Some random scenes from Father’s Day 2012…
Maile Girl & Daddy, Father's Day 2012
Our annual Father's Day bike ride - for the past couple of years we've rented a bike on Father's Day. It's a nice tradition. Maile thinks that if she pushes my back we'll go faster. I do my best to keep the illusion going!
How did Maile's hands get blue? Let's just say, Daddy was relaxing on Sunday morning and not paying as good attention to Maile as he should have been...
Dad note: Christine and Maile have been in Hawaii all week. I’m joining them on Saturday. I’ve been missing my little girl. Christine actually mentioned tonight that this is the longest we’ve ever been away from each other. That fact surprised me, but I think it is true. We’ll make up for it next week! Word on the street is that Grandma and Papa Hawaii bought Maile a boogie board – I can’t wait to hit the waves with her!
Last Friday night, we decided to head down to Fort Mason for Off the Grid. I have to admit that when Christine told me that Maile was going to be riding her bike there, I had visions of me carrying the bike and Maile about 3 blocks in.
I am happy to report that I was wrong. With Mommy as the guide, Maile made it all the way to Fort Mason AND rode all the way back home after dinner. I was quite impressed (especially considering we don’t have a great bike riding history thus far.)
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Maile's preferred way of riding her tricycle
We made some progress on the bike riding front this weekend. Mommy taught Maile how to use the pedals to get around. We’re still working on the steering component, but definitely getting closer to adding “tricycle riding” to Maile’s ever expanding bag of tricks…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve seen Hannah. Last week I said to Mommy – “Hannah?” and Mommy took that to mean that she should call Hannah’s mommy and make plans for us to get together. My mommy is smart like that. So on Sunday morning, we packed up and headed to Hannah’s house – it was a little farther than I remembered (and much bigger!) … but it was the same old Hannah!
(Dad note: Regular readers might recall that Hannah and her family moved out of the city a couple weeks ago. They live about 40 minutes away now.)
I didn't remember this part of Hannah's place, but she has this great deck out back of her house and TWO awesome bikes - it was like she was knew I was coming!
Cool bike. Yours too.
We should switch.
See we still share!
Great times with Hannah – I can’t wait to see her again soon!
Still two peas in a pod, just a little further apart now!
by Papa K on September 19, 2011
This one is for Papa Mike. On Sunday, we went to check out Sunday Streets over in North Beach. It wasn’t very busy when we went, but the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition was setup with balance bikes. Balance bikes are this new concept where they teach little kids to “balance” on bikes without pedals or training wheels. Apparently, it is better for kids to learn how to balance first and then add in the pedaling. (Makes sense to me, more details here.)
Mommy got Maile started by showing her how things worked ...
... then Maile and Daddy raced down the rest of the course!
Eat your heart out, Papa Mike!
As of a couple months ago, this post was going to be our first from our Japanese adventure. We had been planning to go visit Katie and Emily in Japan as well as tour Osaka and Kyoto. Due to the earthquake and the tragic aftermath, we decided to postpone our trip. (We should report that Katie, Emily and the rest of the family are fine.)
Not bad to have Hawaii as the fall back plan though! We arrived this afternoon and immediately took to some fun outdoor action…
Should I use my purple club or my pink one for this hole?
Hmm... this doesn't feel quite right, can I get a little help over here?
Maile, fair warning, your daddy is awful at golf. We'll need to get Papa Cal in here to give you a true lesson...
After golf, we decided we wanted to ride the bike – unfortunately, Maile still hasn’t figured out the whole “move the pedals to make you go” aspect of bike riding… (although at least this time, she was interested in sitting on the bike!)
Bike riding powered by Papa Cal
Daddy-powered bike riding...
And, mommy-powered bike riding! Basically, everything except Maile powered bike riding...
When Maile was born, Grandpa Mike and Grandma Jill put dibs on the opportunity to send Maile her first bike (I have a feeling they’ll be handling bikes #2-5 as well…) Having pretty much mastered the whole walking thing, we thought Hanukkah would be a perfect time to get Maile some wheels.
Unfortunately, Grandma Jill and Grandpa Mike couldn’t be here in person, so we decided to film the big reveal for them. I think it’s safe to say that Maile LOVES her new bike!
Thank you Grandma Jill and Grandpa Mike!
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Maile Girl here. I need your help. I’ve just spent the last week at Grandma Jill and Grandpa Mike’s house and I have to admit I’m a little confused. Basically, I’m just not sure anymore what a “toy” is. Sometimes I see something and start playing with it and it’s fine. But other times, I get in trouble for playing with things that look exactly like toys. Let me see if I can explain with a quick example.
Grandma Jill and I playing legos...
So in this picture I am playing legos with Grandma Jill. Notice how the legos are about the same height as me. Grandma Jill encouraged me to “touch” the legos and even when they fell over and broke apart we all had a good laugh.
Now look in the picture below:
Grandpa is saying to me: Maile that is not a toy, do not touch it.
See that bike right next to me? It’s just about my size again. Looks EXACTLY like a toy. Guess what? According to Grandpa Mike, not a toy. In fact, he got really anxious when I got too close to it. Even worse, it’s in this room with all types of things on the ground that look JUST LIKE toys, except they aren’t and I can tell nobody was pleased when I was checking things out.
Grandpa Mike, I really, really want to touch this bike.
