I picked up Avery a couple of times this week from basketball camp at Jesuit High School. Sophia was out of town at Camp Pendola.

A couple of times this week, I picked up Avery at St Ignatius then drove to St Francis to pick up Sophia from volleyball camp. After stops at their favorite fast food places, both were content with just hanging out at home for the rest of the afternoon. When Thais got home from work and I was getting a bar stool out of my vehicle, I found a couple of plastic swords. I needed help assembling the first bar stool and asked Thais for help. Meanwhile, Sophia and Avery got busy with pillows and belts. A really good sword fight was coming.
The battle ranged from room to room.
By the time the bar stool was put together and I’d been given some tips about assembling the next three, Thais thought it would a good idea if I took the swords home with me. LOL.

Carson practicing what he’s learning at swim class:
Practicing another skill – how to get out of a pool. Hand, hand, elbow, elbow, climb, knee, knee:

Sophia and Avery have a full schedule: summer school and various camps. Lenin plots it out on a spreadsheet. The programs usually end at noon, so we have long afternoons with swimming

and cooking. Avery wanted to make the pinwheel cookies. I got all the ingredients out and asked Avery what parts he wanted to help with. As it turned out, he only wanted to put the food coloring into the dough, help cut the slices (because he wanted to eat the uneven raw dough ends) and put the sticks in. Hurray! I got to take my time and roll the rectangle into a perfect 4 x 8-inch rectangle.


Meanwhile Sophia researched online then created and practiced:

Later, Carson used a huge pool noodle to try to hit the pitch I tossed to him. He was occasionally overwhelmed by the pool noodle.

Congratulations Chris and Mary on 30 happy years of marriage. Today they renewed their vows in a ceremony at their house (Dave & Phyl’s old house).

Back row: Johnny, Beth, Alexa. Front row: Jerry, Carol, Chuck.
Phyl and Dave in the foreground. Looking the other way 🙂 is Chris and Greg’s dad, Ken.

Coffee with Linda and Adrienne.
Gymnastics with Carson.
Soccer with Sophia.
And a shopping trip to Green Acres Nursery. Thais was a consultant for not only me, but also Leah and Jeff.

This morning, Thais and I took Carson to Milestones
then took the Capitol Corridor train to Berkeley and Lyft to our favorite fabric store.

We had lunch at Toss Noodle Bar,
and little window shopping on 4th St before taking the train back to Sacramento. We picked up Carson and went directly to Avery’s Little League game.
Fun day!

“Mom, what do you want for Mother’s Day?” My backyard finished. Thank you Thais who planted one focal-point plant here (and hooked up the irrigation)
and created a couple of additional groupings of pots & plants:

The first step:

And later, indoor soccer.

As soon as Uncle Justin came in the door, he was put to work!
Sophia used her own money to buy a pair of crutches – just for fun.