Year: 2007

This past weekend, my parents were in town. Jeremy’s uncle Gene came over for dinner and dessert. The evening’s conversation turned to politics – immigration and labor unions.

I love my running group. With them, I can run forever (at a 10:40 min/mile pace).

The super-large grip.

On the way to the mouth.

Argh! Just missed the goal.

We walked in the woods and performed the sleeping-haircut routine. We are not good hairdressers. You know, first it slants up one way and then you try and fix it and then it slants the other way and pretty soon, you have bangs that are an inch long. Thankfully we avoided the urge to overfix.

Ruby lived out her duck-retrieval fantasies by fetching a stick from the water. She’s a retriever who only fetches sticks in water. Throw a ball in a field? Totally uninterested.

See? The haircut isn’t too bad.

In the evening, Vince’s school had a pizza party/picnic. We finally got to meet his best-est friend. They are so cute together!

Back after a bit of a break blogging…

Today I hung out with LInz in Oakland, where we visited The Cheese Board Coop which is own by the same folks that do The Arizmendi Bakery that a bunch of us used to frequent in the Sunset District back in the day.

So I loaded up on all my favorites – Brioche Knots, Wolverines. Yum. The other nice thing is that this bakery if a bunch cheaper than the bakery by my house. So I was able to get a whole lot more stuff. I’m muching on a Wolverine right now.

This morning I did the longest run of my 5K training program – an hour of running, just about 6 miles. I am very fond of my running group. We are kind of a quiet bunch, but without them, I’d give up after the first mile and today I ran 6 miles, no problem.

This afternoon, to take advantage of the beautiful weather, we went apple picking.

There was a corn maze.

While I was at work today, Jeremy and the kids made sugar cookies, went to the park and considered looking for red wiggler worms for our compost bin in horse manure at the neighborhood stable.

The kids are kicking butt these days. Edda is slowly getting potty trained. We did try a year ago, but now I think she really gets it. We are aiming for timed potty breaks where every 2 hours or so we put her potty. She’s still wearing her diapers, but she’s pooping in the potty pretty reliably. She’s also slowly, slowly learning to feed herself again. She really lost all her self feeding skills, but we are on an upswing, she got a grape in her mouth the other day and as a bonus did it in front of her OT. And we swear she’s trying to say some words. Go Edda! Vince is learning to read and write new words everyday. Today he wrote “I see a dog” on the fridge whiteboard. Crazy, the kids are getting big!

Jeremy is doing an amazing job with the housework and kid scheduling. Especially with the cooking. Every night a new ethnic dish. Every morning, sandwiches for me and the kids. Look at what he made Edda for lunch today, omelet with red peppers, tomatoes and rosemary.

After the homework is done and the teeth are brushed, Jeremy reads the Phantom Tollbooth out loud. I’ve never read the story before. We have some friends who named their child after the main character (Milo) because they loved the book so much. (Also that crazy New Yorker cartoonist is the illustrator.)

A peek from near my office building.

They are starting construction on the sidewalk between the house and the library. Finally! We’ll be able to walk to the library without crossing the street twice. They are doing a reasonably good job at saving as many mature trees as they can.

Fall is my favorite time of year. I know all the leaves are dying, but I just love the beginning of the school year and the crispness of the fall air.

Vince has about 10 minutes of homework every night from both his schools. Here he is working on some Chinese homework.