first tennis lesson

mahala's first tennis lesson - the quickstart method - through the girl scouts. she's a big fan now!

cactus fruit

our friends amanda, miles and aero guided us through our first cactus picking excursion across the street from mahala's school. mahala has been eyeing this particular cactus since she started school (2.5 years ago!). armed with oven mitts and tongs, we picked about 40 of these beautiful cactus fruit. we ate some fresh and then i made some cactus fruit sorbet.

at-home tutoring

mahala seems to have made it her job to tutor noble in the subjects of alphabet and phonics. this is a part of a video that i found on my camera!

winter break

during winter break we always have "girl time" on two of the days since noble still has school. so mahala and i went for pizza and played games one day and then the other day we went to the city for ice skating at yerba buena in san francisco. her friend josie joined us for part of it. this was mahala's first time on real ice!

our girl scout

mahala just joined the girl scouts and is now a brownie! cookie selling season started soon after the first meeting. we were in charge of picking up 50 cases of cookies....600 boxes of cookies! we sold them in front of the market near our house.

dog bed?

since stevie would not come sleep with noble, noble decided to join stevie in his dog bed!

noble and paige

noble's first play date! paige was dropped off for a few hours and noble was so happy. he never had his "own" play date - usually he just injects himself into mahala's :)