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April 29, 2010

Flashback to February

The Sanchini-Gorchini cousins had a clandestine playdate on Valentine's 2010 at a previously unknown park somewhere halfway between Santa Rosa and Richmond.


Uncle Chris, as he often is, was a source of stability for the young ones as they carried out their usual antics.


Sparrow was the daredevil of the crowd and conquered several twisty slides while the rest of us just gawked in astonishment (see Uncle Chris in the background gnashing his teeth with nerves? Maybe not such a stable force after all...)


Her Daddy, however, sucked it up and gave it a go on the tamer version of the inclined diversion. After nearly losing more than a few brain cells, he abandoned the mission to scope out a suitable locale for family portraits.


Crazy cousins nestled in the nooks of a tremendous tree. Sequoia is gleeful as the younger cousins are stupefied at the thought of having to pose for longer than 10 seconds. I mean, those of us in the under 2 crowd just don't ever stay put for that long!

Lucas looks adoringly at his older cousin while Sparrow plans her escape.



The dads get in on the action, desperately hoping they can squeeze out just one photo in which everyone is seated and smiling.



It was too much to hope for. Lucas went hog wild and tried to slide right out of Chris's firm fatherly grasp. Sparrow tried to pick up a few pointers, while Sequoia mildly melted away.




Freedom!!

November 27, 2007

Birthquoia


Exactly one year ago the proto-sequoia was tumbling amuck during her last uterine moments.


365 days later Sequoia can still be a pain in her mother's behind.


At least this year she slides out a bit easier.

October 26, 2007

Slidequoia


Sequoia attends a meeting of her local Playground Operations Supporting Sustained Elevating (P.O.S.S.E) in anticipation of her ascending adventure.

Having achieved full POSSE clearance Sequoia boldy defies convention in a solo effort on phase I of Operation Antigrav

Sequoia gasps in the thinning oxygen as she eventually passes through the upper realms of Dad level altitude.

Successfully scaling the pinacle of the playful slope, Sequoia embraces a smug momment of celebration.

" EEEeeaaaaaaghu haaauaha" Exclaimes Sequoia, disquited by her precipitous return