Wake Up, Avery!

This is so sweet. And also can be seen as payback to Avery for all the mornings he's awoken us in this same way.

Montessori Magic

Avery invited me to his Special Friends Night at school. I got to quietly shadow him as he showed me some of the work he does at school. He was so proud and surprisingly serious.  

Fruit/veggie prep work

Metal inset work

"Walking the line" which is quite intriguing to these young people.

Mimi and Opa

Mimi and "Apple" (as Zeal calls him) came to visit this month. Within minutes of their arrival, they were both reading to the boys. 

Zeal and his apple

Duck play

At The Academy of Science in SF

"ish!"

Avery and a diver mimed to each other

And of course, Opa loves projects, especially slightly questionable ones. I made the request for him to make us a zipline. He got right to it.

And then he tested it on our neighbors, Astrid and William.

Zeal's cute bod (and itchy eczema)

Hiking the Dunn Trail near our house

Katie and Tim, Western Ones

Our lives are delightfully (and confusingly) filled with couple name repeats. We have two sets of Lauren and Tommys and two sets of Katie and Tims in our lives. This is Western Katie and Tim, not to be confused with Eastern K&T in Maine. It was such a treat to have them with us during spring break. 

Katie gets a capoeira lesson from Avery

Zeal gets knighted

We spent a morning at the Botanic Gardens in Tilden Park

A little love for his Godmama

Breakfast at Rick & Ann's went surprisingly well.

Avery and I showed Katie an afternoon on the town.
This is one of the many ways you can dress in Oakland and st totally fit in.

Snow Eggs

There is no better way to start spring break than a trip to the mountains. 

On Saturday, we hiked Shirley Falls in the warm sun.

And that night, the Easter bunnies prepared the goods.

This included a 6 a.m. snowy egg hide that resulted in a certain Easter bunny getting locked out of the cabin and needing to tap on windows to wake Mr. Bunny so as to not freeze to death in pajamas.

A trail of eggs (filled with dried strawberries) led to the boys' special baskets. This is a Braunohler family tradition.

A cascaron Avery made at school...