The Jones Girls

Friday, Reyna and all of us drove over to Casitas Lake which is in Ojai.  What a beautiful place!!   We ate lunch and enjoyed the views of the lake.  There was an awesome playground and the girls spent a couple of hours playing there.  

I put down a couple of big blankets and Reyna, me and Mindy laid out and watched the girls play around.   There was a friendly game of football going on so we rooted them on!!  

It was so beautiful.    We wanted to rent a boat, but I have no boat driving experience.  We will have to come back with Cliff and rent a boat for us!!

We got back and everyone played in the jacuzzi while Reyna made the best barbecue dinner for us!!  It was a wonderful day.

The weater was about 75 degrees – 20 degrees cooler than where we live.  It was so nice!!

Last Thursday we drove up to Santa Barbara and had a blast at the zoo!!    My childhood friend, Rene, and her daughter, met us at the zoo.   The Santa Barbara Zoo had so many beautiful exhibits and animals!!  The girls fed animals and cracked up when the pig kept oinking at them.    It was hilarious!!   We took a really neat train ride through the zoo.  It was a great way to get a tour of the zoo.  

At the end of our visit, the girls were cashing in on my promise to buy them a little something from the gift shop.  Savannah picked out a little stuffed giraffe.   Miranda picked out a 6 inch neon green crocodile that squeaked.  Maryssa picked out a 4 inch frog the ribits and lights up when you rub its belly.  She also picked out these cool rubber frog rings that light up when you press the head.   Amanda picked out a cute stuffed green gecko lizard.  She has been into lizards lately…

At 6pm we said our goodbye’s to Rene and her daughter Savana.  We drove down to our family friend, Barbara Hobbins, who lives in Ventura.   For dinner, we brought dinner for everyone and Barbara’s favorite, burritos from Chipolte.   We met her boyfriend Jim.   She has been keeping Scotty for us and she loves him.  The girls were so excited to see Scotty.  We got lots of pictures and everyone had a great time.

At about 9pm that night we drove to our friends house, Steve & Reyna.  They live in Oxnard.   We were up for a few house and then spent the night at their house. 

What a fun and eventful day we had!!

I have Maryssa’s potty chair in the den to help her with her potty training.    I noticed today that there was a poop in there.   I asked Maryssa if that was her poop and she said yes.   Savannah also confirmed that Maryssa had pooped on the potty chair.

I am so excited for Maryssa!!  What a huge achievement for her!!

Maryssa hasn’t worn a diaper or a pull up all day today.   She wore a bathing suit this morning and played on the water slide and then has been naked all day since this morning.    This is way easier to potty train her.

There have been no pee pee or poo poo accidents at all today or yesterday!!   Woo hoo!

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Yesterday was Maryssa big official day to begin getting potty trained.  She peed on the potty chair 3 times!!  Yay!!

Her first time she was in the bathroom in the morning.  I brought her a cup of milk and a book and she sat on the potty chair for an hour and then finally did her first pee pee.     We all cried out for joy and she was so excited.

After we got home from the beach, we resumed potty training and put her on the potty each time after drinking fluids.   She peed both times.

I  am crossing my fingers that I can get her potty trained before  early September so she can go to preschool.   The preschool will only take potty trained kids.

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Yesterday we spent the day at Newport Dunes in Newport Beach.  It was amazing the difference in the weather…in La Habra it was 98 degrees and at Newport it was 75-80 degrees.   We spent about 4 hours there.    Took us about 40 minutes to get there, not a bad drive at all.

I was a little disappointed because their website mentioned they had daily crafts for kids.  When we got there, they had no crafts going on that day and they said that they run most of their crafts on the weekends.   Wish they had mentioned that on their website.

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Today Cliff, me and the girls ventured to Hollywood and Griffith Park.  We took off at about 10am.

We parked at Hollywood Blvd & La Brea Blvd.    Get this, these rip off tour operators want to charge $39pp adults and $29pp kids 3-11.  Hmmm, I smell a RIP OFF.    The tour consists of taking you to walk along the stars, driving around a bit and hear about interesting facts of Hollywood history and then go on a tour to view movie stars homes.    We could choose from an A/C bus, a double decker bus or a van that has an open canopy.    The offered us a discount of $30pp adults and $19pp child 3-11.  Triplets would be free.  Adding that up, it was about $120 bucks for us!!  Ummm, I don’t think so buddy, we will do our own tour.

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