Out and About

We had gorgeous weather over the weekend and no plans or sports due to the holiday so we took advantage of the time and the weather and spent our weekend out and about.  Lots of walks and parks.  Easter we learned that a lot of places were closed so we just went for a quick walk to the park in the afternoon.  Jacob has been begging to bring his bike places but he doesn't know how to ride it yet so we brought his scooter.  I'm not sure when he figured out the scooter but he can now ride, as you will see in the video, not for very long.  Poor little dude is not built for exercise.

I few more pictures from the weekend!

From my alone time with Riley

Two scooter riding fools

God Bless Monsters Inc for a few minutes of calm in the midst of pure chaos!

He'll hate me for this one day but he loves these shoes!  Every morning he wants to put them on!

GOOOOOALLLLLL!!!!

Yesterday at soccer they were practicing goals and Riley did great!  As awful as she was last week at soccer she was that great yesterday.  I wish I had kept filming because she started to run down the field with her hands up cheering for herself.  I almost expected to her to rip off her shirt like Brandi Chastain did!  Do we have the next Mia Hamm  (who also had clubfeet) on our hands?

Little Mermaid

So seriously, Riley has quite the social life these days.  I bought a Groupon a few weeks ago for swim lessons.  We had to push them back a week because of our friend (NOT) the ear infection but Friday Riley started her swim lessons and the girl had an smile plastered on her face from ear to ear the entire time.  Is there anything that girl doesn't love (well, besides her night night shoes)?  So now, Little Miss Social has swim Friday nights, our weekly walks with the neighbors on Saturday mornings and soccer Saturday nights.  Phew, I can hardly keep up with her.  Swimming went, well swimmingly, the director even came up to me and said she was doing great, and was excited to see her willing to go to the instructor so that he could show her how to do some things.

Getting into the water

Getting ready to jump in!

A little help jumping in

Oh and I should mention that Marc wanted me to take her to swim but I insisted he go for at least the first class since I wanted to check out what sort of bathing suits moms wore in the pool with their kids, that and I am in no condition to be walking around in a bathing suit, I have some serious work to do for the summer.  Well I am so glad I insisted on Marc getting home early and taking Riley because there were ZERO moms in the pool with their kids!

A New Phase

I think we've hit a new phase - the booster seat!  Sunday Fuddruckers was out of high chairs so we let Riley sit in a booster at lunch and it was one of the best lunches we've had with Riley in a long time.

So happy to be sitting like a big girl!

We've also entered the apple juice phase of life where she asks for it incessantly

Best Play Date Ever!

For Mommy and Daddy that is!  Today our fav winery in Livermore had a release party.  One of Riley's friend's parents are also wine members there so we made plans to meet up with them and Isabella and Riley so that we could do the wine tasting and the girls could play.  Mitchell Katz is a super kid friendly winery and they have a huge lawn out front for the girls to run around.  Us parents had a great time and so did the girls!

Riley and Isabella chilling on the lawn

Chillaxing in the sun (a total lady!)

Hanging on a wine barrel with Marcellis, the king of barrel tasting!

Friends!

A CA Winter Day

We have been having AMAZING weather here the last week or so, like high 60s, low 70s, not a cloud in sight.  Sorry mid-west and east coast friends who have been getting a ton of snow, but feel better knowing that while you've been having snow days, I've been at working itching to get out into the gorgeous weather!  After Riley's nap today we decided to head up to Blackhawk Plaza for an outdoor lunch, yep, an outdoor lunch in the middle of January.  That my friends is why we pay so much to live in this beautiful state.  We headed to a Mexican restaurant with a bagful of bread so Riley could feed the ducks while Marc and I enjoyed a drink on the patio before lunch.  The best part, the weather is supposed to stick around at least for another week.  Go to love Cali!!!

"Riley did did do it" opening the bag to feed the duckies.  Poor girl got bit twice by a duck, maybe now that she knows that biting hurts, she'll stop biting!  A mom can dream!

Hello darling!  (Seriously, is there anything cuter than a toddler in sunglasses?  I think not!)

Cheese!

Riley opted to eat the bread herself after the "mean duck" bit her twice.  His loss!

Apparently the bread was quite delicious!

Posing with "Riley daddy!"

20th...

Riley hit her 20th trip wine tasting this weekend. My dad was in town and our favorite winery was having a release party so we headed over to Mitchell Katz Winery which is always kid friendly. Riley made friends with two little boys and I began talking to their mom and we exchanged numbers so hopefully another trip to Mitchell Katz with new friends is in our future! YaYa came with us too, she seems to be going a lot of places with us lately, I better try to find another one because her arm is starting to tear! Riley was the hit of the tasting event, after being the only person dancing to the live music, all of the older women LOVED her, one lady gave her a bracelett that she was wearing and her daughter tried to get Riley to try on her Gucci sunglasses (which Riley has no business touching!). It was a great time with good wine, great weather, and Riley's first serenade!

Surprise Lunch

Saturday we were in our 4th Target of the weekend when Marc's cousin Ben called to see if we were availabe to meet him and his fiance for lunch. As luck would have it they were near Walnut Creek and we were heading up there to do some shopping so we met them at Pyramid Ale House. Yummers! Riley had a blast with Cousin Ben and Cousin-to-be Gabby!

Beach Day

I know, who goes to the beach in November, but that's how we roll in Cali! While my friends in Indiana and the Midwest got their first snow, we were hanging at the beach, and that is why we pay so much to live in this beautiful state! Instead of shoveling show off of our cars or our driveways, we were shaking sand from our clothes.

Today we went into the city to meet up with our friends, the Goines', Marc and Jenny's mutual friend Lindsay was in town from Arizona so we headed out to meet up for a fun day at the beach. We were hoping to make it into the city in time to meet them at the zoo but our cleaning lady was late so we missed that but Lindsay was super nice enough to buy Riley a stuffed monkey. So super sweet. We headed over to Ocean Beach for a picnic lunch and some sand play! Riley and Jake had a blast playing in the sand, they both also got a few mouthfuls of sand as well, Jake because he was being silly, Riley because she saw a doggy eating something out of the sand.

Of course since we were in the city we had to go down to AT&T Park and checkout the World Series merchandise. We were surprised to find that the park wasn't decorated all that much but we did get some good (albeit overpriced) gear!