Tag: Hazel

Poop

Margot just pooped, two poops, a bigger and smaller. She said " ooooh, two poops. One Hazel poop and one Margot poop. "

Black Diamond

Hazel was VERY excited to ski her first Black Diamond runs yesterday. She did an awesome job.

Watching videos

Hazel earned some video time, so I was letting them watch a little. I was doing a few things on the computer, and looked up to see them watching like this.

Nature Girl wand

"Nature Girl" wanted a magic wand. We made two, one for each of them. Hazel was thrilled. The shaft is decorated with butterflies and ladybugs.

Garden

Hazel has been asking for her own little plot in the garden, so today we set up an area. Unlike me, she chose all ornamental plants, flowers and succulents. Margot picked a few too.

Nature Girl

Hazel has been proudly telling us about her group of friends at school, and how they’ve dubbed themselves the "Nature Team" because they are the kids not afraid to touch bugs. Hazel’s "super powers" as Nature Girl is that she can apparently make bushes quickly grow into whatever shape is needed, "like a ladder or […]

Steak

Hazel is eating a PILE of cauliflower, by covering it in the juice from her steak. She said "it’s like the best part of steak, but a vegetable! " I made a head of cauliflower, and I’d guess she ate 85%

Homework

When Hazel does homework, Margot wants to as well.

English and Chinese

It blows me away that Hazel can write in two completely different writing systems. Love her school.

Morning

Hazel woke up early, so we took the MG for a spin… Stopped at Starbucks. After we dropped Hazel off at school, Margot and I had an awesome time playing at the park for an hour. Now, work….

Conversations with Margot

Margot: "Hazel, can you please use your superpowers and make the sun go away." Hazel: "Ok." (moves her arms around, and the car I’m driving goes into a shady portion of the road) "Done." Margot: "You are the best Mommy ever." Margot: (playing on the pretend phone) "Hi Daddy, What you doing? How you is? […]

Valentine’s day

Hazel made (with some help) chocolate covered strawberries, and I made mushroom Alfredo pasta and sous vide scallops. Hazel made me a card, and wrote "I love you" in Chinese!

Books and teeth

Hazel is so into reading that she won’t stop even to brush her teeth

Field Showcase

Hazel’s afterschool program had a "showcase" yesterday, where each class did a dance routine, and they had projects from the last few months on display. Hazel loved performing the routine.

Lego

Had a very long weekend at the shop this weekend. But tonight was nice. A good dinner cooked by Kim, and then a nice time assembling Lego with Hazel. Lego was my favorite growing up. Only problem now is that Hazel doesn’t need any help anymore, so I don’t get to build any. I’m going […]

Menchies

Hazel has been having a bit of a tough time with me returning to the working world. The other day she requested a daddy-Hazel date. 🙂

Frogs can’t clean.

Me: Margot, you can have string cheese when you help Hazel clean up the Play-Doh. M: I can’t…. (Wailing). I can’t! Me: why not? M: me a Froggy. Froggies don’t have hands! (Wailing continues)

Fun in the snow

I had a great time playing in the snow, making Olaf, sledding, and walking around and exploring Durango with the family. New Years Eve was topped off by watching Hazel conquer her movie fears by watching Horton Hears a Who, and watching Margot run around the room and play.

Lids

Margot and I are out and about today. Since I let Hazel have a "Anything you want " treat at Starbucks the other day, I made the same offer to Margot. She chose the organic fruit squeeze pouch. I asked her why she chose that. "It have lid. Me like lids" She’s been taking a […]

Scrabble

Kim and Hazel are playing Scrabble.

Chilling

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 9:21 AM Geoff Jennings <g> wrote: Starbucks while Kim and Hazel do piano lesson. Margot is watching birds play in a fountain

Halloween

Hazel was just sobbing inconsolably because I told her we were going to her friends house for Thanksgiving. She said "But I thought we could go to my cousins house for trick or treat." I said, "oh ,Hazel, not this year, sorry" Wailing, "…..but I miss my cousins" 🙁

Hazel’s 5th

We have a family tradition of the birthday person getting to choose birthday dinner. Hazel chose sushi, but specifically said that she wanted to make it. And she asked to make panna cotta, so she and I spent a good chunk of the afternoon in the kitchen, making a pile of sushi and a vanilla […]

Sweaters

Hazel was convinced that "Mommy would Looooooove one of these" I think she might have been projecting.

Academy of Sciences

Hazel is excited to learn to dive in 5 years. They had a fish ID card and she was trying hard to find them all.

First day at preschool

First day of preschool. She picked her own clothes and insisted on a backpack like ga-je (big sister). I was nervous, I’ve never even been able to leave her at the Y kids area unless Hazel was with her. But she ran in excited, we’ve been talking about it for week. She sat down next […]

Reading Chinese

Hazel is trying to read this brochure Kim grabbed, and I’m amazed at how many Chinese words she can already recognize.

Hazel made a stop motion video

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

San Francisco

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 surf kayak gathering. This morning, on the long drive to […]

Outfit

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 wear them to school.

Hazels outfit

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 school. Thank you for the gift and mostly thank you […]

Nemo

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