Girls on Merry-go-round

Zoo Girls

I took the girls and their best friends these days to the zoo on Friday. Riley and Ava, both with siblings at Linda Beach preschool, are great kids and they all get along very well. Elizabeth and Riley are particularly friendly to each other. We saw animals (the lions were actually awake this time AND playing) and rode rides (they all got to pick one so they went on four rides...at least Riley and Elizabeth did.) Riley will be in preschool with the girls in Fall, so that will be nice for all. Oh, and of course we met up with Susan and her boys while we were there.

"I really love aunt lori a lot"

That's what Elizabeth said this morning.

Breakfast

For some reason, the kids have decided that they like to eat breakfast in the play kitchen pots or really big tupperware containers.

Race Photo

The sponsors of the race just posted their photos they took. This is me and my running partner Kristy about to cross the finish line. We sprinted the last 100 feet or so.

Bootcamp

Here are a couple pics from when I took the kids to bootcamp last week.

There's an app for that.

Parker couldn't find Ted tonight in his bed. Michael used his iPhone as a flashlight to locate the lost bear who had slipped down to Elizabeth's bed.

Gotta love those Macs.

Oh Shit.

Tonight at dinner, Elizabeth, without any apparent reason said, "Oh Shit." I immediately started laughing because she had the completely correct tone with it. Michael was not amused. He became even less amused when Parker and Miranda joined in saying, "Oh Shit. OHHHH shit. Oh shhhhitttt." And on and on.

I finally said, "That is something that adults say, but it's not for kids to say so when you are 39 years old, you can say it too. Until then, don't say it."

Parker immediately started calculating how old I would be when he could say shit.

Elizabeth said, "Sebastian and Fletcher's mommy says 'Oh Shit'. And so does Roy."

I could not keep from laughing.

Chabot

After a day of doing nothing but me running and then relaxing while Michael tended to the kids full time, he needed to get some work done. So I took the kids to the Chabot Space and Science center again this morning. Since they opened an hour after we arrived, we first played at Roberts park. The last time I took the kids there, it was too dangerous for the girls, but now, they were pros. Back at the Center, we played in one room for a while and then tried to do a movie again which terrified Miranda so we left. The Discovery Lab opened at noon and we played there for a while. They could have stayed all day. Literally.

The big run

Rachel ran her race today, and the whole family turned out to cheer her on. Here, the kids wait patiently at about the 7 mile mark.




Sure enough, Rachel came by, and despite all the practicing we did, the kids were too caught up in the moment to say Hooray a single time. They were very pleased to see her, and a bit confused when she just ran off.



I was using my iPhone, and I had the kids to mind, so most of my pictures look like this.



This was the best action photo I was able to get, about 100 yards from the finish line.



Go Rachel!

I did it!

13.1 miles. Yay me! Pics later...

That, I would like to see.

Parker said this morning,

"When we go bowling with Grandma Judy, she is going to say, 'that's the way, Parker'"

I didn't realize bowling and Grandma Judy could be in the same sentence.

Class Picture

My friend Kika scanned this for me today. It's Parker's school photo. Times Two! He kinda looks like my brother did when he was younger...

Mama Mia!

I'm making a CD for Parker's preschool of all the kids' favorite songs. I've burned all the CDs, and we are going to make the cover tomorrow. Then I'll distribute. It's a great variety of songs on the CD. It ranges from Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to Bon Jovi. From Black Bird by the Beatles to the theme song from the Transformers Movie. There are songs from musicals, toddler CDs, and even some House music. Parker selected Billy Joel which made me very proud and Michael very distressed.

Parker has already started listening to the CD in the car. He likes all the songs, but his favorite are Abba's Dancing Queen and a song from Wicked called Popular.

How fabulous is that?!?!?

For Susan

Block Ramp

New Photographers

I think they are pretty good.

Elizabeth took these with no help from me at all.





And Miranda took these.

Twister

Twister is big in our house right. The girls are playing naked. Parker is playing. And Parker's buddies are playing.

Busy Morning

This morning was action packed.

It was 'bring your kid to boot camp day' so since Michael was out of town, I took all three kids. I thought they would last about 5 minutes, but all of them did the whole class running, jumping and crawling with the bigger kids. And with the girls in their leotards and pony tails, they pretty much won the cute contest hands down. They got snacks and medals at the end of class.

Since I thought they wouldn't last in the class, I brought some bread to feed to the ducks at the lake, which was really close to class. So we went down there, but the geese were so aggressive, it freaked out the girls too much. After a quick stop at the playground, I was hungry. We went to Lakeside Cafe for some pancakes. Throughout all of this, the kids were exceptionally well behaved (minus some knife banging while waiting for the food.)

As it was still early (10am) we went to Chabot Space and Science Center, where I have never been before. Parker recently went there on a class field trip and kept talking about it. At Parker's request, we went to the movie first (planetarium style), but the darkness and loud music scared the shit out of the girls and we high tailed it out of there. We ended up in room for little kids that we could have stayed in for hours. They had everything: marble runs, lego, magnet letters, animals, computer for little ones, art projects, blocks...you name it! Leaving only twice for Elizabeth requested bathroom breaks, we stayed there until 12:30 when we had to get going home for naps.

As you can imagine, the kids were plum tuckered and fell asleep for naps very quickly.