End of the year pre-school party

Vivi's daycare class is growing up and moving to the next level of class. We had a party yesterday to celebrate the "Sky Room Class of 2013.

I pretended to take pictures

Ate yummy food with my friends

Raced cars

This is one of my teachers

Leo poured tea

We got special shirts

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Vivi's first earthquake

Yesterday at 7:38am, Vivi experienced her first earthquake - a 4.8 centered just 3 miles away.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci15350729#summary

Weekend pics

Say "cheese", bees!

Vivi is both fascinated and terrified of the bees in our yard. And right now we have a lot of bees - they like the flowers. So, I was taking photos of the bees so that Vivi could look at them on the computer and didn't have to get too close. As I took photos, she stood behind me and yelled, "Say 'cheese' bees!" -- so if you look carefully enough, you might just see those bees smiling.

May 19

We brought some balloons by my friend's house and met her brand new baby brother. I was more interested in her dog.

At the zoo

Investigating sea creatures

At the San Luis Obispo Children's museum

I climbed way up here.

I don't see anything

Oh that's better

Brushing BIG teeth 

Weekend

Nana and I deciding what to order

Making an herb garden

Gorilla at the zoo

Two baby giraffes!

And my favorites -- the lions!

Sliding down the hill with Aina

Pushing my box back up the hill - over and over.

Friends and sillies

Playing with Lila

Hugs!

Ready for school in my 3 hats

Playing with Aina!

We must be talking about something VERY important.

The exploratorium

Look closely at this. Each panel is constructed using the material or technique represented by the word. For example, the word burn is burned into a piece of wood, the word sew is sewn on.

Here is a close-up of the "play" panel made out of Legos.

The Exploratorium has a new "Tinkering Studio" - a place to make things. Here Vivi is playing with circuits.

This is a pinball machine -- a table with items (wood, metal cylinders, bells, etc) that kids manipulate so that the ball will hit bells and make noises. 

This is a guitar. The wheel with the black and white stripes can be spun so that the wave motion of the guitar strings are visible.

Peg board to make your own marble roller coaster. This was huge and lots of kids were collaborating to make a great contraption. An older boy showed Vivi how to put the pegs in and set up ramps.

Vivi spent the most time at this very simple exhibit. It is a very strong magnet and a bunch of washers. She probably spent 20 minutes just putting washers on the magnet.

Air comes out of this table (the green/blue that you see in the center of the table are straws - used I suspect to focus the direction of the air). Kids (and adults!) make these contraptions and see how well they float.


Finally, there was a station to make stop-motion films. Vivi made one of her animals. 

San Francisco

Mommy had a conference in San Francisco this weekend. I got to go and stay in a hotel.

Vivi LOVED the buses and the trolleys in the city. Unfortunately it was hard to get a picture of her on those. She woke up in the middle of the night saying "more buses!" We also went to the Exploratorium at its brand new site - which will get it's own post.

I did some work at the desk (drew on every single piece of paper I found)

Jumped on the bed

Put my animals on the chair

Hid behind the bathroom door

On the way back home we sopped at a restaurant. I played pool.