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 easter egg hunt #2 at chloe's second egg hunt, they divided egg hunts into diff age groups. mya's age group had ALL the kids running and laser focused and mya was darting around too. i love that she just went and did her own thing. cherry blossom festival at j-town. so crowded by mya just likes looking around and being around crowds i think :) first SF giants baseball game! very hot day but again, I think mya liked the energy and wearing her SF giants cap and seeing other ppl wear their gear. when jackson was napping after, we had ice cream from safeway and i think she enjoyed that probably the most :). jackson ran the bases. we find that he really likes obstacle courses bc there was one at BUG DAY at randall museum and that was his favorite. BUG DAY - mya was overwhelmed and didn't really wanna do anything, while jackson was happily doing the crafts and actually touched all the animals (snakes, cockroaches, centipede!) chloe came over for the first time on her own as susa

 mya dentist appt - might have have PTSD from the doc appt the friday prior from the ONE HOUR wait time and the unkind nurse, but she didn't do as well this time around with the dentist. was super nervous and kept wanting to shut her mouth and whining a bit, but still got thru it. still very proud of her as she is very young! i didn't go, but carlo did and he said he really wanted to leave bc mya was just so uncomfortable and being a slippery egg/trying to cling to carlo mya is a VERY quick runner! i think she can run the same speed as me but her legs are actually just shorter so obviously i'm still overall "faster" we did a 6.7 mile hike and land's end and mya actually walked ALL of it bc we didn't use a stroller or anything. she was a trooper and barely complained.. we need to do more hikes! :) lately when jackson naps, she's been really good about generally self entertaining. i just need to have an activity or a new toy and she can keep herself ente

every weekend is getting easier bc the kids just play together and keep each other entertained til about 10:30-11 easily most times, though, we still have to go out early bc jackson naps pretty consistently before 1 PM nowadays. first time seeing lion dancing (SSF library event). mya & jackson loved it! i loved that mya beamed even more when she saw that it was two female lion dancers inside! jackson - has to grab something before coming into our room in the middle of the night (grabbed a teddy bear and balloon one time, so cute! looked like he was a teddy bear going to a bday party) REALLY gets into the frozen songs and does his own emotional renditions lol loves to read still (teachers say the same thing!) "aw man" "i will" "mm HMM: "holaf" (instead of olaf) jackson graduated to next class slept more at 9 PM for a good 2-3 weeks.. back to being 'on-schedule..' i find it wild that i can actually have simple conversations.. growing up too

jackson's been super into moby shinobi! a few nights even after getting into bed, he's gone and grabbed the book and tried to get me to read it. of course, i want him to sleep so i just put it on the side. most of the time, he'll be sucking his thumb but momentarily, he'll sometimes check to see if i'm there or roll towards me and then butt his head into my body or caress/hold my arm.. ugh.. he's too sweet!! so cuteee. he still loves being hugged in the morning and really goes into my body when i hold him and smiles sometimes too. had our xmas dinner with mom's side of the family at our yi-yi's house and jackson warmed up so quickly! he was able to play with new people fairly quickly and we weren't even that close to him (joe, michelle, and amy). i think he really takes to it when a female guides him and holds his hand and everything. mya's s till shy but gets into play when everyone else gets into it. they had this nesting doll and mya really li

thanksgiving playground in chinatown mya loved the big slide & climbing up the wooden structure to go down a twirly slide. nice challenge jackson went down a slide for the first time met carlton's cat mochi for the first time and i think this was the first time she had real first contact with a cat! loved playing with him and kept making excuses to go see him "mommy, i'm hot." (it was cold outside where mochi was).. (touches her.. not hot).. oh.. are you saying you want to see mochi? (nods) ahh so cute. she kept smiling at him when mochi was reserved and then kept sticking her fist out like we taught her so that he would come. near the end she kept trying to lift him and hug him too mya's been into bringing coloring books at school and she really does take to art!! we brought like a pre-cursor sewing craft where you have to lace up an elephant together and she did it mostly by herself!! so cool mya got really upset at a boy who pushed her at the playground and