This weekend I went skiing with Spike at Mammoth. While I was having a blast skiing with Spike, the kids had a great Daddy weekend. They were very busy with all kinds of kid activities that were fun for Jeff and the kids alike.
They did their first kid race, a 100 meter run I believe. In the rain no less!
Kyle getting ready for his race
Little racers
It was quite rainy for their race, but they enjoyed getting to use their rarely used rain gear.
Jeff also took them over to Sea World, but this wasn't just their normal Sea World experience. This was the Sea World experience where they got to go behind the scenes and get up close and personal with dolphins and sea turtles. Emily, in particular, loved this as she is quite the little animal lover. And dolphins are one of her favorites.
Here comes the dolphin
Dolphin smiling at Emily
Up close with a dolphin
Feeding the turtles some lettuce
Turtles
Sea World experience
They did their first kid race, a 100 meter run I believe. In the rain no less!
Jeff also took them over to Sea World, but this wasn't just their normal Sea World experience. This was the Sea World experience where they got to go behind the scenes and get up close and personal with dolphins and sea turtles. Emily, in particular, loved this as she is quite the little animal lover. And dolphins are one of her favorites.
Sea World experience
And since we were all going skiing together in a few weeks, I sent Kyle and Emily videos of skiing as I went down the hill so they could see what it is all about. Plus, with our different schedules and the difficulties in answering a phone while going down a ski run, it was also a nice way to say hi even if we couldn't connect live. Apparently, Kyle and Emily kept asking to watch the videos. :-)
*Comment from Jeff with further explanation: Not only did Kyle and Emily keep asking to see mommy's recorded videos of her skiing, but they are so used to skype/facetime calls with family, that they would verbally and visually respond to Kathleen's videos: when Kathleen would say "I love you Kyle and Emily" in the recordings, Kyle and Emily would respond out-loud: "We love you too Mommy!", and when Kathleen would say "bye-bye" into the camera, the kids would wave and blow kisses good-bye. This was particularly cute after watching the same video 7-8 times and seeing it elicit the same responses.
And here, they sent me a video to say thank you for your videos and that they were having a birthday party for I Love Crystal, Emily's doll. They had some delicious banana cream pie that I had made prior to leaving.
*Comment from Jeff with further explanation: Not only did Kyle and Emily keep asking to see mommy's recorded videos of her skiing, but they are so used to skype/facetime calls with family, that they would verbally and visually respond to Kathleen's videos: when Kathleen would say "I love you Kyle and Emily" in the recordings, Kyle and Emily would respond out-loud: "We love you too Mommy!", and when Kathleen would say "bye-bye" into the camera, the kids would wave and blow kisses good-bye. This was particularly cute after watching the same video 7-8 times and seeing it elicit the same responses.
And here, they sent me a video to say thank you for your videos and that they were having a birthday party for I Love Crystal, Emily's doll. They had some delicious banana cream pie that I had made prior to leaving.
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Not only did Kyle and Emily keep asking to see mommy's recorded videos of her skiing, but they are so used to skype/facetime calls with family, that they would verbally and visually respond to Kathleen's videos: when Kathleen would say "I love you Kyle and Emily" in the recordings, Kyle and Emily would respond out-loud: "We love you too Mommy!", and when Kathleen would say "bye-bye" into the camera, the kids would wave and blow kisses good-bye. This was particularly cute after watching the same video 7-8 times and seeing it elicit the same responses.
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