Lia was amazed at this- it was pretty cool. It is this big glass room/tube sort of a thing that you go and stand in and then they release a wave to crash over the glass.

There was this exhibit that had these brightly colored things in it, and they reminded me of the movie Avatar when they are running through the forest and everything is glowing. I thought James Cameron was so amazing that he had conceived a world like that... but I don't know. After I saw this ocean exhibit I realized that maybe he just copied it from under the ocean... :)

The sardines are my favorite, they are just amazing to watch

Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Cluff's were visiting Halloween weekend and on Monday, they had some extra tickets to the MBA, which we excitedly took advantage of. Lia and Davy really loved the aquarium, and I'd forgotten how ridiculously incredible the aquarium is. It is amazing.

Yesterday Lia was sitting next to me on the couch, thumbing through a children's baby book. It was full of pictures of babies, balls and other assorted stuff. One of those 'First Baby Books'. She got to the pages where it showed ten babies of all shapes and sizes crawling. She bent down, studied them and then looked up at me.

"Mommy, can I use my imagination and go into this book and hold one of these babies?"

I just sort of gaped at her.

Apparently Chris had told her a few weeks ago that you can use your imagination to go into books, but I was still shocked she remembered it, let alone thought about it enough to vocalize it. She's such a smart chicky.

David's speech has just taken OFF.

His favorite thing right now is to pretend a Bear is behind the car. Or the door. Or just behind you. Yesterday I was snoozing on the couch, and David was pushing his little cars around. Through my sleepy haze I heard:

"Oh NO! A BEAR! Run everyone, RUN! Its coming to get you. Oh my gosh. A bear! Coming to eat you. Run."

Then a few seconds later, a little quiet voice said sadly, "Got me. I dying."

Um... not sure where he picked up on THAT concept...

Lia has also discovered the concept of lying. The joys. Yesterday she came upstairs and her hands and leg were covered in green. Could have been paint. I looked at it and asked if it was from downstairs. She said no, it was from school. I didn't remember seeing it before but I brushed it off. I did ask her a few more times though where she got it from and she replied school.

We went downstairs and I found the food coloring on the table, with a couple nice puddles underneath the table. I turned to her, intent on telling her exactly why she shouldn't lie.

"LIA. Did you lie to me about the green?!"

Lia gulped and said quickly, "I LOVE YOU MOMMY!"

She did get time out for lying though.