MommyDaddies

"Fire - Crackers"

2012-02-10T20:55:00.000-05:00

Kindergardeners jumping on squares of bubble wrap!

Dragon Parade

2012-02-10T20:45:00.000-05:00

Gung Hoy Fat Choy

Dennis the Menace Playground

2012-01-16T00:22:00.000-05:00

Pirate Boys

2012-01-04T17:48:00.000-05:00

Happy New Year --- baby Dito

2012-01-04T17:43:00.000-05:00

Starfish Hunter

2011-12-27T13:02:00.000-05:00

Em Hunting Starfish

2011-12-27T12:59:00.000-05:00

Holiday at Grandpa's House

2011-12-27T12:53:00.000-05:00

I'm Sexy & I know it...

2011-12-27T12:52:00.001-05:00

12.24 Sunset at Grandpa's

2011-12-27T12:52:00.000-05:00

Hello XMas Eve Dinner

2011-12-27T12:51:00.000-05:00

Stationery card

2011-12-14T22:09:00.001-05:00

Peace Love Lights Hanukkah Card

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Birtthday Brulee!

2011-12-01T20:22:00.000-05:00

Who Loves Vegas?

2011-11-21T23:48:00.000-05:00

2001

2011-11-12T18:06:00.000-05:00

2011-11-01T00:54:00.000-04:00

Bounty

2011-11-01T00:45:00.000-04:00

Pumpkins eat their young

2011-11-01T00:43:00.000-04:00

This Year

2011-11-01T00:42:00.000-04:00

Where do little wolverines come from?

prior years...

2011-11-01T00:41:00.000-04:00

10.15 Who's Hammering & Who's Watching

2011-10-18T14:29:00.000-04:00

10.15 em

2011-10-18T14:28:00.000-04:00

10.15 Rhys

2011-10-18T14:27:00.000-04:00

Steam In the trees

2011-10-15T11:44:00.000-04:00

while riding the narrow gauge steam train in Santa Cruz Mtn's.

Santa Cruz

2011-10-15T11:30:00.000-04:00

Hard to tell who likes the kiddie rides more...

Not a school day

2011-10-15T11:26:00.000-04:00

This is what 10 am looks like when no one (me) shakes him awake at 7:20 in the morning.

Snacks with Dito

2011-10-13T11:25:00.000-04:00

Got to babysit for Remi today - So I picked the boy up and took him straight to Children's Fairyland. This place is so perfect for new & newish walkers. Lots of things to look at, low fences to hold onto, little farm animals and a stream. There are also kiddie rides like a "train" and a merry-go-round. After an hour or so in the park we wandered down by the lake for our "lunch" - yumm crackers. Then I got a two plus hour nap out of him in the car seat driving home. Spent the afternoon with both boys where I was too busy baby chasing to grab the camera, but trust me when I say they both had a lot of fun. There was dancing, there was mess making and there was Mac N Cheese.

9.10 With Grandma Roseanna and Aaron

2011-10-11T10:35:00.000-04:00

L'Shana Tovah (and shabat shalom)

2011-10-02T11:46:00.000-04:00

SFO

2011-10-02T11:25:00.000-04:00

This is what the boy looks like after 5 3/4 hours on a plane!
(He is running in circles right in front of Hugh Laurie by the way who was on his way out of town after playing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass)

Spotted at SFO

2011-10-02T11:21:00.000-04:00

Very fuzzy picture of TV's dr. house who we saw yesterday as we deplaned in SF.

Momma gets breakfast

2011-09-27T11:26:00.001-04:00

Chicken & Waffles at Aunt Mary's ---9.27
This was one of the rare mornings where my errands took me out of the immediate neighborhood which in turn became a great excuse for treating myself to breakfast - and since I had a half off coupon for aunt Mary's ... well lets just say Chicken and Waffles here I come. It was a nice treat to sit outside on their deck and enjoy a few minutes of quiet over coffee & yummy food. Maybe I will get to bring Em here sometime.

Right before the fire alarm went off...

2011-09-26T11:27:00.001-04:00

On Monday mornings the kids all gather in one classroom for Havdalla (to say goodbye to the weekend) - this week was going along swimmingly until the smoke from the candle set off the fire alarms. But I got to see how good everyone was at lining up and marching out of the classroom to the meeting spot - and then FOUR firetrucks came. The kindergarten kids loved it. I was just glad that it wasn't raining.

Reunion at Mills

2011-09-22T11:28:00.002-04:00

Spent bits and peices of the weekend out at Mills since this was the class of '86 Twenty-Five year reunion (really how can that be) - it also was the installation of the new President (who I think is gonna rock!) It is weird that reunion is mainly a bunch of folks that I don't know AT ALL along with Chris Daniels - but in the Mills Spirit they took me into their group and made me feel welcome and a part of which was really sweet.

Missed Deb and Rissa for sures though

wolverine soccer guy

2011-09-18T11:30:00.000-04:00

Wolverine getting ready for his soccer game.

