Water Fun

The American Club updated their kid's water area and we showed up early Saturday morning ready to check it out. The kids absolutely loved it. They cried when we had to go home and they all took REALLY good naps!



This picture has nothing to do with "water fun" but it is cute. Ainsley helped me bake banana bread and Kara was trying to help too. Ainsley is, of course, half naked because she prefers to be naked as much as possible.

Jack's First Haircut!

After the first cut, Jack looks dashing...
This shows the back. (He is no longer wearing his shirt because he threw up his snack and I had to use the shirt to clean it up.)

Ainsley loves playing in the balls at the indoor playground at the Forum mall. We love the air conditioning in the playground. There is something for everyone to enjoy!

What kind of week would it be without a glamorous outfit choice by Miss Dressup herself? This weekend she chose a lovely sweater meant for 3-6 month olds and called it her raincoat. She wore it an entire day and low and behold it actually did end up raining and she was very proud of herself for having her raincoat.

Kara is Walking!

This isn't the best display of her walking because it was at the end of a long weekend and she is watching TV as she does this, but you get the idea...

Borneo

We spent five days in Kota Kinabalu, which is in Malaysia on the island of Borneo. What a great vacation!

We took a boat trip one morning. Guess who wanted to sit next to the captain?
Water buffalo!
Passing through the mangrove trees:We stopped at a river house for a snack. Ainsley enjoyed the coconut water.

Our hotel had a nature preserve where you can visit orangutan. Matt took Ainsley to check it out...
At the kid's club Ainsley really loved the zip line. She must have done this 50 times:
We vacationed with some friends of ours who also have twins + an older sibling. Each night we ate dinner together we had to order a table for 10 and it was full of kids!

We spent plenty of time on the beach. Ainsley loved the beach and the ocean and we discovered that Jack does too. He can only crawl, but he crawled over and over again into the waves until they got too high for him. He also couldn't get enough of the sand. Kara was a bit less excited about the beach and wanted nothing to do with the water. She made peace with the sand, but only if it was dry sand, she didn't care for the wet sand.
And of course, THE POOL! The slide was Ainsley's favorite. She could go down it all by herself. And she did. Over, and over, and over, and over again.


All three on our last night before dinner...

The plane ride was hard, but vacationing with all of the kids is getting a bit easier. We enjoyed it a ton and look forward to our next adventure!!!!!!!!

Deep Thoughts, by the Diamond family

If three young children all cry at the same time, how long can the human brain function in a state of normalcy? We say 15.9 seconds. If two children are crying at the same time, which then causes the third child to either cry or cause a catastrophe in order to get more attention than the other two, the human brain can remain normal for 23.4 seconds. If one child is crying and his name is Jack David, the human brain will start to malfunction after 3.6 seconds. Why? The mere hint of his crying causes brain waves to trip up after a very mere 2.1 seconds triggering the memory sensor, which takes another 1.5 seconds to remind the brain that this crying may not stop for 30 minutes or so and may include fits of uncontrolled thrashing. It might be a tooth, it might be a growth spurt, it might be hunger, it could be the earth's magnetic polls. No matter the reason, we are hopeful that after 13 months, Jack will soon grow out of it :-)


Daddy and the kiddo's after a delicious dinner out...

Ainsley in a pretty decent outfit (note: the shorts are Jack's)...

This is one for the record books! Normally Jack and Kara fight with each other, but we caught them holding hands in the stroller...