At the Exploratorium in SF. She actually made a longer one, but it didn’t save. :/ Still cool. This place is awesome.

We are going to San Francisco tomorrow, for a week. Visiting friends this weekend, then the girls and I will be hanging out playing tourist while Kim attends a conference. The following weekend we will be up in Bodega Bay, north of Marin, at a

Hazel normally wears a uniform, but for "color week" she was supposed to wear something green today. Turns out she doesn’t have much. But she wore her old dress as a shirt, and her skirt that she still loves and was excited to get to

Hazel’s kindergarten normal has a uniform, but since they are learning the colors (in Mandarin) they have a color week where they get to wear non-uniform outfits with a color theme. Today was blue, and Hazel was super excited to wear her Peppa outfit to

Hazel made Nemo in a fish tank at her after school program. She said it was 100% her idea and execution. 🙂

Hazel and I made cookies and took them in

I taught Hazel how to put two battery packs in series in her circuit kit. We we able to launch the little "helicopter" fan all the way to the ceiling. 🙂 She was pretty stoked.

Hazel was trying on her school uniform today.

Hazel wanted to cook yesterday, so we made shrimp stuffed mushrooms and sweet peppers, zucchini fries and a tomato basil salad. Hazel worked really hard and did a lot. She was in charge of plating the food. 🙂

Hazel loves to cook, she’s quite good. We are at the point now where she can help me, and it’s actually faster than me cooking alone. She’s also really likes "plating" things nicely. I helped cook, but the plating was her idea. I’ve been working

I mentioned that we had a 20 min drive, and then another 20 min drive. I asked Hazel the total. Thought for a second. "40!" Me : how did you do that so fast? Hazel: well, 2+2 is 4, so I just used that to

Can you believe Hazel is starting kindergarten this year?!??!? I’ll admit that I was a grump about the preschool graduation. Graduation requires nothing except us paying the bill, why does it need a ceremony? But Hazel had a big line to close out the ceremony,