On Saturday we headed down to Palo Alto to visit with some friends. We went over to our friend’s house who have two boys. I think its fair to say that the types of toys they had over there were quite a bit different from what we have at home. The girls had a blast trying them on for size…
Spider Lauren - ready to save the day!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Maile!
The outfits were fun, but the swords were even better! (Until Daddy got rapped pretty good on the knuckles by little Lauren…)
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I guess the whole point of #tbt is to realize how much time flies – but man, can’t believe this was three years ago…
Maile at 3.5 and Lauren at 10 weeks...
We are at the eve of March Madness starting so Christine and I took some time with the girls tonight to fill out their brackets. We actually weren’t all together so I helped Maile with hers and Christine helped Lauren with hers.
Lauren, aka Beavis, looking for butts throughout the bracket...
Maile Girl - very focused sorting through the seeding...
For Maile, I decided to teach her about seeds and upsets this year. This lead to a much more “chalk” bracket – with the exception that she couldn’t quite pull herself away from going as far as possible with Hawaii. Because, ya know, Grandma and Papa.
In fact, she ran into quite the conundrum in the Final Four trying to decide what to do with a Hawaii vs. Duke matchup. Check it out:
As for Lauren, well, apparently our youngest is a Beavis. As in Beavis and Butthead. Once Christine told her that one of the teams was named “Butler” – she couldn’t get over it, thought it was hilarious and rode them all the way to the Championships. Yes, Lauren picked #9 Butler to win the NCAA Tournament because, you know, butts.
If you haven’t submitted your brackets yet and are looking for some tips, here are the girls complete brackets:
Lauren's 2016 Bracket
Maile's 2016 Bracket
Good luck Maile Girl and Lauren!
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One of the employees at Pocket has become super interested in pizza making and has been working to refine his techniques over the past couple of months. On Friday, for a happy hour, he said he show us all how to make our own pizza dough from scratch. I had the girls come over and we had a great time making some pizza dough!
First you need to weigh your flour - Maile took the lead on this part...
... well, of course, Lauren helped too!
Getting serious about kneading the dough...
The finished product - it was delicious!
Here’s a video of the girls hard at work ripping the dough…
Good times indeed!
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My #tbt search took me back three years ago tonight…
Got cheeks?
Maile enjoying her very first Shamrock Shake...
The time? It is indeed flying!
Lauren is making great strides (strokes?) at her swim class. She snagged two stickers on Sunday and is well on her way to her first ribbon.
This face is my favorite: “I’m so proud of myself even though I can’t read these things or tell you exactly what they are for!”
Lauren snagged two stickers at swim class on Sunday!
Maile and Lauren went to a birthday party this weekend (for Lauren’s old nanny buddy, Elena). They had this great zipline that the girls loved – according to Christine, Lauren must have done it 40 times (after big sister, Maile, showed her the ropes).
First the big sister goes…
And then, of course, the little sister…
Elena’s dad got some great additional shots of the girls…
Showing how its done...
Hold on tight!
Wheeeeee....
Love this shot of the girls...
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I headed away for a “guys weekend” to go skiing – which meant that here on the homefront it was decidedly a girls weekend. Mommy kicked things off properly on Friday night with a “picnic” in the living room and a showing of Finding Nemo. (Maile’s review was it was pretty scary – she told me she liked Minions better.)
Check out that spread!
And just to make sure I was appropriately missing them (and trust me, I was!) – Mommy sent along these selfies…
Mommy and Maile
Mommy and Lauren
When Christine and I lived in NYC, we often started our Sunday mornings with a walk to the local bagel shop for breakfast and a newspaper. Our favorite Jewish deli here in the city, Wise Sons, opened a new bagel shop last week right up the street from us. We thought we’d start a new tradition with the girls and went to check it out on Sunday. Not quite as relaxing as I recall our days in NYC with bagels, coffee and leisurely reading the newspaper, but still good times (and the bagels are great!)
And we're off - family selfie on the way out!
There was a bit of a line, but we didn't mind...
Lauren enjoying her cream cheese with bagel (in that order)...
Two thumbs up from Maile Girl...
by Papa K on February 28, 2016
Big time milestone this weekend for Maile Girl (and sort of Lauren too). Maile had her first friend sleepover! This has been high on the request list for a little while now. At the beginning of the year we decided to use it as a carrot to get Maile to stop waking us up in the middle of the night. It worked like a charm and Maile now stays in her room until at least 6 AM (yes, this is a huge improvement!)
Maile had a good friend from school, Gemma over. I was a little nervous, but they were wonderful. Everyone behaved and got along, Maile and Gemma did a really nice job including Lauren in their playing. They had a little trouble going to sleep, but that’s to be expected and everyone slept through the night. All in all, a success(!) and we’re looking forward to the next sleepover … especially if its at the friend’s house 😉
Lauren, Maile and Gemma having fun at their first sleepover!
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