Valentine's weekend

We had quite an eventful Valentine's weekend! On Saturday, we took the kids on a Dora adventure, just like Dora and Boots did in the book, "Dora Loves Boots". For Valentine's Day, Dora brings Boots strawberries and Boots brings Dora chocolate on their Valentine's picnic. So we packed up the picnic basket and put the kids in the running stroller and headed out. We stopped at the fish market to get some sandwiches and ran to the trail along the beach and had our picnic on the beach. The kids got to eat sandwiches, clam chowder, strawberries and M&Ms on the beach! And they fed the silly ducks and seagulls too. It was really sweet. Afterward we all walked the trail and the kids did an amazing job, showing us great endurance walking the entire way and then getting upset that they had to go back in the stroller!

Then on Sunday we took them to Torrey Pines for their first hike. I think it was the first time since the kids were born that Jeff and I had been back to Torrey Pines. We used to do many a 'punishment run' up the monster hill after a particularly gluttonous dinner the evening before! Anyhow, we took the kids over there and brought along the kiddie backpacks (i.e., we carry them on our backs) for the kids to ride in. Well they weren't having any of that and did an AMAZING job walking down the trail and up Flat Rock (pictured). When we turned around to go back up after 45 minutes of walking down, they still wanted to walk! Then Emily got wise to the uphill and decided to ride in the backpack. Kyle though, walked the ENTIRE way! He showed some stellar endurance even running some of it!