Cora and Olivia

We've been pretty busy around here for awhile. Last weekend, March 5th, we went down to Berkeley for Dana's second birthday party. We had such a great time, the weather was perfect, and the girls had a fantastic day. We rode the steam train at Tilden Park for the first time, at least it was a first for the girls and I, Andrew had ridden it before nearly 40 years ago. It was so much fun we did it twice! Cora & Olivia had a lot of fun running around & playing with Dana & Alma, as well as all the rest of the family. Later on we rode the carousel many times, Cora especially liked that and even picked out a favorite horse (a white one with a red rose on its mane). It was a very full, exciting day, followed by a long day outdoors at home on Sunday to round out the weekend.





The weather this past week has been very warm, as high as the upper 80's! It almost seems like our weather is trying to skip over spring and go right to summer. It's even been hot sometimes standing in the sun, so of course Cora & Olivia have been playing out in the yard with water and getting drenched! We've been working & planting in the yard and garden quite a bit this week and are hoping to have a very productive vegetable garden this year. The daffodils are blooming right now and the girls have been enjoying them a lot. Unfortunately both the girls have been sick the latter part of this week, but I'm hoping they will be over it soon. In the following pictures Olivia was doing jumping jacks on the bridge while Cora intently studied the daffodils.



Some Cora quotes:

"You can start treating me like a grown up now. Because I squeezed out ketchup for Mommy." Said at the dinner table March 1.

"Mommy! Please don't hear me! I want to sneak up on you!" March 9.

"Daddy, when will we die? When will we be too old to live anymore?" March 12, while watching a volcano program on the Tembora 1815 eruption. Cora was sick at the time with a fever around 101.