Civic Center Wednesday

We try to hit one farmer's market a week in the area and lately it's been the Civic Center market. The Saturday one is way too crowded and the Thursday one has way too many money spending temptation for the kids (bouncy house, face painting, etc). And because the main library is located at the Civic Center too, we can combine our two outings into one!
We've entered our Indian Summer here in SF and the weather had been amazing the past few weeks. Every week we've had a beautiful day to cruise the isles of produce and proteins!We got some nice raspberries and sat down at the water fountain for a little snack.
Then we head next door to the library. The main branch has a large kid's play area and 10X more books than our neighborhood library...and for some reason, lot's less people.

By now it's so typical...Cameron heads for the books...my little book worm.
And Timo heads straight for the computer and coloring station...anything but reading...

By the end, if everyone has behaved themselves, we stop at the kettle corn both on the way out...which I'm quickly becoming addicted to!

Round Up of Grandma and Grandpa Ko

I have few random pictures of the Ko's visit. It was wonderful to have them here and share in our lives for a month...makes me wish we all lived closer!
The twins LOVED all the fun things Harmy did to their hair. She always wanted to put Cameron's hair in a bow (something I have no luck at) and Timo insisted on having his done too!

Young took his parents down to Monterey for a quick little trip to do some sightseeing. We thought it best to not go with the twins...making for a more leisurely, relaxing trip for them. They checked out the coast line, visited the aquarium and lot's of Mr. Ko's favorite food...CRAB!

The ladies had a wonderful afternoon tea on their last Sunday here. We had a perfect table in the Rotunda at Neimun Marcus.
And the last day was spent dancing and dancing with Harmy! She taught them so many songs and movements in Korean...wish I had payed closer attention...they keep asking to sing the songs!

Being Silly

Being silly is really big in our house right now...especially for Timo. He loves acting silly, basically anything funny to get attention. He is going to be our practical jokster...I can tell already. I was folding laundry the other day and Timo got ahold of one of the his socks...who knew it could lead to a whole afternoon of fun! He put it on his hand and had a new glove, or "glub" as he calls it.Cameron saw how much fun he was having and had to have her own pair...
And off they went...just exploring everything they could do with their new "glubs" and just being silly...Cameron says to me "Mommy, I being silly now."

Cruise Around the Bay

I am SO behind in my blogging! First it was because Young's parents were in town and babysitting so I could go out every day for some down time...and now that they are gone, Young is traveling every week and I'm alone with the kids again, trying to get back into a routine. Excuses, excuses, I know...but I'm gonna try my best to finish up Grandma and Grandpa Ko's visit this week.

Two weekend ago we all went on a cruise around the Bay. I've lived here for over 15 years now and have never done the Bay cruise. I subscribe to the amazing Groupons and they recently had bay cruises half off...so I purchased a few in anticipation of our visitors. We woke up that morning to fog but decided to head out anyway and ended up having amazing weather.We had just had some snacks before we got on the ship but the kids quickly became bored with the boat ride (I think because we would let them run all over the ship and stand in the seats)and I ended up with them downstairs eating more snacks...looking at the view from the inside...As we boarded the ship, the fog was pulling out. By the time we got to the Golden Gate Bridge, the fog was almost gone but enough for us to get some beautiful shots.

I thought I was going to be cold and windy out there so I made everyone bundle up...but I was fooled by SF weather again! We were so hot! As warm as it was, Cameron refused to take her hat off the whole time...because her hair was "moving" in the wind! Gotta love the temperament of a 2 year old!!
We sailed around the city, checking out the skyline views and Alcatraz...The Rock!
After snacks...the kids found looking out the big rope holes to be the most entertaining...

It's so nice to have visitors in town so we get to do the tourist thing...so many things we don't partake of as residents. The cruise was so much fun and I'm glad it was Young's parents we shared it with!

Curlers!

Grandma Ko was fixing her hair the other day and Cameron had to get in on the act. She doesn't get much exposure to all these girly products from her Mommy...

Timo was trying to help by holding the mirror...but ended up liking to look at himself more!

Oh, let's hope this isn't a start to wanting her fancy hair dos all the time!

Japanese Tea Gardens

We took Grandma and Grandpa Ko to the Japanese Tea gardens last week. I've only been there once and forgot how beautiful and peaceful it is inside those walls...and how much fun the tea service is!








And to top off our great morning exploring the Tea Gardens, we ran into the Mounted Police on our way out!