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The days are long….but the years are short…

April — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:28:50 +0000

It’s been a long while since we posted here, there are lots of reasons, but generally life has left little extra time and the blog has suffered. I couldn’t let our little girl’s second birthday go by without sharing a little bit of it with our blog readers. I can’t believe two years have flown by already. I’ve learned so much from my daughter, expanded both my patience and my wonder. Here’s how we celebrated her birthday this past week.

She got too close to the cake when blowing out the candle.

Wordless Wednesday: A Pirate’s Life for Me

April — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:43:49 +0000

August 2010. Bay Area Discovery Museum.

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Wordless Wednesday: Smiles

April — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:22:10 +0000

A genuine smile!

What you get when you point a camera at a child and say “Smile.” I’m starting to wonder if I’m raising a baby pirate.
Not entirely wordless, but hey, it’s hump day and I’ll do what I want.
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Knee High By the 4th of July: What a difference a year makes!

April — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:28:48 +0000

July 4th 2009 and 2010

And the elephants are kindly but they’re dumb…..

April — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:48:34 +0000

Took Jocelyn to the Zoo this weekend, she’s recently started learning the noises of different animals so we thought she might enjoy seeing them in real life instead of just in books.
The Oakland Zoo is quite nice, not very big, but has a nice kids section. There’s a ski-lift you can ride around to see the animals from the air, though we didn’t think that would work with our little one so we skipped it.

Wordless Wednesday: Playing with “Colors”

April — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:50:36 +0000

May 2010. Berkeley, CA.
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Wordless Wednesday: Sunglasses

April — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:09:12 +0000

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Stir Crazy on a Rainy Sunday

April — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:17:46 +0000

Jocelyn is no longer a baby, well, she’ll always be my baby, but there’s nothing babyish about her anymore. And boy does she have energy, what I would give for a fraction of that spunk, I’d be a whole lot more productive if I had enough get-up-and-go to run laps and laps around the living room. We usually find more productive releases for Jocelyn’s pent up wiggles, most likely involving walks and the park, but when it rains, we have fewer options. Yesterday it was down-right dreary, cold and yucky out, a day adults would be happy to spend curled up on a couch with hot cocoa and a good book. Not our little girl though, yesterday by lunch she was getting a bit stir crazy. So when Matthew suggested we check out the Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science, we all piled in the car and drove up the hill.

There was a nice area specifically for preschool age children, with fun activities, a little puppet theater and lots of things to crawl on and touch.

Jocelyn had a grand time, running around, staring at other kids, chatting up the other parents.

She probably would have stayed there until she ran out of steam completely, she had such a good time. A great way to spend a rainy afternoon.

UP!

Matthew — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:26:03 +0000

Jocelyn really likes books, and she really likes having us read them to her. I really like reading to her, so it’s a win-win. I like it when she tosses a book in, and proceeds to crawl onto, my lap because, well, it is just time to read. The only problem is that she gets fixated on a particular book and wants it read over and over and over and…you get the idea. It becomes a challenge really, a challenge to find new ways to read or tell the simple toddler story.

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