Weekend Snapshot, Five Years Apart

One of my favorite things about living in California is having the perfect weather for family walks year round (the first photo is from today, the bottom one is from 2008 when our five year old daughter was a newborn):

Family Walk 2013
Family Walk 2008

I adore these photos of my sweet husband holding our babies.

By the way, we ADORE our new Baby K’tan carrier way more than the Moby Wrap. (Thank you to Jake for the awesome present!) There’s no going back once you find a baby carrier you and the newborn both love.

Meet Simone

Our daughter loves role playing. Whenever she reads a new book (usually with an awesome female protagonist) we then, at her insistence, become the book characters for a week or two weeks or a month. For our kid, this game NEVER gets old. To David and I, it is the ultimate act of reading comprehension.

Reading a favorite passage from a Cam Jansen book

Recently our five year old has been devouring the Cam Jansen series by David A. Adler. Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54 has become a particular favorite thanks to a young French girl named Simone Green who travels to the US by herself. Oh, to be able to fly on your own! This greatly appeals to our independent girl (who lamented on her fifth birthday that she didn’t want to be five: “I just want to be a grown up already!”).

And so Simone’s bags are packed,

Meet Simone from the book Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54

plane tickets have been procured (for Simone and Cam’s aunt Molly who’s also on the flight),

Cutting out pretend boarding passes

passports have been made (never mind that they are for US citizens),

Meet Simone from the book Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54

and it’s time to travel.

Meet Simone from the book Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54

Bon Voyage!