Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
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We’re in full on Frozen mode here in the Bay Area. Maile Girl sings the songs non-stop to herself or anyone else that will listen. She sings inside and outside and is starting to also mimic some of the movements to emote the passion of the tunes…
And judging by the birthday party we attended earlier today, we’re not alone!
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As we do every year (2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010), this morning I sat down with Maile to fill out her March Madness bracket. This year, Lauren joined in the fun too! (We gave her a pass last year as she was only 10 weeks old!)
Last year, Christine and I had Maile sufficiently brainwashed that she took Duke to win it all. Alas, as we’ve learned this year our influence is wanning already and Maile had her own ideas. Her Final 4 of Eastern KY (15 seed), Villanova (2 seed), San Diego St (4 seed) and Wofford (15 seed) is definitely unique. Let’s just say if she nails that, she’s in a good spot to win Warren Buffet’s billions!
As for Lauren, Daddy had to interpret things a bit more, but she ended up with a Final 4 of VCU (5 seed), Michigan St (4 seed), San Diego St (4 seed) and Louisville (4 seed). She has Louisville over VCU in the final game. Here’s some video of Lauren filling out her very first bracket:
Let's do this Daddy - can you grab some stats on this San Diego State team for me?
Me and the girls hard at work...
Helping Lauren with her picks...
Maile's completed 2014 bracket...
Lauren's completed 2014 bracket...
Our proud (and cute) bracket picker!
Good luck to our girls and everyone else!
(Click here for the video.)
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Maile always says she wants to be a doctor when we ask her, but it’s possible we have a budding fashion designer on our hands. We had our parent teacher conference earlier this week and they always give us a CD with pictures from the school year. It’s always fun to see what goes on during the day. This time there were a bunch of pictures of Maile drawing and creating dresses and other clothes.
Maile getting inspiration...
One of her finished designs...
Trying things on with a friend.
Back to creating time (making a hat here I'm told)...
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This one is for Papa Mike – we thought he would enjoy waking up to this one on his birthday. Papa always had music playing in the house growing up and I have fond memories of dancing around with him and Auntie Elyssa and Grandma after dinner. We’ve definitely continued that tradition – one of our favorite things to do in the evening after work 🙂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!
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It’s been awhile since we updated on Maile’s swimming progress. She’s been going once a weekend for lessons and its really starting to pay off – she ditched the floaties a couple weeks ago and hasn’t looked back. I think we can officially declare that Maile “knows how to swim” now!
We’ve come a LONG way from this…
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I know we just posted some pictures of Maile and her sister from another mother, Hannah, last week – but the girls got together again last weekend and this video was just too cute not to share.
Maile and Hannah at 4.5
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Most of the time, it’s Maile that gets to tease me. She’s taller so she can hold things over my head. She’s stronger, so she rips things out of my hands. There are a hundred toys lying around, but for whatever reason, she always to play with the one that I managed to get my hands on.
But every once in awhile, I get my revenge. She thought she was going to teach me how to feed her – I had other ideas…
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(See previous Girls Days photos, 2012 and 2010 here.)
Today was Girls Day in Japan and we celebrated a bit here in San Francisco too. Maile and Lauren both wore their favorite kimonos and Maile even got to wear hers to school and tell all her friends about why she was wearing it.
I did my best to snag some pictures, but Lauren was NOT interested.
Maile did her best with the little squirm bug...
Maile Girl on her 5th Girls Day
Loved showing off her kimono!
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She insists these fit.
#trouble
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We don’t see Hannah quite as often these days, but when we do Maile and Hannah fall into the sisters from another mother that they are…
Then (June 2011)
... and now (February 2014 - Maile and Hannah at 4.5)
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