Leave two little girls alone with plastic pieces that can be put together to make a flute and magic happens…
We’ll be traveling circuses as a novelty musical act soon enough!
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From the monthly archives:
April 2015
This weekend was the annual Cherry Blossom Festival down in Japantown. On Sunday morning the girls got dressed up in their kimonos. Well, Maile was very excited to don hers, Lauren less excited about the kimono – she just wanted to rock as much Hello Kitty gear as possible, so she wore a Hello Kitty t-shirt and her Hello Kitty-style kimono as more of an open jacket.
We had a great time checking things out, catching up with one of Mommy’s friends from work, eating some Japanese street food, playing games and, yes, lots and lots of Hello Kitty.
Maile Girl striking a pose she seems to think is appropriate when wearing a kimono...
My cherry blossom girls!
Lauren was VERY excited to see the Hello Kitty mobile...
... no really, best. day. ever.
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A big smile for a busy week…
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Last week Maile had an art show for her after school Chinese character art class. It was a pretty cool class – they used the characters to create pictures based on their meaning.
Here are the Chinese characters that Maile wrote and based her art on...
... and here are the beautiful pictures Maile created from them!
Needless to say Maile had a blast – this is squarely up her alley 🙂
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Christine earned her holiday Mommy stripes this weekend. First, she cooked up a storm – matzah ball soup on Friday, briscuit and kugle on Saturday and delicious steaks and homemade french fries on Sunday. Oh, and this crazy delicious marshmallow graham cracker brownie and banana muffins to boot.
Whew, exhausted just thinking about it – no really look – I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
While Mommy was being super Mommy, Daddy was napping on the couch...
And to top it off – it wasn’t just delicious food, Mommy also found time to (a) go for a run for her marathon training and (b) make easter eggs with the girls!
Mommy teaching the girls how to plan their egg dying...
Shockingly, Maile was very particular about the dye design of her eggs.
Lauren took things very seriously...
... this one, not so much.
Lauren watched every move Mommy made like a hawk...
Maile, Mommy and Lauren having fun making easter eggs!
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Maile and Lauren share many similar traits, but when you go to the playground with Lauren you see one of the big differences between them. Where Maile was cautious, Lauren is fearless. Up and down the slide she goes, not a care in the world. Up she goes climbing anything in site.
Lauren, the Sky Walker
Funny how these things work – I imagine it is largely due to just wanting to keep up with her older sister, but it’s a trip to see her on the playground…
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Last night Christine shared this old video of Maile with me and we both got a good laugh. Original from January 31, 2012…
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Every year right around March 30th I try to do something fun with Maile and/or Lauren to commemorate a good friend of mine, Lonny, who passed away 7 years ago. We call it Lonny Day. This year it was Lauren’s turn for her very first Lonny Day.
In the morning we dropped Maile off at school and ran around with the big kids for a bit. Then we stopped by and said hi to Mommy at her new office (Lauren told Mommy right away that “she missed her” since it had been a whomping hour and a half since we had seen her 😉
From there the real fun began – we headed over to the San Francisco Zoo for the morning. Lauren is an awesome age to go to the zoo – she just ran around asking to see “more more animals” and stared in wild amazement as the giraffes and zebras and monkeys trotted and swung around right before her eyes.
The morning started with a breakfast pit stop and some sliced apples...
Lauren ran up to every fence, poked her head against it and then yelled to me when she saw the animals - pretty much the way a zoo should be viewed!
Checking out the flamingos - 'pink!'
Loved spending the day with my little girl...
And, of course, the day ended with some ice cream 🙂
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