The neighborhood Easter bunny distributed around 500 plastic eggs around the neighborhood last night. This brought my children out of their beds early this morning to scour the grass and playground for any stitch of colored plastic. Kaitlyn felt inclined to get dressed up for the occasion. Jessica didn't gather as many eggs as the other children because she felt it necessary to shout out to her friend Will every time she found one.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
My runner
I wonder sometimes why I still push a stroller around anymore. Jessica's preferred method of travel is fast or faster. It is only when she wants to slow down that she will get in the stroller and you can probably guess how often that happens. I keep telling Arnie that he should focus his attention encouraging our budding track star, now that he has been forced to take it easy on his own running career.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Dennis the Menace Park
There is a big park here in Monterey called the "Dennis the Menace" playground. The last time I had gone, it had rained. Today it was a sunny and the girls had a blast. This is the type of playground where it was impossible for me to station myself in one location and see all of it. Good thing I was following them taking pictures :)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Kindergartners and the Aquarium
Back at the beginning of March, I had the opportunity to chaperon Kaitlyn's class the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I had gone as a chaperon with Malia's class and thought it was only fair. However, in Malia's case, with a class of eleven, I only had to take care of her. Not so in this field trip! I had decided to save gas and parking money and ride the bus with Kaitlyn, my first mistake. Also, I had to watch three other innocent looking girls from her class. (HA!!!) I spent the majority of the time chancing the little buggers through the crowded school-age child infested aquarium wondering if their mothers had installed ear plugs in their ears to perhaps protect their delicate hearing systems from hearing their frantic chaperon's pleas to stay with me and to not lean so far over the edge of the ray tank! I am happy to say that I managed to come out with the same amount of kids that I went in with and they were relatively unscathed from their adventures. I, however, was very glad that I brought an Excedrin.
Kaitlyn's Kindergarten class
Friday, March 19, 2010
Cousins at the Beach
Arnie's brother Josh and his family came to visit us last weekend and we had a full house, a full weekend and a blast! The girls woke up at 5:30am on Saturday to find the power was out and watched the sunrise. After a wonderful breakfast of biscuits and gravy provided by Anna, we were off to Carmel beach to play in the sand while Arnie surfed. We also went to the tide pools of Asilomar and got nice and wind blown. Our girls enjoyed introducing their Minnesota cousins to the beaches and educating them about the wildlife that they have come to love. Because of the high wind and waves, we weren't able to see any sea otters, though. Maybe on another trip.
Kids watching hermit crabs at the tide pools
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Big Sur Half Marathon
Arnie ran the Big Sur Half Marathon this morning. After being diverted all over downtown Monterey, the rest of us were able to park and get to the finish line right in time to see him run to the finish line at around one hour and thirty eight minutes of running. Way to go Arnie!!!
Arnie running into the finish.
Great Gifts for Halloween!
My Aunt Catherine came down from Sacramento to enjoy the Halloween festivities. She added a little extra cheer with cute little bags of goodies for each one of the girlies. It was really fun to have her here along with my parents and sister.
Jessi is so excited about the Playdough in Halloween colors!
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