Monday, March 15, 2010

A Beautiful Sunny Day

Today was a beautiful, sunny day.  We had a morning playdate where we took a walk around the neighborhood.  Well, maybe a walk is overstating it;  because the kids get distracted over any little thing.  It is fun to watch, unless you want to make any progress.  Sabrina brought her baby stroller and her favorite part of the walk was to walk up these driveways that had a slight incline and then run down!  Laughing all the way.  So much fun.  After a great 2 1/2 hour nap we went to the park to meet our friends CJ and her mom Elaine and Issac and his mom Sue.  I wish I had some pictures but our camera is somewhere in the house, I just can't find it.  Hopefully it will turn up, and soon.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Hungry Hungry Hippo

Today we went to our morning playdate at the church.  We had time to kill before lunch and it was such a beautiful day outside we drove to the park and played for a half hour or so.  Sabrina can climb up the big kids play structure and go down the slide all by herself!  She is growing up way too fast for me.  After her nap we went to our sit n scram playdate.  Today I was supposed to scram with Katrina but her son Parker absolutely would not let go of her, so Nancy and I drove to Starbucks and had a nice relaxing time.  Actually Nancy really could have used the break so I'm glad we got to go together.  Her daughter Lydia won't nap and it's driving her crazy.  Lydia needs the nap, but for some reason she won't let herself calm down and go to sleep.  For dinner we had burgers and bell peppers on the BBQ.  Sabrina was a hungry hungry hippo tonight.  She ate an turkey sausage, 1/4 of a burger and three slices of bell pepper.  Wow!  I wasn't around for dinner though because I drove over to the hospital to visit Carrie and Peng's new baby Jeremiah.  He is really cute and loves to be held.  Forgot how small they are.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Melmo Melmo Melmo

Sabrina has discovered Elmo.  Or "Melmo" as she calls him.  My friend Ashley's son Vander also calls Elmo Melmo.  We joke that Melmo is Target's generic Elmo.  Jerry is not too thrilled about this new love of Sabrina's, but what can you do?  I don't really think it's that big of a deal.  It's not Barney (G-d forbid :) ).  Today was our weekly Willow Glen Tuesday morning playdate, which is at the Willow Glen Baptist Church.  They have a huge nursery room and we donate money to them every year and they let us use the room twice a week.  We volunteered to host the Tuesday afternoon playdate.  I was uber motivated this afternoon and baked a blueberry strussel cake.  Yum yum!  After everyone left Sabrina and I watched a couple episodes of Curious George and then dinner.  Jerry came home in time to put Sabrina to bed and now we are going to relax! 

Monday, March 8, 2010

Ready For A Big Girl Bed! Okay, Maybe Not.


This afternoon I met with my South Valley Las Madres group for a playdate, which was at Sarah L's house.  Sarah has two kids, Quin, 18 months old and Anna, almost 4.  Sabrina had a good ol' time in Anna's big girl bed.  Here she is pretending to go night night, although most of the time she just liked to roll around underneath the covers.  And to end our afternoon was a beautiful rainbow!  Sabrina's first rainbow.  For dinner I made a pasta with a meat sauce, which Sabrina inhaled!  Probably because she refused to eat most of her lunch.  I'm always worried that if she doesn't eat a good lunch she won't nap well, but apparently that wasn't the case, she slept 2 hours.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

San Antionio Ranch & Visiting Ella


Busy afternoon. We planned on visiting Sabrina's friend Ella in the hospital but she was taking a nap. So first we went to San Antonio Ranch on a nature walk. Sabrina walked at least 1/2 mile, maybe close to a mile. But it takes quite a bit of time because she gets really distracted. Puppies! Rock! Baby! She wants to look and touch everything. Once she saw the rocks (really pebbles) that was all she wrote. All she wanted to do at that point was throw the rocks. Fortunately, the rocks don't get too far. And only at the grass, not at the people.  :)  Once we heard that Ella was up we drove over to Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. Ella has a heart condition and needed open heart surgery! What a brave little girl. But she was out of the ICU and in a regular room. I think the girls were happy to see each other. They (sort of) played together and we hung out for about 1/2 hour. We needed to get home for dinner and Sabrina ate an entire turkey sausage herself! After that she must have had at least a dozen grape tomatoes. She loves those grape tomatoes. I think I have the only kid who gets the meat before the veggies. Jerry's giving Sabrina a bath and soon it will be night night. Here are some pictures from our nature walk:


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Sunday morning fun

So this morning has been been chores and more chores.  Jerry played with Sabrina while I did laundry and folded clothes.  Then we all went to Costco where I proceeded to spend $100 on who knows what.  Actually, we needed food.  No chicken, ground meat or fish left.  Quick trip to Trader Joes to buy turkey sausage and soup (Sabrina's main lunch meal and lately her dinner meal as well) and then Blockbuster to drop off movies and pick up two new ones.  Sabrina was really excited that we got a Curious George DVD and Jerry picked some Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy.  Now time for lunch!  I plan to blog about our afternoon, we are going to visit Sabrina's friend Ella in the hospital, she had open heart surgery!  I'm going to bring homemade chocolate chip cookies and hopefully seeing her friend will cheer Ella up. 

Saturday, March 6, 2010

The Rest Of Our Day

During Sabrina's nap I (finally) got my haircut.  I used my first Groupon coupon - to Limon Salon.  I had my hair done by Daisy and I think she did a great job!  Great price too - the coupon paid for the wash, cut and style.  Afterwards I picked up Jerry and Sabrina and we drove to a park, where we met Sarah L. and her two kids.  For dinner we went to our friends Dave and Matt where Sabrina devoured her Chili Con Carne.  She must have been hungry!  Before we left Sabrina gave a nice hug to Dave and Matt.  Such a sweetie!

At the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum

So the CDM won out this morning.  Costco tomorrow for sure, though.  We need to buy groceries!  Sabrina spent most of the morning in the bubble section and the Wonder Cabinent, which is designed for the four and under set.  The Wonder Cabinent was super busy, although that didn't seem to bother Sabrina. Here's a couple of pictures I took with my Palm Pre:

I did it!
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My first post

So I'm going to try to keep up a blog of our family. Better late than never, I say. Right now Sabrina has just eaten her yogurt (YoBaby with cereal at the bottom) and is watching her favorite show Curious George. She can now ask for George by name. Not sure what our plans are for the morning. Maybe the Children's Discovery Museum, maybe Costco. Crazy day!