Easter

Here are pictures from our Easter week! London joined her friends at our playgroup for an egg hunt. The hunting stopped abruptly and turned into eating when the kids discovered the candy inside the eggs. Some eggs contained Gerber puffs as well as candy. The puffs were discarded on the lawn. Saturday morning we attempted to take family portraits for Easter. It wasn't our best shoot, but we salvaged a few decent shots. Later that afternoon we went to Pacifica beach and watched people attempt to catch crabs and the seals that prevented them from doing so. Sunday we went to church and then Cousin Maret kindly hosted us and Abuelo (Grandpa for those of you who don't hablar espanol) for Easter dinner and egg hunt. It was an Easter miracle when Maret found out we had not yet viewed the deleted scenes from Waiting for Guffman and she was there to witness the screening!

As we were in the Garden of Eden

As I was changing Eden's diaper today, I realized how much I love her chubby thighs. And then I realized how much I love her chubby cheeks, and her feet, and her hands, and her rolls everywhere, and, so help me, I undressed her completely and did a photo shoot so that I could always remember her body as it is now. Let's face it, those rolls won't always be adorable, but they are now, and I can't help but squeeze them and kiss them and stroke them as a mother should. Sorry I can't post more on the internet, for obvious reasons--Tim will probably frown on even this--but can I really keep her all to myself? She was on the changing table so long that London got jealous and started begging to get her diaper changed too. Lo and behold, there was a poop! A child can do anything for attention.

Saturday Fun

When London was a baby, she loved getting her hair washed. I used to say she was going to the salon when I put her in the bath. Last Saturday she had her first real salon experience when she got her first haircut. She wasn't scared at all and didn't cry! Maybe that had something to do with the barber chair designed like a car and the Dora video sedation:

Here is the "before" picture. Pretty shaggy!
On Saturday my friend, Nicole, and I both had absent husbands so we thought we'd hang out with our kids and do something fun. We drove over to the Berkeley's Tilden Park where there is a deluxe mini steam train to ride and an animal farm. Aside from getting lost multiple times and several toddler meltdowns, it was a success! The train ride is so great--it's at least 10 minutes long, has two tunnels, a cute old man engineer that blows the whistle and says "all aboard!" and it's only $2!! That is a bargain, considering the one in San Mateo's central park is $1.50 and goes around the puny lawn only once!

In this picture London is looking at chickens, but it also shows her squatting prowess.

London also participated in the Nordstrom spring fashion show on Saturday. Her friends, Lucy and Ella, were also in the show. Ella wore the same dress, so she and London walked down the catwalk together. I had to restrain myself from buying the ensemble because it's just so adorable! You can get a good look of London's new and improved hairstyle after her salon makeover:

Picture People Shoot

Today we were at the mall running some errands when a nice lady from the Picture People approached me and offered me a free 10x13. She said they were really slow and were looking for customers. What mother can pass up a free enlargement of her adorable child? The only problem was London was not wearing a very cute outfit, so I ducked into Gymboree real quick to see if I could find something better. I found a cute red shirt on clearance that matched mine, so I thought it might be cute to have our pictures taken together. These are from the email they sent me, so they have that annoying watermark on them, but hey--they're free! This is the one i got: (good thing I had a pedi on Saturday!) London wasn't wanting to stay put on the set, so I let her wear my shoes to slow her down--kinda cute though! Plus, they match better than her pink crocs.