Nuff said

Soccer Moms

2011-09-10T17:47:00.000-04:00

The new digs

2011-09-07T10:19:00.000-04:00

Tehiyah

2011-08-23T15:39:00.000-04:00

First Day

2011-08-23T15:35:00.000-04:00

First Day of Getting up Early for KinderGarden

2011-08-23T15:33:00.000-04:00

or not

Richmond Plunge

2011-08-22T18:21:00.000-04:00

Super Heroes

2011-08-22T18:20:00.001-04:00

Fighting Super Heroes

2011-08-22T18:20:00.000-04:00

empty cubby

2011-08-13T13:49:00.000-04:00

Arriving at Camp it Up!

2011-08-12T12:00:00.000-04:00

Night Fury

2011-08-12T11:55:00.000-04:00

This is the ballon dragon that the boy scored at the food trucks a couple of weeks back.

Boys in Trees

2011-08-09T18:22:00.000-04:00

(with helmets and wearing suit jackets ... what could be better?)

Temescal - fishing & laughing

2011-08-06T18:24:00.002-04:00

Met Jasper and his mom at Lake Temescal to try our hand at some more fishing after we all acquired a taste for it at Camp last week. The boys will never ever catch anything because all they do is jump around and make each other laugh. But despite the sillies they are both learning how to cast pretty well.

July 4th Yum

2011-08-04T11:01:00.000-04:00

Sunset in Montara with the Barnes'

2011-07-26T18:26:00.000-04:00

Corn Before

2011-07-20T15:54:00.000-04:00

First Fruits

2011-07-04T14:20:00.000-04:00

The farmer boy holds up the first harvest from our deck "garden" one perfect pea - note the corn behind him. We are also working on Kale and carrots!

Happy Fourth of July

2011-07-04T11:58:00.000-04:00

Heading Out

2011-07-03T13:31:00.000-04:00

Tossing the boy into the Paint Pot Geysers

2011-07-03T13:30:00.000-04:00

Mama's Crossing

2011-07-03T13:23:00.000-04:00

Proceed with Caution

2011-07-03T13:22:00.000-04:00

Grizzly's

2011-07-03T13:19:00.000-04:00

OK so you really have to enlarge this picture - but if you do you will see a few brownish lumps - trust me THESE ARE GRIZZLY BEARS, it was a mom with partially grown cubs foraging in this field along the streams. They looked AWESOME through the binoculars - not so much through the camera though...

Bison in the rear view

2011-07-03T13:16:00.000-04:00

Note the black spot along the side of the road ... a few seconds earlier he was alongside the car - and the size of the car.

Nap Time (part 2)

2011-07-03T13:14:00.000-04:00

Dori Enjoying the Wildlife

2011-07-03T13:11:00.000-04:00

His New BFF

2011-07-03T13:10:00.000-04:00

Neighborhood Black Bear (Canyon Lodge)

2011-07-03T13:03:00.000-04:00

Paint Pot Geyser

2011-07-03T13:02:00.000-04:00

mid day nap

2011-07-03T13:00:00.000-04:00

Top of the World

2011-07-03T12:54:00.000-04:00

Happy Fathers Day to the Grandpa's

2011-06-19T16:23:00.000-04:00

Grandma Grandma Anne

2011-06-16T16:22:00.000-04:00

(photo from last year... wish we were closer this year)

Making mazes for Rhys

2011-06-12T01:37:00.000-04:00

Guess Who's Coming to Visit

2011-06-12T01:33:00.000-04:00

OMG I love these two...

2011-06-12T01:29:00.001-04:00

The Boys good buddies from Skytown with there mini-me sculptures

Final Swim Lesson - Level Two A

2011-06-06T12:35:00.001-04:00

Next Stop Kensingtorn

2011-06-06T12:19:00.000-04:00

Here are a few shots of the place we are looking at near Colusa Circle in Kensington. The boy likes this house (he refers to the one I like best as "poopy") - it is RIGHT around the corner from not one but TWO of Em's JMP BFF's and it has room with privacy for houseguests like grandparents and friends from MA. So it looks like this is where we will go when we are booted from our Berkeley Hills Nest on Sept 1st.

Happy Birthday Dito

2011-06-05T01:28:00.001-04:00

Uncle Kavan watches as baby Dito works on his poses.

Hero Worship

2011-05-31T12:22:00.001-04:00

The best thing about the visit to Seattle was getting told that when Rhys was asked by his play date friend who the lil guy was he responded... well he's like my cousin or my brother - yeah thats it he's my brother.

Big Big love with these two.

Lila's Baby

2011-05-31T01:26:00.000-04:00

Meeting Baby Cohen

2011-05-23T01:25:00.001-04:00

The Cambridge Cohen's (now of Seattle) came out to the park to meet up with us between rain storms and I got to meet the newest member of the family (well she was mainly sleeping, but I got to stare at her) .... Can't wait to see more of them this week!!!

Happy Mothers' Day

2011-05-14T01:16:00.000-04:00

from the Claremont...

