A fun day out with cousins. We met up with Deanna and Lilly on Ada’s stay home day. Enjoying and savoring before kindergarten.
Wee hoo !!!!
Ada and Hamid on the new wee hoo! Followed by a fun family bike ride under the BART route.
Ada’s birthday – 5 years and splatter fun!
Ada had a great time at her birthday party with her girl friends and Lilly! They made a big Jackson Pollack-style splatter painting together as well as their own. Fun! The adults watched and ate in the other room. Ada danced after cupcakes, and enjoyed her friends. Happy 5 yo sweetheart!
Ada’s ballet performance in Dec 2013. Her dance comes up just after minute 14:00. Our cutie!
Ada goes skiing for the first time.
It was a beautiful, sunny weekend in Lake Tahoe, the perfect weather for a daddy/daughter getaway.
Ada decided she was big enough to try skiing. On Saturday morning, she took an awesome class at the Ski school. And by Sunday, when she and Daddy practiced at the top of the Gondola ride, Ada was making beautiful turns and having lots of fun.
Breakfast Pastries
Ada made us a lovely tray of paper breakfast pastries for our breakfast on Valentines day. Yum yum!
Cherry Picking
We had an awesome day cherry picking with our friends Jeannie and Mark (+3 kids) and Aske and Twan (+1 kid) on Saturday. ‘Boy did we get cherries!
There is something amazing and very biological about walking through a grove of fruit trees putting warm fruit in your mouth. We are designed for this! Social, gathering, animals! Juice dripping down your chin. We were all mesmerized. No matter how we started, soon we were all like Sufi poets – or hunter gatherers on miraculous summer day, wandering through, noticing leaves, comparing fruits, ooh’ing and eating warm bulbs, sharing and laughing, wandering and parenting each others’ children. Everyone fanned out, zig zagged through, and eventually ended up plopped in a dusty clump under the shade of a few beautiful trees.
We had a picnic lunch.
Picked some strawberries at another patch. And headed home.
Our route was filled with horses, cows, goats, sheep, a few hawks and a beautiful winding road through ranches and farms. + not a more bountiful day
Gosh, after this, even our amazing local market seemed like nothing like the nirvana of fruit as they are made and created.
“This is my clothes”
Ada laid out her clothes today. We call her “Clothes-Ada”. She wanted to do it herself. When she called me in, this is what I found. Not a bad combo. I laughed noting the nice touches. The accessories were the best: a watch, a wand, and a hair clip (look upper right). Ada and clothes-Ada are ready to go. We love you Ada.
‘Opa Family Talent
We spent New Years in Wisconsin. Here is our dancing talent for y’all to enjoy:
Ellen Degeneres here we come!