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pony boy

After morning milk and a good long snuggle with Zoe, we packed up Enzo and headed out to breakfast at Peets. Enzo was running all over the place, stopping by the table for an occasional bite. We then drove out to Studio City to the farmers market. Enzo rode a pony, which actually went pretty well. He was the youngest kid there (someone actually stopped Ralph to ask incredulously, "how old is that kid?" We also stopped in the petting zoo. We discovered that Enzo likes ducks, but not rabbits.

We were supposed to visit Cheri and Jack and take a swim in their pool but Enzo fell asleep after the market in the car, so we decided to postpone the pool visit for another day. We extended his nap by driving into downtown to go the Japanese market. The ticket thing at the parking lot entrance woke him. He wasn't happy about that, but ended up having fun in the store. Back home we had lunch and played in the wading pool. He has gotten himself dunked in the pool a couple of times and always gets up out of the water with a totally shocked expression on his face. He is not that fond of getting his face wet. Enzo only had a 20 minute morning nap (his usual is 90 - 120 minutes) but he was inexplicably in a great mood and ate a ton of food sitting at his table in the breakfast nook, laughing his head off with his mouth full.

We went out again to run some errands. Enzo latched on the this little broom at the gardening store, so now we own it. We thought about trying to find a wooden train set for Enzo, but couldn't find exactly what we were looking for. Enzo took a nice long nap when we got home, and Zoe and I worked on dinner. We made a nice big salad filled with the fresh stuff we got at the market.

When Enzo woke up, I took him for a walk while Zoe ran to the grocery store again. We stopped by the neighbors to play with Wes and to invite Eric over for dinner. He's got the baby for a few days by himself. They came over and we all enjoyed our dinner and some front yard rumpusing. Enzo and Wesley had their usual mind meld thing going on. They talk to each other across the table, imitate each other, try to out do the other's screeching and screaming. Its very cute to see Enzo interact with another little person. Wesley is a really cute kid, very smiley and full of personality.

After an early bath, Enzo and mommy snuggled some more and read some bedtime stories.