He's not yet three, but he loves singing and playing his guitar. This is a little ditty he wrote about the nearby bridge that goes up...
Occasionally Ocky gets five stickers on his reward chart... One sticker for staying in bed all night. Five nights and he gets a prize. This weekend the prize was an egg with a toy - just about the MOST EXCITING THING EVER.
Santa finally made it to California, not long before finishing up a long day in the U.S. Pacific Islands... he was pretty happy to have some cookie and a NorCal IPA so we all got some nice presents :) Missed you all. Love from SF Xx
Can you tell what is Oskar's favourite book of all time?
Finlay was three months on Xmas Day and already digs presents.
The Big Lebowski lives on, the Dude abides with a White Russian in his new Pendleton Westerly
Today we spent a fun day putting together the gingerbread house that also came from our cousins in Sweden. I say "day" because, well, you'll see... It came in the post. We start with unboxing...
Yeah, this could take a bit more construction than most
First roof panel coming together. Puzzled and glued everything with the icing
...and so on. Finally, yay!
Woops... booOO!!
Doesn't matter. More icing to the rescue! And finally, decorations!
Thank you Sweden contingent, love from SF Xxx
Yesterday some sweet window stickers hand-painted by cousin Lucien arrived! They look great right under the star... sorry for the filthy city window.
Next installment – the gingerbread house! Quite the work after it's journey in the post (ﾉﾟ0ﾟ)ﾉ~
Oskar wearing Mommy's cute little Puma slip ons down the hallway today was a moment that deserved to be captured ^_^
Love to all from warm sunny SF Xxx
Finlay enjoys the aquarium playtime gym just as much as Oskar did. Bonus edits to remove the evidence: Mommy's wine glass ;)
Hijacking the kids' thread for a moment, to show you where Grandma went hiking with me on Friday. Everybody needed a day to themselves, so we drove the 3-ish hours down to the Pinnacles National Monument and hiked a couple of trails for about 3.5 miles all up. A beautiful, rare, volcanic spot, and something that I'm thankful that National Park Service provides for everyone (read, sometimes taxes are good!).
Finlay and Keith have a smiling session together.
We all took Grandma to visit Muir Woods, named after one of our first and most important naturalists in California, John Muir. He was pretty much the first guy to point out the the settlers of the West and the gold rush mobs, that preserving some forests was extremely important. Thank goodness for him.
The redwoods are huge. The big ones have been alive since 900 AD, and earlier. Since before our familiy was known in the Domesday Book. We saw one 15 foot slab that had been cut away. It looked like a fragment of the tree, with thousands of rings. In 1880 that would have been great timber supply. Today the live trees and the forest are a monument to natural history and national pride.
