Chuck E Cheese

Annabel had her first Chuck E Cheese experience (thanks again Alison)! And it made her day - probably even month. Look at this face!

A Day of Goodbyes

Yesterday we said goodbye to Josie's daycare in Belmont because she will start preschool when we return from our trip and goodbye to Annabel's lifelong friend Jaiden who is moving to be closer to family. Luckily we already have a date to see Jaiden in her new home but our friends will be dearly missed. 

 

This week...

This week is all about getting Annabel from one place to the next, ideally on time. Annabel is doing both an art class and a swim class, punctuated with her regular and make-up gymnastics classes. The art class is for fun at a local place in San Mateo and we did an intensive, daily swim class (for 2 weeks) in preparation for our trip. It was really important to us to feel like she was a strong enough swimmer that we could trust her in the pool since we must have at least a pair of eyes on Josie. Obviously she won't be swimming alone but she can swim the length of the pool if need be. And after some hard work she passed the class - freestyle with side breathing and back stroke - and is ready to move on to new strokes!

Josie has been a trooper being shuffled from one activity to the next. She's gotten to spend a lot of time in the pool too during lessons and is finally putting her head underwater voluntarily, which is a big leap from where she was at the conclusion of her last swim class.  It's not hard to drive from one activity to the next, but for some reason I'm exhausted.

Cheeky Tiki - Stag Wkd for Katie and Dean

Matt and I celebrated Katie and Dean's upcoming nuptials in Montecito this weekend while my parents generously agreed to watch the the girls while we played with our friends. The boys headed out to sea on Saturday while the girls stayed back at the house for Hula dancing lessons and other bachelorette-like shinanigans. It was a Cheeky Tiki weekend for sure!

A Happy 4th of July

We rallied this morning and took the train down to the redwood city 4th of July parade with the Willis crew. It was a fun parade meeting up with many of the same crew we see annually.  Josie really got into waving and dancing at the various floats. It was a fun and festive morning. 

Golden Gate Park Play date

Met up with Melissa and her crew, including 10 month old Tessa. Josie was so excited to see a real baby-baby. She was really curious about her, it was cute. We biked and scooter around golden gate park in the courtyard between the Academy of Sciences and the DeYoung, listened to the Golden Gate Orchestra, and dined on hot dogs. 

Handy Kids

We got some help paining our newly dry walled garage. Then they constructed a little bowling game at Home Depot - Annabel did hers all by herself, including reading and interpreting the directions. 

Buddies