May Highlights

Daniel is a bubble bearded boy...

who helps me out with the garbage.

who insisted on my taking this picture of him.

The new rooms have come with the new responsibility of keeping them clean.  Caroline's room is very small, which means it gets messy very quickly.  This is the first time she cleaned it all by herself.

And it obviously tired her out (she's actually sleeping in a tent on her just cleaned floor here).

And Max and Daniel sometimes still indulge in naked dance parties.

Scaling the Rock Wall!

The SF Rec and Park has a program called "Mobile Rec" that brings a rock wall, bikes, frisbees, and skateboards (among other things) out to neighborhood playgrounds for kids to access.  I saw on the website that it was going to be at one of our playgrounds, Rochambeau, in May and offered it to the kids, knowing mountain goat Caroline would jump at the opportunity.  She did, but the boys were not so interested, so they stayed home and watched The Incredibles with Uncle while Caroline and I had a girls' day.

She walked right up and asked to get hooked into a harness to try the rock wall.

She never got higher than about half-way up, but that was still about 12 feet up.  But I think she had a pretty great time. 

After about forty-five minutes going up and down, she decided to switch over and ride bikes.  They had some cool bikes with training wheels.

Then we were off to the play structure for a little bit.

And then we stopped to get burritos.  It was the first time Caroline got one and the burritero (burrista?) decorated and identified hers as "First Burrito".  She declared it "YUMMY!"  A true San Franciscan.

The Final Parent-Child Evening (*sob*)

As they have been at every opportunity, the kids were excited to show off what they have learned.  Max showed off his cylinder skills.

Daniel was incredibly proud to build a Roman arch, and I have to say I was incredibly impressed by it as well.

Caroline worked on her gradients using Color Box 3.

Max tackled the buckling frame again.  He's a buckling maestro.

Daniel worked on identifying musical instruments.

For the first time ever, they pulled out some actual musical instruments and played for us.

Here's Daniel being a lefty.

Caroline practiced sewing buttons.  Look at that little smile on her face.  She loves sewing.

And Max being a righty:

 This "work" has some sort of fancy name like "trinomials".

Practice with cutting.

Practice with name tracing.