my daddy comes for a visit!

early in january my dad came down from oregon for a visit. i was a bit apprehensive at first because i have never really had a visit with just my dad...i wasn't sure what to do with him. however, all my worrying was for naught, we had a great time with him!

the weather the whole week he was here was exceptionally nice for january and he just loved that, a nice break from the gloom of an oregon winter. one day we went to the san diego zoo-a first for him, me and paisley. it is a pretty sweet zoo.

paisley was pretty fascinated by all the animals and on our guided bus tour she kept wanting to have her head hang out in the wind. [yes, kind of like a dog in a car]

we loved the sky tram too-very fun to see everything from an areal view.

don't worry we didn't use EVERY photo opt available at the zoo...just most of them!

my favorite part of the day was the elephant center, it was cool to be so close to them, i love to see all the wrinkles, they look so individual to me. check out my sweet pic! [i.m no professional, but i thought my little point and shoot did a good job on this one:)]

we love the elephants!

rise and shout the _________ are out! i thought we were lucky to have a day where a lot of the animals seemed pretty active.

my dad brought us a 500 piece puzzle of a waterfall. it was crazy hard, a bunch of white and then a bunch of dark. but we did it! we were pretty stoked and paisley only semi-destroyed it once.

one day we went over to chris's office and went to lunch at soup-plantation and then went to a duck pond that is really close to feed the ducks. we have been here before with pais and she loves it, so i saved up my bread and off we went. isn't paisley cute with her grandpa??

so just as we are getting ready to start feeding them, we see this:

i swear it was not there only a week or so ago when chris and i last went. sweet. oh well, paisley didn't much care, she just love chasing the ducks.

she would chase them and they would of course retreat to the water. so what does my daughter do? she gets to the water's edge and turns around and goes to her knees, just like she is going down stairs...i've taught her so well, we almost lost her a few times to the water!

paisley got tired from all the walking and decided to munch on a stick.

on saturday we went to the farmer's market for the best crepe's ever, love, love, love them!

then we headed to the harbor with jan and stephanie for a little boat cruise. paisley liked the boat a lot better this time, but still liked her life jacket the same, that is not at all. i don't blame her, it rubs her little cheeks/chin because of how high it sits.

paisley's favorite part: helping daddy drive.

we docked at anthony's and got a little snack and paisley scored a bamboo flower. geez, i never had random guys giving me flowers....

random ship that decided to do a fake canyon shot and scare me half to death, it was loud.

auntie steph shared her orange slices with paisley and she demolished them.

we had so much fun with my dad, and are looking forward to the next visit! love you daddy:)