May 2008 Archives

We celebrated the official entrance into the terrible two's, and it wasn't terrible at all!! The day started out a bit rocky -- it was about 50 degrees and foggy, so we had to call all the party go-ers and tell them to come to our house instead of the park we had planned on, but it all worked out okay. We had a great group of little kids and big kids alike, and we all had a Dora-licious good time! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

We had a Dora the Explorer theme, so her head held the cutlery.

The guests are arriving... Xander welcomes Fritz by sucking on his pacifier!

Our youngest party-goer - 7 week old Kayden, and her Mommy Tammy.

Cory cookin' the tamales - with the borrowed Rev Foods bulk equipment!!

The masses getting ready for cupcakes!!

Blow!! Cousin Mia helps blow out the candles. Mia kept singing "Happy Birthday" because she knew after we sang that, that meant everybody gets cupcakes...she's so smart!

Our daughter, shocklingly, doesn't have much of a sweet tooth. I guess her parents have it all!

Xander likes cupcakes...

...and I think Nathan is already in sugar shock...

Audrey opening up all of her presents - a new Dora dress and Dora plate!!

And we got a new camp chair, just Audrey's size

And, a party favorite, a Dora tent to play in!! Since the party, Audrey has been saying "C'mon Mommy, house!" or "C'mon Daddy, house!" She makes us sit in the house with her and have tea...she loves her little house!

So that's it for now...it's off to bed to rest from our party-ful weekend!!

So I keep sneaking off to CNN.com during work to see if Hillary has conceded yet, and today I was pleasantly surprised that the California supreme court got their head out of their asses. We aren't the first state to do it, but now gay people can get married in California. Yay gay people! Yay marriage!! This whole argument has been so painful for so many people, and I'm so glad that we're one step closer to allowing everyone a harmonious family life. I know that's boiling it down to a blog sound bite, but I just wanted to chime in.

So, it's hotter than hell here...maybe the courts just said "if it hits 100 degrees in SF, we'll let gay people get married." But I get to sit on my high horse, since the new house has AC! Now I get to participate in the brown outs. Naw, we're being good, but it is nice to come home to an inside that is actually cooler than the outside, and we couldn't say that about our last house. Especially since last summer, I could look forward to at least 9 hours in an office that had AC, and I don't have that luxury now - I work in an office that is right next to an industrial kitchen with a bank of ovens on all morning. Yeck. We were all a bit stoned by the heat and couldn't think straight by the afternoon - I hope we didn't accidentally wrap the burritos in paper towels.

So I know I keep doing a bunch of writing, with no pictures! I'm sorry. I brought up the idea of actually taking some video last weekend about our first weekend in the house, but that didn't happen. And I keep thinking we should take pictures too of some of the chaos, but that still hasn't happened. I even know where all the cameras are. I'm just too wrapped up in unwrapping I guess. I promise (Grandma), soon!!

That sums up my weekend.

The big move happened on Friday, yay!! It has been an amazingly exhausting weekend, but exciting as well. The new house is awesome - we've been having a great time arranging our stuff and getting new furniture to fill in the gaps, and not such a great time unpacking everything. But at least we're doing it knowing that it's the last time for a looong time.

Audrey loves her new house too...she didn't have an iota of trepidation about her first night in the place. She's running around like she's owned it for two years! It's so funny to think this will probably be the only house she knows, even though it's the third one she's lived in. I absolutely love that thought - I know you can't guarantee what's going to happen in the next twenty years, but I truly hope we'll love it here, and remain here for the long haul. Great schools, a great house, and I really do love Oakland for the cliche of diversity, but it really is true. I went to the Oakland Economic Summit last week for work, and it was really enlightening to see how dedicated the people of Oakland are to making it a great place to live and work.There are definitely problems - I just got on the yahoo group for crime in my neighborhood and it doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies, but I'd like to be a party of the solution, rather than get a longer commute. Well, we'll see how it all goes...I'll give you the play by play...

And onto the barf - I got my first call from Audrey's daycare provider today, the first one in a year and a half! Scary, since I knew it was something big - she had vomited during her nap. So the little bug has another little bug - we came home, watched Nemo, and she fell asleep on the couch at 6pm. I sure hope she feels better in the morning - this flu seems to have gone around and around, it better stop soon, cuz we have her big Dora birthday party in a few weeks!!