Congrats Pmogi

Yesterday Pmogi graduated from CAL!!! We started the day celebrating at La Note, a cute french breakfast place with great food... We went on to Brewed Awakening in North Berkeley for one last visit to Pmogi's favorite coffee shop... very good coffee, and finally hit the Rose gardens before the awesome graduation...........

Here is the fantastic graduation ceremony......

And afterwards trying to get as many pics as possible of our awesome CAL grad at the reception!

This one is my favorite pic of catching my sis chatting with friends and family!!!! Needless to say we are super proud of her!

We finished the night at Zachary's and Ici... Trying to fit as many Berkeley favorites into one day as possible.

P: Congrats... we are soooooooo proud of you!!!!

Sex in the City

There is an early screening in SF this weekend http://www.dailycandy.com/t/click/7/F238453/1918033/18... Exciting! However going would mean I really can't justify going to Manhattan to see the movie at a theatre there... The countdown is on!

Mommy I need privacy please

K has learned how to open and close doors and she is thrilled.... She discovered her new skill last weekend and spent a lot of time leaving rooms closing the door and popping back in within seconds. The other day when she was going potty she requested that I stand right outside the door... because after all "Mommy, I need my privacy"

Gma C has been here for a week and K is having a great time... They are very busy taking care of all the dollies in the house and playing hide and seek. This morning I heard a conversation between the two of them...

Gma C: K did you get up last night
K: Yes, and Mommy came in my room and stayed a long long time! (Let's just say this morning's gym session was miserable)

They are definitely the two girls in the house...

An awesome mothers day!!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to my best friend!!! Thank you for nine great years. We are so lucky to have you as daddy, friend and partner in everything!

funny comments from K

Mommy, I don't want to go home. I want to go to Target.

Mommy, what a beautiful dress you have. Does it twirl? Do you have any dresses that twirl?

Can I wear my new swimming suit to bed? (She got to)

I am going to flash the monsters away with my flashlight even though they don't exist.

Mommy is not a woman she is just Mommy. Daddy, yes Daddy is a boy.

Why doesn't MoCa want to give me high five like Coco. (Coco is a dog, moca is our cat).

When you are my size you can come to my school and learn too.

I sleep a lot. Even with my eyes closed.

We need summer! K and P at the park. and as little birds

My girlie

Breakfast at Cafe Brioche with M&J and Lucy, one of our many many dollies we love oh so much!

K learned how to pump herself on the swings this week... We took her to the park on Saturday to show off her new skills with Sab. The two are attached at the hip these days and we had a really nice picnic after the park.

She has fallen in love with ball games after a park playdate with Pet yesterday. We played golf and baseball before leaving the house this morning.

The other awesome part of the weekend... Cherries! T brought us home a bag of cherries on the way home from golf. K has finished 90% of them. It is spring even if the weather isn't cooperating.

K may not be a dentist after all

K: Mommy... Why are you putting your hands in your mouth?
M: Because I am flossing.
K: Your hands are going to get wet.
M: Flossing is important
K: Mommy, only babies put their hands in their mouth.
M: Flossing is important
K: Ok, can I floss too?
M: Do you want help?
K: No, I will do it by myself!

We spent the evening together and K even chose to stay home with her parents over a playdate. A first for everything I guess. She helped unpack, clean the house and asked for an early bedtime. Definitely a strange evening.

We could live in LA!

LA!!!!!!!!!!

LA rocked with Ang. We are excited about our half and even planning for the LA marathon next year... Let's see if we can do it.... The weekend rocked... On Fri I checked out Urth cafe (yummy coffee), Robertson (one of the best LA shopping streets... Meatpacking District level), Santa Monica beaches (always great), 3rd Street Promenade, my first visit to Fred Segal, Rodeo, Beverly Street before meeting up with Ang. We went to dinner at a great little Brazilian restaraunt and of course appletinis at a great bar with lots of chatting and cosmo quizzes to end the night...

Ang made me an awesome breakfast with homemade salsa.... I think I can make that home, but she has always been the cook.... We wandered Fashion Island and tried a Morrocoan restaraunt as we both wanted to relive a restaraunt experience we had in Madrid... Luckily we left without any baskets... Bummer! We finished the night at another great bar in Orange County where we found the dj we need to make our marathon running mix... And most importantly we finally tried Sprinkles cupcakes. YUMMY!

Sunday we went for coffee, manicures, pedicures and brunch at this beautiful restaraunt overlooking Laguna Beach, wandered the Newport Coast, and went to Little Tokyo where we went to sushi and pinkberry for fantastic frozen yogurt.

The weekend was great as it is always so fantastic to catch up and hang out... Our next trip adventure is going to be a girls Yosemite and Ojai trip...

Weekend

Friday nights are turning to be marathon playdates for K and S. We finally separate them at bedtime as they take turns playing at the two houses throughout the evening. As S's dad was out of town we went to storytime at the library and lunch on Sat once again only pulling them apart for naptime which was two hours delayed.

Sat night we had Aunt J over. K loves loves her Aunt J and so was in heaven. She also loved making cupcakes for M's bday and pizza for our dinner...

Sunday we decided to try and not drive our car for the day and made it almost the whole day. We walked to coffee and the market (where K got some fantastic Hawaii wear from M&J) and took the train to Menlo Park to have lunch with J... A lot more playing. Both Sab and Jam are kids K has been with since she was very little so it is cute to watch them grow and play more and more together. We drove to Gma S's for dinner where K had Gma making seconds and thirds of dinner.

The funniest moment of the weekend: K threw a coin into a fountain and made a wish. Her wish for the coin... Shopping!

Yikes

I got K's kids club cookie today at WF... Awesome program! However I looked at the receipt and realized I spent $8 on apples. This after spending $4 for bananas at Draegers last weekend a small bunch of bananas. We didn't buy that many apples or bananas. Yesterday I heard rice has increased to over $800 a ton (which means it has doubled in the last few months). I guess all those rice shortage articles in the Bangkok Post are more global than I realized. Thank goodness for the farmers market... The raw food thing (all part of the new and improved diet in addition to the marathon training sessions at the gym) is going to be more expensive than I thought. Hopefully in a few months I can say it was all worthwhile.

Back to K... she did my hair for school the other night and told me it was because I had to look nice for my teacher. We had the same why are there no swings at Mommy's school conversation. Especially since she just got another swing set with eight swings at her school.

How was your day?

Every night we try and spend some time talking....

K always asks how was your day? as she gets in bed. We chat every night with the lights off as part of the wind down process (and let's be clear... she is only ready for bed about one in 40 times that we put her to bed)

Last night we started the same way but half way into the conversation she told me ok now ask me how my day was? and so I did Since this is all about her I decided to put her daily summary up...

I played
I ate sopa
I laughed and played with Mar
I sat on the yellow swing
I played
Daddy and I ate raisins

Another good day!

Top weekend moments

Dinner with M&J at the Grill in the SJ Fairmont... Especially the post dinner people watching.

Pedicure at Pinkies with the latest In Style magazine.

Farmers market treats and being told by K when I complained that my arms were going to fall off due to all the groceries that actually it was impossible because my arms are connected.

Playdates! Getting to play with Mar at her pool. Playing with Sab lots and lots. Mommy finding out when going to pick up K at Sab's that she requested a special dinner because she didn't want to eat what Sab's family was eating... even though she wasn't over for dinner...

Having a mellow home weekend with wonderful weather.

Pics and more pics...