Impromptu babysitting

Ron and Jen dropped the little ones off last night so they could go out on a date.

Sparty arrived fed and happy.

… while Maya didn’t waste any time getting the lego wagon out.

… and the funky hat and Jelly Bellies …

I really like that Maya lets me take pictures of her now … now that she realizes the pictures are FUN to look at!! Notice the dogs want to know and be in the middle of everything she’s up to.

I saved this YouTube video for last. Sparty is well entertained in his bouncy seat.
http://youtu.be/sRBRyKJEduE
Those are some chunky legs!!

I’ll be heading to Lake Arrowhead this afternoon for a yoga philosophy and asana (poses) retreat, returning Friday afternoon.

Note to Robb & Akuch: Pappa will be on hand for watching Alo Friday in my absence. There’s no show at the Pt. Loma Library this week, so check with Pappa for a Nati’s rendezvous on Thursday.

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Another Friday with Alo

First on the agenda… a nap. The nap normally occurs after I wear him out, but it looks like maybe Akuch wore him out before I could get my hands on him.

Then some selfies at the park.

And before Robb got here to pick him up he had a little time in the yard.

Words well spoken:

Hi (with a hand wave) – which he’ll say readily when he first shows up

Thank you – which he says whenever he is given something, and when he gives you something

Whassat?? – whenever he hears something or whenever he feels like it

Boo – when playing peek-a-boo, a game he’ll instigate on his own

Bye (with a hand wave) – when he’s leaving, or when someone else leaves, including Mommy & Daddy, without crying 🙂

Oh, & he will (attempt to) sing along to the “Hello to you” song.

Today, another BIG Saturday morning class at the house – 8 students!

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Puppet Show

Alo and Maya had a great time at the puppet show yesterday. It was the last event of the summer for the Pt. Loma Library. Maya and Alo also enjoyed each other!

This lady did a fantastic job of keeping her show moving, synchronized to sometimes foot-stomping, hand clapping music with a flying pig, a horse trotting, a muscleman doing aerobics, a trapeze artist, and more. I sat on the floor with the kids to get a better view.

All the kids there were pretty good, sitting still and watching the 30-minute show. At one time, the music got hoppin’ and Maya got to dancing!

It was great fun for all of us.

Here’s Alo’s little buddy, Jerardo, and mom, Akuch and Alo’s friends from the park. It was nice they were also able to enjoy the fun.

This afternoon – Alo and Amma Time! A guaranteed good time.

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Maya and the trampoline

I took the day off yesterday to get our tax stuff together. It pretty much takes an entire day (UGH!). But luckily for me, Maya had gymnastics and I had the opportunity to go watch, and actually followed her around keeping her corralled to the task at hand, whatever that was at the time.

There were probably 10 kids, all about Maya’s age. During the hour, there were many fun things to do, like …

– hang on the bars, pulling up to look over, bringing the feet up to touch the bar, and learning how to drop onto the floor from the bar safely,

– jump up on big plastic-wrapped cushions and do backward sumersaults over them,

– do handstands (feet to wall), and

– JUMP on the trampoline. This clearly was Maya’s favorite. Here she is jumping with her teacher.

Of course, I took a video I uploaded to YouTube.
http://youtu.be/_jLqWAMrK-g

Then, when it was all over all the kids lined up to get a tattoo and sticker (Maya still has her sticker on this morning).

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Alo nearly walking

Standing, at least! So so cute!!!

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Happy Birthday to Max

Grandma (GraMoMo) sent me some photos she took at the surf contest Saturday morning, which was also Max’s birthday. I think she did a pretty good job of it! Here are the ones I think turned out the best.

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Alo & Maya on YouTube

YouTube fun:

http://youtu.be/KxXB3c6nASA

http://youtu.be/ysuLT7MMxAQ

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Surf’s Up on Max’s birthday

I stole this picture from Morgan’s FB post of the boys with their trophies after the surf contest yesterday. I didn’t make it to the surf contest because of teaching and babysitting, but the picture speaks for itself. Part of that speaking for itself might be that every kid received a trophy??? Just wondering … It’s a great photo though. Definitely annual calendar worthy!

Little Sparty arrived sound asleep in his car carrier yesterday while I was teaching. When he woke up, his little foot found a hole in the blanket.

He was happily being occupied by playing with the blanket with his toes. So I snuck up on him and took this photo through the hole …

He’s starting to be a real person now. He drank his bottle, we played a while, I wore him out, and then he passed out.

Here he is being cute just sleeping soundly.

Gearing up for another beautiful day!

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Alo & Amma Selfies

Had a great time yesterday at the park with Alo. Captain Adorable and I played on the jungle gym and Alo met lots of young friends. These selfies are taken on the jungle gym, where we hung out a long time. Check out that tooth! There’s another one waiting to sprout you also may be able to see under the gum.

As usual, Alo crashed pretty hard after all the fresh air activity.

Two hours later I had to wake him up to feed him before Robb came to pick him up.

I’m teaching this morning (a BIG class!), then Sparty comes for a visit while the rest of his family goes to the circus. I have a couple really good videos uploaded to YouTube and some other pictures I’ll be sharing in the next couple days.

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