Opening Presents

I know I still haven't posted pictures from Holly's birthday party the problem was I had over 500 and I have only narrowed it down to 166 of my favorite obviously way to many for a blog post. I did put the pictures on facebook. This post is also pretty long but certainly easier to narrow down in comparison. As Thank You's to all of our friend's Holly wrote emails with attached photo's of her opening her gifts. Here are a few of those pictures.
I just want to take another opportunity to thank all of our friends for joining us in celebrating Holly's forth Birthday. She loved seeing all of her friends from School, our various mom's groups, and Swim and gym. it is always nice to have everyone together to play at once. She also was super grateful and excited for all of the amazing and lovely gifts she received. She has gotten a lot of use out of every one of them. We ended up opening gifts over several days because she had so much fun slowly opening and playing with each item. She got a lot of cool books, dress-up cloths, and games that we have really enjoyed.

Shopping with Sara

We have been missing our friend Sara. She is taking swim classes twice a week now, on the days we have free and we have other classes on the days she is free. plus she is in school full time now and weekends are crazy. So we haven't had a chance to play and get together for a while. When we can make the time we often run errands like going to Costco or the Supermarket together. On this day we went shopping for fun on Forth Street in Berkeley. We checked out the fancy cheese store, the fancy Kitchen store, the stained glass store, the cool toy store and finally the Apple store. We had a fun afternoon and Mommy is going to make an effort to hang out with Sara again soon!

Squish

Here is Holly playing with Citlali in Kindergym. Two sensory girls, they like there jumping and there rolling but most of all they like there squishing, it is so very adorable. We always have a super fun time with Citlali.

The Park with Aidan

 Here we are at that park I mentioned earlier.  Aidan is one of Holly's pals in school and his family is also in our mom's groups so we get lots of chances to play with him.  Holly has a lot of fun seeing him outside the classroom.  This is a fun park Cedar/Rose that has sand and bouncy see saws and swings.  The tunnel and bridge are really cool.  The kids liked hanging out and hiding in the tunnel when they had there snacks.  This is Ally Rose and Aidan's new baby sister, Holly had a blast playing with her in the grass, she really likes babies especially since so many of her friends have younger siblings now.