Uncle Nouri Visiting

Gymnastics Clara

Last spring Clara joined one of the local gymnastics teams. Her first competition is in January. And here are the team photos that they took a few weeks ago (note that these were taken during a week of extremely unusually dry weather - hence the chapped areas around her lips).

candles and dreidlel

And, we had a lovely time doing the candles and playing dreidel with Nana and Pa (and their funny dogs Roger and Rex).

Latkes

We had a lovely weekend down in Carmel Valley - one of the highlights was celebrating Hanukkah, particularly the eating latkes part. Susie and Zach did the honors - and, as usual, they did a fantastic job!

Molly & Clara at Home

I got a new portrait lens for my camera and had the kids model for me. 

Around Town

Busing around town last week - Molly being cool, listening to audio books; Clara being cool, just being.

Middle Harbor Park

One more day until Zach and Molly return! For this morning's adventure, Clara and I took her friend Magnolia to Middle Harbor Park. I had planned to walk the whole park (it's a bit over a mile long), but they spent most of the time at the playground and so we mostly stayed there. Still fun - I made them listen to me go on and on about the shipping containers and all the stuff in them. They mostly reiterated that they would never want to be a crane operator.