The Sleep Over

After McDonalds and playing in the park, the Crane's had to get back to Pleasanto. Lucky for us, Lucas decided he did not want to go, he wanted to stay...so impromptu sleep over it was! (The funny thing is that i think when Holly did sleep overs here, the bed and sheets and room were exactly the same. Our house is such a time capsule!)

Cheese! (doesnt lucas look like mike?)

Splish Splash, they were takin a bath.

Goin back to Cali, to Cali

SF int'l part is crowded and chaotic and doesnt have a whole lot of places to rest and have a good view of the exiting passengers, but...it does have these monitors that tell you at what point the passengers are (disembarking, immigration, etc) and then there are other monitors that show the passengers after they get there luggage and are about a 60 second walk from the exit (that way people can crowd around the monitors instead of the exits). sophia enjoyed looking for max on tv.

the Best Pancake Breakfast Ever!

you know my mom, she is from the school of 'we're going to have fun whether you like it or not.' this time she got it into her head that we were going to do something 'traditional and fun' for fourth of july (and to my dismay, it did not include spending hundreds of dollars on dangerous and illegal fireworks). This year, we were going to drag our butts out of bed extra early in the morning and go have a pancake breakfast and surprisingly enough we actually enjoyed ourselves.

Sophia was so excited to climb up on the firetruck. (we waited forever and then of course some kid just crawled up around the back (at the suggestion of his ever so polite parents) and he was in all the other pictures we took.) I think the breakfast cost something like 5 bucks, it was all you can eat pancakes and sausage with (starbucks) coffee and oj and it was darn good. Sophia wolfed down 3 large pancakes!

later, i passed out from exhaustion (due to what i dont know, i didnt do anything else all day) and sophia went with grandpa to isabel and miranda's house to watch them do fireworks. so this is it for the fourth of july pics. they never come out anyways.

WiiFit

Sophia is really into the wii fit, she especially loves the running one. It cracks me up how she runs.

Natalie

Natalie came over for to play today. The girls did lots of running and screaming and playing and had a great day. Sophia really looks up to Natalie, when we are at home, she talks about her all the time, so Im glad they've already had a chance to play with each other, plus I love chatting with my cousin Wendy (Natalie's mom).

safety day

swim lessons are going well. it's my chance to chat with karen and trisha, who totally crack me up! today was safety day. the kids learn about water safety and what to do in the case of an emergency, etc. sophia takes after my mom in that she does not enjoy any activity that involves the possibility of getting her face or top the head wet. The kids are supposed to jump in with lifejackets on:

Jackie had to drop Sophia in

and lucky there was the other teacher to catch her.

gymnastics

My we keep Sophia busy with lots of summer activities: we are loving west coast gymnastics!