I did my first 5 mile race in Rodeo Beach last weekend. It was fun! When I came back the boys (and daddy) had made this drawing and put it on the wall.
Vaig fer la meva primera cursa la setmana passada a Rodeo Beach. M’ho vaig passar molt be. Quan vaig tornar, els nens m’havien fet aquest dibuix (amb el papa) i el van penjar a l’entrada.
Ahir vam anar a fer una excursio a San Pedro Valley County Park. Es una excursio molt curteta, perfecte per nens. Passa al costat d’un riu, poques pujades, llimacs i animals a cada cantonada, bastons… Ens ho vam passar molt be, i tornant vam anar a sopar a un restaurant mexica.
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Our garden is looking quite bare… but we have a great crew digging everyday, and building a deck and starting a small vegetable garden. I think pretty soon we will have a beautiful garden out here…
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So uncle Rob came a few weeks ago for a visit. It was his birthday! It didn’t go exactly how we had expected. That same weekend we were supposed to go to Stinson Beach with some friends. BUT… Teo started having pain on thursday night at the abdmen and then the next morning… to be short, we spent most of our weekend in the hospital, thinking Teo had appendicitis… We could spend very little time with Rob or our friends… leaving the hospital Teo was sad we hadn’t been able to sing Happy Birthday song to Rob, we even had bought two croisants at the hospital cafe to put a candle on it! Anyways, what uncle Rob did do was give two great gifts to the boys, a rocket for the beach (HUGE success) and an art box, that we are going through quickly, it’s super cute. Thanks uncle Rob, and hope next time we see you is a bit more relaxed…
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Mireu que grans que son, poden baixar tots solets pel tobogan de ciment del codornices park. Ara que ja som a SF, en tenim un al costat de casa que es encara mes llarg i empinat, en fare un video quan pugui.
Quan encara erem a Berkeley, l’Owen anava a jugar a Ultimate frisbee cada diumenge a un parc. Els nens i jo hi anavem i portavem les bicicletes i quan lOwen acabava, jugaven amb el frisbee una estona. Aqui en teniu un video.
The operation for Teo’s hydrocele went fabulous. Only a few hours in the hospital and we were home. They had me put on a full rabbit suit so I could come into the operation room with him until he was asleep. He was amazing, no crying, no complaining. Nice job Teo! It’s all good now. I though these pictures of me with the suit were worth adding to the blog.
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Chez Panisse celebrated its 40th birthday over the weekend, and we went to a morning event where we were allowed to manually grind flour, touch the goats (they were supposed to be milked, but we didn’t see it) and eat some fabulous food made by the children from The Edible Schoolyard.
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It all went great. I only took pictures outside, one of these days I’ll take some inside so you get a sense of what it’s like. We all love it. Yey Sunset Coop! Will tell you more about it another day…
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And here are finally, the pictures from Wipi. There are a ton… just be patient. (the first pics are from Matt and Maureen, thanks!)
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Per alguna rao, el Fin i el Teo utilitzen la paraula catalana “enganxar” com si fos angles, i li posen l’”it” al final per anglitzar-ho. Ho he sentit varies vegades i em fascina. Diuen: “mom, is really hard to enganx’it!” o “I want to enganx this”. L’owen no els enten mai. Em sembla que no ho fan amb cap altra paraula. De vegades si que utilitzen paraules en catala en una frase en angles, pero es normalment un nom, com “nina” o “pega”, no un verb. Curios.
El video es molt curt pero fa gracia veure com salten. A la classe nomes hi eren ells dos, i s’ho prenien molt seriosament.
Ara que ja marxem cap a San Francisco, estic intentar dur els nens a tots els llocs on hem estat aqui a Berkeley que ja no ens sera tant facil d’anar quan siguem a SF. Al Lawrence Hall of Sciences hi hem anat forca, i ara hi tenen una exposicio de dinosaures forca espectacular. Tant realistic, que els nens es van cagar de por. Nomes al principi, despres hi volien anar una vegada i una altra, pero sempre agafant-me de la ma…
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It all started when Noni a long time ago gave the boys these little froggies. They play so much with them, that after time, they have become their “alter ego” where they will say: “Froggie doesn’t like this” (meaning, I don’t like this), or if they hit one each other they’ll say (froggie did it!). It’s pretty amazing to hear. Over time, we’ve lost many froggies, but luckly Noni keeps on getting more, or variations on the original “Main” froggie as they call it. For a while froggie had a great friend, “Cornillius”, a little rabbit that Katya gave them for Christmas. They don’t play with it as much now, but froggies, yeah, they ride on every train, tractor, car, bus or truck there is in our house!
Teo has started the fase of asking “why?” for EVERYTHING. Why do we go there? Why do you like this? Why is this red? And also, it’s impossible to finish a book before he has asked at least 100 questions about it. It’s pretty cute, but I wonder how long it will last??? 
Last week we took the kids to the Steep Ravine cabins, between Stinson and Muir beach. The location is amazing, just above the water. We made a fire (the boys love it!) and went to sleep with the sound of the ocean… They are just a few cabins, no water or electricity, they can fit up to 6 people. I definitively want to go back. We played at the beach during the day, went out for dinner, spent the night at the cabin, and went for a hike the next morning. It was really nice, really recommend it. The pix aren’t great, we forgot the good camera and these are made with the iphone.
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L’avi i la iaia van marxar la setmana passada. Ara el Fin i el Teo parlen molt mes catala que abans, quina diferencia! Encara costa que facin frases senceres, pero van millorant. Els dies que van ser aqui vam anar a Big Sur, Monterey Aquarium, Pinnacles Monument, Point Pinole, Sonoma, Target (he, he)… i l’Owen i jo vam poder fer algunes sortides de dia i de nit mentre els avis feien de cangurs. Visca! Us trobem a faltar pero per sort tornareu a ser aqui d’aqui a 2 mesos. I aqui van les fotos fetes amb la camara nova del pare.
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Today Owen did his first Half marathon here in Tilden Park in Berkeley. He finished 9th out of 100 participants and 1st on his age range. Daidie, the boys and I had banners to cheer him, he did awesome!
GO DADDY!!!
P.S. he did it in his vibram 5 finger shoes
Race information and results: http://www.coastaltrailruns.com/gp_grizzly_peak.html
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La setmana passada vam anar a veure cavalls amb la Noni molt a prop d’aqui a Berkeley. Ens van deixar tocar els cavalls i vam veure gent com els muntaven, netejaven, tallaven les ungles… Fantastic.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/anthony-chabot-equestrian-center-oakland
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A couple of weeks ago we went on a hike at the Sibley Volcanic Regional preserve. Now that we are in Berkeley we want to explore all the parks and hikes that are around here. We forgot the boys shoes at home… so they did part of the walk barefeet (like daddy!) and the rest we carried them in the Ergo carriers. Nice little walk.
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/sibley
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