We are in between guests this week! Matthew is gone, Emily and Dan have gone for a little road trip that includes Vegas, and Baba Jiji will come next week!
We check out Santa Claus in downtown Martinez (we waited a whole minute in line!), collected our neighbors leaves for our compost pile (first a little playtime though), and checked out our neighbors lights. And nobody puts Terran into a box. Except when it's himself and he refuses to get out.
It suddenly gets very cold (below freezing!), the kids spend lots of time with Emily and Dan, Martinez has a Holiday Frolic! Which means that the kids can slide down a snow slide!
Breaking out the sweaters and robes; crafts from Baba and Jiji; we drop off Thomas at school, stop by the park to eat the second part of breakfast, then drop Sophia off at her preschool three days a week; playtime while Terran sleeps
We enjoy a snack on the deck before Matthew leaves for his trip. A package from Baba and Jiji arrives! Sophia starts week two of preschool, and Thomas starts week three of kindergarten. We take some walks, and Thomas and Sophia greet me as I come back from some me-time.
There is an "unsupervised scissors incident" so mommy had to cut off the kids' hair; enjoying treats from mommy's youth out on the deck; going to Tilden Park with friends to enjoy Lake Anza, the merry-go-round, and the little steam train!
We said goodbye to Matthew's sister Joanna and her daughter Katie. They had a safe trip back to New Zealand, thank goodness. We miss them terribly! To try to cheer ourselves up, we walked over to the neighborhood pancake joint and went to a nearby Japanese summer Obon festival. Also we made a trip to the local park with Sophia's new training wheels attached to her newish bike. She did great!
