The Wave

Sadie has recently mastered the art of the wave. While she has been waving for more than a year now, she recently perfected waving for the camera. Now when we ask Sadie to smile for the camera her arm instinctively goes up Miss-America-style.

Family Traditions

Jack has inherited many traits from me, but this one may be the oddest: He is carrying on the tradition of tearing the heads off of dolls. A family friend who stumbled upon the aftermath of one my baths when I was child commented that the bathtub looked like Jonestown. Let's hope that Jack doesn't take it that far.

The Kisser

Jack is going to be that boy on the playground chasing the girls around trying to kiss them. He loves to give hugs and kisses. We had a wonderful visit with Pud last weekend and, as you can see from above, Jack was not shy about showing his affection for Pud.

More from the Audubon

Most Saturday mornings J.'s responsible for taking care of the kids. Their ritual is to go the Audubon Center at Deb's Park. There are endless things to explore and adventures to be had there.

THIS... is summer

We have had the most wonderful and temperate summer in LA this year, but all good things must come to an end and the late summer heat wave has set in. To keep the kids cool this weekend we broke out the sprinkler and, as Sadie says, "the fishy diapers." We topped off the summer attire with a couple pairs of sun glasses from the 99 cent store and got this summer pièce de résistance.

Chinatown

We love street fairs. We hit a street fair pretty much every weekend of the summer, sometimes even two in a weekend. Last weekend we headed to Chinatown for "Chinatown Nights." We got the kids gussied up and took the train downtown. The kids were very excited to take the train. The pedestrian-only streets in Chinatown and free cookies were just icing on the cake for Jack and Sadie.

Arts and Crafts

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When I picked the kids up at school today they were VERY excited to show me the purses they had made. Jack made the orange bird purse above and Sadie made the yellow duck purse. They talked about the purses the whole ride home and then strutted around the house with the purses once we arrived. I even convinced them to pose for the top picture.