We were the first ones to music class yesterday so Maya scored on getting the first choice of toys in the basket. Not only did she look adorable, but she also scored on the helicopter!
Story time – the 3 Little Pigs:
Meanwhile, Alo & Akuch went to the pumpkin patch with Alo’s friend Hunter.
We picked the twins up from school after lunch at Nati’s with Bill. I bribed a smile & pose out of them with a peppermint patty.
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Happy birthday yesterday to Jennifer – a good excuse for a play date!
What would really be nice is if they could be still for just a very short time so I can take a photo that isn’t all blurry …
Maya didn’t want to share her dolls …
Bath time!
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Ok, so that’s not really a pumpkin patch, but Sparty sure is one happy pumpkin!
Last week Akuch took Alo to get a pumpkin.
They came home with the bigger pumpkin, and they’re going to wait for Robb to come down on the 29th to carve it.
Here’s Maya picking out her pumpkin.
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I can’t believe it’s been three days since I last posted.
Above is a great photo of Maya listening to story time at music class Thursday. Unfortunately it comes with the bottom of someone’s dirty foot …
Here’s the whole group of 2-year olds. Most of them have some sort of an attention span.
Alo & Maya at Nati’s afterwards.
There’s never a shortage of hugs from Maya.
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Yesterday Alo went shopping with Amma & Pappa. Above, he’s playing with a sticker the checkout guy gave him.
While Maya and Sparty contemplate which car they want to buy.
Bruce & I went to a garden wedding for the son of one of my GNO friends. Nick, the groom, is an avid rock climber and was once on the US Climbing Team traveling the world climbing and competing. Nick’s now-wife, Steph, happens to be one of my yoga students, as Nick’s his mom, Gail. It was a really nice wedding in Gail & John’s yard. Here’s a photo of the trellis as we walked up the driveway.
This brought back good memories of Robb & Akuch’s wedding.
And here’s a photo of 3 of us GNOers & the groom L-R Kim, Nick Vickie and me.
Missing from in the GNO group photo is Gail, the mother of the groom.
During the ceremony, butterflies were released, and during dinner we had a visitor.
Today’s going to be another hot one. Stay cool.
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Above … Alo and friends.
At gymnastics, Maya enjoys jumping in “the pit.” Here are the last two videos I took Wednesday.
The one below shows her climbing out of the pit so she could do it again.
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Above, Alo eating a juicy nectarine.
Bruce’s “procedure” went fine. He survived the ordeal and is now back to normal, whatever that is …
I took four videos of Maya at gymnastics yesterday. I’ll share two today and two tomorrow.
Here Maya was picked as the “demonstrator” so the coach could show all the kiddies what they’re supposed to do at this balance beam station.
And here Maya shows off her trampoline skills.
What you don’t see in the video is ME jumping up and down along side her on the floor. Jump Jump Jump …
This morning while Alo was sitting in his high chair, I was standing next to him and he pointed to my stomach and said “belly button.” hahahaha. And when I was walking out the door to take the dogs for a walk, I said “I love you,” and he blew me a kiss.
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It’s quiet now after the morning rush of people dropping off their colonoscopy victims have left. Lots of people who don’t know how annoying it is to everyone else when they don’t turn their phones on mute at the doctor’s office. At least the tv isn’t on. Lucky us… we get to be here early because Bruce needs antibiotics first because of his alien body part.
I have my audiobook, Stephen King’s “Mr. Mercedes” which is a KILLER book (pun intended). I have 7 hours and 1 minute remaining (about half way through) of this detective mystery complete with SK’s twisted humor and mental twists, and I’m on an edge of my seat, can’t stop listening audiobook thrill ride. The reader, Will Patton, is the same reader of another book I listened to recently, “The Son” (highly recommend). He’s got the perfect voice for this type of narration and is doing a wonderful job of expressing the essence of the book.
It looks like I’ll be hanging out here in this waiting room until about 11:30-noonish while Bruce gets “scoped.” He survived the prep and, most importantly the night, so this is the easy part.
The wifi here is slow, so uploading the videos I took of Maya yesterday probably won’t make it to YouTube before I’m done with this post. Looks like they’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
But I did catch a couple moments in photos I can share. Throughout the 1 hour class, the instructor will gather the kids before moving to a different station. It takes a while before all the kids gather.
And it finally leads to this …
I really wish I could do that right here, right now in this waiting room! For reals … I’ve thought about it.
After gymnastics, Pappa always stops and gets Maya a fresh organic juice. Maya wasn’t sharing until she drank all she wanted.
Later in the day Hogan decided to do a little climbing up the stairs. Here’s where I found him …
Entertainment from the colonoscopy center … A poor old man had to come back looking for his dentures!!
Check in tomorrow for some gymnastics videos starring the one and only Number One Granddaughter!
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We went to help Ron with the kids last night because Jen was out of town. Big help I was … Maya wanted chocolate milk, so I fixed it for her. She didn’t want me to use the smaller cup and pointed to a larger one. So I grabbed the bigger cup, mixed the chocolate milk, put the lid on & handed it to her. Next thing you know, Maya’s standing in a puddle of chocolate milk. Evidently there’s a little plastic piece that belongs in the lid that wasn’t there. So it was a hole.
We sat outside for a little while and Maya wore her helmet while she pushed her little pink lawnmower around the yard. Pretty adorable.
Then she decided to take an outdoor shower fully clothed …
Then I undressed and mummified her.
Bruce & Sparty …
This morning, day 5 of a day in the life – Akuch feeding Alo breakfast.
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It started at noon when I went to watch Maya and Sparty for a couple hours. Sparty was awake most of the time and he cried only minimally. He spent a while in his ultra playground. I thought I took a video, but realized later it turned out to be a bad, blurry photo instead.
Maya got a package in the mail from Grandma JoJo – a brown scrubby monkey for the bath and a soft, lightweight Cleveland Browns blanket. Maya loves it!
We took a couple Sparty selfies …
Then Alo’s big move-in at our house. While Robb & Akuch organize their belongings, Alo stakes out his territory.
Robb will be leaving shortly to begin his drive to the Bay Area to start his new job tomorrow.
The view from the kitchen window tells me today is going to be another beautiful sunny day. Flo turns 80, and Janni would be 64.
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