Today was my 35th birthday and Christine and the girls made it a great celebration from start to finish!
The best way to wake up on your birthday!
My birthday card from Maile Girl
My birthday card from Baby Lauren
Mommy said that Lauren helped her bake the cake 😉
Maile was very excited to bring my cake out to me…
(Thank you to Christine for wrangling the girls and giving me an awesome birthday celebration! I’m a lucky guy indeed … although not quite as old as Maile things I am 😉
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We headed down to Hannah’s house for the Super Bowl and while the outcome wasn’t what we had hoped for, we still had a blast watching the game.
Before the game, Maile set to work creating a Go 49ers sign!
Who cares about dinner - that Beyonce!
It's always fun to see Maile and Hannah together - even though they don't see each other as frequently, they still have a special bond...
... which made it increasingly cool that Lauren's very first friend is Hannah's little sister, Kate!
This picture made me look back and the first time Maile and Hannah met…
3 years ago, Maile was the big girl on the play mat with little Hannah (with Wills too!)
Last Friday, we joined Maile and her classmates at the Presidio Knolls Chinese New Year Celebration. It’s the one time in the year when the whole school gets together – and with 130+ students now, it’s quite a crowd.
This year for the first time, each class of students performed a Chinese New Year song on stage. Maile’s first school performance! The kids had been practicing for a couple weeks and the teachers made sure we helped prepare them to go up on stage my themselves. (We started a few days before the event, telling Maile how excited we were to see her on stage and that we would be sitting in the audience and she would go with her teachers.) Either the prep worked or we had nothing to worry about, because Maile girl showed no signs of stage fright!
All the classes did a great job, but, of course, we were partial to Maile and her Ginkgo classmates 🙂
Maile Girl ready to rock!
I'd tell you the name of the song they sang ... but it was in Chinese 😉
I like being on stage!
All together now!
Maile and all her classmates - they all did a great job!
Maile is big into her letters and spelling these days – and her interest extends beyond pen and paper 😉
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Hump day hit us hard this week, so we’re crashing early – a couple quick pics of our girls in dream land. Sweet dreams!
Sweet dreams…
… little girls…
And by hold my sister, I mean “watch Dora”…
Go away we're watching Dora.
Go away we're watching Dora.
Go away we're watching Dora.
Go away we're watching Dora.
Go away we're watching Dora.
Grandma Gail made me butterfly wings. They are pink and I love them!
Notice anything different about me?
Yep, I have wings. Pink ones!
See!
I love them so much!
Okay, okay, I know some of you (mainly those related to us) have been playing the “do Maile and Lauren look alike or different parlor game” – so here are two shots to help you decide…
Maile at 10 days
Lauren at 10 days
What do you think?
The first week or so, Maile was clearly in love with her little sister, but she didn’t quite know what to do with her. She liked to hug her and hold her a bit and was always giving her kisses, but interestingly, she didn’t talk to her a lot. She was very shy around her. We encouraged her to talk to Lauren and tell her what she was doing and about her day, etc. This week she really started to do it – as the video below demonstrates. I think we’ve now created a monster 😉
Maile is getting good at holding her little sister...
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Today was a special day. Yes, it was Inauguration Day and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday – but on a more personal note, it was the first time in quite some time that both sets of grandparents were together with us. With one set of grandparents in Hawaii, the other set in Boston and us in San Francisco, it is not too often we all get together. We like to space things out so one set will visit during one of Maile’s holidays from school and the other set will visit during another, etc. Today was the one day they were overlapping for this visit – with Grandma and Papa Boston heading home tomorrow and Grandma and Papa Hawaii arriving to help out for another couple weeks as I head back to work.
Maile was in heaven with all the attention! And Lauren had plenty of welcoming arms to cradle and hold her throughout the day. The weather cooperated as well, so we snuck outside to take some pictures of the whole family together…
Maile, Lauren and BOTH sets of grandparents
Grandma Gail and her (San Francisco) girls...
Grandma Jill and her girls...
Papa Mike jumped in there too 🙂
Family Picture: Mommy, Daddy, Maile (3.5) and Lauren (2 weeks)
Can’t thank both sets of grandparents enough for all the love and support they’ve provided as we’ve settled in with Lauren!
