Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
From the monthly archives:
Long time readers might recall that last July we took Maile on a merry-go-round … and that first trip didn’t really go very well.
Apparently, the second times a charm for merry-go-rounds. On Monday, Grandma Gail and Papa Cal took Maile to Golden Gate Park Carousel and she absolutely rocked it!
Maile Girl chose the giraffe, of course - one of her favorites!
Look at that brave face!
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Maile Girl stylin' as she hits the SF streets!
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Grandma Gail and Maile made Easter cards today using a potato(?!). They came out beautifully – here’s one she made for Christine and I.
Maile's Easter beautiful easter card
Now I know where Christine gets her creative genes from! Thanks Grandma Gail!
(Click here for the video.)
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When I woke up on Friday morning, guess who was there to see me? Grandma Gail and Papa Cal! And you know what happens when Papa Cal is around? Yep, that’s right – ice cream for Maile Girl!
Mommy and I took Papa Cal up to one of our favorite ice cream spots. I think he liked it because he finished his whole cup and his was way bigger than mine!
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When Mommy dropped Maile off at school the other day, Maile showed her the new writing sheets she’s been working on. Mommy and Maile worked through it a bit – Mommy wrote out “Tomato” and Maile took on “Broccoli” (since broccoli is one of her favorite foods). See below for how she did…
Maile can't decide whether she wants to eat the broccoli or spell it!
What do you think - can we count that as Maile's first 'B'?
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Daddy had to work late last night. I was sad about that. But tonight Daddy came home at the regular time! I put him right to work – we played hide and seek for awhile and then we colored. I told Daddy we should color on the same sheet of paper – luckily Daddy is a bit bigger than me, so he colored on the top and I did the bottom.
Daddy, you're squishing me!
Not pointing any fingers, but Daddy was the one who was using the blue marker!
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I had to work late tonight. Chris IM’d me around 8 PM saying that Maile was refusing to go to bed and that she wanted me to read her a book. Chris decided to just ignore her, so Maile crawled up on the couch and promptly fell asleep. When I came home this is what I found:
A stubborn little girl waiting for her Daddy
Doesn’t look very comfortable. The red book is the one she wanted me to read. I picked her up and as I was carrying her back to her room, she woke up a bit, saw it was me, smiled and gave me a kiss. “I kiss you Daddy”… indeed you do, Maile Girl, and I apologize for working late! (But, honestly, cut your Mommy some slack!)
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One of our new favorite weekend activities is to go explore the neighborhood by having Maile call all the shots. We just head out and see where she takes us.
On Sunday, we actually ended up at Lombard Street – arguably the crookedest street in the world. Given all the tourists it had actually been awhile since Christine and I had been down it either.
BTW – Maile is also 100% responsible for her outfit in this video…
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I like this series of photos Christine took today of Maile reading the New York Times. Maile Girl is lucky she is cute, but Mommy certainly doesn’t like it when Daddy tears through the newspaper ahead of her 😉
Maile digs in to a section...
This article looks interesting...
Mommy, are you done with this section?
I kind of wish there were more pictures, to be honest.
Safe to say she enjoyed her time with the Sunday Times just like her Mommy...
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Apologize for the delay posting this. I know many of you rely on Maile’s bracket to enter into your own pools (especially after her 3rd place finish with her inaugural bracket two years ago.
Maile's 2012 March Madness Bracket
One wrinkle this year was that I quickly realized that whatever team I said second was the team that Maile decided she wanted to pick. So if I said “Duke vs Lehigh” – she’d want “Lehigh” – and if I said “Lehigh vs. Duke” she’d want “Duke”. Given the way the bracket is laid out, needless to say she ended up with a lot of upsets!
Here’s how the picking went this year…
All in all, Maile had a rough first day – getting only 6 of 16 games right (but she called the VCU and Colorado upsets!). Her Final Four is still in tact – with Kentucky, Michigan State, Ohio State and UNC. She has Kentucky beating UNC in the final (she really likes teams that end in the “ee” sound.)
Maile’s 2011 March Madness Bracket
Maile’s 2010 March Madness Bracket
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