Getting into a California routine: househunting, walking, library, grocery store

"I go see Auntie Rose.  NOT YOU!  I go all by myself!"  She even put on her shoes by herself (as you can probably tell!)

My helpful boy pushing Sophia all the way to the BART train station!  Did it take 20 minutes?  Seemed like it!

Eating her dinner

They love the elevator at the BART station. We went up and down ad nauseum.  Literally.  I was starting to feel a bit queasy at the end there.

Thomas read 32 pages of the book "Amanda Pig and her Big Brother Oliver" out loud to me. It was half the book! And I had never read him this story before!  It was the first time that I really understood for certain that he can read.  It was amazing.  He reads to himself now!

OK ... I think we can relax now

More swimming pre-haircut ... sunglasses from Auntie Shauna

Sharing a room these days.  Reading themselves stories before bedtime

Off we go, grocery shopping

 

Apartment playground

"We are going to 'Bubbie's' house!"  She has an imaginary playmate already!

Social inroads

Celebrating Mother's Day ... "Auntie Shauna, can I sit on your lap?"

Checking out the boxes with Uncle Utaka

We have stuff!  And we buy a new dining room table.  So happy to have a real table and chairs again!

Checking out Terran's eventual elementry school.  They were having a  festival.  Thomas flew a kite (kind of) for the first time.  Sophia got more tattoos.

Playing with my phone while we make an offer on a house ... didn't get it (there were 39 offers on that one!)  Subtitle:  Discovering what a crazy housing market there is here!

We get our stuff!

We take Sophia to a special children's salon to get a haircut

Matthew whizzes through Thomas' haircut five minutes before he leaves for his trip. Both of them are getting good at it! Sophia  apparently having bad memories of her own haircut.

Reading Katie and Jasmine's welcome note to her new doll "Gabrielle" 

Checking out the van we rented to get the stuff to the storage locker because ...

OUR STUFF ARRIVED!  And so did the toys, thank goodness!!!

Exploring our new surroundings

Downtown library!  

Iron Horse Trail ... narrow track that runs right through town

Whew!  Found a Sweet Tomatoes, our favorite!

Ooooo, Trader Joe's!  Fancy!

Playground at the apartment complex

Settling in ... California

Meeting Baby Terran for the first time! Thomas is interested, but Sophia is enchanted.

Getting used to Pacific Time

Dolly came in our suitcase!

Thank goodness for Utaka and Shauna, for lending us stuff and helping us move it into the apartment!

Warming up our toes in the spa after a chilly dip in the pool