Those giggles are the ones your remember…
Thank you Grandma and Papa Boston for taking good care of Lauren these past few days 🙂
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Grandma and Papa Boston arrived on Saturday. Maile and I picked them up at the airport and took them right over to the Maker Faire. We had a great time last year and both Maile and I were excited to go back and also share the fun with Grandma and Papa.
This year Mommy and Lauren stayed home on account of Lauren’s nap schedule (not as easy to just get her to crash in the stroller these days). We missed them for sure! We explored much more of the fair ground this year taking in drones and robots and all types of strange, weird, cool things…
Maile showing Papa how it all works...
These are cool glasses designed by some Stanford students - you can come up with your own designs and snap them right on to the frames...
Speaking of glasses, thanks Google for the kid-sized protective goggles!
Maile and Grandma hard at work on a copper bracelet.
Taking in some glass blowing...
Maile met Russell the Robot Giraffe!
Maile Girl and I had a blast!
Thank you Maker Faire – we’ll be back again for sure!
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Grandma and Papa Boston left tonight, but not until they had a wonderful week with the girls. Maile was off of school this week, so she joined Lauren and Grandma and Papa and they went all over the city. Lots of playground time, a trip out to the Jelly Belly factory, legos, art projects, a trip to the library and culminating in a ferry ride out to Sausalito today! Whew, I’m exhausted just thinking about it…
Papa and his girls (Maile at 5.5 and Lauren at 2)
Getting goofy with Grandma Jill
We'll miss you Grandma and Papa!
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(Daddy is very tired, so just a quick post tonight, but the girls are having an awesome visit with Grandma and Papa Boston – more to share soon!)
Maile enjoyed building Legos with Papa this afternoon - they made quite the castle!
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As you know, on Thursdays I like to click back through the archive and see what was happening on this day in history. Tonight my first stop was January 15, 2013 and I found a keeper right away – Grandma and Papa Boston meet Lauren for the very first time…
First meeting between Lauren, Grandma Jill and Papa Mike
One year earlier – and we have this smile of Maile’s lighting up your day…
Just a Maile smile to start your week...
And the year before that? Some silliness with Maile and her dollie in the stroller…
And we end our trip with this one…
I love you, daddy. I love you too, Maile girl.
A good day indeed.
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(Dad note: apologize for the lack of posts this week – we’ve been caught up in all the fun here in Swampscott with Grandma and Papa. We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and don’t worry we’ll be sharing some of the adventures we’ve been having.)
We arrived in Boston on Tuesday night – luckily just ahead of the storm so no delays or anything like that. Maile was very excited about the possibility of seeing snow. (Technically, she has seen it once before, but she was too little to remember). It rained all day Wednesday, but the forecast called for some flurries over night. We put Maile to bed Wednesday evening with the promise that if we saw any snow we’d wake her up.
Still no snow when Christine and I went to bed, but when Maile woke up at ~6:15 AM she looked out the window and thought she saw something that might be snow. She woke Christine and I up and through on shoes and our winter jackets and headed outside to check things out. Sure enough there was just enough snow on the ground to make a itty bitty snowman – Maile’s first…
Maile's very first snowman - just a wee little guy...
A few hours later, after eating some breakfast and putting proper clothes on, the girls headed outside for more fun. Lauren is really into Olaf (from Frozen) – she’s never seen the movie, but she recognizes him from the books Maile has. She went to play with the first snowman, but he broke – she was very upset. So Maile made her a new one…
Maile and Lauren working on snowman #2...
Maile with her creation, affectionately known by Lauren as Olaf
We thought that might be the end of it – the girls had fun, but I was still feeling like they didn’t get the full effect of snow since the snowing had mostly stopped and there really wasn’t too much on the ground. Luckily, Mother Nature agreed and dumped some more snow on us Friday morning – and this time it was perfect, big, beautiful flakes and still going when the girls woke up.
They bundled up and headed out again, this time with Papa in tow to show them how to do snow right!
When the real snow came, Papa headed out with the girls to show them how a snowman is done right...
Maile Girl catching snow flurries with her tongue...
... and, of course, whatever Maile is doing, Lauren is doing too...
Papa and Maile hard at work with snowman #3
Meanwhile, Lauren had enough of the cold and was warming up inside...
Maile and Papa with their finished product - a recycle friendly Olaf 🙂
All in all a fun snowstorm (especially since we weren’t trying to travel through it!) and likely a snow experience Maile will remember now – maybe even Lauren too!
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Last week was “ski week” so no school for Maile Girl. Or as I like to put it – “Ski week? I don’t get that at work, man, I hope one of the grandparents can come visit and help out with the girls”-week. This time Grandma and Papa Boston delivered coming out on Monday and spending the week with Maile and Lauren. And they had a blast all over San Francisco…
Hula Hooping with Grandma Jill...
Exploring the jungle gym with Papa...
Oh, there was ice cream!
Some quiet time reading books after running around all over...
And, of course, some fun dinners out at restaurants!
Thank you, Grandma and Papa for the good times and watching after our girls all week!
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Lauren Girl here! On Sunday afternoon, Mommy, Daddy, Maile, Grandma and Papa took me to get my first Christmas tree! I was pretty overwhelmed by all the trees, so Maile took the lead on picking out the tree – I think she picked a really nice one.
My very first Christmas tree picked out my big sister Maile
Guess what? I wasn’t the only one getting a Christmas tree for the first time. It was Papa’s first time too!
Papa was excited too!
This is pretty cool – Papa had a fun idea to get a picture of me getting a bird’s eye view of the trees.
Lauren's bird eye view (11 months)
And it’s almost the same picture that Maile and Daddy took the first time she went to get a tree!
Maile's bird-eye view (5 months)
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On Friday, Mommy, Daddy and Papa Mike took me on a safari! Do you know what a safari is? It’s basically a zoo without any fences! At first I was a little nervous and thought maybe the animals would eat me, but they were really nice. The guide told me that if we are nice to animals they will be nice to us … usually anyways. That makes sense to me.
The safari was super cool. I liked the pink flamingos and the giraffes the best. I took LOTS of pictures.
Papa Mike and I ready to get our safari on!
What's that Daddy we should look behind us?
Woah.
Look how close we got! So cool!
I took pictures.
Lots and lots of pictures...
Say cheese!
(Dad note: The safari was pretty cool. I’d say Maile was a little too young – she was great, but it was a long day – ~3 hours. The guides were super knowledgeable, we learned a lot!)
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(Dad note: I apologize for missing a couple days of posting last week. We headed up to Santa Rosa for Thanksgiving and the internet wasn’t fantastic in the house we were staying at. Everything else about the house and our time away was amazing though … as you’ll see over the next few days!)
Grandma and Papa Boston arrived on Wednesday morning just in time to help the girls celebrate Hanukkah. It was Lauren’s first Hanukkah and the first time we used a Menurkey (thank you to Uncle Stephen’s mom, Liz, for sending one our way!)
Lighting the first night lights with Papa Mike...
We always read the card first...
Maile loved the Lego house that Grandma and Papa gave her...
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... no, really, she loved it. We played with it all weekend and spent ~2 hours over the first night and the next morning creating one of three houses in the kit
Haha! While they are distracted, I will open my gift!
ARRGGGHH! Wrapping paper is soooo hard to get off!
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