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today I am happy

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Today I am happy. It is my Dad’s birthday. My Mom was in the hospital and is released today to go home. Together they can celebrate. This picture was taken last month during our visit.

seeds

My little family here in Oakland is warm and well fed and glad to be together. We just found out that we are all set to start growing at the toddler garden. We have lots of seeds and enthusiastic to get our hands dirty.

wooden

Emma has been collecting lovely wooden toys for each Little Bear character. When she receives a new one she introduces them to the others. It is sweet.

It is a bright day in my heart even if outside it is cloudy. Emma and I still find all the magnolias and sakura blooming and the cute little gnomes on the electrical poles. Little signs of growth and happiness. ^_^

making gingerbread houses

Emma really likes the idea of gingerbread houses. She sees them in books, made of cardboard at Whole Foods and made of actual gingerbread at bakeries, so we decided to make mini versions of them with graham crackers. Last Sunday, we invited family to get together to construct some delicious little houses.

We all contributed something to make the sugary mess that was our gingerbread village. I used a combination of peanut butter and vanilla frosting to put together our house, mostly because it tasted delicious. I had a mug of coffee and unlimited supply of graham crackers with this tasty concoction and it resulted in a big sugar/caffeine high!

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visit with family

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We stayed with Aunt Elayne in Carlie’s room. We like her sharing her big bed and its super soft and covered in pillows. Aunt Elayne makes us smoothies for breakfast.

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Clover picked out this dress when we went shopping at the used children’s clothing shop called Children’s Orchard. They had lots of costumes for Halloween and Emma loved every dress.

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We visited Grandma and Grandpa’s little place and played with all of their horses and giraffes. They have lots of pictures hung all over.

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Emma’s aunts threw her a little Frozen themed party at the park. Emma licked all the frosting off of the cupcakes and opened many presents.

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Aunt Elayne has a pool in her backyard and we went in for a bit. CLovey loved eating every color of Otter Pop!

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Aunt Barbara drove us around all weekend and took us to parks. We had lots of fun this trip!