Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
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I walked into the bathroom the other day and caught Maile doing a “science” experiment. She was using a modified scientific method – skipping over the “hypothesis” stage right into the “make a mess” stage…
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On Sunday, Maile and I headed over to the SF Marin Food Bank to volunteer for the morning alongside some of Maile’s classmates. One of the parents at PKS has really setup a great service program at the school – we’re big fans and have been having a lot of fun participating in the various activities.
I have to say the Food Bank volunteering was really well organized. We were tasked with sorting about 25,000 pounds(!) of pears – they were in these huge baskets and we sorted the good ones into boxes for delivery to families and removed the rotten ones. You really got a great sense of accomplishment working from the top to the bottom of the baskets – and the work was perfect for the kids. All in all an A+ service event!
Maile and Daddy getting gloved up and ready...
... Maile Girl listening intently to the instructions.
Maile and her friend, Ellie, starting to dig in.
When we got close to the bottom we threw the kids in the baskets (which they loved) and they finished things off...
(Dad note: If you are interested in learning more about the SF Food Bank or possibly volunteering, check it out here: http://sfmfoodbank.org/)
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Tonight, Maile and Mommy went to an ice skating event with Maile’s school down at Embarcadero Center. It wasn’t her first time, but we actually hadn’t gone in awhile. They had a blast and I think we are rocketing towards ice skating lessons for Maile Girl.
A little tentative starting out, getting the feel for it again...
... but shortly thereafter - all smiles!
I arrived towards the end and caught a video of Maile doing her thing on the ice…
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At most hair studios, you, the customer, get to choose what style you want.
At Maile’s hair studio, you, the customer, get whatever she wants to do … and it often matches whoever else is getting their hair done at the same time.
Thus, we have “Mommy and Lauren are matching…”
Note: I also love Lauren’s look throughout this – not clear she really has any idea what is going on, but if it pleases her sister, she is game!
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Our routine in terms of getting Maile to and from school is that I drop her off in the morning and Christine picks her up in the afternoon. There are pros and cons to each setup, but definitely a “pro” of the afternoon pickup is that you get the fresh details of what Maile did that day in school. By the time I get home for dinner, it’s like pulling teeth getting anything out of her.
Christine will occasionally text me quotes from their afternoon conversations – last week there were a couple doozies one right after another…
Texts from Christine that she sent me after her afternoon conversation with Maile
The Darth Vader one is great. She’s only watched the first 45 minutes of Episode IV and she is obsessed with Darth Vader – he comes up time and again in terms of something she is scared of. I don’t have the heart to tell her yet that Darth Vader could choke her even if he wasn’t “holding her hand” 😉
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My girls, just chillin'!
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Mommy is always teaching Maile fun, new art techniques. Maile must have picked up the concept of tracing somewhere recently. This weekend Mommy saw what Maile was trying to do and showed her how she could use the windows in our apartment as a light box to make tracing easier.
Maile hard at work on her lightbox tracing...
Well, that was all Maile needed – once she learned the concept, she really ran with it. Christine claims that she didn’t tell Maile to add to the picture at all – she just started tracing and then realized she didn’t have to do it all in order, she could mix it up and add the characters however many times she wanted and her own flourishes as well. Pretty cool!
The original
The finished product - Maile's lightbox Halloween masterpiece!
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Back in the summer Maile told Grandma Gail that she wanted to be a bee for Halloween. Like she always does, Grandma Gail set to work and delivered another incredible costume for the girls!
Our littlest bee getting ready to go out...
Maile and Auntie Bee all decked out!
Bzzzzzzzz
On top of the great costumer, we were also lucky to have Auntie Elyssa in town. She decided to dress up to as the “Auntie Bee” – Maile was so excited when she found out that Auntie was dressing up too.
Auntie joined Maile at school for the PKS Halloween party and then we met up with some friends to hit up Avila Street for some serious trick or treating. (And I mean serious – there were hundreds of people out and every house was stocked with candy.) Auntie chased after Maile going house to house and Mommy and I had the pleasure of escorting Lauren. It was so much fun – she insisted on walking (just like her big sister) the entire time. She would go up to each house, wait for them to lower the bowl of candy to her height, pick out her piece and then say, “Tank you”, before moving on to the next house. I died of cuteness every time she said “tank you.”
Daddy with all his bees
Mommy and her two bees!
A wonderful Halloween – thank you Grandma Gail (as always) for the costumes and Auntie Elyssa for buzzing around with our girls!
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Spaghetti night means “Lady & the Tramp” reenactment time. It’s cute when Maile and I (or Mommy) do it … it’s cuter when Maile and Lauren do it!
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Awhile back I came across a Kickstarter for a new educational game called Osmo that combined real world objects with the iPad. I thought it looked pretty cool, so I pre-ordered it.
Fun with Osmo!
It finally arrived today and Maile and I had messed around with it tonight. It is indeed pretty awesome. We’ve played two of the three games it comes with (but it is setup so I could imagine many more in the future). One game (which is in the video) you use different shapes to match what is on the screen and Osmo can see if you get it right.
The second is pretty cool – objects fall on the iPad and you draw on a piece of a paper different contraptions to guide the objects to targets. (Basically the screen duplicates what you draw in real life.)
The third is a word game we haven’t played yet.
Hard at work solving one of the puzzles...
Definitely recommended!
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