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Corinne’s Birthday 2019!

March 23, 2019 1:20 pm

Corinne’s birthday fell on a Sunday this year, so we got to pack in a full day of celebrations. We started by opening presents.

Then we drove up to Walnut Creek for birthday lunch and ice-cream at the San Francisco Creamery (clearly not located in San Francisco). Then it was off to Tilden Regional Park to ride the steam trains and the carousel. Corinne wanted me to ride in the spinny seat with her the first ride so I needed an inner-ear break for the second ride.

After the park it was time to get the exhausted kids back home for cake and bed.

She’s a happy little girl. She’s been in preschool this year, 2 days a week for a couple hours each day. She has swim class on Mondays. And gymnastics on Wednesdays.

Catch Up: Heather had a Birthday 2018

March 9, 2019 11:41 am

Heather turned 7!

She had to make her way through the laser beam maze:

Then cross the pit of lava without touching:

And solve math problems to know which squares were safe to step on:

After her 3 trials she uncovered her treasure, a new bike!

Catch Up: Jess had a Birthday 2018

11:24 am

I made a yellow sour-cream–butter cake with American caramel frosting.

Kyle’s Birthday 2018

July 16, 2018 10:45 pm

My birthday happened to fall on Saturday this year which is always nice. I “helped” Heather and Corinne assemble birdhouse kits in the morning. Which is to say I built a birdhouse for Corinne and helped Heather build hers.

After lunch we went over the library where they were having engineering projects for kids.

Heather got to play with a hammer (turns out all you really need for “engineering” to entertain kids is hammers, nails, and blocks of wood), played with some large blocks, built a maze, and worked on a raft.

Corinne, on the other hand, tripped on the sidewalk as soon as we got there and badly skinned up her knees. She spent the time there in pain and crying. So we ended up leaving earlier than planned and going home to open presents. They both enjoy helping unwrap gifts.

We went out to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant and then home again for cake. We didn’t have enough candles, so I had Jess use a binary format to describe my age. What you can’t see well in this pictures is the holes poked in the cake between the candles to represent the zeros in 100001.