We went over to Sophie’s house for a 4th of July BBQ. The girls are getting to the age where they can play amongst themselves and we only need to break in on occasion to encourage more focus on sharing. Good friends, great food – was a nice way to celebrate the 4th!
As you will be able to tell from these pictures, the girls really liked sitting next to each other on the same chair...
Not sure how much reading is going on here, but there is definitely a story being told!
Sophie and her daddy made these great patriotic popsicles
So yummy, but so cold. Truth be told, Maile Girl bailed on the popsicle a little while after this. Daddy can report that it was delicious though!
This is what Maile does when she is tired of me taking her picture. Just closes her eyes and patiently waits for me to get lost. Smart girl 😉
Grandma Gail really outdid herself this year. Keeping with the annualtradition, she made Maile’s halloween costume. This year, Maile actually was able to request her costume – Elmo!
The best part of Grandma Gail's costume was that she was able to deliver it in person! Thank you Grandma Gail!
The costume is amazing and Maile had a lot of fun wearing it (well, truth be told, she had a lot of fun wearing it all weekend and then strangely pitched a fit when her friends came over to trick or treat with her). Maile invited a few friends over and we did some trick or treating practice around the courtyard (baby steps before heading out into the big, bad city!)
I'm Maile Elmo. Cool. I'm Hannah Sailor. Cool.
Firemen, sailor, golfer, leopard, Elmo, oh my!
After trick or treating, we didn’t think the kids had enough sweets, so we headed inside and Mommy helped everyone decorate Halloween cookies!
All in all it was a fun start to Halloween! Happy trick or treating!
Last weekend we met Sophie at the California Academy of Sciences. There was a time when I felt much older than Sophie, but now she is basically the same age as me. We ran all over checking out the fishies and making shark cookies. Pretty solid Sunday if you ask me!
The floor was see through! I asked Daddy if we could set that up at home and he said he would work on it!
Sophie and I pretty much checked out everything together.
Sometimes we asked one of the mommies to join us...
We're still little so a lot of the action takes place above our heads...
... but we just stand on our tippy toes and we make it work!
After running around the museum, we headed out back to make some shark cookies. Mommy helped me with mine.
Then Sophie and I compared notes before chowing down!
We had a mini Labor Day party at our place on Monday. It was a little bittersweet as it was Hannah’s last weekend living in San Francisco. The good news is that she isn’t moving too far away – just down the Peninsula a bit, but we’ll miss having her (and her parents) right up the street!
Nothing says Labor Day like a hot dog from the grill!
Maile and Hannah at age 2 - amazing to see how much they've grown!
Ring Around the Rosie with Maile, Hannah, Sophie and Jake
Milestone - first family shot where none of the kids melted down!
We like this outtake because of Maile's kiss for Mommy
(Dad note: Hannah’s daddy took all the great pictures – you can see more of them on her site.)
On Sunday, we headed to the San Francisco Zoo with Hannah, Sophie, Jake and their parents. It was our first trip to the zoo in SF. We were prepared for a meltdown after Maile’s experience in New York with her grandparents, but she was actually great. I think it helped that the San Francisco Zoo was really wide open.
We’ll definitely be heading back, since the kids are all old enough to walk now, it took us awhile to get around. We probably only covered 25% of the zoo – but we had a lot of fun doing it!
We're at the zoo! We're at the zoo!
Hannah, just so you know, I'm normally very scared of animals, but being next to you makes me feel brave...
Maile's view of the flamingos...
Maile checking out the wild animals. Jake checking out Maile. (Hat tip to Renee R for the caption.)
I think the giraffe was my favorite. What about you?
On Sunday, we headed up to Union Street for the annual Easter fair. We met up with Sophie and Jake and had a lot of fun walking around in the sun.
Maile, Jake and Sophie all dressed up in their Easter best
(Dad note: It is impossible to look at the picture above without comparing it to the first group shot of Maile, Jake and Sophie from Mother’s Day last year. I think it’s safe to say that Jake and Sophie have caught up!)
This is Maile being scared of the petting zoo - but it is also a great shot of her Easter outfit (from Grandma Gail and Grandpa Cal)
Daddy, the animals can't get out of their cage, right? Right? It doesn't look very sturdy to me...
Once we forgot about the animals we had lots of fun!
Well, heeeelloooo ladies. Welcome to my crib! Make yourself at home...
On Monday, we headed down to Palo Alto for a Labor Day BBQ at Wills’ house. Hannah, Allison, Sophie and Oliver (along with their parents) joined us as well. It was a pretty crazy scene with babies walking and crawling all over the place (or being carried in the case of little Oliver).
The BBQ was fun, but the real excitement came when we tried to take a group picture. Here’s the final result:
Mommies and babies - Labor Day 2010
Not too bad. Here’s the behind-the-scenes of how it all came together…
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(Click here for the video.)
(Click here for the complete photo shoot courtesy of Wills.)
Hannah’s dad, Josh, takes MUCH better pictures than I do. He sent over his shots from the Three Amigas birthday party and I thought I’d share. See the slideshow below. (And yes, I ordered a book from Amazon so I can learn to take better pictures!)
What do you think? Does this pink jump suit make me look like a giant?
On Saturday, we got together with Hannah, Sophie and Jake’s parents and had a little mother’s day brunch. It was amazing to see how much bigger Maile is compared to Jake and Sophie. They’ll catch up soon enough, but for now we had a good laugh looking at them sitting together!
After some delicious pancakes, we sent the ladies off to get their nails done and the dads held down the fort (quite well I might add). You can check out more details (and a video) on Sophie’s blog.
The dads survived a few hours on their own with the little ones...
... and the moms came home all done up and looking beautiful!
