Father's Day

A thoughtful rest

I was just taking a "quiet time" in my room - lying on the bed, reading with the windows open, sun shining in. Eli climbed on to the bed, looked at me and asked, "Is God in your tummy?" I looked at him and asked him, "Is God in your tummy?" He replied, climbing over me, "NO! JEEsus is in my tummy!" I said, "really?" He paused on his knees, gesturing with his hands while tilting his head as he does quite frequently these days, "I don't know how he got there, but he just is."

Day with friends

Our summer is broken up in to three parts - June, "THE GRANDPARENTS", and august. we made the decision to not travel this summer so that we can journey back to Virginia in the Fall to see the leaves, as it's been 11 years since I've seen them.

so we have been exploiting all the offerings of SF and the the Bay area. so this page took place back in June. the children and I had planned a day in Golden Gate Park when we got a call from Naomi and Leon. They decided to join our adventure. We took a nice little hike through the woods and played in a field. Eli and Leon flew our little wooden gliders and played with sticks, while Eva, Naomi and I lounged on the grass.

Next we went to the Japanese Tea Garden, walked around the grounds searching for fish ponds, climbing over the bridge and ended by having tea. Eva, hands down, still refers to the cookies we got, the sesame and the almond!

Bi-Rite Creamery has come to town........

oh my goodness is this place good. Bi-Rite is a new creamery located near the grocery store with the same name - Bi-Rite.

http://biritecreamery.com/

it is amazing. the first time i tasted this ice cream was at a birthday party in an ice cream cake. it was a chocolate cake with mint chocolate chip ice cream with chocolate shavings ALL over the cake. it was soooo good going down and then my belly hurt for a while. i ate leftovers the next day and the same thing. after my trip to the creamery i realized my portion was too big for this rich ice cream. we went with our friends on the last day of school. Isa and Felix had been several time (it was Isa's cake that tainted my first view of the place) and Avalon and Divo were new to the offerings. the line was long and worth the wait. the flavors we had were the mint chip, salted caramel, chocolate, honey lavender, roasted banana, chocolate cherry. oh my was it tasty. another reason for going here is the cool hiding placed in the architecture of the building. it was a hit!

Eva's Graduation from Hummingbird Cooperative

On our way to graduation

A neverland party

Our friends Kyle and Erin had their 5th birthday party in GGP. The theme was never-neverland. Of course it was FREEZING this particular Saturday morning. Eva was so excited about wearing a nightgown as Wendy. After tights, undershirt, turle neck, sweatshirt and sweater, she was ready to go. Eli did not want to go to the party. He refused to wear pj's and did not want to go. I offhand suggested wearing the unicorn costume, Eli's face lit up and off he ran to the closet to grab it. He put it on and was ready to go. 

It was a great party full of song singing, story telling and treasure hunts. You can not be faint-hearted and live in SF - you have to go no matter what the fog brings.....

Artists at work

Playdate with old friend LEON

Leon has been a part of our lives since February 2004. He fits in to our home seemlessly. Now that he lives 3 blocks away, we spend countless hours at either our house or his. 

Palydate with new friends

Eva and Rayna first found each other at KidPower park one Sunday after church. Art and I were lounging around the park after a tasty lunch at Sunflower cafe when Eva befriended Rayna and vice versa. As it turned out we take classes at Acrosports at the same time. Rayna referes to Eva as Diva to her mom all of the time and asked her if we could have a playdate - so over they came. It was instant fun - costumes, bed bouncing and laughs abound. Even little Asha kept her own in the mix of chidren.

Memorial Day

We met a family from preschool for a little picnic on Memorial Day. I'd worked the night before - getting home at 2:30am so I was little tired. A peaceful picnic in Golden Gate Park was a perfect destination. Eli helped by carrying the bulle ball set - ah three feet - he was pretty cute trying though.  The children were all a bit whiny. They finally found a good activity making daisy chains in a distant field. Sophie actually made the chain while the other three gathered the daisies.