A melted cranberry juice milk shake

This is what JJ made himself to drink this morning. Go figure. Nasty if you ask me, but he said it was pretty good. He mixed cranberry juice and milk. Yuck.

Tonight is our last night in this hotel. Tomorrow we go down to another one in San Diego for two nights, then on Monday we fly home. Yesterday we went to Sea World which was pretty neat. I have never been there (although if you ask my mom she said I have been), so I enjoyed seeing the shows. The nighttime dolphin show was by far the best. It was another late night though and after 4 days of going Josh was pooped. Today we just hung out. I went to Costco, met my friend Summer for lunch and then we hung out at her house for a couple of hours. Got home and I had J1 in bed by 7pm. Almost his normal time. I am hoping tomorrow he will be completely rested and we will be back to our happy, cheery selves.

Tomorrow we are spending the day with their sisters, A and S, and I can not wait! The kids are very excited too. I am glad that we get to get together. I plan on going to see the seals at La Jolla.

I guess the kids father found out that S was conversing with me again and it led to some type of fight while she was visiting him. However she stood her ground and they ended up having a "heart to heart". I guess he understands now...who knows. I do know that he sent back a gift for the kids. Some type of empty scrapbook? When you haven't called your children in 2 years or seen them in 4, would you give them empty scrapbooks as a gift? I am sure it was something he just had laying around the house that he wanted to get rid of. He told her something about wanting to have a relationship with the kids, but not wanting to hear them sound "depressed" like they did last time. All I can say is, "Idiot". If you were 6 and 4, and you had not talked to your father in a year and he called to yell at your mom (which you could hear through the phone) and then talked to you, would your emotions be pure joy? My children are NOT depressed and are very happy. Last time he talked to them they were happy he called and sad that it had been so long...NOT depressed. Of course, my ex lives in his own little world. I told both A and S that I am fine with a little conversation, but I do not want the kids to get upset and I do not want any mention of the new sibling. I don't want them hurt anymore and knowing that my father abandoned me but kept having kids with more women would really hurt.

So that is the latest here! I can't believe it is Friday night already. Here are a few pics from Sea World.