Two Robots and a Machine

2011-05-13T22:49:00.000-04:00

Birthday Wishes

2011-05-13T22:48:00.000-04:00

This is a picture of all the things he wanted for his 5th Birthday - on the top is "Robot Boy" next to a Three-wheeled scooter, and then an ITouch and some Legos, There are also three pair of Wolverine underpants and on the bottom is "Robot Cat" on the left and a real cat on the right....

Baby Deer

2011-05-11T12:20:00.001-04:00

Spring has officially made it to our yard as shown by this baby deer grazing with Mama this morning.

Fire Fire Fire

2011-05-08T10:51:00.000-04:00

Birthday Carnage

2011-05-08T10:48:00.000-04:00

New Cameral Lens...

2011-04-29T22:36:00.000-04:00

Visit with Xan

2011-04-29T22:30:00.000-04:00

Our old friend from Cambridge Xan now lives in Davis with his Mom, Dad and little sister & today they came down to Berkeley for a visit. Even though the boys don't really remember each other they played together really great. And it was Awesome to see Emily and meet her daughter.
Who is totally the spitting image of her mom!

A Visit from Xan & his mom (& sister)

2011-04-29T01:21:00.001-04:00

Our friend Emily who used to live in Cambridge & was instrumental in organizing all of the kids into Mama coffee playdates lives in Davis CA now. She said she would come visit us when we got back out here but I didn't really know if it would happen. But this am she got the kids in the car and trucked on down to Berkeley. It was so awesome to see Xan again & to meet his sister and to get to run around and play. Everyone loved the Rose Garden! Now its my turn to take a ride up north and see them.

Fantastic Painter Artist

2011-03-23T21:39:00.003-04:00

This little film was shot Feb 19th - the background noise are our friends Charlie and Leo playing in the next room. The boy is explaining what a "Fantastic Painter Artist" is as he works on a painting.

He is especially impressed with Mommy's artistic abilities because "she can make stars" - Me Too.

Just Cause

2011-03-23T20:04:00.001-04:00

Photo from our visit to Lawrence Hall of Science.

A couple of engineers...

2011-03-23T20:03:00.001-04:00

Rafi and the boy are working on a suspension bridge at Lawrence Hall of Science. We cut preschool today so that we could hang out some more with the G-N clan - mom, dad, Doron, Rafi and Zohara and Ziva. It was rainy so LHS was our place. The boy is pretty smitten with Rafi - they both love to build complex and beautiful structures.

When a tree falls in the neighborhood

2011-03-20T10:16:00.000-04:00

The neighbors called last night just after midnight to tell us that everyone was okay and that we shouldn't freak out if we saw FireTrucks coming up to their house. It was rainy and very very windy out and one of the giant trees in their yard had just come down onto their roof. - I hadn't heard a thing!!

This morning we went over to take a look - Wowza

Thank goodness everyone was fine & the house is hopefully fine - that is some good construction that it can catch a direct hit and not crumble.

Firewood anyone?

Ice Cream Stand

2011-03-09T22:21:00.000-05:00

Getting busy at Skytown on a clear day. A bunch of the kids set up an "ice cream stand" under the play structure. The funny thing was there was more interest in scooping and selling "ice cream" than in buying and eating it.

Flowers for Seyi & Kavan

2011-03-04T22:21:00.001-05:00

Park 61st st Emeryville

2011-02-21T22:19:00.001-05:00

After a trip to the BEST B*Y (thanky you Unka Jim) we found this new park in Emeryville (around 61st and Doyle) - it wasn't super big but it had some pretty cool play structures and we needed to run around for a bit so it was Perfect.

Indoor Play Cafe

2011-02-18T17:40:00.001-05:00

On this rainy rainy morning we had a play date with Amy and Cypress at Sadie Days in Oakland - it was a pretty cool space but crowded - lots of moms escaping the bad weather. Still I love a place where the boy can run and play and I can have a latte!!!! Plus seeing Amy was a BIG bonus.

Breakfast Out

2011-02-16T23:57:00.002-05:00

You would think now that the kid is in preschool 3 or 4 days a week I would have lots of time to kill with my favorite persuits like coffee, journaling, meals and just general lounging.... but that is SO not the case. I don't really know what the problem is but today I did get to have one of my RARE meals out with myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at that yumminess -

Yeah Sunshine Cafe on Solano

Happy V-Day

2011-02-16T23:56:00.001-05:00

New Park 2.16

2011-02-16T23:56:00.000-05:00

Before.During. After HAIRCUT time

2011-02-14T23:58:00.002-05:00

I thought his hair was getting a little too much

Emily disagrees.

But he was with me today so that means trip to the kids haircut place. It is amazing because usually he wont let anyone TOUCH his hair, but he will sit SMILING even for a haircut at this place. So even if the cuts not great... he is having an okay time with it...

Still curly -

Monday Funday

2011-02-14T00:00:00.001-05:00

Our Adventure Day playdate was at Lawrence Hall of Science this week. We had a good turnout of kids this time - lots of siblings too - There was much running around and playing with the various exhibits and then we ended the day in the blocks room.

Corty's dad David spent about and hour & a half working on his tower....

super duper Burger

2011-02-07T16:07:00.000-05:00

Marianna's Dinner at Super Duper