It wasn't all silly faces over Memorial Day weekend.

We also walked to the park on Lake Merritt, went to the farmer's market and slid down the inflatable slideturned into fairy princesses at Fairyland and played among the mushrooms,

learned to use chopsticks at Little Shin Shin, ate lots of yummy food (like blueberries!), and did some more sliding at Dracena Park.Thanks for coming out to Oakland everyone, we all had a great time!

Omma, Pop, Julie, Chris, Courtie & Lily came for a visit this weekend. We had a lot of fun.

Counting in Swahili

If you thought counting to ten in English was pretty good, check me out counting to ten in Swahili!

LEGEND:
1 = Moja
2 = Mbili
3 = Tatu
4 = Nne
5 = Tano
6 = Sita
7 = Saba
8 = Nane
9 = Tisa
10 = Kumi

Thanks Josephine!

M&D's Anniversary in Yosemite

Tomorrow is Mom and Dad's 3rd anniversary

so we went up to Yosemite to celebrate this past weekend.We stayed in one of the Redwoods in Yosemite cabins near Wawona where we could hike to lower Chilnualna Falls,enjoy the all-you-can-eat BBQ on the Wawona lawn,

and quickly get into the Valley for some funin the sun on the Ahwahnee lawn.

History, Heat & Molly

Molly was in town this week, the CA Supreme Court struck down the ban on same sex marriage, and a heat wave broke all temperature records in the Bay Area (97 in Oakland yesterday!). Definitely cause for some ice cream at Fenton's and a little naked blogging.

1....2...3.4565789...10!

This is my new trick:

and I'm VERY proud of it.

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and mothers-to-be out there, Happy Mother's Day.

the Beach (part 3)

One day, a group of intrepid fliers headed for the open ocean to go parasailing under a gigantic smile.

Here's the take-off,

and here's the view 800' of line later. The crew was pretty youngbut it was pretty exciting, and VERY glamorous.