another week in paradise

ok, paradise might be a stretch, especially when you consider all of the dog poop bombs we must navigate on our street, but we are now 1.5 weeks into some pretty glorious january weather. blue skies, sunshine and 60+ degrees everyday. almost makes up for the lousy summer we had this year.

i do find that all the reports of below zero temps in the midwest and northeast make it feel even nicer out here. of course, someone in our new jersey office did offer to send me his mortgage bill when i gloated just a little too much.

evie was a little sick all weekend. she had a fever when she came home from school on friday, and it never fully went away. we did manage to get outside and enjoy the sun, though, and she seemed no worse for the wear. and she happily went off to school this morning. hopefully the fever will not be rearing its head again.

excellent mlk day

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for the first time in a lot of years, i had a mlk day off. i sat evie down to give her an intro to who martin luther king, jr was and why we celebrate her birthday. then i made her sit somewhat quietly for the "i have a dream" speech.

she was actually somewhat decent with the listening, but i gotta say, the trip to the zoo with her friends did seem to be more her speed.

zoo trip made better by a chance encounter with her friend zyla. san francisco proves once again that it is a very small city.

daddy's girl

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got this shot on sunday afternoon while we were down in redwood city. mike had a gig, and evie and i tagged along hoping to attend. unfortunately the club turned out to be over 21 only. the good news was that zyla and gaurav came up to join us, so the four of us played outside, so the trip was not wasted.

ice cream and zyla lessened the sting of not being able to get into the gig for evie.

this picture makes my crappy camera phone worth having. love it.

princess party

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last sunday was a joint birthday party for evie's friends kyra and lucie. there was a dance instructor with costumes and stories for the kids. they were all pretty damned cute.

it's hard to believe that these girls are all turning four. for those first few weeks after evie was born, time seemed to stand still. we are now moving at a much higher velocity which seems to be accelerating all of the time. i wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow she was in the third grade.

oh, and a quote from last weekend. mike was trying to get evie to get ready so we could go out. he kept saying (over and over again) "evie put on your coat, evie put on your coat", while she blissfully ignored him. finally, after about ten promptings she looked at him and said "maybe i would do it if you just stopped bothering me".

crikeys, she's already thirteen!

time for me to fly

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we finally did it. we signed evie up for a class. a class on 9 am on sundays. it seemed like such a good idea until a friend called at 7:51 am on sunday and woke us all up.

hmm. we used to be early risers.

nonetheless, we made it to the gymnastics/tumbling/run evie till she's ragged class on time.

it's in an old gymnasium that we visited a couple of months ago for a birthday party. the kids ran, tumbled, jumped on trampolines, swung on a trapeze, and had a blast.

i guess you know where i'll be for the next nine sundays.

christmas morning 2010 (part 2)

and here is part two:



enjoy!

christmas morning 2010 (part1)

just in case you want to share in evie's christmas morning, we've got it all here for you. this is part one:



part two coming next.