To welcome Christmas day, here’s a photo of the girls in Santa’s lap and our 2011 Holiday Card.
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Tag Archives: Juliet
Winter 2010-2011 catchup
Sprinkled throughout our winter months were a few fun pictures worth sharing, including the girls goofing around in Katherine’s shoes, walking through puddles from the first rain of the season, arts and crafts, bath time, playing choo-choo in chairs and baskets, Claire running at her kids track class, swinging in the backyard on our new swing set, and playing dress-up. Click on the picture of Claire and Juliet for a slideshow.
Tahoe Visit
Over President’s Day weekend, we took a trip to Lake Tahoe with our friends the Cohens and Friedmans, including Claire’s friends Max and Jake, and Juliet’s friend Maia. We enjoyed plenty of time in the snow, sledding and snowshoeing, and Claire even had her first ski lesson! We also had time to hang out with the kids and play in our PJs around the house. Click on the photo of the four of us in the snow for a slideshow.
February 2011 birthdays
February is birthday month for us, with celebrations including another 29th birthday for Katherine (Aunt Mona helped the girls bake a birthday cake and we also went out to a local Mexican restaurant), Juliet’s 2nd birthday (featuring a few cupcake parties in our backyard with the Princess Castle from cousins Sara/Sophie/Susan), and finally my godson Harrison’s 8th birthday (with pizza and cake in a nearby park). For a slideshow, click on the picture of the first of Juliet’s cupcake parties.
Christmas 2010
Christmas this year was at home in California with a great series of visits from Katherine’s family. We’ve got pictures of holiday preparations including Claire going to see the Nutcracker with some of her friends, visiting Santa (which Claire enjoyed and Juliet did not), fun in the kitchen including making a gingerbread man, a gingerbread train, and frosting-covered cookies for Santa’s reindeer. Next up is the visit from Grandma Judy, Aunt Laura, Uncle Rob and Cousin Will, who helped decorate the tree and of course open lots and lots of presents on Christmas morning. Finally, Grandpa Jack and Grandma Sharon came for a few days of fun including playing on the new backyard swing set, “riding the horsey” on Jack’s leg, visiting the nearby Rodin Sculpture Garden at Stanford, and finally reading books with Grandpa Jack.
Our quote of the month comes from Claire, who demonstrated her increasing listening comprehension one day:
Katherine to Stu: Laura and Rob are thinking of going out and taking you-know-who with them.
Claire: me?
For a slideshow, click on the picture of Claire and Juliet playing with their new pillow pets.
Merry Christmas 2010
Here are a few treats to welcome Christmas day: a quote from Claire, a photo of the girls in Santa’s lap, and our 2010 Holiday Card. First a short snippet of dialogue between Katherine and Claire:
Mom: Do you want some new toys for Christmas from Santa?
Claire: No, I want to keep my old toys.
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Halloween 2010
Halloween this year was a fun treat, with Claire as a pink butterfly, Juliet as a flower, and me in full costume as an overworked startup guy. We did the now usual round of pumpkin patch visits, backyard photographs, and trick-or-treating up and down our block. Click on the lovely photo of Claire and Juliet in costume for a slideshow.
Redwoods camping
A few weekends ago we headed to Big Basin State Park in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains for a weekend of camping with some friends of ours and Claire’s. We stayed in a tent cabin, which was adventurous without the headaches of squeezing a portable crib into our small backpacking tent. It was busy and fun, with ten kids under five-years-old running around our campsites, walking on felled redwood trees, playing hide and seek among the cabins, and roasting hot dogs and s’mores. It was also a chance to use our brand new roof rack on Katherine’s Subaru Outback. Click on the picture of Juliet and Clare among the redwoods for a slideshow.
Early summer 2010
We’ve fallen behind this summer so will make it up in two posts with pictures galore and even a few videos.
First off, here’s a slideshow from the early summer including Claire falling asleep on the couch trying to adapt to life without afternoon naps, berry picking at nearby Webb Ranch, visiting with our friends the Farrells for Glenn’s birthday and for my godson Harrison’s first lemonade/snack stand, our town’s July 4th parade, hiking in the redwoods at Wunderlich Park, and a movie night for Harrison and our girls. There’s a few videos of Juliet, too, one hiking and another munching on pizza. Finally, we’ve got pictures of the girls’ first car camping trip which we took with the Toths in a nearby state park. It was hot, dusty, and sleepless, a mild disaster so probably average for a first outing with kids. Click on the berry picking picture for a slideshow.
Also, we’ve added a few more pictures and videos to the post on Claire’s 3rd birthday party including this one of the various efforts to keep her candle lit long enough for her to blow it out.
Juliet 18-month check-up
This is check-up week, and Juliet had hers at 18-months today. Everything is also in good shape. She’s 32.5″ tall (76th percentile, a bit lower than 79th percentile when she was 30″ at 12-months) and 25 pounds 12.5 oz (72nd percentile, also less than 83rd percentile when she was 23 lbs, 5 oz last time). At her 18-month appointment, Claire was 99th percentile in height and 82nd in weight.