First Day of School

A lovely first day of school fake smile. Doug was delighted she picked the "Jimmy" shirt to wear her first day. And I was delighted she choose her new H & M petticoat.

She is quite the poser.

Oooh, scary!

Dude, where's my car?

"Bonjour!"

This is her, "I'm terrified! You're not leaving yet?" face.

Kauai- August 2009

When I Grow Up...

I want to be a mom.
I want to be a farmer.
I want to be a fairy.
I want to be a butterfly.
I want to be a princess.
I want to be a mermaid.

A Funny Thing

The other day Bijou and I were at the pool. She had been swimming for 2 hours and I had lost track of time and forgot to ask her to go in and use the bathroom. She decided it was time to go in the hot tub, the finale to our trip to the pool, and a second after she got in she turned to me and said, "Mommy, I am not going pee." "Really?" I ask. Very suspicious.

A Three-year-olds Graduation

Tongue Click

The Bean learned how to click her tongue this weekend. I told her that is how you talk to horses. Then she told me, "I'm going to be a farmer when I get bigger and I'm going to have a horse and I'm going to name her poo poo." Oh, she thinks she is so hilarious with her potty talk. Let's see how many years this lasts.

Ever Since Mother's Day

Ever since Mother's Day this year, The Bean will pick a flower out of the yard (at least a couple of times a week) and give it to me and say, "Mommy, this is for you. It's for Mother's Day." So sweet.

The Restaurant Experience

The Bean has been notoriously bad at restaurants ever since she was a year old. We credited her bad behavior to her poor eating habits. If you don't really care for food too much, going to restaurants can be quite boring. To curb her boredom, she'd seek out some entertainment back in the kitchen, or crawling around on the filthy floor under the table or the highlight at our favorite restaurant is the super powerful hand dryer in the bathroom which she likes to experiment with at least 3 times during our meal.

Last night, we checked out this new gourmet burger joint in Elmwood called Flame. I quickly ordered my glass of wine to help ease my usual restaurant anxiety I always have while dining with The Bean. Doug and I were pleasantly surprised with her good behavior, staying in her seat the entire time, and making sure to point it out to us too. "Look Mommy, I'm staying in my seat so I get a treat!" She did request to have one visit to check out their bathroom, but surprisingly she just used it only for it's purpose. It helped that they only had paper towels.

It did take an usually long time to get our food and since The Bean was actually hungry for once, she'd say to the waitress every time she walked by, "Where's my hot dog?" Doug and I were mortified by her rudeness, of course, and would shoosh her. But the waitress found the humor in it and would smile and giggle. When she finally did bring the food the waitress said, "see, I didn't forget your hot dog."

My screensaver

Carnaval

We spent most of the weekend in the Mission (in SF). A real treat since we rarely get into the city anymore. On Saturday night, Doug and I had dinner at Medjool and then we took Bart back into the city the next day to go to Carnaval with Bijou. The highlight of Carnaval was finding Kid Power Park, tucked away on Hoff alley between 16th and 17th.

Summer- our favorite season

Catchin' fish

in the backyard.



And blowin' bubbles

BIG ones!

Lake Tahoe- summer edition

We enjoyed our first summer weekend at our house in Tahoe. Our friends Jessica, Mike and Lola joined us and we all had a great time. Bedtime was a little tough since we tried to have the girls sleep together in the kid's bedroom, it lasted 5 minutes both nights, but they made up for it with perfect behavior during the day.


Burying their feet, endless fun!


Our new deck furniture. We can't wait to be able to dine outside in the evening. It's such a treat since it's never warm enough in Berkeley to do that.




She gives me the thumbs up.

And they're off.

Spring Concert

For those of you who missed out on Bijou's spring concert (myself included), here is a peek at it. Thanks Doug for taking the video, even if it's shakey.

Swimming Progress

Happy Birthday Mimi!

Bijou and Olive made Mimi a birthday cake this weekend.