Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
From the category archives:
Daddy, I’m not sure what kind of tricks you are trying to play on me. I am absolutely positive that a few seconds ago Mommy was right here and now all I see is my reflection in these big metal walls.
What gives?
No, seriously, bring her back.
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In the build up to the Olympics we started watching some ice skating with Maile and she absolutely loved it. From there she started pretending that our hard wood floor was ice and she’d skate around on her socks after dinner. Today, Mommy decided to introduce her to the real thing and they headed down to the Yerba Buena Skating Rink to try things out.
(Truth be told this was our second time trying to skate – two Christmases ago we had an aborted attempt at the rink they put up in Union Square. We lasted about 10 seconds on the ice that time. This time went WAY better…)
Holding on for dear life at the start ... but she got the hang of it pretty quick...
These buckets are genius - definitely don't recall that when I was little, but they worked out great - gave Maile lots of confidence on the ice to explore a bit on her own...
Mommy managed to capture some great short snippets of Maile’s first time out skating – I combined them into a video that captures it nicely I think…
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Last week we celebrated Chinese New Year with Maile’s whole school. We had a great time with all the other families. Certainly the highlight was seeing all the kids perform a song and dance on stage. This may shock you, but Maile feels at home up there 🙂
Chinese New Year's wishes from Maile (top) and Mommy (bottom)
Directing traffic up on stage...
... and singing, singing, singing!
After stage time there was plenty of time to goof around with our friends...
Lauren Girl taking it all in 🙂
Here’s the full video of Maile and her classmates’ performance:
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We might have another artist in the family. She’s still in her “eating phase” – but she’s starting to show some interest…
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Maile and Lauren make a good team. Lauren LOVES riding her toy car. And Maile LOVES pushing her in it 🙂
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On Saturday, Mommy and Lauren went to take a nap. I had some work I needed to do, so Maile headed into the living room … and then things got really quiet.
I came in about 20 minutes later and Maile had moved all the furniture she could handle herself into a massive fort/castle. To her credit she was super quiet while doing all of this – I had no idea! And she even helped put it all back after she played with it for awhile 🙂
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When I got home from work today, Christine told me to go in the bedroom with Lauren and check out her new trick.
In we went and I witnessed the following…
That was cute – seeing her try to climb the ladder into Maile’s bed. And then it became less cute as she actually managed to climb ALL THE WAY UP! (No video for that one as I was spotting her 🙂
Up she went, no fear at all.
Planning her route...
On the second step ... no way she'll go any higher. Right? Right?!?
Great success! Let's party!
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When we were in Hawaii Maile went to see Frozen … twice. (Yes, after seeing it with Daddy, she invited Mommy to go see it with her the next day.)
Since then we’ve been listening to the soundtrack at home pretty much every day … if not twice a day. Luckily, the songs are pretty good. For her part, Maile is memorizing all the words – she actually has taken us by surprise a few times with how much of the songs she actually knows.
And even when we aren’t listening, Maile starting in with an “Elsa? Do you want to build a snowman?” is never too far away… I love in this video how you can see the gears working in her head as she tries to remember how to pick up the song.
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Apparently, today was opposite day and it started with Lauren feeding Mommy breakfast…
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A long time ago, Christine and I decided that she would be the one to teach our children how to tie their shoes. I believe this came after me complaining that my sneakers always came untied, Christine witnessing my shoe tying technique, and then sadly shaking her head while also laughing that I had somehow made it this far in life while still having the bunny rabbits chase each other around the hill (or whatever was the basis for my approach).
Maile has one pair of tied shoes – she’s had them for awhile, but they only recently started to fit. This morning Christine showed Maile how to tie the shoes herself. She must have practiced a few times at school, because tonight she very proudly told us she had it figured out.
And sure enough she did…
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