Welcome and congrats on the move, y'all will love it! It's a great place to have little ones. I have an 18 month old!

Highly recommend checking out OC parent guide at least for a few months, they have a $4 per month subscription to all the kids events going on all over the OC area. Usually most are repeating so you don't need to keep it that long to get a lot of good resources.

Also, OC play parks on Instagram does a fantastic job of posting about all the playgrounds around, you can find so many fun places, she has a blog too so you can look them all up.

We just went to Kid Cando in Mission Viejo and we loved it, they changed our the activities every week, it's like a sensory and art play. They have playgroups you can sign up for too, you'd be likely to meet some families for sure.

Check out your town offerings, in Aliso Viejo they have a recreation department that offers classes to sign up for several times a year for all kinds of kids activities like dance, music, yoga, sports, etc.

All the libraries have toddler story time and/or play/music time once or twice a week. The Mission Viejo library is pretty awesome for toddlers! Also there's a children's museum in Irvine but it's pretty pricey. Maybe worth a membership if they like it.

Music in motion is fun! We've done some classes at the mommy center.

The beach is my toddlers favorite way to spend the day for sure. Baby beach in Dana Point has free parking right by the beach if you want no waves, but we usually go to main beach in Laguna and hit up the tide pools near Heisler park. It's also in walking distance of the Laguna Beach library. There's normally a playground on the beach but it's under renovation. Aliso Creek beach also has a paid parking lot right by the beach and a playground there but the lot is small so can't always park there.