The Little One

Normally, that title might suggest that you were about to get another update on Kyle and his travels through his little, toddler life. But, no. Not this time. Once again, this one is in reference to the other little one whom we have yet to meet in person.

I’m not going to take up much of your time with a bunch of writing, but I thought that perhaps those of you who don’t have an opportunity to be nearby might like to see some video of the peanut-sized, latest soon-to-be-an-addition to our family. I will take a moment, however, to make one quick disclaimer regarding the quality of the cinematography. It should be understood that I am not a professional camera-man and therefore I have not trained myself to always keep in mind the quality (read that as “aim”) of the image as my preference tends to be to view events through my own eyes. This can, at times, have a less than desirable effect on how well the camera is aimed at the intended target.

Base Jumping

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the sport of base jumping, this is essentially a sport that involves jumping off of very high place that are not airborne. This would include such things as cliffs and tall buildings. Typically a parachute of some type is involved as not doing so would be far more dangerous than the sport already is.

Kyle recently decided to start practicing, though on a much smaller scale, his own style of base jumping. This was not something he came up with on his own, however. His cousin, Nathan, was instrumental in “helping” him learn this concept as Nathan loves jumping off of things, too.

Cars

Here's the boys with Lightning McQueen and Mater.

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Disney Railroad

Kyle on the Disneyland Railroad. This kid does love trains!

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Disney California Adventure Parade

Friday afternoon, we headed over to Disney's California Adventure theme park for the parade. We managed to find a good location with available benches so we could all sit down and relax...at least while we waited.



The boys did great and I think they really liked the parade. It was very cute.



The first thing we saw was the float with the characters from the upcoming Disney Pixar movie, "Up." That was the way the parade was getting kicked off. What we didn't realize was that it would be about 20 to 30 minutes later before then next float came. We almost started to wonder if that was the entire parade and it was over.

Catching Bubbles

Kyle and Pop Pop catching bubbles after the parade at California Adventure theme park. I'll post the parade pics later. Too many to send from Blackberry.

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A Boy of Many Hats

We stopped at the Disney store and tried on some hats. Some stayed on long enough to get pictures. Others...well...not so much.

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The Disney Dixieland Band

Playing some of the old standards. Very refreshing to know this music is still being kept alive!

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Indiana Jones

This is what happened to the last guy who looked into the forbidden eye!

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Thunder Mountain

Fixin' to get on the Thunder Mountain Railroad. Too bad Kyle ain't here. He loves trains.

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Casey Jr.

Kyle loves riding the Casey Jr. Train!

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It's Morning

Here's the Lehmans with the Disney topiaries in fron of the hotel.

We are officially on our way to the park.

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The Disneyland Brigade

Shortly after arrival in Downtown Disney, we caught up with everyone to figure out dinner.

Good luck finding seats for this many people!

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Disneyland

Well, we made it to Disneyland! While here, I'm going to try something
new...live blogging our trip via Blackberry.

I've never live blogged before, much less from a Blackberry. So we'll see
how this goes.

TTFN!

Our Little Larva

It’s probably a good thing Kyle can’t read quite yet. If he could, he might start getting a bit jealous that his yet-to-be-born sibling is already getting a lot of attention here on the blog. It makes me wonder, if we’re posting regular pictures of the baby starting at the embryonic stage, does this indicate that we will avoid that “second child lack of pictures” thing that many families seem to go through?

How often I hear about parents who take bazillions of pictures of the first child, hundreds of their second, maybe a few of the third and any children after that tend to only be found in group photos. Maybe we won’t be like that. Maybe we’ll just have so many pictures that we’ll have to look at buying disk space on an Internet hosting site with unlimited storage. Actually, that’s not a bad idea. It’s pretty cheap and you can usually include the cost of your own domain name. But I digress.

Funny Story

Well, I say “funny” although it could also be “scary.” It was just that kind of funny. Not really the “Ha-ha” kind, but the “OMG!” kind. Though I write about it with tongue firmly planted in cheek, if the situation were reversed, I’d be freaking out like you wouldn’t believe.

By now, you’re probably thinking I should finish qualifying things and just tell you what happened. Ok. You’re the loyal reader. Therefore, you’re the “customer” in this situation. So, here you are…

The Latest Tadpole

Well, it's official. We have a tadpole!

I've been avoiding this topic on the blog during the last few weeks because this is generally the type of news that I prefer to share with most family and friends via phone call or in person when possible. However, there may be some out there to whom this will be news. If you are that person, I can say with a fair amount of certainty that I probably at least tried to call you and tell you about it before you learned about it this way.