New Tricycle

Rex had worn out the front steering wheels on his Radio Flyer car. So Nanna bought him a new tricycle. Thank you Nanna! We spent some time last weekend repairing the front wheels on the car, then put together the trike. Rex loves playing with the "real" tools. In fact, he might be ready to join his Uncle Paul's fix-it crew soon. The tricycle is still a bit too big for him. He'll need to grow a few more inches before he can reach the pedals. But that hasn't stopped him from riding it! We now have quite the collection of Rex "vehicles". Between the car, trike, 2 strollers, baby doll stroller, backpack, and Thomas the Train, he has a garage worthy of an episode of MTV Cribs.

Point Reyes

A couple weeks ago we went to Point Reyes to meet up with a local artist named Tom Killion. We met him at the Sausalito Art Festival last year and have been thinking of buying one of his pieces. He told us he would be around his studio all day and to call before we came up. Point Reyes is about an hour north of the city on the coast. We left him a message before we started up but then could not find him once we got there. I made the mistake in assuming he would have a commercial studio in town, but turns out his studio was really his house. Making things worse, we couldn't get any cell phone coverage and when we finally did call him from one of the shops he wasn't there. Hippies!! We're still pretty high on his stuff, so maybe we'll go back sometime soon. Here is a link to his site if you're interested.

http://www.tomkillion.com/

We took these photos bopping around main street.

Botanical Garden Part II

Brandi joined us last Sunday for a second trip to the Botanical Garden. These photos are too good so I had to make a second post.

Botanical Garden

Rex and I spent some time last weekend at Golden Gate Park. The weather has been great, so I thought we needed to stay outside while Brandi slept off her night shift. Also, I'm trying to discover more of the free activities (other than the kiddie parks) around the city. The SF Botanical Garden was a great find. Rex liked exploring through the trails (for a little while at least) and when he got tired he was happy to ride around in the backpack. Of course he wasn't interested in the plantlife so much as all the drain covers, hose connectors, and electrical boxes we happened to find. Those are fascinating!

Ingrid in SF!

My sister Ingrid came to visit us last week. She was on a two week hiatus from her internship at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York City. She's enjoying her time there, but is excited to move to San Francisco this summer to begin her residency at UCSF. Brandi and I can't wait for her to be here. Free babysitting!!
Ingrid was here Sunday through Thursday, so it wasn't the best timing for my work schedule. Plus I'm a total downer these days as I gave up alcohol for lent as a form of spiritual massichism. So no late night tango clubs or Tuesday trips to wine country. Sorry. We'll have to save that until summer.
In a good luck/bad luck scenario, Rex came down with the flu just before Ingrid came. He had a 104 temp and yakked all over his crib her first night. So bad luck for Ingrid that she didn't get to see Rex as his happy charming self. Good luck for us that we had a doctor in the house. More than anything, it was nice to have another voice of reassurance. "104 isn't good". "Get him to drink something". "Don't serve him tylenol in a highball glass." "That puke smells bad." She doesn't have an MD PhD for nothing, let me tell you!
We were able to get some time to scope out a few possible neighborhoods for her to move into. Cole Valley near UCSF is the early favorite, but don't rule out the possibility of Russian Hill-Nob Hill-North Beach. Much closer to family and her second job (babysitting), and still just a short Vespa ride to any of the city hospitals and/or tango clubs. What a lifestyle!
By the end of the trip Rex was feeling better so we got a few good photos. We're trying to get him to say "Inga" but he's still stuck on Babbo for the moment.

Escape to Worcester

I'll let Brandi post more on this later. Just wanted to get the pictures up.