My Have We Grown!

Where is spring? We have no idea, but the weather still hasn't let up. Some days cold, other days less...some days raining, other days not. With mommy working many hours, the blogging seems less and less, but hopefully she'll be more on top of it after this week when she regains her second wind.

This past weekend during glimpses of "free time" we got to go to a place called Super Franks out in Dublin (a sort of younger kids Dave and Buster or bigger Chuck E. Cheese). Super Franks has a sort of Starbucks cafe indoors with seating and also there are TV screens with sports playing for adults, but having younger kids I don't know how you can enjoy that kind of thing the TV that is not the Starbucks hahaha! The middle of the area has video games for age groups 3-12 (I'm guessing). They also have areas where they're geared for kids 5 and under, sports and gymnastic like area, and a princess castle theme area. It's a very cool concept.

We ended up paying for the younger area and it was just mayhem, because it had tricycles and all sorts of little vehicles and not enough room. I do realize that it was a Saturday afternoon and the weather wasn't nice outside, so the logical thing to do was find a place such as this, so it wasn't entirely unexpected. The bouncy house was cool, but it got very crowded at times. They had arts and crafts (yes, the girls got super messy) and loads of toddler toys, but for a claustrophobic person like me, it was just a little too crowded. At one point they announced over the speakers that they had to check kids for wristbands for "unpaid" children....hmmmm....yeah..... The girls enjoyed themselves, so it was worth it. If I had to pick between this place and Bounce-A-Rama, I'd pick Bounce-A-Rama because it has more of an open space and less crowded at specific times which causes less stress....on the parental units.

Before that we had lunch at a place called Willow Tree in Dublin where we like to have dim sum from time to time. We like the place because the people that work there like the girls :P (yeah we're silly like that). It's not as good as Oriental Tea House out in San Leandro, but if we're lazy, don't want to wait in line, and don't want to drive all the way out there we usually stop by Willow Tree.

On Sunday we went to the farmer's market in Fremont and met up with the Ko's. The girls had fun using their Dora the Explorer umbrellas for the first time. They had so much fun in the rain. We got some great strawberries, carrots, and oranges. Later we went to Ala Shanghai for lunch (we haven't been going regularly since the girls ended their classes at Gymboree a long time back) and had yogurt next door at YoSwirl. The weather got worse at that point and we ended up staying home the rest of the day. Actually I take that back after the girls' nap we went to Target with the intention to go to a Micky D playground after we went shopping. Turns out they walked all over the store and were tired out by the time we wanted to leave, so off to bed it was after Target :D

The girls' hair is growing longer and you can tell from mommy's hair cutting skills that she's not cut out to be a hair dresser.

Hannah is getting more talkative and structures her sentences quite well. She speaks her words very clearly and just when you think she can't get more loving, she does. She daily says, "I love you!" followed by a run to you and a hug! She has great manners too and says "Thank you!". Hannah's favorite line to tell mommy is "Mommy! I love ice-cream!" :D

Sophie on the other hand has been a little rascal and has learned to lock daddy in the garage with the bolt on top of the door. What is scary is that she can open any door now, locked, weighted or otherwise. She's always getting into things and always keeps mommy on her toes. She learned how to do a thumbs up and it's so darn cute!

Rain, rain go away!