Trains and Trolley's, Trolley's and Trains, oh my!

Grandpa Irwin and Grandma Sue live in downtown San Diego and their building is very close to train and trolley tracks. This is a good thing, as I am infatuated with trains and Remi is infatuated with me, so she'll pretty much just follow me around... We saw trains and trolley's ALL the time. I could not even get through one entire meal without hearing those warning bells and running for the window or the door to check out what was coming down the line.

The view from g & g's pool.... trains and trolley's. Nothing better than taking a swim and then running to see the trolley's.

Grandpa Irwin played hooky from work one morning and took Remi and I on the trolley.

The TRAIN! Mama and I were standing on the platform, just admiring the train and then we waved to the conductor. The next thing you know, the conductor gets off the train and gives me a REAL train lantern. Sure the thing barely fit in mama's backpack, but it's real, from a real train. Can you tell I'm excited about the REAL train lantern?

Passover in San Diego

This past April, the Ann Arbor Goldstein's visited the California Goldstein's for Passover this year and we even got to see some of our 2nd cousins. Below are just few pictures of the entire Goldstein family at Seder.

Remi, with her 2nd cousin Zach. She kept him busy and he took care of her, a perfect match! Thanks for helping out Zach!

Pure happiness

Passover at School

The month of April was a busy one for us, as Passover preparations were taking place at school. We did many things to prepare for passover, but one very special thing we did, is make passover pillows. Pillows to relax on, something the Jews were not allowed to do many moons ago. The Frog room took a field trip to JoAnn Fabrics so we could each pick out our pillow fabric. Remi and mama came along to help out and boy was it exciting. We got to ride the city bus, we terrorized the JoAnn Fabric store and to top it off, we made really fun pillows, and on one side was the fabric I chose (Go Blue!) and on the other side was a picture of me! Of course, Remi being the class mascot, the tadpole, also got to chose a fabric and was given a surprise pillow.

The other exciting thing we do during passover is have an inter generational seder and passover play at school. All the kids invite their grandparents to come and since I don't have any grandparents in the area, I used my Ann Arbor grandma, Jane! She came, she sat in the front row, she took pictures and clapped louder than anyone else. Thank you Jane, Remi and I love you and will miss you very much. So, why was Jane clapping you ask??? for me of course, I was one of the 5 burning bushes for the play. Now this play isn't fancy, but it is 100% child run and apparently hilarious!

Buddy up! Walking to the bus stop

Frog room class picture at the bus stop

still working on my camera smile...

Don't know who loves my teachers more, me or Remi

Hanging out on the bench, waiting for the rest of the class to catch up

Remi and Elke. Yes, Elke is 1 1/2 years older than Remi and Yes, Remi out weighs Elke by 15 pounds!

Emiliano (aka boy I've got my eyes on), giving Remi one of his famous hugs. The boy is already planning his wedding with Remi. I've warned him... To which he responded, "I'm latin, what do you expect."

Tyler, Lili and Yoel

Remi and Lisa, our favorite administrator!

The burning bushes. Kind of low budge, BUT all acting and script writing is done by kids!

March Madness...

The month of March was filled with two very exciting events. The first was our trip to visit Cincinnati, our new home starting in July. Grandma Jo and Grandpa David came down and took care of us, while mama and daddy shopped for houses. Alas, no luck on that trip, but we had a blast with grandma and grandpa. We explored the zoo and the aquarium to name a few. Unfortunately, we do not have any photo's from that trip, as mama only has photo's of house's, and grandma Jo has the photo's she took. Maybe soon, we'll post some pics of that trip. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for helping us during out house hunt in Cincinnati.

The second event in March as the Goldstein Cousin's Club convening in Cancun Mexico for a week of fun in the sun. Grandma Sue and Grandpa Irwin treated everyone to a fabulous beach vacation where we were waited on hand and foot by 4 amazing staff members. Remi and I had such a great time getting to know our Cousin Jayden and his sister, who will be joining the world in late August. Below are just a few of the hundreds upon hundreds of photo's that were taken. Thank you grandma and grandpa for taking the entire Goldstein Crew on a great vacation

Yes, that's right, this is the view of the backyard from the house

the bridge connecting the island to "main land" The kids loved this

Beach time with daddy

a better view of the island...

The Goldstein's are always up for a little naked water squirting

Grandpa Irwin playing with Jayden, Remi and me

As long as Remi had her life jacket on, we would just let her float around in the boat in the pool

Daddy helped me real in a fish

The Goldstein Fishermen

When I got off the boat, they let me play with an octopus

Family picture the night of uncle Andrew's birthday party

This photo describes Remi to a T

Another family picture

Jayde and Tyler giving Remi a smooch

family picture. It seems we get so few of these...

bubbles in the dark!

The fabulous people who took care of us that week.

Remi and Vicki hit it off right away. When we got home, Remi ran into our kitchen looking for Vicki... Ahh, if only we were that lucky!

At the airport walking to our gate...