Last Saturday (Sept 6th) we drove into Berkeley for our friend Doris & Darren's baby shower. It had been hot for 4 to 5 days straight with 100F+ temps in Dublin & Pleasanton. It's the last gasp of summer and I hope that was the "Indian" summer for the season.
Saturday was just as warm so even though we were next to the bay in Berkeley, it was still mid 80's.
Here's a picture of Thomas standing next to some flowers outside Andronico's grocery market in El Cerrito. Catherine was down the street at a store gathering baby shower presents.
Andronico's coffee selection was amazing ompared to Dublin's Safeway or Lucky's. Prices are perfect too...must be the gourmet coffee drinking population in Berkeley. The same 8oz package of Lavazza espresso coffee was $12 in Walnut Creek's Italian grocery shop and it was $7 here... Makes me want to binge drink espresso coffee...but I have to wait until the weather cools off.
Anyhow, Thomas was rummaging through the store and I tried to keep tabs on him. I lost sight of him for about 5 seconds and he rounded the coffee aisle. I heard his little feet picking up pace so I started after him. I quickly checked the entire small store down each aisle my heart starting get panic-ky as each aisle turned up blank of little Thomas.
I kept hearing his little footsteps and but couldn't seen him. Turns out he took the 1st aisle next to the coffee aisle where I was and I had completely missed that first one (thinking he'd ran further down.) So finally he popped out and looked at me frantically running back towards where he was wondering what took me so long to figure out where he was. "What r u doing daddy?" He asks...my heart rate was now back to normal rate....
Crazy kid! So fast...amazing what little feet can do when no hampered by adult common sense...they sure pick up speed fast. Since we were late for the baby shower...Thomas and I took a lot of free bread samples for a small pre-lunch....(seen in the picture in his little hands)
-William
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What a scare! I've had a similar incident with Sara at VBC (it's huge) while setting up for a MOPS tea party. My heart just dropped until I found her in the foyer. She was mad at a boy who stole a toy out of her hands and ran out of the conference room. I'm so thankful she didn't go out the double doors into the street!
As for coffee, I've been putting in ice cubes. No espresso for me though until ZEG is born!
William - speaking of ZEG, are you interested in joining POPS? Vijay will be at Zachary's tomorrow night for their kick-off. It's like MOPS but for dads (I think once a month in the evening).
POPS? :)
Hm..I'll ask him about it when we go to our weekly beer (I mean lunch).
We've got quite a few things taking up our evenings now...but once a month probably won't be that hard. I guess we don't bring the kids like MOPS?
Yes, the kids need to stay home. Actually, the reason I want Vijay to go is to know more of the people at VBC. It's really hard to know people unless you actually join an activity (frustrating, but that's the way it is).
Don't feel obligated to join. With kids now, evenings with them are super precious. Actually, as I type this, Vijay isn't going to the POPS event after all. I'm having too much nausea and really wiped out.
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