Happy Birthday Uncle Darren!

Happy Birthday Uncle Darren!! We hope it was a good one!! xoxo

"Yo soy una estudiante del primer grado."

That means I'm a first grade student. Claudia started school last week and was very excited to be back. She said she really enjoyed the camps that she went to this summer, but they were mostly "arts and crafts and not much learning". So she was ready for school to start so she could start learning again. Maybe we'll need to find a math/science camp next summer. !

Soccer season has begun!!

Claudia's a member of the Lava Girls team, in the 6 & 7 y.o. group. She's really excited to be on the team. Oftentimes you hear her squealing even before the ball is in play. In their first game, she was playing offense and was jumping up and down and squealing before the referee blew the whistle. Her assistant coach said "Hey Claudia. Save that energy for scoring a goal!" She had an assist for that game. :-)

Posing after the game. 

A DQ treat afterward. The soccer field is conveniently located about 3 blocks from a DQ. 

And after the DQ treat, she took a snooze on the way home!

Summer camp fun!

Our childhoods were definitely different! I remember having to hang the laundry on the clothesline, snapping peas and shucking corn. And of course hopping on our bikes to ride the 3 or so miles to the pool.

We sent Claudia to a bunch of weeklong day camps. She had at least one friend in each. Some by design and some by happy coincidence. She went to a few Y camps, a couple Spanish camps and an art camp. Here's some of the fun from captured from her summer.

This was crazy hat day at the Y. I had forgotten so this was pretty last minute. 

This was super hero day at the Y. She already had the shirt and the scarf/cape, so this one was easy!

Juliet had to get in on the fun, so I grabbed a picnic napkin. She had to have cuffs too. 

And another day, still in jammies, Juliet wanted to be a superhero again. 

At the San Jose Museum of Art. The campers had an exhibit on Saturday to display their work. 

Here's Claudia's turtle.

And another design. They learned a lot about color theory, composition, etc. Pretty cool. 

This is the collective sculpture. Claudia's piece is the blue one right above her head. 

Say CHEEEZ!

Claudia did art camp last week at the San Jose Museum of Art and on Saturday they had a exhibition of all the student artwork. I'll post some pix of that soon.  Afterward I did my best to get a picture of these two squirrels. It's way too hard and frustrating to get them both smiling and looking at the camera AT THE SAME TIME!