Another wildly successful trip to the Exploratorium!
http://www.exploratorium.edu/who/

A fun summer time birthday party complete with finger jello and glow sticks!

We spent the day at the California Academy of Sciences and had a great time. It was a gorgeous sunny day in San Francisco and we were all too hot in our long sleeved shirts.

Isabel went to Camp Okizu for a week! This was her first year going to the oncology camp:
http://www.okizu.org/programs-calendar/oncology-camp

She had an amazing time. Alan and I are thrilled that she had this experience and look forward to many more years of camp for both Isabel and Gabriel.





Alan drove four hours to Camp Okizu to drop Isabel off. Then he drove another hour to my father's home where Gabriel and I spent the week.

My sister and her family came up on the weekend and it was fun to see all the boy cousins playing out in the woods. Everyone had a nice week and being apart made us all love being home together that much more.

We had a lovely day visiting with friends recently. We got to meet one month old Monroe and swim in the Russian river. I wish we had more days like this one!

Tonight was back to school night for Gabriel's 1st grade class. Each child drew a picture and described an important event in their lives. The parents were to try and guess which was their child's drawing. Ha!

Every other child drew in full color and wrote about things like going swimming or visiting their grandparents or going on vacation.

I like that the only color in Gabriel's picture is the bright red blood transfusion.




This is over one year off all chemotherapy treatment. Isabel only goes in every 2 months for a blood draw.

I am both surprised and not at all surprised at how many details Gabriel remembers and that this is the important event in his life he chose to share.

The other children had one liners to describe their pictures like "this is me swimming!" or "I like baseball!"

I fully admit to tearing up right there in the classroom. So did Alan.

First day of 1st and 3rd grade!! Isabel and Gabriel go to year round school so they start a bit earlier than most. They were VERY excited and had a great day back. Gabriel is now in 1st grade and goes for a full day just like his big sister.

New backpacks!

Gabriel's has flames on it!

Here is Gabriel's cubby name tag he designed himself, complete with peace sign hearts and a couple of Saturn planets above the race cars!