Tanner's Grandma Zavoral, whom we are calling Gramz, came to help take care of us from March 5-9. She watched Tanner 3 working days in a row and did all kinds of house work for us. It was wonderful to have her with us!
Tanner and Gramz did lots of playing, including coloring, finger paints, chalks, stories, cars, walks, and more coloring. They did lots of art projects like making paper boots for Tanner's boy doll and a cheerio necklace for me!
One night, we took Gramz to Mama D's Italian restaurant in Newport Beach. Then we tried the famous frozen bananas on Balboa Island. We've never eaten them before and figured we outta since we've lived here for 5 years now (!).
---Imagine a picture here of us eating the frozen bananas.---
I'm not really sure how anyone ever got the idea to freeze a banana and then eat it. I didn't like the frozen sound that mushes and screeches when you bite into it, but I liked it once it was more melted. The best part was the chocolate topping. Tanner thought it was a yucky treat.
On Saturday, we all went to the local Santa Ana Zoo.
The zoo is just a tiny place, featuring lots of different monkeys. Even though it was small, it far exceeded our expectations. The place was beautiful with lots of tropic plants and nice looking cages. It was the perfect place to bring a toddler to.
Tanner LOVED the animals. "Anmul, anmul!" and "Wow!" and just lots of staring. He would sit and watch one area of animals for about 5 minutes. When we said "Okay, time to go see the next animal!" he would get really upset. "Noooo, no anmul!" He wanted to keep watching whatever we were still looking at. He'd wine and push and kick until we would get to the next cage. Then "ohhh!" and the cycle would repeat.
Watching the parrots.
This time he didn't mind walking to the next place because he had a granola bar in his hand and Dada in the other.
There was a park there, too. Tanner was sooo excited. There were lots of kids there, but he went running up to the jungle gym, climbed up to the tip-top and went down the slide several times without being intimidated by the bigger kids or the big playground. I guess he would be good at that by now since he goes to the park everyday with his babysitter. It's weird how he learns to do things that I'm not really aware of. Alas, that's just part of being a working mom.
Ever since Gramz came, Tanner has been obsessed with drawing and coloring. "Cahcah, Cahcah!" for "crayon!" (it almost sounds exactly like his word for cracker, but it does have a subtle difference) and "Peh! Peh!" for pen. He's getting really good now and gets very focused on trying to hold the writing utensil with just his pointer and thumb.
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