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.

Cinco de Mayo de Beisbol

For our first ballgame of the year, we set our sites on Cinco de Mayo (thanks to some discounted employee tickets).

Max was sad that we had to wait in line outside

But once we were in, we popped into the Press Box to see Daddy (and get soda).

We walked around and got some snacks and visited the slides (and Daniel actually slid this time!) And then we trekked up to our seats (Uncle took the escalator up with the kids who were up for it and I walked the ramp up with the one who was a little afraid.)  It was going to be the kids' first time in the upper deck and I wasn't sure how they would feel about it.  Not to worry - they thought it was AWESOME.

And then they cheered "Let's Go Giants, "

We had plenty of opportunity to snuggle together and take selfies.

And then the kids decided it was time to go.  Max was whining to go - because he knew that on the way out I'd promised to let him look for a toy in the store.  I wanted to go visit with Margaret, so we waited until Matt Cain (aka Hartley's Daddy) was taken out of the game in the fifth inning and we started our descent.  We sat down in front of the press box - and it was still the fifth inning.

And then we went into the press box - and it was still the fifth inning.  Colorado scored 13 runs in the fifth inning.  And then, while we watched on tv in the press lounge, the Giants responded with 4.  And so we went across the hall to look at toys, found a Giants jerseyed bear, a Giants jereseyed penguin, and a "blue seal" (Lou Seal) doll, and then headed home.