all the friends love kyra

this first picture of sea holding kyra is a good blurry (moving) representation of her wanting to be in the now, enjoying her new puppy without being captured on camera yet she gives me the requested smile anyway...i'm going to try, for the month of april at least to write about the NOW even if that means a day before or a day ahead, i'm always upset i've left so much out and can't catch up and for this month i'm going to be ok with the little that is...

a couple days ago we went on our first walk at the beach with our new dog. the kids have been riding in the double stroller while we walk/jog on the mission beach boardwalk but wednesday we went with kyra...
manuel noticed i'm not in a lot of photos so he's starting to take more...i have veins and pimples popping out but am happy to be with my children...

sea got to be line leader this week at kindergarten...of course we've been tardy 4 out of 5 days due to the new puppy (mainly sea crying she didn't want to leave her!) so she only made it to the line twice...here she is telling her teacher how excited she is about her puppy...
and again, someone offered to take a photo of us together...
kyra also recently had her first vet visit. i took this photo really quickly just before the vet opened the door behind her and am surprised how in focus and centered it is...she got a good health/well adjusted/happy report and our easy going vet made it sound like raising her wouldn't be as difficult as it seemed at first...
so the rest of these are various friends who wanted to hold and connect with kyra...ruhi...
all the little girls in art class...
sea with mackenzie fighting over who holds her next...
sachi...
raiden and jolie...
jolie and billy...
jolie...
billy...
i had more than one photo of some of them because there are so many delighted faces...kyra brings out the glee in people...

i had so much more to say all day long and unfortunately ran out of energy so all i could do tonight was post and label photos...hope to offer more tomorrow but i'm not too hopeful as the POOL opens for the spring and we hope to spend a long time there!