4.10.15: Santa Cruz Preview

For only the third time since the girls have been born (1st - 30 hour house hunting in Tucson, 2nd - 10 year anniversary weekend in San Francisco) we left the girls overnight (for several nights).  Nene heroically came to watch the girls while Brant and I checked out Santa Cruz, CA.  Brant has been offered a job and we wanted to check out the city and see if it was worthy of our final Robertson move.  That's right, if we move - it will be the final place we move.

We spent the trip checking out schools, housing (yikes - $500/sqft), and of course made our way to the ocean.  The girls did wonderful with Nene who kept them very busy and in great spirits.  A big thank you to Nene, this is the first time anyone has watched the girls on their own overnight - prior we've always had dual coverage.  Thankfully at five years old, the girls are more than capable of communicating their demands...oops, I mean needs.

Sea Lions - so noisy!

4.5.15: Naked Easter Egg Decorating

Stella, Daphne, Fiona

Sometimes dying easter eggs provides too much risk for our favorite clothes.  This year we decided to forgo our clothing and dye easter eggs in our craft aprons.   Of course, this meant we didn't get dye on anything - but if we would have worn clothes, then we would have - you just can't win.

4.4.15: Dance Floor

Stella, Daphne, Fiona

Growing up, Kelly and I performed on a 2' x 3' piece of plywood for countless hours pretending to have tap, ballet, and dance recitals.  When replacing the table top that had seen a life as an office desk, changing table, and three years of triplet arts and crafts, I couldn't resist but have the girls enjoy their own dance floor as well. Turns out - it is a little small for three kids, but they still had a great time dancing to Katy Perry.

Our favorite tree at the zoo.

3.28.15: Brost Play date

Kim, Kari, Alyssa, Zachary, Stella, Fiona, Daphne

Thanks to Kim's parents being snowbirds in AZ, we were able to unite for our annual play date.  It was unseasonably hot, but the kids were troopers and made a good effort to play before resorting to the shade for snacks.

3.21.15: Dining al fresco

With Brant leaving for a trip and me stuck working we decided it was the perfect time to have a tea party inside the house for morning snack.

After a day of errands, we wanted to do something special.  We decided to enjoy the beautiful weather and eat our dinner outside watching the sunset.

3.14.15: Books

Daphne woke up this morning and decided to read us this book - and she did - all by herself.

We went to the university for the book festival and stopped by Brant's classroom.  The girls decided they needed to count every chair and test most of them out.

3.9.15: Surprise contemplation

Stella surprised us when we came to pick her up from school by having lost another tooth.  Apparently it came out during after school care and the very prepared staff had a molar necklace to store her tooth in for safe keeping.  She was very proud of her necklace.

Daphne came home from school not feeling well at all.  She even fell asleep before dinner, posing like this - in contemplation.

3.8.15: Ladybugs

Today we went to a ladybug release.  6000 ladybugs were released via ~100 kids.  The girls had a great time holding the ladybugs and watching them all fly away.  It was hard to convince them not to take some home as pets.

3.5.15: Musical Chairs

Daphne, Stella, and Fiona decided to play "musical chairs" (which really seems to be a cake walk - but don't dare tell them that).  Someone turns on music then they run in circles on numbers they wrote, eventually the music stops and the someone reads the numbers they are standing on.  I'm not quite sure other kids would be interested in this game, it only seems to make sense to them - but they love it.

3.1.15: Special Wish

At school the girls' made new year's special wishes "I want to sing so all can hear my special wish for the brand new year..."

Daphne - I wish for kindness and love
Fiona - I wish all people had what they need
Stella - I wish the whole world would pick up trash