Week in Review

Sunday was the L.A. Marathon, which ends less than a mile from our house, and cuts Santa Monica in half, creating a traffic nightmare. Daughter rode her bike down to the finish line.

For the past couple of years, she's been saying she wants to run a marathon, so maybe we'll do the Santa Monica Classic 5K in September. I'm not making any promises. ;)

Her painting, she said, is an orange dog behind a grassy hill...

"That," she said, pointing to the little orange splotch on the lower left side of the paper, "is its tail."

Our home(pre)school co-op took a field trip to a Waldorf-inspired play space called The Magic Forest. They played happily for 3 hours. Here she is with friend E.

There were the usual things like ballet, math, Spanish, piano, Church Mice, and My Book House read alouds. Daughter finished Buffalo Before Breakfast, her first chapter book! And Daddy took her seashell collecting...

Outside, it smells like jasmine...

Daddy took Daughter to Sweet Rose Creamery for a behind-the-scenes tour of how ice cream is made (note the hair net)...

...and then to the California Science Center to see an IMAX movie called "Journey to Space," see the space shuttle Endeavor, and ride the space shuttle simulator.