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Mind reader

2009-06-16T12:44:00.001-07:00

"daddy thinks he can read my mind. ge can't even read his own mind."

-gigi earlier today.

riding a bike

2009-05-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

gigi learned to ride a bike today in the joe dimaggio playground. she's awesome! no more training wheels.

gigi's first goal

2009-05-03T19:55:00.000-07:00

scored in golden gate park a few weeks ago.

walkathon

2009-04-24T20:18:00.001-07:00

gigi & her class did their walkathon today: 5 times around washington square park. photographer anna did a great job of hiding the funeral going on behind us for the group photo. "make sure you don't get the B O D Y in the picture" gigi's teacher said before the photo-op.

soccer!

2009-04-05T10:38:00.000-07:00

gg hit the soccer field yesterday. her team the cheetahs faced off against the alley cats in golden gate park. a beautiful day. a wonderful game. gg played an awesome defensive game and did some summertime snowboarding too with her pal cristophe.

A Heart is a Valentine

2009-02-14T16:41:00.001-08:00

A heart is a red shape.
A heart is a shape for love.
A heart is hands.
A heart is a heart.

A heart; you draw hearts.
A heart is a kind of shape with a V and bumps on the top.
A heart is a cookie for fun.
A heart is sweet, a sweetheart.

--Gigi's Pre-K class. February 2009.

a skating party

2009-01-25T18:59:00.000-08:00

gigi turned 5 this week in style -- canadian style that is. it was a really fun party, low on injuries and high on cake, lemonade & skating. thanks to everyone who came out, especially nicky, the one adult there without a kid (yet).

is that doug texting *and* skating? what a star!

the birthday girl

heart to heart with clara mae.

islay and marcel, off ice for this one.

grace makes a break for it.

santa

2008-12-21T23:59:00.000-08:00

santa dropped by gigi's school friday, and damned if they didn't match.

skating with mummy

2008-11-30T20:04:00.001-08:00

thanksgiving weekend, at justin herman plaza in san francisco. the day this was taken gigi skated by herself for the first time.

Gabrielle Georgina Temple

2008-11-02T23:00:00.000-08:00

she sings, she dances, she's cute as a button, and on halloween our gigi was shirley temple. here she is at her pre-k's halloween parade.

midnight train to georg[ina]

2008-10-03T23:19:00.000-07:00

gg has started a modern (aka jazz) dance course. one class completed and i came upon her working out a li'l routine to gladys in the living room. she thought i was snapping a still photo, but i managed to sneak a tiny video snippet. (and islay slips in with her own interpretation ...)

dedicated to mr. pink, now of dubai.

in uniform

2008-07-20T21:46:00.000-07:00

gg takes a cue from her dear janie and dons the dress gordon. it'll be her uniform come september.

american express delta skymiles

2008-07-16T19:52:00.000-07:00

another first: gigi got her first credit card offer in the mail today. thanks delta skymiles!

queen of the monkey bars

2008-07-16T08:35:00.001-07:00

gigi did the monkey bars all by herself yesterday! she now has a bandaid on the palm of her hand where the skin came off, but this was a big first -- swinging from one end of the monkey bars to the other, all the while facing a drop that was twice her height.

heat wave

2008-07-10T07:40:00.001-07:00

it was 85 degrees yesterday in san francisco so her majesty and the princess dined al fresco.

beat it

2008-05-14T09:39:00.000-07:00

gg says that there's this song they play at preschool after the naps. the boys really like it, but she thinks it's cool too. gives her a chance to practice air guitar. check out islay's air guitar too, as shows that she too can rock out.

la princesa de mazatlan

2008-03-09T14:41:00.000-07:00

gigi never wanted it to end. last week in mazatlan, she played mermaid in the pool, got henna tattoos with mummy, covered herself in jewelry, and generally lived out your basic mexican princess fantasy. it was a wonderful vacation for all.

four

2008-01-24T21:58:00.000-08:00

today was gigi's 4th birthday, which meant cake day at school. gigi had a blast. you could see it on her face during the walk home. thanks to you all for the sweet birthday messages.

counting the seconds until cake

monster truck madness!

heading home

princess tea time

2008-01-21T22:05:00.000-08:00

gg celebrated her birthday in style this day, with an afternoon tea held for five of her closest princessy friends. they are (clockwise) valeria, chloe, lucy, francesca, clara-mae:

the gloves are off!

birthday girl

posing princesses (unfortunately, francesca is absent from this shot)

hallowe'en therapy

2007-11-01T14:50:00.000-07:00

check out la gigi in her conceptual costume. she told us she wanted to be a witch; specifically the witch from her blanche-neige et les sept nains book (a beautiful and especially spooky edition of snow white that marylène gave her).

an interesting choice -- for a long time gg was so afraid of this book that we had to hide it deep in her bookcase or she couldn't sleep at night. in fact, this scary character is not the witch but the evil step-mother who engages a witch to poison snow white, so she went as 'the witchy step-mother'.

pretty good likeness, isn't it? gg designed (dictated, really) the costume herself, makeup & all.

miroir, miroir, qui est la plus belle de toutes?

princess of darkness among the pink ladies at school (but please note the pink shoes; she fits in!)

and a little later on, trick-or-treating with princess chloe

iso the great pumpkin

2007-10-29T22:03:00.000-07:00

two years in a row makes a tradition, right? and so, gg & clara-mae returned to half moon bay for their now annual pumpkin hunt.

see what a year can bring -- here are some pictures from last week's trip:

(gg's got a kind of laura ingalls wilder thing going on)

and here are some pictures from last year's trip to same locale:

safety-obsessed, plant-eating martians

2007-09-19T21:33:00.000-07:00

gg renders her family ... strip style.

movie night!

2007-08-12T09:12:00.000-07:00

gg saw her first movie last night, ratatouille. she liked the movie, but her favorite part was riding on the car and motorcycle video games outside of the theater. well, that and all the candy: red vines, popcorn, cherry slushie. she was pretty amped by the time the movie was over.

Here's a little movie of her after the film.

soothsayer gg

2007-07-06T18:23:00.000-07:00

gg predicts: a girl for mike & melissa, a boy for terry & siobhán

happy birthday papa!

2007-06-19T22:36:00.001-07:00

gg was the shutterbug again tonight during papa's birthday party.

nicky & daddy ("you're both wearing grey")

papa & mummy