Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
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On Sunday we went over to PKS to have a final potluck and take a group photo with the group that participated in the Chinese New Year parade.
The full group - quite a set of costumes!
Wait, who is that in the middle? Yep, yours truly. I was asked to sub in last minute as the sheep herder as our head of school couldn’t make it.
Yep, the sheep herder with his favorite sheep...
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You might remember that last fall, Maile and I went to the Food Bank for the first time to volunteer with some of her classmates. We went back again on Sunday and had a great time. This time we were tasked with sorting oranges and once again, it was a really well run volunteer event and perfect for young kids.
Maile Girl, all gloved up and ready to rock!
I FOUND AN ORANGE!
Almost done with bin #1 - our team completed about 3.5 of them while we were there.
Good times for Maile and I - a good way to start the day!
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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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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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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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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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(Dad note: incredibly there is not a wikipedia entry for this yet. We’re really cutting edge here. Maybe Maile and I will write one. This was the best site I could find with some details.)
She devours these videos. Here’s what one looks like:
(That video has been watched more than 16M times!!!)
Seriously – she would watch that all day long if we let her. (And she could – there are 202,000 on Youtube!!!) Luckily, we live right near Japantown so we went down and picked up a kit to try ourselves.
Maile Girl digging in to her poppin' cookin' set...
Here’s Maile getting some practice in making her own “popin’ cookin'” video:
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Man, this feels like so long ago. Time flies.
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I discovered these pictures from a couple weeks ago that Christine took when we were exploring over at Ocean Beach. We’re definitely having fun exploring this great city of ours!
The sisters who dig together...
Very focused on our sand creation...
Foreground and background - getting artsy over here 🙂
Lauren tends to take after her Daddy when it comes to a slight aversion to sand - so the fact that she was digging in and getting both hands dirty was a win!
Maile was on the search for cool shells...
... and she found some fun ones!
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