Friday

We made it through the week... well almost... one midterm, one final and one final paper.... We are ready for the weekend.....

K and the girls at school are in love with their babies... We all practiced bouncing them on our knees at drop off this morning... All the girls have babies, strollers, bottles and they take turns putting the babies in the crib, highchair etc... Here is our latest baby we must have.... Lucy... Santa hurry.... we need Lucy....

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Thanksgiving!!!!

Cooking... fun... K making stuffing... even better.... time with family and good food... great!

Visiting family in Sacramento and having K play with cousins... awesome... having her not try and sneak in our bed last night because she played too hard... great. Having Gma C come home with us for a few days... fun... K is in heaven and avoiding her parents....

Mommy and K hitting the after Thanksgiving sales and seeing Clancy (the pottery barn kids bear... life sized and moving... heaven for K- we all know how she is with stuffed animals)... Finding more babies for Santa to buy.... Having to wait for Santa to come.... so hard!

Going to the park... spending time with Daddy so Mommy can study for finals... spending time with Mommy so Daddy can golf... awesome again!

Needless to say we had a great weekend.

photos from trip

So I am dreaming of a way to move to Manhattan

I am in love with Manhattan... even as I froze this past weekend... I loved it... I love the vibe, the shops, the fact I throw my shopping budget out the window and buy too much, the cool cafes, the food... everything. Unfortunately there are no golf courses within a ten minute drive so we are never going to live there... Regardless it was a glorious long weekend with pmogi... We hit Nolita, SoHo, the Meatpacking District, Madison, the Met, the MOMA, Sarabeths (YUMMY), SoHo wine bars, a couple new places (Good Enough to Eat - great food) and the Little Pie Company (shock I know... great pie).... It was fantastic... cold... and so much fun! K scored loads of really cool clothes and is going to be wearing brands I have never bought... but it was so much fun to buy for her.

The most memorable moment.... as we had found a few you know little things in Boston our luggage was a bit large coming into NYC.... so after looking for a handicapped spot for our wide load at the subway station... we saw the booth on the other side of the gate and decide we should just go through the emergency exit.... we weren't going to fit through the little turn things... we had fares on our tickets and were wandering over to the booth with the tickets in hand when two NYPD came up to us and asked for ids... I am thinking it is so nice for them to come help that I present my fare cards and explain we are too wide to fit through... well they were not amused... apparently... they thought we were trying to avoid the fare... ha as if $4 is going to help our budget at this point.... they start talking about arresting us... I am shell shocked... arrest us... for what... anyway off they go with our ids while we start to get extremely nervous.... we got two fines... AHHH! So now we must contest our fines because the cameras felt we were trying to sneak through.... Can you believe this? Apparently the co felt since we held our cards out when he came up to us... we knew the system... As you can tell I am annoyed, but extremely amused all at once. Wish me luck contesting.... This has not been a good year for tickets... my first traffic ticket ever was almost a year ago to date and now this.... Pmogi will never go back to NYC after this.

Back home... and so happy.... MoCa hung with me all last night and K was soooo excited this morning... I have given her third baby who has been named Butterfly and is at school with her... I have painted her fingernails... we are back together

what fun...

T found K in our bed last night... she skipped the ask and just climbed in.

I have been on the East Coast since last Sat for work although I did find time for a bit of fun last weekend although it is way too cold for a CA wimp...

Highlights include:
Drinks at the top of prudential tower
Shopping in south end and on newburry
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Breakfast in Beacon Hill
Dinner and shopping on the north end

NY details to follow

How many days until Thanksgiving break?

(Thanks Lady M for the pic.)

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November!

How can it be!!!

Fri night we watched Stanford volleyball followed by a great dinner with M&J while K hung with Gma S in prep for a fun weekend.... Saturday we went to her favorite shop... not only does she get a cookie... she gets to push the big girl cart around for grocery shopping. We spent the late morning at the park for swings and at lunch with D,T and M.... It was really fun although I think K's favorite part was the lollipop after lunch! We had D&J over on Saturday night and as always K was really excited to have guests and ran around like a crazy girl.

Sunday was definitely a great way to end our October adventures... We went to San Francisco and met AuntJ who joined us at Eats for my favorite fruit crepes and the Marina for playing in the park, wandering the shops and an early dinner at Cafe Balboa... K loved her shell pasta and ice cream treat and especially enjoyed waking up from her nap at a Union Street toy shop... Trying to enjoy those last few days of indian summer before bundling in for winter.

But you don't have any lollipops!

Last night was really fun... and really tiring for our girl! We ended up all meeting at her school and going trick or treating with all the kids. K opened her lollipop before we even left the first driveway and galloped from door to door asking for candy... or picking through bowls for the most appealing candy or simply wondering why some people didn't have lollipops... When people offered her to take two... she did! She was so tired that she didn't even have the energy to ask to sleep in our bed five minutes after laying down. She has made that part of the routine... she asks, we say no and she goes to back bed. This morning she remembered the candy that we promised she could eat today and so after we ate breakfast instead of elmo crackers or fruit she had eight m&ms as her car snack while we drove to school... We are excited about the candy. She is hoping to go trick or treating tonight, but I told her it is a once a year thing.