bday = cake

weekend picnic on the grass

surfing with adrienne on tuesday
maya & joel "fishing" over the fence

"happy birthday to mommy"
thanks for the bday wishes!
the girls were just a little bit excited for...cake!

So here's the official birthday hair cut-
I FINALLY cut my 12 inches for Locks of Love,
I've only been thinking about it for 6 months

The girls had school/daycare on my birthday and after a quickie work meeting,
I got a hair cut, met erik for lunch (just the two of us!)
and went shopping. Then we had back to school night
at Sacred Hearts, uncle greg watched the girls
and we came back to put them down (it was a school night)
and watched a movie. It was a great birthday!

Cruising at the park

a couple of monkeys

today at ironwoods
we needed to get out of the house,
the girls having a snack in the crazy wind,
then slowly making our way back on the trail.
they would stop every 2 seconds
to find this soft, grey clay they like to play in.

So we are still reading "Little House in the Big Woods". Two nights ago the chapter was called "summer" and during the summer they have an abundance of milk and is therefore time to make cheese- and to make cheese they needed the stomach lining of a baby cow. My poor little sensitive girl, heard this and looked at me and said, "they are going to kill a cow? a baby cow?" sobbing tears.

What else? Last night I went to go see a movie with Celia and we thought we were going to one movie and ended up seeing a movie that neither one of us even had heard about and it was really, really hilarious- "The Change Up". Anyway, at one point (the two guys change lives and the one guy is teaching the other about having kids) and he that if your kids are acting out they "are either tired or going through a stage" everyone else's kids are overindulged, etc. etc. Anyway, Maya is tired or going through a stage right now. She has officially hit her 2 1/2 mark and she is quite the handful. Anything and everything will make her scream at the top of her lungs. To the point that I'm exhausted even thinking about leaving the house- it's such a crap shoot. Will my child or will she not scream at the top of her lungs because ______ (fill in the blank) happened. Or will she be the perfectly well mannered child and charm everyone around her. The other day, she screamed at the park, she screamed at the grocery store and then was the model child at Leilani's.