Maile’s very first friend, Allison, had her third birthday party this weekend. You might recall that a couple years ago, Allison, Hannah and Maile shared their first birthday party together. (See here and here – if you haven’t seen those pictures in awhile – worth a click, will blow your mind!) Now that the girls are turning 3 we thought they were ready to hold down their own parties…
Jumpy house? Oh no you didn't...
Sadly, this is the only picture we snagged of the birthday girl! Perhaps she was too busy hosting to pose for pictures?
Hannah and Maile catching some serious air!
Oliver is doing his best to keep up with the older ladies...
Since Allison's daddy is from Hawaii they had their very own shave ice machine - Maile hated it 😉
Sam and Jake taking in the puppet show - incredibly the kids stayed put for the whole show...
On Saturday afternoon, we headed down the peninsula to Palo Alto to celebrate Sam’s first birthday. It was great to see all of our friends that have moved down to Palo Alto – certainly miss seeing them all the time in the city. Christine took a ton of pictures – some highlights involving Maile Girl…
Fun on the big cement slide - so big that you needed to sit on a piece of cardboard to make it down...
Maile and Allison hadn't seen each other in months, but fell back into playing just like old times!
Daddy and Maile
Bubble time - behind the scenes note, Mommy blew the bubbles AND took the pictures. Such talent!
Maile made Sam a birthday card - she took giving it to him very seriously...
The whole group - our family of friends is definitely growing!
Party time!
Eating cake with Wills
And by eating, I mean shoving as much as possible into her mouth as fast as she can...
Today we hosted our first annual Super Bowl party with the San Francisco crew and their little ones. Hannah, Allison and Jake (along with their respective parents) came over for the game. (We were going to have even more little ones, but Sophie and Vincent were under the weather – par for the course in SF these days with the flu bug going around…) The twist with our party was that it only lasted until half-time – after that everyone went home to go to bed. We’ll tell Maile in the morning that the “cheese” (her pick) won.
As you might imagine, it is getting harder and harder to snag a picture with everyone all at once!
Jake was quite pleased to have 3 ladies all to himself. Here he is chatting up Maile Girl, but he made his rounds...
Bartender! Another milk please...
The girls got a little bored with the game so we threw some cards on the table to see what would happen. They figured things out pretty quick… (be sure to keep an eye on Hannah and her sneaky move with the Ace…)
You might notice near the end of the video that Mommy teaches Maile the basics of Liar’s Poker. She took right to it after that:
Shocking, but it was actually Mommy that taught Maile this trick...
Well, heeeelloooo ladies. Welcome to my crib! Make yourself at home...
On Monday, we headed down to Palo Alto for a Labor Day BBQ at Wills’ house. Hannah, Allison, Sophie and Oliver (along with their parents) joined us as well. It was a pretty crazy scene with babies walking and crawling all over the place (or being carried in the case of little Oliver).
The BBQ was fun, but the real excitement came when we tried to take a group picture. Here’s the final result:
Mommies and babies - Labor Day 2010
Not too bad. Here’s the behind-the-scenes of how it all came together…
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(Click here for the video.)
(Click here for the complete photo shoot courtesy of Wills.)
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…
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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
Hannah’s dad, Josh, takes MUCH better pictures than I do. He sent over his shots from the Three Amigas birthday party and I thought I’d share. See the slideshow below. (And yes, I ordered a book from Amazon so I can learn to take better pictures!)
On Saturday we celebrated Maile’s birthday on her home turf with two of her closest girlfriends, Allison and Hannah. Allison turned 1 back in June and Hannah turns 1 in August, so we decided to combine everything into one big fiesta. Literally, we made it a fiesta – check out the invitation we sent out:
Invitation to the 3 Amigas First Birthday Fiesta
It was a lot of fun celebrating with all of our San Francisco friends and the girls had a blast. It was the first time in awhile we got everyone together with all the little ones in one place – definitely a bit of a madhouse with ~10 kids under the age of 4!
The birthday girls: Hannah, Allison and Maile
And with the mommies!
"Daddy when you said there was going to be a pony, I had something slightly different in mind..."
Each girl had their own birthday cake (Thanks Grandma Gail and Grandpa Cal for Maile's!)
Maile had her own Maile-sized cake!
Proud parents and Maile Girl - we survived a year!
Since it was a holiday, I thought I'd get Allison and I something a little tastier to drink...
I snuck over to the cooler and tried to snag us a couple Coronas...
BUSTED!
I did manage to sneak away with a lime however ... kind of wish I hadn't to be honest...
To make matters worse, while I was trying to snag Allison and I some Coronas, Jake snuck in and tried to STEAL MY MOMMY! Can you believe that? Luckily I made it back in time and made it very clear I wasn't letting her go anywhere!
(Dad note: We hope everyone had a great 4th of July – as Maile’s (mis)adventures above show, we had a great time celebrating with a great BBQ with some of our SF friends…)
Saturday was Maile’s first swimming lesson! We were sad that Daddy was in Boston and couldn’t come with us. But we made up for it by having Grandma Gail and Grandpa Cal visiting SF. Just in time to help serve as Maile’s paparazzi. A special thanks to Grandma Jill and Grandma Gail who made sure I will be very fashionable at the pool.
Getting ready for my lesson
When Maile got to the pool she had an extra surprise! Her friend Allison was in the same class. We are so excited we get to see her and her mommy Stephanie every week as we learn how to swim!
Two bathing beauties
Look at Maile showing off her water skills! What a natural!
Practicting the forward crawl...if it doesn't work on land, maybe it'll work in the water
Maile’s swim instructor also gave Grandma and Grandpa a preview of our future swim lessons (unfortunately they can’t come up every week for her lessons). While not thrilled about this “advanced” lesson, I think she handled it like a champ!
We both had a great time at our lesson! And can’t wait to see what we learn next week!
Phew, that was fun!
(Click here for the first video.)
(Click here for the second video.)
