Another epic day with Enzo. We started out with our usual weekend crepes, and got ourselves together to go out. Initially we were going to ride the train at Descanso gardens, but en route decided to head to Santa Monica instead.

We beat the traffic and headed down to the pier, where we took a walk, gawked at the birds and the fishermen, walked around on the beach, eyeballed the beach volleyball players and played on the swings. We had planned to check out the small aquarium at the pier, but it opened later in the afternoon, and Enzo fell asleep before it opened.

We managed to get some lunch in Santa Monica while Enzo napped in his stroller - a rarity - but he woke up just as we were finishing up - a total of about 30 short minutes.

When we got home, we watched a little Planet Earth, and rumpused around in the backyard. Mommy made a big pot of lentil soup, then we went for a walk but Enzo was disappointed that none of the Christmas lights were on yet. We checked out some fire truck and ambulance activity up the street and said hi to one of the neighborhood kids.

Enzo loved watching daddy "help" Harriet and Betty to slide down the slide. We climbed up the rock wall and played in the swing. Mommy had the brilliant idea of putting Enzo on his tummy on the regular swing and having him "fly" - he fell on his face of course and scraped his forehead on the wood chips.

We had a great dinner - he loved his "bloop soup" (aka lentil soup), surprisingly. We did some preparatory grocery shopping for our brunch party tomorrow, and Enzo managed to get a strawberry gelato along the way. We looked at lights on the way home. We played with the train set and had our bath, lots of books, and bed right on time.