Sweet life

"Unexpected" would be a good word to describe this last week. It was a week ago Sunday that we heard the sad news that Tom's much-loved cousin Val had died unexpectedly, at only 44. We headed south to attend the service at the San Fernando Mission. It was not the circumstances under which we would have liked to visit family, but once there Alec had fun with his cousins, especially Mayzie and Grace.
Alec's favorite activity, besides "kick kick kick"-ing in the pool, was walking around the pool dropping in whatever he find, from Grandpa's glasses to Mayzie's toys. He also learned some new words, including, "Mine." The relatively peaceful car trip (probably 20 hours of driving altogether) was brought to us by Rolie Polie Olie.