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Happy Memorial Day! I hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy the weekend.

We spent some time at the Farmer’s Market again, picking up some tasty fresh cheeses and a couple of heirloom tomato plants. I’m not entirely sure what to do with the tomatoes, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

(By the way, CareBear took this picture of Chris.) It doesn’t seem like we did much this last week, though we seemed busy at the time. Chris had a day trip out to Fort Worden, which meant we didn’t see him hardly at all that day. Then, a couple of days later, they had some weird power issues at their building… so we didn’t see him much those days either! He’s got another trip to Fort Worden this week, overnight this time. It’s weird how those small changes to our “schedule” make the week seem busier than it is!

Of course, we did get a little visiting done and a few trips to the park, so we weren’t idle the whole week! We also did a vet run so Radio could get his shots and had Maisy groomed. Not bad at all.

We’re hoping that this week brings our long awaited play date with Auntie T and Z-bear… 

We’re starting to get ready for vacation! It’s hard to believe it will be June next week and we’ll be headed to the beach. CareBear is really getting excited about going to Seaside so we have a whole countdown going on the calendar. It will be fun to see what LiliBee thinks of the seals this year… I think she’ll get a kick out of them.

We have conversations daily about what CareBear is going to be when she grows up. It changes hour to hour… a bike rider, a doctor, a princess, a ballet-er, a baseball-er. It’s a fun game.

And then I ask what LiliBee should be when she grows up, to which CareBear inevitably answers “a porcupine!”

Poor LiliBee. I’m sure she’ll be much happier when she can speak for herself!

We had lots of fun this week…

Our Mother’s Day festivities continued as we took my mom out to lunch. CareBear was less patient than usual with the whole restaurant thing, but LiliBee had a great time trying all the food.

CareBear was much happier when we stopped at the park on our way home. Both girls showed off their sliding and swinging skills for Grams.

On Saturday, Chris took me to the Farmer’s market as my own Mother’s Day outing. The weather was fabulous and there was lots of fun stuff to look at.

The girls got balloon animals made and played on the playground there.

There were hot dogs and popcorn and we all had a great time.

Sunday was spent in the backyard. I did a bunch of weeding and a little planting while Chris prepped the compost for me.

He enlisted the girls to help him sort out the worms for return to the compost bin, but that didn’t last too long.

They much preferred getting as sandy and then muddy as possible. LiliBee took two baths and they both had several outfit changes that day!

We ended the day with out first BBQ and picnic of the year.

Today was LiliBee’s 18 month doctor visit. She’s happy and healthy and still tiny, but at least she’s consistent! She did finally make it to the magical 20 pound mark where she can turn around in the car, though! That will make our vacation road trip much easier. LiliBee was fascinated by the dr and loved the book that he gave her.

She’s such an easy going kid!

We didn’t get to do as much visiting as we’d hoped last week and our visit with Auntie T and kid Z has been postponed once again (3 times so far, due to illness… we’re taking turns being sick!). At this rate, summer will be over before we get to have that play date!

We’re looking forward to the nice weather and long weekend this week!

We had an exciting week around here! CareBear had two big milestones and, of course, there was Mother’s Day.

We took CareBear to the library to get her very own library card. Chris helped her fill out the application, but she did everything else. She decided to check out some dinosaur books so she asked the librarian where they were.

It was very cute how excited she was about the whole process. We’ve read her library books several times a day since then, too!

CareBear’s other big event this week was getting a brand new booster seat. She’s just big enough to move out of her old car seat, which is handy as LiliBee is finally growing out of the baby bucket (infant seat). We let CareBear pick out her new seat and made a big deal about what a good big sister she was to give her old one to LiliBee. It was so successful that we ended up taking a trip to the park since CareBear was just going to sit in the car in the garage for awhile. 

The park  that we went to is one that I remember well from my own childhood so it’s fun to watch my kids enjoy it, too.

CareBear and LiliBee both loved the creek and the playground.

The also played a nice game of “Pooh sticks” with Chris. Once it gets a little warmer, we’ll have to take them back to actually wade and play in the water.

Chris made me a lovely Mother’s Day breakfast on Sunday and then let me have a luxurious bubble bath while he entertained the kids. It was quite relaxing, though I did end up with company after awhile! Then we headed down to Olympia for lunch/dinner with Chris’  family. It was fun to go out with everyone and the kids all did great.

This week is looking a little busy, but it’s mostly fun stuff. Chris is away tonight having a sleep study done. I think it would be kind of hard to sleep knowing that someone is watching and listening and recording everything, but I guess they make it as home-y as possible. We have some fun visiting planned later this week and more Mother’s Day fun.

Plus, LiliBee will be 18 months old!

A couple of days ago, it was stormy around here. It’s fairly unusual for us to have the kind of wind and rain we’ve had this week in May, but I like interesting weather. So one windy afternoon, I was giving LiliBee her pre-nap nursing and cuddling session while CareBear was in the living room entertaining herself and watching Backyardigans.

If you know CareBear, you know that she tends to be a noisy kid. She enjoys seeing how loud she can be and screams and yells for fun. People say she’s just like Chris at that age…

Anyway, she’s running around making all kinds of noise when, suddenly, the power goes out. It was only out for about 30 seconds but it caused an unusual silence in the house, including CareBear. I thought she would come find me to ask what happened, but she didn’t. 

From the living room, I heard her say in an uncharacteristically quiet voice “I think I was too loud“.

I’ve been thinking for awhile that I need to use this blog to capture some of the more interesting/funny/entertaining things from our lives. I’ve been so excited to be able to add pictures and videos to my posts so easily and make creative entries, that I haven’t really done many “quickies” (short and texty posts… pictures and videos are just too much fun!). So I think I’ll start adding little excerpts from life around here from time to time. There are lots of things that happen that I want to remember!

This week’s update got a bit delayed and our website is acting funky, but here it is!

 

We actually had lots of stuff going on this week, most of it fun. We took an impromptu trip to the zoo on Wednesday after CareBear declared that we should take a trip to Africa. We figured that the elephants at the zoo were as close as we could get on such short notice so off we went.

The weather turned out to be quite nice and we didn’t get rained on at all. CareBear and LiliBee had fun playing in the kids’ area and we had a whirlwind tour of the animals (small children don’t have much of an attention span sometimes,  do they?).

We topped off our trip with a carousel ride and the girls slept all the way home.

This weekend, we went to Cousin H’s birthday party at “Charlie Safari” down in Olympia. (Happy Birthday, Cousin H!) I can’t believe she’s four already.

Charlie Safari is one of those pizza and fun stuff kind of places. There were giant bouncy things, climbing things, mini golf, laser tag and arcade games. The whole party took over one of the bounce houses for awhile and it was like a little mosh pit for preschoolers. CareBear and I climbed to the highest slide (and that climbing structure is not really made for grown-ups, even the short ones like me!) and played all kinds of games. LiliBee spent a lot of time trying to keep up with the bigger kids (and did pretty well) before settling down to play with balloons with Grandpa.

Chris got to indulge his pinball craving. Everyone had a great time.

Yesterday, Chris took the day off for an appointment so I went along with him. After that was over, we had enough time to go see a movie before picking up the kids. We saw the new X-Men movie, which was actually pretty good. It was fast-paced and full of action, plus I enjoy Hugh Jackman. It was nice to get out on a kind-of-date.

Meanwhile, the girls had a great time playing with Grams and Pas. They never want to come home with us after that!

I wish the weather was nicer this week since I’ve gotten used to kicking the kids out to play in the backyard (ok, I go with them), but I like the rain and wind, too.