Lauren got wind that Maile is going to start taking Ukulele lessons in the fall and decided she needed to get a head start …
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From the monthly archives:
August 2014
There’s a new hotness in town and it’s name is Mancala. It’s a simple board game where you move colored stones around a board and try to capture as many as you can. Maile learned to play it this summer at Steve & Kate’s camp and she is absolutely addicted. She plays it non-stop – 5-10+ rounds a day right now – Mommy and Daddy both play (and she typically whomps us), but she is also plays by herself, solitaire-style.
She’s very, very fast at it – and I kind of feel like she sometimes cheats, but I’m not sure, because she moves too quickly. (And to be honest, since in order to cheat, you kind of need to use math, I guess that’s not so bad.)
Mancala is serious business.
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Lauren’s favorite book these days is “The Pout Pout Fish” – she even has her own pout pout face. Needless to say, with that face, we have no problem reading this book to her over and over!
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Awhile back very good friends of ours started a company called UrbanSitter to help families find great sitters for their kids. There are plenty of sitter-type agencies out there, but UrbanSitter added a social element where I can see the sitters that friends have hired (after all if friends have used a sitter and gave them a good review, seems likely that I will also like them).
In any event, we’ve been using UrbanSitter for awhile now and have had really good luck finding great sitters and nannies for the girls. Separate from the personal relationship, we’re big fans! Recently, we met a girl named Andy who bonded with both girls right away, but especially Maile. They both love art and every time we come home they have created some incredible art project to share. (The first time Andy sat for us, Maile actually came into our room in the morning and asked me when we were going out again!)
In any event, their latest creations are books – and they are amazing. Check out the latest installment – the story of the Lost Donut:
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“Daddy, do you have any Carrie Perry?”
“Katy Perry? Yes.”
“Yes, Carrie Perry. Play it! Play it!”
And so began our Thursday night dance party 🙂
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With Maile and Daddy out of town in Boston, Mommy and Lauren held down the fort in San Francisco. Lauren was intent on getting some exercise in after she heard about Daddy’s bike ride, so she and Mommy went to check out a gymnastics gym in the neighborhood we just heard about – San Francisco Gymnastics.
Our little monkey
Lauren is definitely more adventurous than Maile when it comes to climbing and, in general, physical activity. I guess it takes a certain amount of fearlessness to chase after your 3.5 year older sister.
By far the most impressive part of their visit was Lauren’s work on the horizontal monkey bars…
Go, Lauren, go! We will definitely be back…
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This weekend Maile and I traveled to Boston so she could visit Grandma and Papa and I could ride in my 4th Pan-Mass Challenge.
The ride this year was pretty incredible. Saturday was some of the worst weather they have ever seen on the ride. Cold, hard rain for most of it. A decent number of crashes and 30+ people treated for hypothermia! Luckily, myself and the rest of my friends I ride with made it through just fine.
On the flip side, Sunday was a tremendous day of riding. Temperature was perfect and we easily had our best second day finishing in record time. As always, lots of good memories were made and it was honor to ride along side Ryan, Rob, Teddy, Adam, Tony and Drew.
The PMC Crew - Rob, Adam, Tony, Teddy, me, Drew and Ryan
Meanwhile, on the homefront I had my biggest fan!
On Sunday, we took a ferry back from Provincetown to Boston and Grandma, Papa and Maile came into the city to meet me.
Hey, dude, do you know where I can find my daddy's bike?
Maile Girl and her sign she made for me 🙂
Anxiously awaiting the arrival of Daddy
The. Absolute. Best.
Two good dudes have become two very lucky dads...
You know that old Warrant song – “I don’t need to be the kind of the world / As long as I’m the hero to this little girl”?
Exactly.
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