Charlie's terrible rotten no good very bad day!

Like all kids, Charlie sometimes has a hard time when we get to school.  Luckily his teachers are amazing, and they will typically send us a picture like this about 10 minutes after we drop him off kicking and screaming.  He recovers quite quickly with them around!

Charlie reading to Maggie!

This is Charlie's new favorite book - it's called HILO.  We've read it 300 times.

Here he is reading it to Maggie!  (He has it just about memorized)

Maggie in the Laundry

Whatcha doing Maggie? 

Oh... nothing!  Just hiding to avoid naptime!

Maggie & Toonces!

Our neighbors have a great outdoor cat (Toonces!) who hunts for mice and snakes and generally keeps the neighborhood safe for us.

Maggie and the cat get along rather famously!

Charlie & Maggie Building Trains

These two get along so great!  (Well, 90% of the time!)

They built a train track together -



So proud of their work!

Popsicle Party!

Charlie's class had a Popsicle party - Since Bre is the class mom, she brought the popsicles, and she brought... MAGGIE!

Maggie was so good - she sat with the big kids!

Charlie's Photos

Sometimes Charlie really really wants to take some photos - like a few days ago he insisted on documenting playtime @ the park!

His clearest photo of Maggie!




And a quick Selfie!

At the Beach!

We had a great trip to the beach with Pete's old college friends the Kaplan's and the Wu's!

Here are a few pics - Charlie & Evie in the hot-tub!

Reading Charlie's new book to most of the kids!

Daddy & Maggie @ Marbles

Charlie was a little under the weather this weekend, so Daddy and Maggie went for a Daddy/Daughter day!

It was splendid.  Started out right with a full breakfast!



Maggie collected a LOT of tokens.

You have to climb HIGH to put them in the machine!

We worked up a bit of an appetite


Time to drive the school bus!


And then a short commute back home!

Maggie & Elmo

Maggie has a great new Elmo doll she fell in love with...



She even shared it with another baby!!!  Elmo had to give this little baby a kiss!

A New Bath Shot

We keep some pics of the kids in the bath hanging on the wall of the bathroom, but we never got a good one of the two of them together. 

Maybe this will be the one!

Cookie Snuggles

Maggie LOVES snuggling wit Cookie on Cookie's big comfy chair!  And Maggie is learning to play solitaire!

Some More Pics from the Pier!

Santa Monica Pier

Going to the Santa Monica Pier was on Poppy's bucket list, so... they went IN STYLE

Ordering food with poppy!


Look at this kid go!


Maggie does Maggie!

Cuddling & Watching UP

Look at this family all watching UP!




Charlie's arm around Maggie :)

A Day At Kidzu

Before Mommy and the kids left for California, Daddy took the kids to... KIDZU.  We hadn't been there in a long time.  It was fun!

Maggie found some fun stuff to play with!


Swinging so fast she got blurry!



And Charlie being Charlie

There's Some Fun in Sacramento!

Looks like Charlie & Maggie are having a blast in Sacramento!

I can't wait for them to come home and have fun with me!

Folsom Lake / Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland!

There's something so "Lord of the Flies" about this picture of Charlie on a deserted beach holding a stick attached to a paper plate...

Maggie don't care!

The Most Popular Toy At The Beach

Ice-Cream Cones!

I'm not kidding.  Bre got these Ice-Cream cone beach toys, and she made sure to get 3, and we're all very grateful she did.  I think every kid made 100 ice-cream cones.  Mostly for Kenny.

Maggie Stepping in a Bucket

Makes Kenny Laugh!

Collecting Shells!

These two kids had so much fun playing on the beach and collecting shells!