Mommy teaching Maile about Bocce. Or is it Maile teaching Mommy?
On Sunday our neighbors hosted a day long bocce tournament at the local bocce courts. (Yes, there are local bocce courts right down the street from our apartment. Who knew?) Apparently this is a tradition that the neighbors have been doing for years – they hold tournaments on the Sunday of Memorial Day and Labor Day to bookend the summer. In addition to some serious bocce, there was a ton of great Italian-inspired food.
Maile Girl was fascinated by the rolling balls. She stared at the game for so long that I’m pretty sure she has it figured out. Do they offer scholarships for bocce?
I have an admission to make. I cheated a bit when it came to my fantasy football drafts this year. I had Maile Girl helping me with my picks…
Me: Maile Girl, I need a WR - what do you think? Maile: Hold on, let me check a few things. Take Wes Welker, I think he has good value right now. Me: Thanks, Maile Girl.
Just a quick one tonight as Daddy is very busy getting ready for football season… but check out this screen grab from a recent video we took. Maile looks more and more like Mommy every day…
One of our new favorite activities is going on a family walk after work. Maile absolutely loves being outside and she especially gets a kick out of walking around with Mommy and Daddy. She walks between us and holds onto both of us. As we walk Maile giggles, babbles and shrieks, telling us all about her day with Megan and Hannah. Its pretty much the best thing going. Since we are all involved its hard to take a good picture, so the shadows above will have to do.
Christine and I are starting to learn a very useful parenting lesson. For the first year of Maile’s life, we worried when she made lots of noise – crying meant that something was wrong. Now? We worry when Maile isn’t making any noise. Whenever it gets too quiet in the house and Maile isn’t directly in sight, it typically means something naughty is going on.
Below are four examples. In each instance, Christine or I were doing something and Maile snuck off and next thing we knew…
What? I thought I'd help by picking out my outfit for today...
What? I'm just learning how toilet paper works...
What? I just wanted to make sure you didn't leave your credit card at the store...
You know what? I got nothing for this one. I just spilled my dinner. Sorry.
On Saturday Maile and Mommy went to meet the latest addition to the San Francisco crew – Oliver. Oliver is the son of Lisa and Alex.
When Maile Met Oliver
During the visit Mommy learned a valuable lesson…
Maile isn’t quite ready to hold babies yet What caught Maile’s attention? Oliver’s cat, Furio. (Yes, Furio has his own blog. And 746 fans on Facebook. Which is just ridiculous.)
Here, kitty, kitty...
Then Allison showed up and the focus was back on Oliver again. The first of many fights over Oliver ensued…
Maile: So what do you think of Oliver? Allison: He's pretty cute. Maile: Just remember I met him first.
Allison: What do YOU mean you met him first? Maile: Just saying, I've got dibs. Allison: What are dibs? Maile: Not sure, but I've got 'em.
Things got a little ugly from there, but we managed to get everyone together for a final group shot…
From Left to Right: Alex, Oliver, Lisa, Stephanie, Allison, Keo, Maile and Mommy
What caught Maile’s attention? Oliver’s cat, Furio. (Yes, Furio has 
