Just down the street

Since we spend so much time at parks, I am trying to visit as many playgrounds in our city as possible. We all get a bit bored of the same ones. In my quest, I "discovered" this park less than two blocks from our home. It only took me two months and a visit to the city's park website to find it.

There is a lake, with ducks and geese.

Here's Ashlyn, wearing her patch. I should have mentioned this before, but she has not fought at all about wearing her glasses. When she put them on the first day, she looked around, started laughing and said, "look at that." Apparently, it's good to be able to see. We'd told her that she wouldn't cross her eye after she had glasses. She took that to mean that she wouldn't be able to cross her eyes, so she had to check that out right away, too. The patch was a bit more of a struggle, but after one really rough day she has calmed down about it.

Cpt. Mark Gardner

Mourning another soldier killed in Afghanistan. Cpt. Mark Gardner, B Co commander, 1-4 IN was killed by an IED early this week. His wife is a friend of mine from Germany. Please pray for his family.

May these soldiers never be forgotten.

Sleep

 

Habitot and Getting Fishy

We had a busy weekend while Granny was here. On Saturday, we went to Berkeley, where we walked through their farmer's market and spent the afternoon at Habitot, a children's museum just for kids under 7. Ashlyn liked putting on her own face paint. She wanted to be a dog (big surprise.)

Christopher liked the trucks and the water.

On Sunday, we went into San Francisco.

We had lunch in Chinatown. Allen went halibut fishing with some guys from work, so we met him at the wharf to visit the Aquarium of the Bay.

The kids LOVED it.

These jellyfish were my favorite. Ashlyn seemed to like it all, but has the attention span of a gnat. She was always saying "I want to see more fish."

I can swim "all by myself"

4th Parade

The parade route ran just by our apartment, so we just had to go outside. The kids seemed to like getting to sit on the street, instead of avoiding it. This street is pretty busy, usually.

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Hope you had a great 4th!

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