completely worn out and fell asleep on Kalin's couch before we arrived to pick her back up! The Lion KLing was amazing (again) - as this time we had seats right in the orchestra area - so the animals walked right past us during the procession in! And Kaelynn was of course her usual well behaved self for Kalin, so all in all it was a great night!
Mom & Dad left to head back to AZ the following Monday afternoon, and I went back to getting ready for actual Halloween. We went to our first ever Melting Pot Moms event in Ladera Ranch on Sunday the 25th - Kaelynn went as her butterfly again. She had a blast! It was wonderful meeting the new group of Moms, Dads, and kids. It is a really nice group of people.
On Friday, the 30th - we went Trick-or-Treating at Blizzard. They have a 2 hour event for the families & kids of their employees - and boy do they know how to do it up right!!! Kaelynn wore her Kiki the Witch dress (it's first official showing for Halloween) and EVERYONE loved it! They all knew who she was too - so I was excited! She collected a TON of candy, and had lots of fun running around the halls of Blizzard!
The 31st was Halloween - Kaelynn's favorite night of the year - hands down her favorite holiday! She was super excited all day long and kept asking if it was time to get into Kiki and go Trick-or-Treating yet! We finally got her dressed, and headed over to Celeste's house around 5pm