Thad's first sleep over!!

Last weekend Thad had his first sleep over..well, the cousins visiting, but that was family ;-) I wish I'd gotten pictures of them the night before- what little monsters! They had a blast. Daniel really likes the train table in Thad's room and they both love to put together the huge track we have that the train goes around and around on.


I set them up to the counter with their waffles in the morning and then it occured to me that I should probably snap a pic of this memorable occasion.

















I can't wait to have sleep overs for Thad in the future. I have some really great memories as a kid- wow, we're making memories!!

After the house demo, we went to the zoo for a while

Thad really enjoys our visits to the Woodland Park Zoo with our membership. He enjoys most going to the big play area that has the "spider web", the wolf caves, the slides, and the turtle shells you climb into; and I can never get him away from that waterfall!





















Thad has sort of made friends with this goat. He has all but named it and even tried to kiss it!

...and the house came tumbling down

These pics are from when Grandma and Grandpa's house was torn down to build the new one! This has been almost a month...we just today, finally got the pictures out of the camera..LOL!























The boys entertained themselves pretty well. We were there for more than two hours, and not really any tantrums, yippy!!

Keira's visit

My sister came up this month for a visit from Texas. I have not seen her since she was barley pregnant with my nephew Ethan, so it's been a while! We had a great visit with her and her family. It was really nice for them to meet Thad and we got to meet Ethan who turned 3 years old on the 10th during their visit.


We went out to spend some time with them and some other family over on the Hood Canal. My sister has a brother with a home out there, so we stayed the weekend. It was really beautiful out there on the water.

We went hiking up to Lena Lake, which was very long...I carried Thad just about the whole way up. In the first picture it looks as if David carried him the whole way, but I had put him down because he asked to get down like our friend Raquel's little girl, Sunday and then he threw a huge fit to get back up and I didn't want to give in, so David carried him for a bit.


The hike to Lena Lake out at Hood Canal
























On the trail



















Since Ethan had a birthday while they were here, we had a little party for him. It was fun for the kids to have a reason to eat cake!



A little party for Ethan's 3rd Birthday











My sister with Thad and her two, Ethan and Kayla...they are showing off their muscles.



The kids had fun sleeping all together in Thad's bunkbed. Don't they look so cute?! We got up early the next morning and headed to the airport :( Sad to see them go, but glad that we got what time we had together :)

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Something to think about...

...MORE Mom's Group...Preschool Day 1

We have a great mom in our group, Tanya, that is a licensed teacher and use to be a preschool teacher. She started us out with this great kit to do preschool at home, only who wants to do all this fun stuff and not share it? So, we are getting together in groups and working on these wonderful projects that include arts/crafts, music, and even cooking fun!


Here we are in the "classroom" with the finger painting activity for the day. It included painting the blue "water" and then coloring and cutting out the sea life for the ocean theme we had going.













We also made homeade lemonade and had yummy sailboat chicken salad sandwhiches for lunch. The kids had so much fun jucing the lemons and pouring the sugar and water.





Don't those sailboats look great! Tanya is such a great hostess and did I mention the wonderful fun the kids had in the backyard after lunch??

More Mom's Group Action

Park fun...
...At Lincoln Park near Fauntleroy in West Seattle.

















..Some fun at a nearby park.. we made our lunches and let the kids have fun running around, swinging, sliding and playing with the bubble machine!









Thad and Karys, one of his little playmates in our group...she is such a cutie pie!


Thad can be such a ham...













Point Defiance Zoo






Woodland Park Zoo
Noah, Bryce, and Thad checking out the ducks from the underwater view below.

Natalie, little sis Rachel, Bryce and Thad posing on the rock for a photo op.


My little zoo budy Desmond..such a sweet boy.









Desmonds big brother, Noah hugging Rachel while Thad wears his shades upside down.





Just one of the many trips down the slide for Thad man.