My friend, Amy, has told me about this program/group/organization/thing that organizes local "hikes" with strollers. She leads one every Tuesday afternoon. We went with her last week and walked by the Palo Alto duck pond out on this boardwalk over the Bay. Only we hadn't then fixed our flat tire on our stroller so I took Charlie in the backpack and Alec walked. We had fun. There was an awesome 1-2 hour window of no rain that was perfectly timed for this stroller hike. I think there is supposed to be another break in the rain later this week.
Don't mistake these rain comments for complaints. I'm actually still enjoying it. I know we'll have lots of sunny days soon enough. I am anxious to get out some old furniture we'll give away as soon as its dry enough to display them out on our front porch.
We don't usually get to go on these hikes because its during Charlie's nap. Alec REALLY wanted to go last week so we tried putting Charlie down extra late for his nap. He didn't' quite make it and dozed off a bit in the backpack but he still slept when we got home so we might try that again.
I have this desire to capture in a picture the beauties I love most about the Bay Area so when we move away, I can have something to "take me back." For me, that picture must include a two things: the wetland-ish look in the first two pictures below and then the rolling hills with gnarly oak trees dotting the background (pictured
here or
here --Thanks Joni for the tree pictures!)
"My bedeemer lives... in Costco" At least, so says Alec about 20 times yesterday to himself. Amy, what are you teaching him in Sunbeams? :) This picture shows one of the reasons we cut his hair. But don't worry, we're growing it out again. Oh, and Alec insists on wearing his ties outside of any sweater, vest, or jacket. Let the tie fetish begin... like father like son.
I guess its hard to tell in the picture, but his golf shirt is over his zip up sweater. He still asks for help in pulling up/down his bottoms for each bathroom trip. We're trying to get him to go all by himself. We're open for suggestions...
I love the way Charlie eats breakfast. He has almost 8 (little) bowls of cereal and sometimes signs for "more" or "all done" depending on what he wants. He uses one hand to hold the spoon and one hand to help shovel it in his mouth. Half the time he eventually abandons the spoon and just grabs at the cereal and puts fistfuls into his mouth. He drinks the milk out of his bowl, even if half of it is still full of cereal. He'll try to "drink" out of bowls at other times too like for soup or brownies/ice cream.
