We made a brief trip to see the grandparents this week.  Logan and Connor were excited to see them, and they talked about who they would hug first before we arrived at their house.  When we got close Logan recognized their house as “the prettiest house on the street”.  Shortly after we settled in, Logan asked Grandpa to play chess with him.  He later came to tell us that he lost but he was proud to have taken many pieces from Grandpa.  Connor also wanted a game with Grandpa too.  Throughout the next two days, the boys played Uno and read bedtime stories with grandma, looked through Grandpa’s model planes and played hide n seek with him.  The boys made some drawings for both of them too.  One of the days Grandma showed the boys her secret garden in the backyard (which Connor wished to have one in our house now), and she also set up some golf games.  We all took turns practicing chipping and putting.  Toward the end, Connor seemed more into chipping and Logan was quite content putting. 

    On both days, grandma and the four of us spent the afternoon at Manhattan beach.  As soon as we walked to the beach, the boys could not wait to go toward the water.  It was cloudy at the beach, but the temperature was fine at around 73 degrees.  Both Logan and Connor enjoyed running toward the water and tossing sand into the water.  I stayed out by the water with the boys most of the time while Grandma and Stuart hung out on the mat at the sand.  Logan, Connor and I also spent quite a long time building barriers for the waves, and we had quite a good laugh when our structures got destroyed.  They had fun imitating the mickey apprentice show while filling water in one of our towers that we built, and calling themselves the water crew.  We spent two hours each day played at the same spot at the beach, and the boys did not really want to take a break for snack or to go home.  Neither of them complained of being cold either despite being wet in the mild weather.  On the first day after playing with water and sand, we threw a football around for awhile and Grandma joined in the game too.  We then moved on to the volleyball before we called it a day.  After being at the beach for hours, Logan got a mild sunburn on his back and Connor fell asleep on the couch at the house while the grandparents made dinner.

    This LA trip was short, but we felt that it was productive and was nice to spend time with the grandparents.