Friday, February 19, 2010

valentine's & windmills

kalia's obsession - finishing these large coloring pages
here she is starting to color the border!
(I really thought we were done- but she spotted some white)
making valentines -
kalia was so excited she wanted me to drive her around
so she could give away her valentines
maya just wanted to play with the paper
she really just wanted to put it on the floor and step on it.

maya playing with hearts,
next moment she was climbing on the table
valentine's day lunch at gazebo
maya drinks out of her own to go cup!
the bay - checking the surf
windmills- watching tanner surf

So Valentine's weekend, Erik actually had two days off! It feels like he hadn't had a day off in weeks. Saturday was a really fun day. Erik surfed the bay early in the morning. Kalia had ballet in the morning and we all went down (parents couldn't watch - so went to coffee store), I put Maya in Kalia's blue tutu and she loved it. Maya watched Kalia get dressed and then I asked Kalia if Maya could where her other tutu and held it out for Maya to step into. She stepped in and never messed with it - she knew it was her fun thing to wear, just like sister. After ballet we came home, played, had lunch & naps and then packed up the car with boards and headed down south - there was a total winter south swell. Kalia paddled out with daddy for 1 wave and then Erik caught a couple. Then I got to surf one of my favorite spots all by myself and caught a ton of waves - the girls cruised on the beach, playing in a hole and with the buckets. Then home, Erik made dinner while Kalia & I ate chocolate & watched a movie that tutu sent. Fun!

Sunday - Erik surfed and I took the ladies to the park. Then we picked up daddy for lunch at gazebo. Maya got her first to go cup with water and straw and totally drank like a big girl out of it! She is just getting too big too fast! After naps, I tried to surf, but it was all blown out - so headed up north to watch Tanner surf windmills. There was a photographer taking photos of Tanner and it was fun to hear him tell the girl he was with, "That guy is Tanner Hendrickson, he's sponsored by Fox". The girls cruised around the windmills lookout spot and then home. Uncle Greg was coming over to babysit and we got to go out! Dinner at Sansei bar (my favorite) and chocolate souffle and chipshots at Roy's with friends.

OK, we were totally going to send out valentine's to family, but Kalia put so much effort into only two and was totally done. But the two she did do were beautiful, but then she wanted to give them out to whoever she felt like at that moment. I do have a couple we will still send out. Kalia is just so detail oriented, she spent so much time on each Valentine.

For Christmas, Erik bought Kalia these giant Tinkerbell coloring pages and we have so far completed 3. First of all they are huge and second, Kalia must color every single bit - I definitely help her, or else we would be doing them all year.

Kalia and I had a little date on wednesday - just down to the library. The children's section was closed, so the only area we could look for books was in the fairy tales section and it was great since we never look there. Kalia has been into the longer stories. She has been "reading" my Pride & Prejudice book for a while now. Every now and then I catch her "reading it" in her room - well, telling a story and flipping the pages.







We asked Kalia about her favorite thing to drink.

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