I had a long, busy day at work today.
Somehow these two goofballs knew that this was exactly what I needed 🙂
The Littlest Goofball
The Slightly Bigger Goofball
Partners in Laughter
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Saturday was a beautiful day in the city. We decided to head down to swim class a little early and hang out on the grass. We ate some popsicles and then the girls ran around.
We’ve mentioned this a few times, but Lauren copies everything Maile does these days. She’s a little shadow. This video captures it pretty well…
They played like this for 15-20 minutes – Maile running around, realizing Lauren was copying her and just making up games and goofing off seeing if she’d keep up. Sometimes the copying results in tears (when Lauren can’t quite keep up -or- Maile gets tired of having a constant shadow) – but that wasn’t the case this time – so Christine and I sat on the grass in the sun and watched these two have fun. We could have done it all day long 🙂
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Today was the SF Aloha Run – a really nice 5K they organize to support a Japanese community center here in SF. In addition to the 5K, they have a “keiki” run of a mile for kids 6-10 and a 100 yard dash for younger kids. We thought it’d be fun to sign the girls up.
Maile and Christine ran the mile – and they absolutely rocked it. Lauren ran the 100 yard dash and came in first place in the 2 year old heat! (She had some great coaching from her big sister).
Here’s Maile in the homestretch of the mile – check out that speed!
And here’s Lauren doing her 100 yard cash – just absolutely focused on that finish line 🙂
I think we have another thing where the girls are taking after their mommy – and we couldn’t be happier 🙂
(Dad note: technically this wasn’t Maile’s first race – back in 2013, she did a fun run out in Oakland. Remember that?)
Mommy and the girls ready to rock (Lauren was being shy, but gave us a nice view of her racing number)...
Mommy and Maile right before the start.
On the run...
A post-race Maile showing off her medal...
Coach Maile giving Lauren a post-race pep talk!
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(Click here for the second video.)
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90% of the time the girls play wonderfully together. The other 10%? Well…
Christine reports that this video captures what the ride home from school is fairly often.
Here we see one of the Lauren’s favorite songs playing on the radio.
Maile is singing along.
Lauren doesn’t want Maile to sing along, because she “can’t hear” the song. Cry, cry, cry.
Maile suggests maybe she can’t hear the song because she is screaming … and continues to sing because, well, she knows its annoying Lauren a bit.
And around and around we go.
(Dad note: in fairness to the girls, its a long day at school – they are definitely tired and hungry by the time we are headed home.)
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For the past couple of years, she’s patiently watched as her big sister danced and performed. She took in all the moves. She attempted to copy everything she could as they pranced around the house. She wore the ballet shoes and hand-me-down tutu just to get the feel for them.
And then on Saturday morning, it was finally her turn. Lauren’s first ballet class. She was beyond excited.
First, she learned how to spin…
Then, she tried to learn how to point her toes in an effort to get into first position…
(I have a feeling we’ll come back to that one and get a good laugh one day.)
And then finally, she danced…
(Click here for the first video.)
(Click here for the second video.)
(Click here for the third video.)
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95% of the time the girls play together amazingly. Lauren absolutely worships Maile.
5%, okay maybe 10%, of the time things go down hill a bit. Typically this involves Lauren playing with some toy or stuffed animal that Maile hasn’t even glanced at in 3 years and all of a sudden, Maile decides to lay claim to it and insisting on playing with it again.
But most of the time, we still get a lot of this (from 2 years ago – 2013)…
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We hope all of our Jewish family and friends are having a wonderful Rosh Hashanah! We celebrated last night with some apples and honey and a delicious roast chicken meal that Christine put together. Maile led us in a recap of all we should be thankful for and Lauren, of course, followed her lead (Mommy is high on the list as she should be 🙂
Rosh Hashanah family picture (Maile 6 and Lauren 2.5)
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I had to go by work this weekend to take care of something. Christine and the girls ended up meeting me there and we ate lunch in our conference room. At one point Christine and Maile went to the bathroom and I went to my desk to look at something. Lauren was left in the conference room to eat her lunch.
When I turned around, this is what she was doing…
In fairness, twice that morning she walked straight into the glass because she didn’t see it. So perhaps this was a self-preservation thing and she was just marking it up a bit.
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I had a long end of the week at work, so last Friday night, I was pretty exhausted and falling asleep on the couch. Whenever this happens, Lauren reenacts one of her favorite scenes from Frozen and tries to open one of my eyes while saying “Do you want to build a snowman?”
Its too adorable to get angry about 😉
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Remember awhile back when I posted how Maile started making videos about her various arts and crafts projects? Well, she is still at it. And, she has a protege in Lauren now too.
Warning – these videos are super long. You’ll get the gist of them in just a few minutes. However, you might find yourself sucked in.
Maile is quite chatty in her videos. You’ll find that Lauren takes a bit of a different technique. Quieter, more focused on, well, she likes looking at herself in the camera. You’ll see…
(Click here for Maile’s video.)
(Click here for Lauren’s video.)
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