Valentines Day- a box of chocolates made of chocolates!

Valentines 2008

Kai send a Valentine to his girlfriend Sierra!

After Kai had been handing out valentines to everyone, old and new, at work today, we went to Lukas' to spend some outdoor time with them.


Kai gave Lukas a digger truck as his Valentines gift which they had great fun shoveling sand at the park with. He also gave Auntie Ute a Valentine PEZ to add to her collection.

As a gift, Kai got a big balloon that said "I Love You" on it, and mommy Arleen got a tin filled with M&Ms (which she devoured all that same day) and a perfect little card which Lukas had artistically scribbled this drawing of a rose. And Greg daddy gave me a box of Scharfenberger chocolate truffles, which I absolutely love.


And I ran across this advertisement in the Diablo Magazine that influenced me to drive 20-minutes to Emeryville to the Charles Chocolate store and purchased this box of chocolates for Greg. These chocolates are infused with Asian tea flavors such as Oolong and Lychee. With the exception of the wrappers, the whole thing is made of chocolate, even the box! On the lid is a chocolate drawing representing the mountains of China. Expensive but well worth every bite!
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YUMMMM! Happy Valentines!

SWAK! Baby Doll Love Me, HOT STUFF

Almost Valentines Day, February 13, 2008

Today had been a busy but fun day for me and for Kai just as well. I had been up to almost 2 am finishing color correcting engagement images and then got up at 5:30am just to attend a mixer networking meeting at 7am in Lafayette to represent an absent friend. I unexpectedly had to give 2 impromptu speeches about my business to a big group of strangers, and then competed with them over a crossword puzzle- only to my surprise, with cobwebs still in my eyes, to win a basket of Starbucks coffee/treats for finishing first!

(postcard of Kai used in my marketing scheme)
By 8:30- Greg drives up to transfer Kai to my car (so he can go to his work meeting) while Kai and I take off and play in the dew of Orinda playground laughing and screaming while Kai sits on my lap as I try to swing as high as I could (before I get vertigo and have to stop!)
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I get to work by 10 am, drop off Kai at daycare who has somehow gotten sand everywhere under my radar- in the car, clothes, me... and I see an apparantly excited patient waiting for me in the lobby (so excited- he came 2 days earlier than scheduled). So I took him in anyway.
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I laugh and tell Greg later that night I had treated 3 men all at once and all to myself BUT of course had them wimpering under my sadistic control (professional, of course ;) )


And after working with patients, I have lunch with Kai and we play basketball. Only I got too focused on trying to make a basket and the ball bounced off the rim and landed right on his forehead. His cries echoed throughout the healthclub... and I had to sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star repeatedly while carrying him back and forth across the basketball court, until he wanted me to put him down.
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I then rush off to attend a remote computer software course and again retrieve Kai from daycare to discover that he has shoved his hand into his poop-filled diaper, revealing poop-stained fingers- his way of letting me know he needed to be changed. Ugh - great...
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BUT best of all, I got these lovely Valentines from my little man! Let's see what tomorrow brings... hopefully no more poop-filled diapers.