Commuters

Every morning Mom and Summer take dad to the train station. Here they are saying goodbye.

Farewell to Baby Hair

I think Summer's losing her baby hair. It's looking a little thinner than when she was born. I heard that babies lose their newborn hair, but I have mixed feelings about this. We have become attached to her beautiful, dark baby hair, especially her swirl, but I can't wait to see what her next hair stage will be. Anyway, I got this picture of 'the swirl' to capture the moment. We like to call her swirl 'God's Tornado.'





When we got Buster he had this spot on the top of his head, 'God's Thumb Print.' We said that when God made him He put a thumb print there because Buster is so cute. So when Summer was born and she was so cute God gave her a tornado swirl. I know it's a cheesy story, but a good story to embarrass our daughter when she's a teenager.

It's a New Toy...oh-ee-oh

Does anyone remember that 80's song by Lena Levich? (I know you do, Julie V.) Anyway, Summer got a new toy at this cool second hand baby store in Sunnyvale where everything looked brand new. It's called The Smiling Frog. My hiking friend told me about it.

I've been looking for a good baby gym for Summer for a while. A simple, educational one without all the bells and whistles and that annoying electronic music. The one I found Summer just loves, as you can tell by these photos. The flower she is looking at has a mirror on it so she is smiling at herself.

bye-bye wine club

When one door closes another one opens. I know.......that's so cliche. but it's true. (sigh) Alas, it was time to get out of our wine club this weekend at Armida, our favorite winery in Healdsburg. Gotta save for the house and college funds. No more frivolous spending or spur-of-the-moment trips to wine country. But I must say, it is well worth the trade off. In exchange we have this beautiful baby that we are so completely in love with. Plus we can still visit anytime we want. Well, at least with a little planning!

Ron and I packed up Summer and Buster, grabbed some sandwiches and went up to Armida for a picnic and a glass of Chardonnay. It was Summer's longest road trip so far and she did great. We had a years worth of wine (8 bottles) to pick up. I know. That's a lot. It's been a while. We've been a little busy :) We had a wonderful day soaking up the sun, sipping on some vino and taking pictures of our girl, our fur child and the beautiful scenery. It really is our happy place!

Belly Laughs

Summer had her first belly laugh today. It was at Buster. She's really starting to notice him lately. Today when I threw his frog toy in the air and he caught it in his mouth Summer cracked up! It was the first time she's ever had a real belly laugh. I don't have any pictures of this but here's another cute Valentine's pic from our photo shoot.

A V-day B-day

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYBODY!

Summer is modeling her V-day outfit from her Aunt Linda. Can you believe she'll be 3 mos. old on Saturday? As you can see she is a very laughy girl lately. Besides celebrating the day with this photo shoot, we also celebrated Buster's 3rd birthday. He got presents of treats and toys from his dad and grammy as well as a very fancy collar.

Later Summer and I went on a hike with our hiking group. It was the first time she was awake for most of the hike except at the end when these pictures were taken. Later in the evening, Ron and I went on our first date for dinner. Of course, we talked about Summer the entire time!

Donut Mecca

Donuts.....mmmmm......

But let me preface this by saying Ron was going to play tennis this weekend but it rained and I took an incredibly challenging baby and mommy yoga class on Friday. I know what you're thinking- Mommy and baby yoga, how cute and playful, not challenging. Wrong!
In fact, it was more like yoga boot camp where we used our babies as free weights. Glad Summer's only 11lbs., 7 oz. I feel sorry for some of those moms who's babies are like in the 90th percentile for weight. I'm still in pain!

Anyway, now that I have painted us as the picture of good health, maybe we won't look so bad when I talk about the four donuts we scarfed down at the best donut place on earth. (Well at least in Santa Clara County.) We have been on a quest for donut bliss since we have moved to SCC, which has turned up nothing but stale, humdrum donuts. If I'm going to eat 1000 calories of fried, doughy goodness, dammit, it better be good!

I asked the man that would know where to find what we were looking for, my brother Tom, and he told us about Stan's Donuts on Homestead and Keily in Santa Clara. First of all we knew as soon as we drove up that this was the place. People of all ages and cultures gathered to taste the deliciousness. Even a very fit woman in a jogging suit couldn't turn these donuts down.

All the signs were there that this was going to be a good donut place. There was a guy in the window rolling out the dough, which means lots of donut turnover- fresh donuts!! There was an old school donut sign at the front so the same guy has probably owned it for years and takes pride in his donuts.

When we went inside there was a line of people waiting to get the donuts that were just coming out of the oven and a counter with a group of 60- something-year-old retirees that have probably been coming there since 1962. All the signs were pointing in the right direction that we were about to taste the best donuts ever!

We ordered our two hot raised glazed that just came out of the oven and 2 old fashions. And yes....they were deeeeeeeliciousss!! I'm sure we will be back!