While Robb & Akuch celebrated their 4th wedding anniversary, we stayed home with Alo.
Scrub-a-dub-dub!
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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Don’t make me call Grandma!!
& just what does he think Grandma (aka Amma) would do about it anyways??
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I’m a little behind
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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YIKES!!
What kind of mother finds humor in flashing her poor, sweet baby boy? If you guessed Jen, BINGO! But he seems content…
Below, Alo and friends enjoy the shade.
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Gardening 101
Alo began his outdoor training in Gardening 101 this weekend. He’s done a fine job of helping out in the house – feeding the dogs, checking laundry (more like pushing washer & dryer buttons …) & general cleanup – & it seems he’s going to do a great job of keeping the plants watered when Pappa has to retire.
Then it was time to make sure the dogs had plenty of water.
After that & playing in the yard for a while (photos tomorrow), Alo removed all his wet clothes & passed out.
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A day in the life
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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Maya at Gymnastics Pt 2
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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Maya at Gymnastics Pt 1
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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Waiting room
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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Moon
This kid just keeps getting smarter every day. This morning he was playing with his car and I said “wheel.” He looked at me and watched me very closely as I said the word several times. Then he said “wheel” and pointed to the wheel. Then Pappa was watering in the front yard while Alo watched from the window and said “wassat?” I said “water.” I said it a number of times and then he said “wah” that soon turned into “water.” Seriously. It amazes me how he can hear a sound, look and see how the mouth forms and then repeat the word. I’ve never seen anything like it with a little one this young.
Here’s a video of Alo “doin’ his thing” and hanging out with Bear.
Alo and Akuch are off to meet their friends at the beach, and I’ve taken the morning off to go to gymnastics with Maya. The fun never ends!
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