As it has happened most years the last few weeks in November and the first couple of weekends in December is focused on Lucia singing. For Isabella, that is… She sang at Ikea at Emeryville on Saturday in front a good-sized crowd while the staffers served lussekatter and gloegg. We stopped for lunch at Chez Maman in San Francisco after a quick tour of the Dolby offices just before the whole area got flooded by a water main break.
Sunday was in the traditional setting at the Swedish Hall in San Francisco. There was 55 kids in total – one of the largest groups yet. Isabella stood next to the Lucia bride and sang along. Pretty impressive when you think of the fact that she doesn’t really know any Swedish.
On Monday Isabella’s phone disappeared at Hip-Hop but a call from the dance center two hours later reunited the two. She’s having a lot of fun at the dance center and so far it doesn’t seem to be a problem leaving San Francisco at 4:00 to get her there on time.
John had lunch duty at Isabella’s school on Friday. The rain kept the little ones inside. Must be hard to have to stay indoors – lots of energy to burn and it wasn’t an easy task the keep them at their desk until the teacher could take over.
We started building a ginger bread house yesterday. It couldn’t stand the pressure of a few M&Ms today and ended up resembling a Bay Area house after “the big one”. Not sure what went wrong, but we believe it didn’t help that the house isn’t heated during the day. Oh well, it was still munchable.
