Last Day of Summer

I'm back from my 3 week break from updates.  I went back to work and Arthur has had a work trip every week, so it's been busy.  Even though these pictures are blurry and out of focus, I wanted to make a point to document our fun day.  We spent Maya's last day of summer vacation having family time at the Newport Aquarium.  The kids loved it!  We even saw Maya's friend from school there.  They got to play together and talk about being first graders on Monday.

 

Before we left, I had to get a picture of Mitchell's new "toy." 

Side Story: I had 2 locks jam at the gym this past spring.  Words can't describe the fun that can be had after swim lessons, soaking wet, with hungry kids only to discover your lock won't open (sense the sarcasm).  Complete strangers tried to help me and workers tried to open it.  It wasn't just me, the lock was really stuck.  The janitor had to bring the "jaws of life" to break the lock.  This happened to me, not once, but twice!  Fun times!

 

So Mitchell recently found one of the broken locks in a kitchen drawer and he carries it around everywhere calling it his "password."  It's too cute!

 Moving on to aquarium pictures... 

 

This is Mitchell so excited because he found Dory!  He wanted to see Nemo, Nemo's dad, and Dory today.  He doesn't understand what happens at the beginning of the movie and doesn't get that Nemo's mom died.  Before leaving the house he asked me about Nemo's mom.  He came to the conclusion on his own that "maybe she left."  The word "dead" or "died" never even came up, so...

 I have no idea where this came from.  This picture is Mitchell looking at "Nemo" and "Nemo's Dad."  Right after this picture he said "Where is Dory? "  And completely matter of fact, without question, shrugging his shoulders, he said "I guess Dory's dead."  Ummmm, what???  Where did that come from?  And he never mentioned it again.