Let the games begin!
Chutes and Ladders! Thanks, Tito, for Meryl’s present…a present for us all! So much giggling. And Meryl is so going to be a sneaker cheater.
Lick the bowl
Chocolate cake for dessert results in licking the bowl action. Appropriate ending to a fun day. Thanks, Lisa, for the bowls!
A day of fun
A chocolate cupcake for breakfast, homemade lumpia from Lola delivered to school for a celebratory snack, smoked salmon-rice-seaweed handrolls for dinner, and chocolate cake for dessert…all of Meryl’s favorites! Everything chocolate especially.
Cardio workout of the year
Zoom! We partied HARD (shockingly) with a bunch of friends and family - and a porcupine and owl from the zoo! And learned that baby porcupines are called ‘porcupettes,’ and that owls have two layers of feathers. Obviously, we already knew that owls are nocturnal. New factoid, porcupines are too! And then we had a dance party, with Frank as the DJ playing everyone’s requested songs while dancing ourselves. And we ended ready for chocolate cake! (And we are all in on supporting teachers however we can because facilitating an hour of fun for kids online is an absolute workout.)
Birthday twins
Happy Birthday, Meryl and Lainie! (And then there’s me, the interloper.)
An art station of her own
To top off the day, Meryl got her very own art station in her room with colored pencils, crayons, coloring books, and a lamp to draw the night away:) Coloring inside the lines and letter writing practice, here she comes!
This is FOUR
Happy Birthday, Meryl!
Mail call
Bunny’s birthday card arrived in the mail today! USPS delivers again!
In the news
Lawer Estates is in the Calistoga Tribune! We want everyone to visit our tasting room and stay safe with the fires in the area.
Yep, she’s almost four
Teenager much? We’re with you Holmes, we’ll see who tomorrow brings. (Also, it was water sprinkler day today for Meryl’s class, hence her swim attire.)
Saving these
Really for myself, but also to show them when they’re actually teenagers and can’t stand each other:) Still, these will be for us then too.
Sweet, sweet, satisfaction
This kid cannot get enough blueberries.
Foot phone
Hello there! Sole to soul.
Thunder snugglers
Lummi, holding down the fort during our thunder storm last night:) It’s hot out there.
Morning reading
(Can we just leave them there?)
Pre-dinner painting
I thought I was so clever.
Wait…what’s happening here?
Painting outside on the huge paper roll was supposed to be the activity! And of course Meryl wanted to let her masterpiece dry and not be washed off. Let’s all appreciate this moment of freedom these kids once had:)