It’s been a while since I’ve checked in. I’ve been busy telling people I’m a father of two and that my daughter can repeat any word we say. Tonight when Lindsey said, “I love you, Mirabelle,” the little sweetheart responded, “I love you too.” It was as clear as could be. It melted my heart. Lindsey taught me something that her mother taught her. Anytime you live a moment you want to remember forever, just tell yourself, “I want to remember this moment forever.” It’s that simple, and it seems to be working so far. I was so blown away by Mira saying, “I love you too,” that I didn’t even think to tell myself to remember it forever. I’m just hoping I do.

It was the type of moment that summed up why it is good to be me. I’m blessed with sweet children–Jasper even smiles sweetly. They get their sweetness from Lindsey. They got wide feet from me. I also try to teach Mira a little French, but it is Lindsey who is having success in that department. When Lindsey says, “I love you,” Mirabelle will also respond, “Mwassi.” This is her version of “Moi aussi”–french for “me too.” She’s bilingually sweet.

I took care of the kids tonight while Lindsey went to a guitar class. Mirabelle took a bath, ate a snack, drank some rice milk, brushed her teeth (most), and got in bed. When I finished reading The Little Engine That Could, she was asleep. I am a boring reader. Jasper slept the entire time. Thank you, Jasper. I will remember how good you and your sister were to me tonight–I’m reminding myself to.

Thank you to everybody who posts comments on here. We don’t really respond to them, but we’re happy to receive them and to know that you swing by this rarely updated website from time to time. We are grateful for our friends and family.

We’ll post pictures soon.

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After a fun time of playing the the park we headed over to do some music at Brilliant Babies. I’ve only very recently started allowing Mirabelle to sit in the drivers seat as I get the stroller and Jasper into the car and of course she loves it! She calls it “die” and does a sign with her hand. When she begs with a please it makes it hard to say no. I’d tossed my keys onto the floor just as I’d unlocked the door, set Mira inside and shut the door.

I got Jasper from the stroller where he had just started crying–he sometimes does so for a minute or two before his afternoon nap. I tried opening the door and realized that I hadn’t unlocked it from the driver’s side. I went back around to see that the driver’s side door was also locked and a happy as could be Miss Bubbins was having a blast pressing all the buttons and driving. I could see my keys on the floor and I knew that the key inside was the only key we had for our white car that I was driving while Toby (our station wagon) in the shop.

As I spent a few minutes trying to coax her to lift up the lock and let me in another mom came and told me that her daughter was locked in her car a month earlier and she had called the police who were able to have her free in 10 minutes. Way better than an hour for AAA! I made the call and laughed as the emergency dispatcher asked if Mirabelle was in distress. She was bouncing all around and playing with the keys she had found on the floor. In the midst of this sweet Ja ja fell asleep and subtracted much of the stress by stopping crying.

A police officer got there a minute later and he joined in the coaxing for Mira to unlock the door. She couldn’t lift the lock and by this time was wondering who the heck the guy with the mustache was. She turned to play some more and leaned onto the horn. This was her discovery of the horn and she merrily beeped repeatedly and shouted, “Die!” I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized that she had somehow found the correct key and put it all the way into the ignition!

The police officer wasn’t able to help us out but the fire engine arrived and four fire men worked at unlocking the door and letting Mirabelle out. I couldn’t resist snapping a few shots, as this was sure to never ever happen again! It didn’t take them long and the door was open to a still calm but wary sweetheart. Mii??? asked Mirabelle while making the sign. She drank some milk and instantly fell asleep with her arm around Baby Bear.

I called to let BB know that we wouldn’t be coming for music anymore and went home to join in the napping festivities with the cherubim. And the lesson I learned and the moral of the story? Some of you may say to never let Mirabelle drive again, or at least not until she grows up a bit and that may still be scary. Most importantly I’ve learned to always keep my keys in my pocket after I’ve unlocked the car and until they are in the ignition!

I suppose that was the most lively event that we’ve had recently.

We became members of the San Francisco zoo and have checked it out a few times. As I pushed the double stroller along, a seagull swooped down and snatched up the banana pancake Mira was munching on! It took it right from her hand! She loves telling the story using a mixture of signs and words. She includes the fact that the bird did not say please or sorry.

We also go to the mini zoo in Palo Alto very often to visit the one-eyed owl that Mira’s befriended. Any time we ask her what she wants to do she hoots and covers one eye while saying owl. She also loves the bob cats and she melts my heart as she tells us, “bob cat rascal rowdy!” After we go to the zoo she always wants to go to the choo choo park which we frequent daily.

We got to go to the Herbst theatre in San Francisco to see Dan Zanes, a musician for children. Mira loved running up and down the empty aisles “fixing” all the chairs that weren’t down.

Also, little Jasper was blessed on Easter Sunday and we had so much fun spending time with family and cousins!

M & J are growing up so quickly and I’m sorry to all of our far away friends and family for being such a lag at blogging! Enjoy the pics and more will come soon.

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