Summer Time

Looking back at the pictures that I have taken this month, it is indeed summer time. I have been quite busy with school and work, and I am quite glad that I also did all these activities with the kids. They are growing up fast and I want to capture every moment.

We continued a bit with our rock climbing activity and took Max with us. Max liked it too, but he took it more as a fun game. He would try to climb it, then quickly give up and just hang on the rope to play.

Renee is a serious climber. She would keep going. She got a bit frustrated and refused to go a couple of times. I wish I could figure out what she was thinking. Anyway, she did climb up all the way to the top this time, which made me very proud.

I also took the kids out to a camping trip with a family who we used to hang out with before we all had kids. Here is Renee and Max hanging out at the site after we put up the tent. I have not been camping for a while and forgot how much time you need to spend in getting the site ready. I am really glad I did not go by myself. The other family cooked the dinner and fed them while I was fumbling through the instructions.

We then went out on a two hour hike. It had pretty steep slope. Renee and Max were both good sports. They enjoyed the walk very much. On the way down, they let me hold their hands while they try to slide their way down through the dry leaves on the ground.

Here is a cool picture I took while hiking around the Lafayette reservoir. We didn't do nearly as much hiking as I would have liked. But they got to play around in the hills. They seemed to enjoy the new game that they invented, which is called "hit the tree with the pine cones".

Max got scared of his bike for a while. We think it is because the training wheel was not working properly one day and he didn't trust it anymore. I had to lure and force him to take a few rides. After that, he recovered and enjoyed his biking rides again.

We also took them to the discovery museum in Sausalito. That is where we took Renee several times. We got a Google offer so we took it.

Max follows Renee most of the time. You can actually climb to the upper deck. But Renee is normally not a kid who likes to push around. So after getting pushed down from kids who want to come down a couple times in a row, she decided that the upper deck was not worth the trouble.

They geared up properly for the construction work. They even worked out the whole workflow of dump the load, put back the truck, and load the gravels.

Renee does not always encourage Max to play with her. But when she does, Max is always eager to help out. Max also figured out that you can chain these things together through the holes on them.

This is the area that Renee used to love. She used to stay here for hours. Unfortunately, she has outgrown it. The assistant was nice enough to let her in to say one last goodbye.

Here is the only picture I have of them on the day where we took them to the company picnic.