Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
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Maile Girl lost her 4th tooth today. It had been pretty loose for awhile, but she wanted nothing to do with having Daddy help pop it out. She finally did it herself this afternoon (and was quite pleased with herself, I might add).
See anything missing?
Maile's new smile 🙂
She’s also convinced that I’m the tooth fairy. Don’t understand how she thinks I have time for all that!
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On Saturday we went on a fun hike with one the family of one of Maile’s good friends from school. They have a daughter Maile’s age and an older son – for awhile we’ve watched from afar on Instagram as they took fantastic hikes all over the Bay Area. We always said once Lauren was a little bit older we wanted to start exploring in the same way. They took us out on one of their favorites on Saturday and we had a blast. We did the Batteries to Bluffs trail and it was perfect – not too hard, fun spots for the kids to explore … and absolutely beautiful views!
Maile, Lauren and Isobel with the Golden Gate in the background...
A long walk down
Lauren tried desperately to keep up with the bigger girls scrambling over the rocks - she did a pretty good job overall
Touching the sky...
Love my little hiker...
Windy smiles 🙂
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So not a very long #tbt, but I was thinking today about the family reunion we had a few weeks back and how much fun we had – and especially the kids with all of their cousins. On Saturday night, the kids decided to put on a little bit of a talent show. Never one to shy from the mic, Maile Girl quickly jumped up and performed “A Small World” and got the whole family joining in for the chorus…
And, of course, once she got up there, she stayed for awhile – moving on to singing and dancing with her cousins to Uptown Funk, Shut Up and Dance, Whip Nae Nae and even some Chinese songs with Lauren. No stage fright here 🙂
(Click here for the video.)
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And just like that the summer is over and the first day of school has arrived. Today Maile started 2nd grade and Lauren started her second year of preschool. Both girls are old pros at this point and were very excited to be headed back to school. Drop-off went super smooth and the girls were excited to see their friends, meet their new teachers and check out their new classrooms. Definitely a successful first day!
The sisters at home right before we headed off to school...
Maile Girl, the second grader
Maile and Lauren outside Presidio Knolls
Lauren and her 3 year old smile 🙂
Maile was excited to see her long time friends, Tori and Isobel
Finding her name on the 2nd Grade Blue door
Maile's new classroom - she's in a new building this year and very excited!
Lauren and her friend Marni were the first to arrive in their new preschool classroom...
Here’s to another wonderful year!
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On the last weekend of summer, our family expanded by two! I know, hard to imagine in our SF apartment, but we made it work. Please meet Blueberry and Ariel – Maile and Lauren’s new fish 🙂
Very excited to get Blueberry and Ariel set up in their new home!
Here’s a video of us putting them in their new home…
The girls are very excited and so far, two days in, have done a very nice job keeping the fish fed. We’ll see if we can keep it up!
(Click here for the video.)
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Grandma and Papa Hawaii took the girls to Disneyland this week and they’ve been having a blast running all over and taking in the sites. Lauren’s little head is blown every time she provides us an update 🙂 Of course, a highlight for both girls was meeting all the Disney princesses…
All ready for the meet and greets...
NOTE: Christine is sleeping and I’m not sure I can nail all the princess names, so that might need to come later 🙂
The girls said this was the best one (and Grandma said the line suggested Maile and Lauren weren't the only ones who thought so 🙂
… and even better was when they got to become princesses themselves!
Princess Maile and Princess Lauren
... and then they went punk!
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Once again we headed to Michigan for a family reunion with Grandma Jill’s side of the family. We had an awesome weekend running around and playing with our cousins. We fished (using marshmallows!), went paddle boating, swimming, slip n’ sliding, water ballooning, glitter tattooing (thanks Maile!), we sang and danced, we shared stories, ate s’mores over the fire and, of course, made amazing memories!
Paddle boarding cousins!
Maile doesn't actually like eating the s'mores, but she sure enjoyed roasting the marshmallows 🙂
A rare family picture (Maile 7, Lauren 3.5)
Maile and Aiden _loved_ spending time together!
Auntie Elyssa and the cousins (at least some of them)
(Almost) full family shot!
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On Wednesday, we all converged on Chicago to start a midwest visit of Daddy’s side of the family. Grandma Jill and Maile arrived from Boston, while Mommy, Lauren and I arrived from San Francisco. We didn’t get any pictures of videos of it, but suffice to say Maile and Lauren were very excited to see one another! (And Maile was only slightly less excited to see Mommy.)
On Thursday we spent the morning visiting with GG Bea (after a pit stop to get an apple pancake at Walker Brother’s, of course). It was really nice seeing GG and she loved seeing the girls. We checked out her new place, played some games and took GG out for lunch at a local hot dog spot.
Maile Girl and GG Bea
A wonderful visit with GG Bea!
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While it’s true that we’ve only been away from Maile Girl for about 1.5 weeks – I look at this picture that Papa Mike sent this evening and I feel like she’s grown up years in just that amount of time!
7 going on...
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(Dad note: Apologies for the long delay on posts! Maile and I traveled back to Boston last Wednesday and over the weekend I was riding in the PMC. Between the ride, work and lots of travel, I’ve been behind on my posts – sorry!)
Maile is spending a couple weeks in Boston staying with Grandma and Papa. Its quite an adventure for Maile Girl and so far she is doing great and having a blast. When Grandma heard that Maile went to cooking camp earlier this summer she had the great idea to have Maile throw a dinner party when she came to town.
They sent to work soon after we arrived, picking out recipes, making centerpieces and placemats, and then, of course, all the prep and cooking. They spent two afternoons in the kitchen getting everything ready – including vegetable crudite appetizers with an herb dip, sloppy joes and a crumble for dessert. Grandma even showed her how to make radish flowers!
Prep, prep, prep!
Showing off her radish flower!
Sloppy Joe, Slop, Sloppy Joe...
The chef with her guests, Nancy and Andrew
At the dinner table, ready to dig in!
The funny thing about this chef is while she loves cooking, she still sometimes is picky when eating 🙂
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