Father's Day pics

Above and Below: Josh and Aloka doing some "car" Parkour, (one of Josh's extreme passions)

I don't have too much time to write (seeing as it's 12am and I should be sleeping!) but I wanted to get these up. We had a great time on Father's Day, and first went to a celebration at Lakeside Park. There were water balloons, bubble making, bird house making, kite making, face painting, shaker making, trolley rides, a fire engine tour and of course the ever-so-festive samba band.
You can tell it was a somewhat "almost-might-maybe-rain" kinda day (sort of a relief after the heat for me!)All the children took they're newly made shakers and made lots of music with them in a grand parade. We all had tons of fun, and it was nice seeing all the dad's walking around with "#1 Dad" ribbons stuck to their shirts.
Aloka saw lots of friends there of course; here's a photo of Aloka and Elora making music with their shakers:

And one more hilarious video I wanted to post; Aloka just out of the blue started walking like a little old lady and I filmed it. It was so funny!

Here's one more video of Josh pushing Aloka and her friend Estelle while they're chanting "higher, higher, the house is on fire" over and over!

And one last and final picture that has nothing to do with Aloka! I got my first truffle order for a grocery store that just put in a really beautiful deli/cafe in the upstairs. I've been playing with my presentation so i'm including a photo (large of course, for maximum drool factor) of the finished product:

Some videos

Aloka and I went to the Waldorf Mayfest a few weeks ago but I'm finally getting around to putting up the videos. The festival was fun. There was a beautiful story telling with puppets, lots of yummy snacks and crafts. Aloka loves it at the school, it will be great when she is in Kindergarten able to start going. For now, she is in her lovely Waldorf Preschool in town which she loves equally as much. Sadly, her teacher just announced that they are moving to Oregon next year, so we are finding something else for her for next year, and then the year after that she'll be old enough to attend Kindergarten at the big Waldorf school. Luckily, there is a beautiful little Waldorf preschool literally across the street from us I just discovered! We went and had a visit, Aloka loved it, and she'll be able to attend starting next fall. The teacher is named Sheila, and is very into story telling and drama/theatre which will be great for Aloka, right up her alley.

After we did Mayfest, we went to a little dance recital that Aloka's friend Claire was in. Aloka was so excited to go, that we had to go home so she could get dressed in her leotard for the occasion.

So below are a few little video clips, nothing too exciting but you can see our little girl in action!
And a couple funny things she has been heard saying recently...
This is something she said while sitting on the toilet just having recently recovered from a stomach flu:
"Mama, diarrhea is like my butt's throw up!" (lovely, I know, but I was laughing)

And then the other day she was asking Josh if he knows how to build houses. And maybe someday he would teach her how to build houses. And then someday she would teach her children how to build houses. She ended that with "cuz that's just how it goes!"