Squishy Face

Cami the ham...She's nine months old today. For the past few months, she's been making this scrunched up face and also making a sniffing noise to go along with it. I came to realize that this was her way of smiling and being funny!

Her other trick is clapping. The other day, Miho came by and I was holding Cami on my lap. I said, "Cami, can you clap, clap, clap?" And sure enough, she started clapping. Miho was impressed and I said, "I didn't actually know if she would really do it!" What a smart girl.

She is just starting to get in to the crawling position. She really wants to be mobile. Any day now, I'll see her cross the room.

She loves her Cheerios, and she started eating real peas and rice, not just the baby food. She's a good eater, just like her brother and sister were.

March birthdays!

We celebrated Lia's 7th and Phyllis's 37th with some family and close friends on St. Patty's Day. Amah flew into town and got a big dose of the grandkids. The following weekend, Lia had her birthday party with her school friends at the Iron Works Climbing Gym in Berkeley. They had fun just "hanging out" together!! I can't believe my little girl is already seven--going on 13! Luckily, we still have Cami!

SJUMC and SACBC

Ryan's team played in a tournament in Sacramento, where apparently the kids have nothing better to do than play basketball. On Saturday, we played 2 games. The first game was against a local East Bay team, and Ryan's team won. Our second game was against one of the Sacramento powerhouses who dominated the game by over 30 points! On Sunday, we faced another Sac team. Once again, our boys got a pounding, but at least they had fun getting pounded. They played their hearts out and got 4th place (out of 6).

Lia's team played 2 games at SACBC's tournament in Fremont. They lost both games, but that didn't seem to bother them. The second team they played even "held back" per their coach's instructions since they were clearly better than our kids. It was an honorable move on the coach's part.

Now we have a break from basketball...moving on... to spring soccer, golf, tennis, swimming...woohooooo