california adventures, leg four.

my dad’s favorite thing to do with mikey:  FEED him.  he totally loved that mikey ate and ate and ate.  phil and i were a little shocked at the HUGE spoonfuls my dad gave him, but he did okay and i think that’s when mikey officially went off of baby food and decided he only wanted to eat what we were eating.  we also really enjoyed getting to eat our meals baby-free as my dad took over feeding duty the whole time we were there.

surprisingly, my uncle (who’s never really been a baby person) totally fell for mikey too!  he’d come first thing in the morning asking, “where’s mikey?  is he up yet?”  and then whisk him off to ‘look at the goats.’

did i say goats?!

and here’s mikey and lily sizing each other up.

after all that interaction with animals, we had to clean the boy up somehow!

phil totally wanted to get some fishing in this trip, but it turned out to be too windy.

so, we went to a little farmer’s market instead!  here’s mikey and grandpa bopping to the live band as they played nearby.  (seriously, they were both bopping their heads to the music!  wish i’d had my video camera there.)

one thing you have to know about my dad- he likes to take us on random drives while we’re staying with him.  er, actually, he likes to hang out in the back while phil drives and i navigate.  he has a little something to do with the MANY miles we always put on our rental cars!  this time, we found ourselves in a little market up in gilroy after my dad told us we had to try some garlic ice cream.  while there, we decided to see how much mikey weighed.  it was pretty close, it read a little over 17 pounds!