Back in action in Alameda

 Waking up to a sea of boxes after a couple of rough days I made a decision that day to just play with Juni and not worry about anything else.

 Juni wishing on a candle when our friends, Annie and Kevin, had their baby boy Odin

 After traveling over daylight savings weekend, Juni's schedule was so out-of-whack. We had quite a few napless days that were driving Mama and Juni both crazy. We tried to do fun things to make it through the day, including making chocolate cake :)

 Bubbles! Especially on those napless days, bubble baths would give us all our sanity back. Juni would be overcome with calm and peace in those bubbles and sometimes stay in there for an hour and a half. It was so nice to find a way to help her feel better, and get us all through the early evening.

 If Mama or Papa are in the kitchen, Juni wants to be on the step-stool to help. She loves my peanut butter and banana bagels in the morning.... well, she loves to eat all the banana off of them :)

 After discovering these Wiki Sticks, our whole family really enjoyed the creative play of making them into animals, glasses, tornadoes, and everything else we could think up.

 Juni in with all the kids at Hannah's sister Maya's little artist birthday party

 being rambunctious with Papa

 bubble beards :)

 no luck at nap time, but passed out on the couch at dinner time :)

 With Juni's hair always being so long, I always want to do fun things with it, but she NEVER wants me to. This rare rainy day, I convinced her it would be good to have her hair back so it didn't get so wet and stuck all over the place.

 dressed for puddle jumping, in her new giraffe hat Grandma Susie made her

 It never really storms here and only rains for a few weeks in the winter, but usually not much water accumulates. The week here, it rained hard a couple of days in a row, so I took Juni out in search of puddles, and boy did we find some. There was an old parking lot with slopes that created 10 foot long puddles that went up over her knees. Her fleece pants and coat stayed pretty dry and she was in HEAVEN. I don't know how long we were out that day, but I don't think we stopped giggling the entire time.

 Mama and Juni in the shower, finding our peace :)

 cat woman in action

 Our landlords' cat, Duke, and Juicy have made friends. Juicy doesn't usually respond to other animals in any kind of positive way, but she and Duke will sit and watch each other for hours.

Infant practice with baby Odin and Annie

 SO happy!

 Sigh, I love this girl.

Zach's boss sent him home with this shopping cart that his granddaughter had outgrown. Juni had fun taking it on a walk.

 At last, 10 years later, we have a place for our hammock stand! Hooray! Juni loves, and is slightly terrified, to be in it alone as it can be a little tippy, but she really relaxes when she is in it with me.