Fashion police

The fashion police are noticeably absent from our house.  

The day starts out well enough.  Matching shirt and pants, at least.  

But then you do some watering out back, and well, ...things get messy.

Still, she manages to carry it off pretty well

New curtains!

We had a fabulously relaxing weekend...we still managed to do lots, but somehow it still felt slow and relaxing.  Perhaps it was because the weather was so beautiful.  Mid70s and sunny.  Hard to beat.  We also got all the new curtains Grandma Elizabeth made up around the house.  It looks soooo good.  My pictures simply do not do them justice!

Zach installed them while I supervised (and Beatrice napped).  Before and after photos of the backdoor.  The roman shade definitely beats my dishtowel!

My favorite is the matching curtain in the downstairs bathroom, while Zach's is the yellow curtain in the laundry room.  (We all have 'save-rites' these days)

A close second for me are the living room and front door shears.  Not sure this before and after picture of the old and new curtains do it justice - the old ones are BROWN.  Yuck.

So if you ever need new curtains for your house, I highly recommend inviting my mother to visit.  Just be sure to have a tape measure handy...

We also had lots of visitors this weekend.  Pete came by Friday night.  Beatrice quickly put him to work doing "alphabet" floor games and reading.  

And Peter came by on Saturday night for martinis.  One too many to get out the camera!

Sarah B took Beatrice and Anna to the park on Thursday.  They had a blast!

By far the best visitor of the weekend ... RAIDEN!  Baby Raiden (and his parents, Ayanna and Will) came to visit us this weekend.  Beatrice was quite happy...as long as we continued to pay as much attention to her as to Raiden!

B's Favorite

Every now and then Beatrice channels someone so completely...for the past week all I've heard is Dada through Beatrice when I ask her if she'd like a hotdog / to read her Olvina book / to ride her bike:

"Yes, dat's Bebe's save-writ" (That's Bebe's favorite)

[Yes, she still refers to herself in the third person. We're working on pronouns.] But that's not the part that reminds me of Dada, who always finds the "BEST!" in everything:

"Elizabeth, this is the BEST dinner ever", "Oh, that was just the BEST movie, you have to see it", etc.

I'm so glad her glass is half full.

"Hold Seci, Mommy"

Everything from Beatrice these days is, "Hold seci, Mommy" I guess I say, "Hold on a second, Beatrice" a lot. My favorite is after she finishes whatever it is I asked her to do: "There you go Mommy"

This is her new favorite shirt that we brought her back from New York. 'Keep Back 200 Feet'

Grandma Elizabeth sent B a new Dora book with "TICKERS!" - so exciting.

And JVR stopped by for breakfast. Colby and Anna joined us. We had yummy pastries and all made a Target run together. Who says I'm not a good hostess?

Weekend in NYC

Somehow Zach and I went to NYC and I forgot to take pictures.  Duh.  We did manage to squeeze in a lovely visit with Damien and Tamieka, and we had a fabulous time celebrating Matt & Chas's nuptuals.  We said a very early morning goodbye to Beatrice and Sarah B on Friday.  Beatrice was very cute and cuddly and sleepy until she saw the camera...then she hammed it up.

She and Sarah had a 'girl's weekend' - trip to the Aquarium in SF with Sarah's parents Becky & Dave (thus the AMAZING photos!)

Beatrice talking to us on the phone:

Unfortunately Sarah & Beatrice took a tumble down the stairs on Saturday.  Poor things.  Luckily they are both ok, and Mary Ann was keeping Eleanor and Anna (magically Beatrice was fine once the prospect of playing with E & A was before her!)

She also got a "drop off" at Eleanor and Anna's on Friday afternoon.  I love the picture of the 3 of them on the chair!  My absolute favorite though is of E & B in the IKEA shopping cart eating ice cream.  Colby emailed it to us on his phone.  We were in NYC and showed it to one of Zach's friends (who doesn't have kids).  He looked at it for a minute, and, a bit perplexed, turned and said, "I didn't realize you could put them in cages..."

Happy St Patrick's Day

Didn't rain here today, but that didn't stop Beatrice from playing with everything green today!

Sick Day

Beatrice has an ear infection...poor thing.  When I asked her what she wanted to do after going to the doctor's office, she said she wanted to put on cozy clothes.  This is what she picked from her dress-up bin...

PASSWORD PROTECTION

A warning to viewers...I'm going to make this site password protected in a few weeks.  Had one too many weird comments sent in, so I'll finally do what Jasandra has been telling me to do for months (years??).  If you'd like access, shoot me an email.  If you don't know my email address, leave it on a comment (I moderate the comments - I won't post it).  If you're family, you'll get it whether you want it or not.

I think I can

The things I love about this video:

1.  I managed to catch Beatrice saying, "I sink I can" once

2.  Great example of her style full-body-reading

3.  You can hear Zach in the background cooking lunch

and finally...

STRIPES!

BVJ

Ok, probably not the best example of motherhood here, but she did say her full name somewhere in here...

Anna & Bea at the Zoo

We had a great time with Anna and Colby at the Oakland Zoo.