Updated version: It's August now. Time for a roundup of fun things from July that I didn't capture in earlier posts.

(Update on the update: This ambitious roundup never got finished. Now I know about attempting roundups.)

On Fourth of July I insisted that we see both the morning parade in Alameda ...

... and evening fireworks in Moraga (no pics of that, but it featured lots of dancing).

The next day Amila hung out for a few hours. She was a neighbor who went to our preschool. Now her family lives in Costa Rica (where we hope to visit them!).

The way the girls fell back into playing, it didn't seem like they hadn't seen each other for a year.

Later in the month we went to a BBQ for Amila and her family, where we got to say goodbye and visit mutual friends.

July also brought Sophia's birthday party at Little Farm. (I love this collection of sunkissed heads.)

Jasper and Halina fed the animals together and held hands.

Halina enjoyed a morning of working alone with Daddy at his office. Luke and I picked her up afterward.

At the office, she made a sleeping bag for Ramona.

I like this picture of Luke (he's so in love with the garbage truck but also a little scared of it). If he were to write a book now, this would be the cover.

And this would be his author photo.

I took that photo at the wonderful Bay Area Children's Discovery Museum in Sausalito, where we met up with Jasper. In July, of course.

Another person who likes to take photos with her cute (and unfortunately not so functional) pink camera.