Babysitting for 3 under 3

Zoe's pictures of Miles

Michele's friend's pictures were so much better than mine, I stole some from Facebook! I don't think they are copyrighted, and I wanted you all to see them--Miles is SO precious!

Miles Matthew

Born: 09-09-09

Weighed: 9 pounds

19" long

Born at 5:59 pm

I'll wait to post a picture until Matt and Michele have posted the first one!

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

-- Einstein (1879-1955)

Happy Birthday, Mason & Ben

Happy Birthday to Benjamin Moses--he turned 2 today!






Sweet little boy is 9 years old today!

Adorable little girls!

Trip to San Diego

KT & I went on a 2 hour cruise in the harbor. I took the picture at the top of my blog because I liked the statue of the sailor and the nurse in the foreground, but when I looked at the picture, I saw the apartment building in the background with the "house" on top of the building. It is such an unusual concept.
We stayed at the Manchester Hyatt--the 2 towers in the middle of the picture are the Hyatt--we stayed in the one on the right. They have a 40 floor limit on the buildings in San Diego.
KT and me at our lobster/crab/oyster dinner on the beach: (We look less than thrilled to be there. Maybe because we had just spent the first half hour with the couple who took the picture. He was already so drunk, he could hardly walk and the party had just started. We sat by them on the bus on the way back to the hotel after several people helped him in. He passed out immediately and then had to practically be carried to his room. Not a pretty picture.)
Our view from room 3117: (There are 6000 boats in the harbor in San Diego)
Looking down at the pool...

I wish I would have taken a picture of the hospital ship, Mercy. There are only 5 hospitals in the world that are bigger than that ship. 1000 hospital beds, 12 surgery suites, 80 intensive care units, 60 emergency rooms and staffed by 1800 doctors and nurses!

Driftwood

KT found this piece of driftwood in Colorado. Chloe was horrified the first time she came over after we put it in our flowerbed--she thought it was a dead dog!

(I am going to delete that previous post on the messy house--those photos radiate bad karma.)

Did you see this picture on Michele's blog?

"Isn't she lovely?

Isn't she wonderful?

Isn't she precious?"

Dress up time again

Chloe was playing the keyboard, & Lili didn't know she could move from that spot--it must have felt weird to have on a long dress

Julie & Julia

I finished the book yesterday and went to see the movie in the evening. They didn't include my favorite recipe in the movie:

(Puree de Pommes de Terre a l'Ail)

"It's time to extract the beef marrow..."

"The first obstacle in a bout with a marrowbone is simply arranging the match. Perhaps in 1961, when Julia Child published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, marrowbones hung off trees like greasy Christmas ornaments..."

bath time

Legoland

I forgot to post these pictures from San Francisco--the colors were so pretty in that store!

Pretty Little Princesses

Lili's new shoes...

Dress up fun with Lili

A few more pictures from camp...

Can you see the rainbow?
The lodge was high above the camp

My actual view from the hot tub...

I didn't know there would be a hot tub FAR away from the camp kids and that I would be able to have it all to myself!

According to the Frontier Ranch website

This is the view from the hot tub deck--a HOT SPRINGS fed pool/hot tub...

This is where you will find me for the next 8 days!

Hasta la vista!

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

I just finished an amazing book--what a heartbreaking tale!  I can see why this book is on the top 10 list.  Here are 2 short excerpts--they remind me of Cody's toast at Joey and Rachel's wedding when he talked about Chloe...

"Joy doesn't smart-tongue him.  It's not because he tries to control her as a proper Chinese father should or that she's an obedient Chinese daughter.  Instead, she is like a pearl in his palm--forever precious; to Joy, he's the solid ground on which he walks--forever steady and reliable."  P. 274

and

"Do you want people to look at you and see porcelain with scars? You have to guard your body like a piece of jade." P. 260