Thanks everyone for coming, and thanks VERY much to the Six Apart fabulous folks who helped create a fun party!
11/01/2008
Halloween 2008
This year's Halloween was pretty mellow, but I did prepare a costume (all out of stuff we had around the house ..yay!) for T. I took hint at how much she loves dancing to ballet that she sees on YouTube, and using the fab hat Toni knitted for Tesla last year as a basis for color, I basically made a fancy fluffy tutu-ish skirt. She loved wearing it, and grinned whenever I got her in it.
We had a few iterations, first being at the pumpkin patch. I then added more layers, and made her a shirt (onesie with pink fluff glued to it). She wore the tutu to gym one day before Halloween. Last pic here is Halloween day, when I got her dressed. She clapped!
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We were supposed to go to Six Apart's family Halloween day (which I was looking forward to), but Tesla woke up with coughs and general grumpiness. So she stayed home all day, and had a late nap 'til 5pm, totally missing the party. I knew she'd enjoy her outfit with other kids, so we did rally to dress and go to 18th street, our neighborhood where all the stores and neighbors open up, and the community comes out for trick or treating.
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I usually wear something not very scary on Halloween, but this year, I ventured out and bought a $5 kit from the drugstore with gory eye make-up, fake glitter blood, and fangs. The fangs chipped off quickly, but with Tesla being my focus, I didn't really care. However, I'm inspired next year to do a gory costume for the very first time in my life. You know, the typical scary stuff...never thought of doing so before, but now I'm intrigued...
We made Tesla try trick or treating, but she lost interest before getting anything because there were witches inside the store.
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After 18th street, we stopped by Noe Valley where Tesla's great-granny lives, and her granny, aunties, and cousins were. Great-granny played piano, and it was the cutest show when Tesla and her cousin (dressed as TinkerBell) danced around. I just sat marveling at the generations in that room!
10/28/2008
I voted
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I will be in Tokyo on Nov. 4th, so I went down to the city hall the other day, and voted. Whenever possible, I make a point of physically going to vote since I think it's important to show participation that way. The CA specific ballots were super long with a ton of issues coming up. Yes, I voted for Obama & Biden. And NO on Prop. 8.
yep, Dav did have a b-day
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Lest you think we forgot Dav's b-day several weeks back, he actually had a cupcake! Dav keeps telling me no celebration, etc. so I keep plans minor, but I got the cutest cupcakes from Citizen Cake...and [gasp] I even let Tesla have a little!
This was the Friday we planned to leave for Willits and Ukiah. We both came home early from work, planning to leave around 2 or 3. But by the time I fed Tesla, packed clothes/food/amenities, fed cats, ran an errand, etc. it was 4pm. So we decided to wait until after the commute rush and leave at 7pm. In the meantime, Michelle and Fia stopped by to give Dav a small gift, and we hung out. We had champagne. We had the cupcakes. Michelle took a picture of us.
Then my brother stopped by to give Dav some chocolates, Jeremy joined soon after, and we got hungry for dinner, and soon we were too relaxed to even consider driving. So we continued the evening, and it ended up being the perfectly low-key birthday that Dav likes - hanging out, talking with friends and family with no big fuss. Our goal next year is to distract Dav around early October so he will forget about his birthday. That would be the best gift, he said. So with Ian's, and Jeremy & Michelle's help next year, we may attempt a campaign to contact everyone we know to specifically not say anything. We'll see if that works...
10/21/2008
10/20/2008
Pumpkin picking
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Toni and Aesha invited Michelle and Sofia, and Tesla and I on a girls only pumpkin picking outing to Half Moon Bay. We thought we'd hang out at the Half Moon Bay street festival, but it was way too crowded with no where to sit, so us mamas with 3 babies left pretty quickly. Instead, we stopped at a pumpkin patch, then went on a hay ride. We shared sushi rolls and wine during a break.
We had a blast although were exhausted by afternoon, but it was so worth it to see our gals playing together. For a while, Tesla couldn't get used to the fact that now she was a big girl and Aesha got the special treatment, but she and Fia had great adventures being outdoor together. I can totally see them as sisters!
10/19/2008
From January 2007...
Jeremy just emailed this precious picture to us. It's from January 2007, when we were making our hats for the annual Mad Hat party. Here, Sofia is 2 years 4 months. Telsa right now is 2 years 3 months. Incredible!
I want to nibble on Tesla! Her short hair an all. Oh, how I would love to hold that round Tesla again! Sofia too, now I can see still had toddler cute chub on her cheeks. I'm so used to her always seeming such a big girl to me, but both our girls have grown so much.
10/18/2008
Raven
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Goodness, time flies. This was from weekends ago when Raven was visiting from Ptld for the Love Parade. We didn't go to the parade, but I got to hang out with Raven (we have same b-days!), she got to see Tesla. I loved catching up, and wanted to post these pics before too long! I only get to see her every once in a blue moon, but it's one of those relationships where that doesn't matter. We just pick right up where we last left off.
10/17/2008
Tesla has an imaginary friend!
I think...could be wrong, but sitting across her tiny table tonight as she ate dinner (first course was soup), she took a spoonful and pointed it to her right, looking off into space, saying, "no?" then ate the soup. She did this like 10 times, each time looking off to the right into space. I asked, "dare?" (who) but got no answer. Interesting...I of course didn't have my camera to video the exact moment, but the pic is while finishing that dinner.
10/14/2008
Visiting Ukiah and Willits, CA
We visited Mendicino county last weekend. It was beautiful, and I love getting out of the city and into nature. Plus, it was fun as a family to have so much time together exploring the towns, snuggling to sleep together, and taking walks.
Our impetus was to check out land, as in land we might want to buy. We've been talking about this for quite some time, but with our friends Rachel and Cesar moving to MA to live closer to land, we decided we should take active steps in researching areas. This is all very much in the research stage, and we have much to learn, but we were pleasantly surprised at not only the beauty, but the community of folks living up there. From a very brief first visit, my sense is people living there really love it, many are progressive, there's a strong sustainable living element, and lots of kids! Overall, it was a lovely weekend, and we'll be going up there more often as we continue to look.
We visited the Solar Living Institute that had a solar powered carousel. Here are Dav's pics.
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