Carissa Pulls Out Her Own Tooth! - Feb. 21

During Sunday dinner we started talking about how loose her tooth was. She had already lost one tooth a couple of months ago, but this one for some reason didn't want to come out. It had been extremely loose for the past month. She ate an apple at dinner but it was still intact. Then she started playing with it and pulled it out herself! I was so surprised. She thought it was so funny! The tooth fairy came that night and gave her a dollar with pink sparkly hearts painted all over it. She loved it! Carissa has lost 2 teeth now and Maia hasn't lost any. These pictures are a reenactment of what happened.

CA Academy of Sciences - Feb. 17

Front of Museum

Living Roof

Riley Family on Living Roof
Carissa looking into the grand aquarium tank

The girls were off of school for a week, so I took them to this museum in SF because the 3rd Wed of each month is free. It's a very expensive museum: adults $25, teens $20, kids $15. It's a nice museum, but defiantly not worth $25. I was disappointed that there wasn't any interactive activities/displays for kids, dinosaurs, or gems/rocks. I did like the living roof and the 4 story rainforest (beware it's super humid in the rainforest sphere). If you ever go on free day, you must be ok with crowds and get there no later than 9am (parking is bad and the line to get in is long). It was fun seeing the Riley family there.

http://www.calacademy.org/

Last Day in Gymnastics - Jan. 16

I took this photo on their last day of Gymnastics. They were in the Rockets class at Ariels. They liked gymnastics but wanted to try something different: Ballet.

Award Ceremony - January 25

Vacaville has a photo contest each year and I entered it. There were about 300 photo entries. I won 3rd place. I was pretty thrilled. I was presented with an award by the Mayor at the VV City Council of Chambers meeting last week. Here is the photo with the Mayor and the photo I had entered. The Visitors Bureau will be using the photo on their website (www.visitvacaville.com) and on brochures. I just looked at the website and it's not posted yet.

Charlie

Out for a walk in Lagoon Valley with Charlie.

Meet Charile! Newest member of our family - 12/23

We found Charlie lost on our street Sat, 19th. We found him wandering our neighbors yard. Afraid he might get ran over, we called the Human Animal Services. They said they were too busy to come out and before you knew it, he had food and a warm bed and house to sleep in. The girls love him of course. They have wanted a puppy and kitty for a long time. He is a very well behaved dog and well potty trained. He looks very healthy and happy too. He has spent 3 nights so far. We are trying to locate the owner. The dog tag has his name but no home address. Also, the phone number on it doesn't take incoming calls (a useless tag).

We went to the County Shelter yesterday and they were able to contact the owner using the number I tried to call. The owner is about 19 years old is going to college in Sacramento. He had to leave the dog at his parents who don't really want the dog. So guess what? He asked us if we wanted to adopt him. After thinking (my heart said yes and my brain was telling me no) it over on the phone with Scott (we had about 10 min to decide), we decided to adopt him. He's our unexpected Christmas present! His birthday is January 1st. He will be one year old.

Shhh....Charlie is sleeping.

Winter Wonderland at Discovery Kingdom - Dec. 5

No need to drive to the mountains this year. We got our fill at Six Flags. The snow hill here is so much fun for Carissa and Maia. They stood in line themselves and went down the hill repeatedly. It was freezing this night. We even had thermals on.

Carissa Looses Her First Tooth! Dec. 1

We were sad to have missed it since we were on the cruise. She was eating an apple at my friend Kim's house. Kim couldn't find it (she must have swallowed it) and grandma and grandpa weren't going to look for it it you know where.

Welcome Home Mommy & Daddy! Dec. 4

When we got home, we had a nice surprise from Carissa and Maia. They made us a cool poster and got us a welcome home cake and balloons!