3yrs 1 month

Highlights from the past month. 

The day after Josie turned 3 she started writing her name. I was impressed. She still talks about getting her library card but said she's still working on her "s".

Seems like birthday celebrations continued to happen. On Monday Feb 4 Shirley and I went to school right before pick up time to celebrate with the kids. They sang to her and they got ice cream with sprinkles and then she opened a present.

On Sunday the 10th Josie and I went to Lorraine and Gaya's in Saratoga to celebrate birthdays.  Lorraine and I are in Dec. Gaya is in Jan and of course Josie in Feb. They cooked us a delicious lunch and we brought the cupcakes. After lunch we walked to Gaya's school. Next year she'll be in high school!

On Saturday the 16th late afternoon after Karen, Katie, & Luke left we saw our new neighbor kids playing on their driveway so Josie and I went to play with them for a little bit. They all worked on one of Josie's new sticker books together. Anthony just turned 6 and Adrianna turns 4 this month.

 

Josie had her first sleep over with Gahaus and Grandpa Rich on Sunday Feb 17th. We went to see our favorite bluegrass band The Anderson Family Bluegrass Band. Paige, the oldest daughter, and the next two siblings formed Paige Anderson and the Fearless Kin. That's actually who played on Sunday night at Cafe DuNord in SF. We saw the family play during the Blue Grass Festival 3 years ago when Josie was 17 days old. Unfortunately this year the venue in the Cafe didn't allow anyone under 21. We had to enjoy a night out on our own. We got there early and spent about 45 min. chatting with the Anderson's. They were happy to see us. They ended up putting us on the guest list and we didn't have to pay the $15 ticket fee. While they warmed up we ate our dinner, yummy burgers, and then the band started at 8:30. Daisy Mae the youngest who plays the dobro guitar played for two songs and Christy the mom played the bass for one of the songs. The kids sound great. They also gave us a cd and then we bought a couple. Such a fun evening. Josie had fun on her sleep over.

I picked Josie up at school one day with her face all painted. She loves stuff like this.

Kaira came over on a Friday morning to play.

A couple Fridays we've spent at My Gym and the girls have a ball running and jumping together and just being plain silly. You'll see a video at the end of the crazy girls jumping. They looked so cute picking out from the play structure with their elbows on the mat but I wasn't quick enough to get a good shot.

Last Sunday we took advantage of our great weather and went to Handley's Rock Park in Redwood City. We did some rock scampering. Don't worry Gram and Gahuas we were being safe. 

 

 

 

 After rock climbing we went to a park at the top of Farm Hill and Josie and Daddy played around.

Enjoying one of our favorite foods - artichokes. These were jumbo artichokes cut in half boiled and grilled and Josie was enjoying the huge heart. Even the stems were delicious.

 

 Here are some videos. One of Josie's bday party at school. One of Josie and Kaira in the marching band. The crazy girls jumping at My Gym.