Daddy-daughter Day

Today was a special daddy-daughter outing with Maia. The first stop was Bill’s Cafe for breakfast. A short-stack of blueberry pancakes for Maia, and she nearly polished them off.

Blueberry tongue — Nearly polished off a short-stack of blueberry pancakes.

iPhone , map

Maia’s comment about the streets of California cracked me up and left me thinking that [...]

The 2009 Halloween wrap-up

Maia’s third Halloween has come and gone. Grandma Becky made a truly beautiful princess dress for her (thank you!).  Valerie carved up the pumpkins and set them out to invite fellow trick-r-treaters to pay a visit and take some goodies away.
Maia professed that “it’s the pumpkins’ birthday today” once the candles were placed inside.

Maia’s friend [...]

Party Time

Maia quietly turned three two weeks ago…while we were all fighting a rather nasty bug running rampant through the house. We had a lovely play-date party scheduled for the second of June, but alas had to reschedule it to last Thursday.
We had, in Maia’s words, “all my friends” over: Ava, David, Zoe, Ben, Kellen, and [...]

Maia’s second Birthday

New photo album posted:  Maia’s Second Birthday Party
(Yes, I realize it’s just a few months away from her 3rd B-day.  But, I’m trying to make good on my promise … just happening more slowly than planned. There’s also been some influx, so, I’m barely treading water here with a current backlog of 1059)
Some highlights:

This year, [...]