You Might Be in Malibu if...

...you see this when you get to the waterfall at the end of your hike...

...you can hike comfortably in t-shirts during February!
We are enjoying much of what there is to enjoy about life on the coast!

Jacob couldn't believe it when a real horsie was drinking from the pond in front of him.

p.s. I promise that Luke enjoyed the hike much more than this photo lets on!
We interrupted his meal to pose for a minute:)

WiDe MouTHeD FRoG

I have been composing this post in my mind since the day Luke was born. (Okay, that probably set your expectations a little too high!) When we first spent time with him, I noticed that he has the ability to purse his lips so tightly that they are less narrow than his little nose. Looking at his face like that reminded me of a story my Mom used to tell us as kids. It is called "The Wide Mouthed Frog".

For those of you not familiar with the story, a wide mouthed frog visits several animals asking them, "What do you feed your BABIES!" (All caps to emphasize the fact that when you tell the story, you use a wide mouthed when he talks...similar to the following picture)


Each animal he talks to tells him a different food, and his response is "OH!" (again with a wide mouth) Then he approaches a snake. The snake says, "I feed my babies wide mouthed frogs!" In self preservation he responds (with tightly pursed lips this time...as in the following picture)

"oh! don't see many of those around here, do ya?"

Here's to my little wide mouthed frog!