Adeline Graduates to Biped Movement

Adeline is really getting around these days. She started cruising around the ottoman and couch for the first time last weekend, and now she has moved on to bigger and better things: walkers! She goes up and down the hall with her Radio Flyer wagon. The kid is going to be walking on her own in no time. She wants to keep up with her sister, I guess. Adeline is just 9 months old and Juliet didn't take her first steps until 12.5 months, so it's looking like Addie is going to walk a lot earlier than her big sis.

Sous Chef

Juliet now LOVES to help out in the kitchen. Here she is helping to make banana nut muffins.

Lil Hop Along

Juliet reached an unfortunate milestone today: her first cast! After months of worrying about her gait, we were referred to the orthopedic surgery department at UCSF. We saw Dr. Delgado today and after reviewing Juliet's X-rays (which looked normal), she decided to put her in a cast for two weeks so that whatever injury is bothering her can heal. Dr. Delgado suggested that Juliet may have gotten injured back in August and never healed 100%. Now she appears to have sustained a second mild injury that aggravated the first one and here she is, hobbling around again.

Juliet has been a great sport about the whole thing, but I hope that her attitude will last once the novelty of her "special boot" has worn off. After we got home (three hours later!) we took a stroll up to Cliff's Variety to buy some sequins for her cast shoe. I have some sewing to do tonight to make sure that my little angel will agree to wear the shoe tomorrow.

Talkin' Girl

Michael is at a trade show in Anaheim this weekend and since he left on Friday morning, Adeline has learned to clap, she cut her first tooth, and we got her to say "da da". It's been a big two days!

Adeline's first trip to the Snow

Elliott made snow angels

SLEDDING! I think I was more excited about the sledding than Juliet. Maybe next year she will be more in to it.

We went out for Mexican food on our last night and by the time we got back out to the car, it was covered with snow. It snowed all night on our last night there and we were so sad to not be on the slopes the following day.

BFF's

The other day I suggested going to Chloe's Cafe for breakfast. When Juliet heard me say "Chloe", she said "Chloe is my best friend". I asked her who else was her best friend and she said "Stella!". Here are the girls after a fun playdate at Rossi, our favorite playground.

Date with Grandpa

Yes, that's three scoops! And yes, he ate the whole thing (the guy even gave him a little extra when he ordered the triple because my dad promised he could finish it).

We made a little Noe Valley loop with Grandpa while Mike played golf. We had lunch at Eric's, then went to Upper Noe Playground, then hit Mitchell's before heading home.