Clara's First Day of School (October 2009)

Pictures from Clara's first day at preschool. Not pictured are her tantrums prior to this (throwing herself on the floor, negotiating for Kika). Well pictured is Molly's current picture taking face.

Farmer's Market Bike Ride Fun

We've been having the most spectacular biking weather these past couple weekends. These are pictures from two weekends ago when we biked to the Temescal Farmer's Market with Rylyn's family. Molly loves biking on her trail-a-bike next to her friends!

Clara-Molly-Rylyn-Tegan-Dave listen to the music;
Bike with trailer parked with car;
Clara mad that she can't play with the camera (after she dropped it);
Clara enjoying the fresh berries;
Molly & Rylyn at the art table on the back porch.

Clara - fall 2009

Clara:

enjoys a tomato with gusto (October 31)
with Baby (October 9)
waking up from her nap (October 10)
with her pumpkin (and Sofi's hand-me-down overalls) (November 4)

backyard picnic (September 2009)

way back in September we had a lovely convention of Franklin family members in our back yard. Two of those pictured have since moved to New Zealand (Judd & Tybe). We can't wait to hear stories of their adventures!

Clara Paints

Clara enjoying painting at the Adventure Playground...

Adventure Playground Adventure

It's a beautiful fall day - perfect for a bike ride to Adventure Playground with Molly's buddy, Chaidan. Molly and Chaidan rode down in their matching trail-a-bikes, and Clara toughed it out in the trailer. Clara got the spotlight in the pictures today due simply to the fact that Zach followed Molly and I followed Clara (we respected the Playground's very reasonable close parental supervision rule). Clara got a huge kick out of the painting (find enough trash, nails, or broken wood and they give you either paint & paint brush or a hammer & nails to do whatever you'd like with). Molly got into the nailing this time.

As I write, Molly & Zach are presumably still there - Clara had to head home for her nap.

Zoo Day

We joined the masses out of school today (Veteran's Day) and had a lovely morning at the Zoo with friends. Here's Molly going in for a kiss on the head, Clara posing for a picture of the hat (by her request) lent to her by Karuna, and an elephant enjoying a tree branch.