Lego fun

Here’s Sebastian showing his newest Lego creation:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Short and sweet: photos are up!

Spoiling y’all

Two updates in a short span of time?! Crazy! It’s another short post, just to let you know that there are some new photos up from Sebastian’s field trip, Christmas program and general family fun times. Enjoy!

Happy Holidays!

A short post but one a few of you will (I think) appreciate. First we have Sebastian getting into the holiday spirit:

Next we have one from way back in November (at the old apartment) when Sebastian made his very own spaceship.

Enjoy!

‘nother video

Here’s a short video AM captured yesterday. Enjoy.

Then & Now

What a change 4 and 1/2 years makes…

Happy Birthday, America!

Sebastian says: “The fireworks were cool!”

I would have to agree. The show at the LA Coliseum is an hour long and has an amazing finale. AM & I were talking and neither of us can remember anything so grand from our childhood experiences. They started abruptly with a small, short barrage of the loud variety and I thought Sebastian was going to demand to leave immediately. But he stuck it out and by the end he was having a great time. Below is the grand finale of the event — not the best quality of video but you get the picture:

And there are some new pictures up, too.

A night out…

Last night they had a free event at the Japanese American Cultural Community Center (JACCC) in Little Tokyo and they showed the pilot episodes for Astro Boy (1963) and Gigantor (1964). The also showed the original Japanese version of Voltron, but decided to have a DJ create a live soundtrack, so it was a little disappointing. Still, we had a great time and enjoyed some veggie hot dogs from a cart, some ice cream from a truck, and some good anime from Japan. Woo hoo!

Trip to the pits

We made another trip to the La Brea Tar Pits yesterday and had a good time poking the tar and looking at the fossils. The helpful excavators working on project 23 directed us to an exceptionally gooey deposit that was bubbling up with the sticky stuff and AM & Sebastian were fascinated by it. That isn’t to say that I wasn’t, only that I tend to be a little clumsy and didn’t want to get too close, lest I become the latest victim of “the the tar tar pits.”

There are some photos of our day here and we’ll have some more this week as Sebastian is graduating from kindergarten TOMORROW! Check back soon!

Spiders… beware!

We made the trek to the spider pavillion at the Natural History Museum yesterday and I must say it was impressive. The crowds were much lighter than at the “Pavillion of Wings” exhibit, due both to a USC game at the stadium next door (I imagine, at least, that parking is at a premium around Exposition Park during USC football) and to the inherent “ewwww” factor normally associated with spiders. An interesting factoid, though, is that there are about 40,000 species of spiders in the world and only 28 are considered “potentially dangerous” to humans. Still, I wouldn’t want this crawling on me:

Ugh