Emmy Loves Carrots

Emmy babysat both girls Thursday night while we went to a wine tasting thing.

She was feeding Maisie her yummy yummy orange carrots for dinner before we left...

"ummmmmmmmmmmm"

Then Francie "pretended" to feed Emmy-wemmy

Only she went a little too far with the carrot GOOP on a spoon

Sicko!

Gross France!

"Did YOU do that to me on purpose Francie-pants?!"

Maisie doesn't like it when Francie beats up on her godmom... or when her sister screams in her ear while she's trying to eat her dinner

Recent Ramblings

Nothing too exciting... just some randomness from our very exciting day to day life :)

We walked down to Willow Market for dinner supplies (we don't plan ahead so well- nightly runs to the market down the street happen almost every night we are home) Back to bundling the girls up with the cold weather here. The girls are skeptical about this bundle up thing...

We had family dinner at home- Heff cheffed up some venison pasta. Francie's favorite part is to remind us she is eating DEER meat.

Maisie snuggled up and appeased me by looking right at my camera for like 45 shots while I tried to play with the settings on my camera (I'm still clueless)

and speaking of my camera.... I got a new camera bag I'm only slightly obsessed with

Dad and the girls made funny faces

Francie started her own blog. (just kidding, maybe.)

at least her feet are sparkling clean

Maisie learned to draw (again)

Francie tried out the new "Create It" art studio at Town & Country with Rose

and the big news.... Violet and Wittle Violet have been collecting some new Blabla friends! The latest members of the family: "Olivia/Tessa" (she can't decide) who comes in her underthings and has CLOTHES to wear! and "Giselle" the little princess Lea red-head for Maisie Moo. Guess where we got them? And aren't they adorable!!

Faces of Maisie

Remember Faces of Francie? Francie was only a few weeks old in that post but here are some funny Faces of Maisie Moodle- or as Francie has taken to calling her lately "Maisie YA-You" (we have no idea why).

Walking the Dish

Lunch Date with Dad

Happy Friday!!

Just a few pictures... Happy Friday and stay warm today :)

The other night I hung out at Jannie's with Emmy for a sewing party... I embroidered the girl's names on their new pillows and the comforter covers Jannie made for them

Jannie fed Maisie her dinner- yummmmy :)

and Emmy and Francie played upstairs in my old room

and Maisie was a happy baby in Jannie's nursery

New Boots, New Trike

checking out her new boots for stompa stompa with Dad

ans then the day gets even better, there is a new trike at Jannie's!

bonk
Francie and Jannie racing trikes
Not so sure about this lap thing, she wants her own

Where We Work and Play

I am a huge dork. And a huge home-body. Maybe that's why I love Menlo Park so much :) Luckily I when I met my husband he was living here too- I looked at him like "where have you been hiding that I don't know you already?" Having my offices and Heff's office in the same building downtown gives me a good home-base (or commune) to park myself and my strollers.

My friends own businesses downtown too which gives me some good destinations and we frequent most restaurants on "The Cruz." I feel really lucky to have work to keep my busy with new stuff but with great managers for the day-to-day I still get to feel like a stay-at-home-mom... and get to play downtown Menlo Park most days. Today I actually worked on an ad promoting a "shop local" target, you'll see if you keep reading my ramblings...

My favorite baby store downtown of course is "Le Cirque des Enfants" my friend Christian owns... it has the best baby stuff- like the new BlaBla dolls (like the Shigo girls gave us!) that they just got in with dress up clothes!! They are all ready for Christmas...

Maisie just chillin in her favorite fancy chair at Le Cirque

Francie trying things on

Maisie getting some love from Christian

and making funny faces

and there is hardly a day downtown without a stop at "The Sugar Shack!" (Sweet-tooth-Francie's-FAV and my most used bribery trick)

our friend Suzi! (who was there when Heff and I met- we hope we have her Karma, she has SEVEN kids and a candy store!)

And today I actually DID WORK for most of the afternoon and evening. Thanks Heff and Jannie for helping with the monsters....

I worked on Facebook "Ad campaigns"... it's such a cool way to promote your business! Thanks for becoming out fan if you have already and if not click here to FAN us!!

The Beehive 94025 on Facebook

Academic Trainers on Facebook

Brilliant Babies on Facebook

Then Christian and I decided at 3pm to "throw together" an ad for the inside back cover of the Junior League Holiday Homes Tour brochure... we got our friend Katie (who owns the boutique Pink Tangerine) on board to promote all three and "Shop Local!" The almost finished product...

You'd THINK creating a business where you could LEAVE your kids for a few hours while you ran errands would be great for when you actually have kids and need to leave them... but of course Francie flat out refuses to stay and play by herself. I don;t know what I am doing wrong. Thank goodness for Heff and Jannie!

at least it's an excuse to play with thousand piece toys I banned from my house :)

Hi Bethy

The Carter's had us all over for dinner Friday night since Beth and her boyfriend Greg were home for a quick weekend. It was a treat to have cracked crab and a fun dinner with lots of good wine :) Georgia was so sweet to have toys out for the girls to play with- Francie was in heaven between playing with the toys and her friends "Georgia and Beffy"

Jannie and Georgia with Francie

Bethy hiding behind Maisie Moo

and throwing Francie around

We've been doing family dinners with the Carter's since sixth grade :) Georgia always sets a pretty table and takes good care of us

My Bestie Beffy

Johnets being funny

girls way up in the air like flight attendants! (jannie always plays this game- she was a flight attendant for six years before I was born :) but last week Heff took the girls for lunch at the airport and told me under his breath "we saw a pilot get into a plane with a girl who was obviously a h**ker" and Francie who we didn't think heard us goes "NO DAD! That was a FLIGHT ATTENDANT!!!"

just playing

late night, Mare and Heff

Beth and Greg - come back more often!!

Sunday @ Home

Sunday morning we went to the 9:30am family mass (got ourselves motivated earlier than out usual put-off-til 5:00pm mass!). Turns out they have donut holes after family mass. Awesome.
I tried to get a picture of the girls. Didn't work so much. But look at our fierce beast...

Clara, Mark and Sarah walked over on Sunday afternoon for a visit. The girls weren't feeling 100% and had to cancel on some friends to BBQ so we were just hanging around the house while Francie took a marathon 3.5 hour nap. The little girls played in peace and loved the activity block thing Oma and Opa gave us for Francie last year

Francie and Jannie @ Sky Cafe Today!

Lunching at the San carlos airport

Double Bubble

both girls are together in the tub now for bathtime! Maisie has been taking big girl baths with Francie for a few weeks now- but wasn't steady enough for me to have one hand occupied by a camera until now :) Not the best pictures (one handed camera man) but you get the idea...

all clean and cozy together. so sweet to each other...

buuuut, this is more like it :)