Brian, Jami and Anna

Playgroup at the pumpkin patch

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:24:45 -0700

It was sunny and at least 75 degrees here, but it's supposedly fall, so the moms' group hit the pumpkin patch today. Big fun. Too many photos to post them here, so go to this site to see them all:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=oisj2fr.c3ec70rn&x=0&y=jv9h7m&localeid=en_US
Here's one to get you started, all of us on a hay ride:

Hayride

You can see Anna is barely paying attention, she's so engrossed with eating someone's ELSE'S snacks. (middle back row). Lots of other photos at that link. Thanks for the photo, Azla.

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Looking for a Halloween costume for Anna

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:02:42 -0700

It will not be this, but, man this photo made me laugh.

Humpty dumpty

Anna would HATE this costume.

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Playgroup at the park

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:37:51 -0700

The weather has been lovely, so we held playgroup at Alta Plaza last week. There was lots of snacking, again. And some playing. Click on the photo below to see more:

Alta Plaza

Isabelle likes the hang-til-you-drop game very, very much.

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Pomegranate?

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:27:04 -0700

Anna's not a big fan:

Pomengranate

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Long shadows

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:44:35 -0700

This is Anna and me (and the palm trees) on our walk home from the dog park in the last long rays of the day.

Shadow

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Dog park

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:34:16 -0700

Anna and I sat and watched the dogs last night at the park near our house.

Dog park

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'Nose' and 'banana' and 'apple'

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:32:07 -0700

I forgot these, too. She says 'nose' really funny, with a very long "n;" and she skips the "ba" and just calls them "nanas." She also says "baw-doo" when referring to her feet. We think it might be her version of "zapato," the Spanish word for shoe (drop the "za" and you get PAW-toe).

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'Mano,' 'el mar' and 'knee'

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:56:25 -0700

Those are three more words Anna learned to say in the past two weeks or so. She says mano (Spanish for hand) like "man-noo." And Brian can be credited for teaching her "el mar" (the sea in Spanish), he says it every time we see the bay or the ocean (which is a lot). I remember when we went to Croatia and visited with my friend Anne's family, her uncle said "People who live by the water call it 'the sea,' not 'the ocean'." So Anna is a true beach girl now, she knows the lingo.

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One of my favorite days

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:55:36 -0700

Last Thursday was an awesome, awesome day. Brian took the day off and we went to gymnastics. Click on the photo below to see more.

Gymnastics Sept.

After gymnastics, the Dustrud family had a picnic. Click on the photos below to see more from lunch.

picnic

and THEN, Anna and Dee and Ben and I went to the pool. The weather was awesome. (Brian went to the driving range.)

B and A at pool

and THEN, on the way home, Dee and Ben and Anna and I went to San Rafael for dinner. We ate burgers and the kids were good. There was a live band playing all the way through dinner and Anna was itching to get out of her chair. When we let her down, she went out to the middle of the courtyard and started boogying. Take a look:

Dancing

The best day. So much fun. The video really doesn't show how much she was getting down. She was dancing way more just before we started taping (isn't that how it always is?). Anna loved the live music. Can't wait til she sees some again.

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Paddle surfer

nobody@vox.com(bdustrud) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:39:29 -0700

In the bay on a nice day.

Paddler

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