We've completed our first week in Mountain View (Silicon Valley) visiting Emily, Greg, Ella and Flynn. It was all go as we visited an endless number of parks and other entertainment venues for the grand-kids who were having a ball. It was also fun trying to squeeze five of us into a Toyota sedan as we waltzed between venues, especially as it was my job to sit between Ella and Flynn in the back where their capacious child-seats left little room for me to sit. Anyway, here are a 'few' pictures of where we went and what we did. In the 15 months since I last saw Flynn for his second birthday party, he has grown a lot more active and assertive - a human dynamo. So, here goes:
Contemplating a rapid descent. Flynn now has little fear of sharp drops.
Wrangling over who should sit on top.
Reading time. They're both avid readers / listeners of our renditions of books - sometimes five in succession.
Playing trains - Flynn has an extensive set of wooden track with little engines of the Thomas the Tank Engine variety.
Circulating in the Mountain View farmers' market where we bought lots of fruit and veges.
Which way to go? Finally, a ride down the slippery dip.
Ella using equipment in ways possibly unanticipated by the designer.
Racing along the equipment under light supervision.
Using equipment in innovative ways, as one would expect in Silicon Valley!
Practising base-ball, while Ella prepares for her first ballet lesson. She looked sweet in her pink outfit.
Flynn climbing at their gym class, followed by more baseball practice, walking across a metal bridge, and climbing through a tunnel.
Ella's swimming lesson
And she's very proficient on the monkey-bars.
Art and music combined. They played with star-fish (not real ones), more trains, sang a long together, added colour and glitter to paper fish covered in glue, and crashed cymbals in the noisy conclusion to the music segment.
They're so lucky to have caring parents who offer them a continual wealth of experiences. A day later, Ella turned 4 and her extravaganza of a party features in the next post.
AS
Building a Leggo sky-scraper, which Flynn promptly demolished and Flynn digging in a sand-pit. He is an avid reader of books about machinery and construction.
Steering a ship, and taking off on their scooters for a park.
Contemplating a rapid descent. Flynn now has little fear of sharp drops.
Wrangling over who should sit on top.
Reading time. They're both avid readers / listeners of our renditions of books - sometimes five in succession.
Playing trains - Flynn has an extensive set of wooden track with little engines of the Thomas the Tank Engine variety.
Circulating in the Mountain View farmers' market where we bought lots of fruit and veges.
Ella using equipment in ways possibly unanticipated by the designer.
Racing along the equipment under light supervision.
Using equipment in innovative ways, as one would expect in Silicon Valley!
Practising base-ball, while Ella prepares for her first ballet lesson. She looked sweet in her pink outfit.
Ella's swimming lesson
And she's very proficient on the monkey-bars.
Art and music combined. They played with star-fish (not real ones), more trains, sang a long together, added colour and glitter to paper fish covered in glue, and crashed cymbals in the noisy conclusion to the music segment.
They're so lucky to have caring parents who offer them a continual wealth of experiences. A day later, Ella turned 4 and her extravaganza of a party features in the next post.
AS
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