Messy Eater

Theo loves to dip his crackers in hummus

hummus face

he's also very good with his spoon now

squash face with one cheerio

The Busiest Boy

meeting Melissa's dog Gracie in Roxbury Park yesterday morning

Gracie was very sweet and patient with Theo

riding on a purple dinosaur

on a hike in Franklin Canyon with Franz and his family

Violeta's birthday party

learning how to use a chalkboard

Violeta's cat Simon

Solstice Canyon Hike

We went on a hike this morning in Malibu along the creek in Solstice Canyon.  Here are Forrest and Theo under some beautiful live oak trees.  

sitting on a boulder

we had lunch at some ruins

Theo played in a creek for the first time

splashing with a stick

at the waterfall

it's a good thing we brought spare clothes ... 

We were really surprised that Theo was able to walk almost a mile on the trail.  The man in the background of this photo showed us a Cooper's Hawk perched in an oak tree.

at the end of the hike

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Theo and Franz became LACMA members today through the free children's membership program.  Here they are with Franz's mom Julia outside the Pavilion for Japanese Art.  Their favorite things inside were a large terracotta horse and two stone lions.  

They loved artist Jesus Rafael Soto's outdoor sculpture Penetrabile made out of 20,000 feet of bright yellow plastic tubing.

At the edge of the tube forest.

They also loved Chris Burden's large kinetic sculpture Metropolis II and its complex web of steel tracks with miniature cars and trains whizzing around.  

The cars are zooming by so quickly that they are just a blur in the photograph.  Theo was mesmerized.  

Theo pushing an Eames shell chair around the LACMA courtyard.

High five!

Here is Theo playing the ukelele at Tano and Xavi's house earlier in the week.

Little Boys

Theo and his friends Ali and Conrad in our courtyard

Theo and Franz busy at work in a park in Culver City

Theo and Miles in coordinating hats

pointing in different directions

Megan's Visit

Theo was very happy to have a new friend staying with us for a few days this week.

Theo liked walking around in the outdoor courtyards and gardens at the Getty Villa in Malibu and he was surprisingly well behaved in the antiquities galleries.  

enjoying an outdoor statue that visitors are allowed to touch

The museum has a great children's room where you can build urns out of blocks,  decorate your own vases, and play with big Greek musical instruments and weapons made of foam. 

decorating our vase drawing at the Getty Villa children's room

putting on a show in the shadow theater with Greek props

playing in the sand at the beach playground in Santa Monica

on the swing at the beach

showing Theo the ocean up close for the first time

he was very interested in the waves but got scared when he went closer than this

we ran into these two friends on our way to the duck park at the Venice canals

Theo checking out another duck 

Megan now knows "Otis" by heart