Calista Catherine and Cassandra Claire Brady: New Year's Eve

About Calista and Cassandra

Calista Catherine was born at 5:32 am on February 15, 2007. She weighed 8 lb 1 oz and was 21" long. She was born with a "true" knot in her umbilical cord, which is rare (it only happens in 1 out of ~8,000 births) and is supposedly both auspicious and a sign that she will be wise. She was excited to show up for the birthday of her grandmother Eloise, so they now have that in common along with a middle name.

Cassandra Claire was born at 5:37 am on October 17, 2009. She weighed 8 lb 4 oz and was 20.5" long. She is a quintuple Libra - her sun, moon, rising, Mercury and Venus are all in Libra - so we think she will be very fair, balanced and aesthetic. Her middle name is Brisen's paternal grandmother's middle name (Evelyne Claire Vannice).

Both girls were born at the wonderful CPMC in San Francisco, in Laurel Village, in the exact same delivery room (one of only two big rooms!) which their mom thinks is a very special thing.

Calista and Cassandra both derive from Greek mythology. Calista means "most beautiful," and is part of a myth involving Zeus, Hera and the Ursa Major constellation. Cassandra was the daughter of Hecuba and Priam, the king of Troy, and endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated by Apollo never to be believed. (We've promised our Cassandra to take her predicitions seriously!)

Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Year's Eve

Calista went to "camp" at Pacific Primary with her teacher Sarah Watkins for a few days between Christmas and New Year's, one of them being New Year's Eve. Sarah painted the kids faces, and here is our beautiful butterfly.

To celebrate New Year's, we went out to Tokyo Go Go. This is by far Calista's favorite restaurant - yes the girl is obsessed with sushi and loves to order tamago, kappa rolls, vegetable tempura, edamame and even eats the ginger and sometimes California rolls. Although I was asleep by 10:30, it was really special to go out and have fun with the family.