Lil' Nerd Day

I've said it before: my employer, Nerdwallet, is awesome. I'm seriously spoiled. So in early April they decided to spread the love and spoil my kids, too, with a "Lil' Nerd Day".

Not sure the girls have ever been this excited.

Laughs on the train.

Name tags upon check-in:

 

Breakfast.

Coloring.

Acrobatics: 

New back-packs filled with goodies.

Showing off their haul to a few of my co-workers.

Science demo, making gak.

A brief respite, watching a few Pixar shorts (while eating ice cream at 10:30 AM).

Then the kids went up to our video recording room... Enjoy.

Story time.

Wider shot of the set-up, after the acrobatics and science people left.

Two of my favorite co-workers, Jan and Megan, adopted the girls for a while.

 

The Lil' Nerd Day activities ended at lunch, where Heidi joined us and then took Miriam home. Evette stayed with me for the rest of the afternoon while I attempted to get some work done.

The we adopted my boss' daughter for a while so they could keep each other busy.

Having a very serious conversation comparing rules at their pre-schools.

She made pizza!

Meanwhile, Miriam conked out for a while.

Cannot wait for next year! I bring Evette to work every once and awhile, so I'm glad she knows this isn't normal -- but it'd be nice though. :-)

{Rest of March}

Evette dressed up for picture day at school, and Miriam had to wear her pretty dress, too!!

Miriam has loved having school with her little friends. 

Our neighbors, Ms Rula and George, take good care of us. They always share their beautiful garden harvests and fresh baked cookies with us. We've adopted them as our Greek Grandparents.

This girl never ceases to make me smile

A ballet dancer painted by Evette

A self portrait! Look at her matching stripes!

My friend, Cheryl, was unable to attend the SF symphony the other night, and she was kind enough to pass her killer tickets over to us for the night. We were so grateful and had a lovely time!

Visiting our sweet friend, Baby Esther! Miriam is obsessed!

Miriam is always a good help in the kitchen. She just perches right there on the counter and helps with dinner!

Mommy/Daughter date!

Daddy/Daughter Date!

Princess Friends!

Zoo visit with some friends:

This little guy was cracking me up! We'd bark back and forth at each other. 

Stopping for lunch while watching the gibbons monkeys. 

Silly kids mimicking the bats!

We also got to visit with Auntie Megan and future-Uncle Aaron! Megan and Aaron were nearly engaged at this point and came into town to do the whole "meet the parents" thing. Aaron's family lives just about 45 min south of us. It was a brief visit, but fun to see them!

{Easter Activities and Easter Day}

2.5 months later I figure it's a good idea to blog about Easter, no?

We had a couple different Easter Festivities this year which was a lot of fun. Our cute neighbor, Miss Jackie, and her aid, Theresa, set up an Easter egg hunt and party for the girls. It was so great! The girls were thrilled.

They made each girl their own little Easter basket and had a great little snack spread for them as well. Matching Easter cups and plates and every kid's favorite foods. It was so thoughtful of them to organize that for us. We are grateful for good neighbors!

And of course we dyed some of our own Easter eggs! I look forward to this every year! It's smelly and messy and slightly stressful, but oh so satisfying!!

We also had a little Easter egg hunt with some of our church buddies at a neighborhood park. 

The girls had a blast and collected WAY too much candy :)

On Easter Sunday we waited to look for the Easter basket until after naps after church.
Evette was so excited!

Miriam was still a little dazed from her nap. 

The Easter bunny brought a little bit of candy and this big map book. 

It's our new favorite thing. It has tons of countries with pictures about their food, culture, wildlife, famous people, etc. It's such a great learning tool! That Easter Bunny is a smart guy.