Haircut and Beach Day!

Jackson and Madison have been together a lot lately. Here are a few pictures of what they've been up to (pre-haircut).


They pulled the baby-walker out from underneath the crib and sat in it folded up. Jackson never had much interest in this when he was a baby, but now I guess it's loads of fun.


I take no responsibility for Madison's black eye. She fell off a chair at her place.

"Mom, I really need a haircut. My hair is almost as long as Madison's."

Saturday morning we had Madison over since the menfolk were at Ayuda- a free dental clinic USC puts on once month- and Mallie (Madison's mom) was at work. She fell asleep on the couch, so I took the opportunity to cut Jackson's hair. Distrcting him, of course, by letting him brush his own teeth.

Voila, all done!

Pretty good for an ametur I think. Thanks for the tips Aunt Jenna!

Post haircut wrestling.

Jackson loves to follow Madison around and do whatever she is doing!




Monday night for FHE we went to Bolsa Chica State Beach with some of my coworkers who are also training for a triathalon. The race I am doing involves a lake swim, but theirs is an ocean swim, so we did a practice run. I figured if I can swim in the ocean, I can swim in a lake.

Unfortunately it was as uber windy. I felt like I was back in Idaho.

"That's one big ocean!"

"Ha ha ha, you just wait until I get down and run around in this sand."

Here we are embarking on our swim. I swallowed lots of salt water. It was disgusting. This picture doesn't do it justice, but the waves were so big it was really impossible to do any "swimming".

Here is Jackson digging in the dirt.

And here he is laughing about being messy!

Jackson and mom.

A note about wetsuits: Thanks Lindsay for letting me borrow your suit, and they are so amazing. It's definitely fun to frolick in the ocean if you have wetsuit on.

Here is Jackson posing with the surf board as the sun sets. "Sigh."

Here is messy Jackson on the way home, sand and cinnamon roll!

It was a great trip. We went late so we didn't have to sit in traffic, we weren't sun-bleached, and my coworkers provided us with a sampling of fine meats and cheeses (and wines, which we obviously didn't sample) to tide us over. Loving dental school!