Category: Photo of the week

“Beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold
Ice has a magic can’t be controlled
Stronger than one, stronger than ten
Stronger than a hundred men, ha” – Frozen Heart from Frozen

How do you know it’s cold in Western Washington? Mt. Rainier wears a hat. Ba-dum-dum.

But I can’t take credit for the joke because I heard it on the news. The weather seems to be the story of the week for most of the country. Maybe everyone except Arizona?

We didn’t get snow but we roamed around the neighborhood til we found some frozen ground water. Then the kids sang songs from Frozen and pretended they were ice workers.

Tug of war is just a mechanical engineering problem isn’t it? The weight differential multiplied by the friction coefficient or something like that?

Slime, hugs and motorcycles. All good separately – but never good combined in any way other than a gallery of pictures.

A stick for Cooper to chew on. And a sign for humans to chew on.

“Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

There was a lot of excitement in our house for the UW vs Michigan game last week. It didn’t quite turn out as we hoped but it wasn’t for lack of cheering.

Shredding and cooking. Two distinctly different activities but done in our house with the same amount of enthusiasm.

“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.” – Ogden Nash

Word!

“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.” – Norm MacDonald

Cooper! 20 weeks ago the stuffed polar bear was 1/3 bigger than Cooper. 16 weeks ago, Cooper drew even. And now, Cooper is at least 1/3 bigger than the bear. No wonder every time I take him to the vet she looks at him, smiles and says, “He’s going to be big.”

And to make sure he stays on track, Cooper is willing to sleep right outside the closet where his food is kept. As close as possible…

Rock climbing and hiking, including find a bus in the woods – but not one that could carry us out of there.

Delivering some neighborhood cheer.

For anyone who giggled at my story about the Christmas present laughter…

The heart and the sign of the week. May you all have a whole (not fractional) great week ahead!

“All of life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pets seem confused this week. The cat is sleeping in the window box planters. Cooper is an English golden retriever in an American house carrying a Canadian flag. And Cooper also thinks the Christmas tree is a self-service chew toy stand.

Making Gingerbread Houses with my friend, Jill. Weird how no licorice actually made it ON to my house. Or, given my sweet tooth, it’s probably no surprise to anyone.

Not sure whether to caption this science week or eye-wear week but either way we seemed to find pouring and pounding a lot of fun.

We made it to the finish line of a 5k that Miss O had been practicing for. Mr. D did 4k of it running in rubber rain boots without any training which was almost as impressive as Miss O pushing him for the other 1k. Running isn’t my sport but I was glad that I secretly trained enough to be able to make it through. We all felt like super heroes in the end!

The heart and the sign of the week, because who doesn’t love quoting John Muir?

“Bless our house as we come and go. Bless our home as the children grow. Bless our families as they gather in. Bless our home with love and friends.” – unknown

Sometimes it takes out-of-town friends to remind us of the places in our own city. In this case, Pike Place Market which has the famous fish throwers. See orange circle in third picture which, now that I look at it, likes kinda like flying squirrel. No, I promise it’s a fish. But now that I’m thinking of it, catching a flying squirrel would be pretty impressive too.

Mr. D and Miss O at the Market do their best fish, pig and cute impressions.

Cooper graduated from Puppy Kindergarten and now thinks he’s ready to read. And also to make slime with Olivia and friends.

Rock ball star? And Miss O and Mr. D doing “pad” at night which is when she helps him write downs his thoughts and feelings before bed.

Leaning in to the holidays. Everyone and the dog is so helpful!

The sign of the week (also from Pike Place Market) and a found-in-a-bike lane, but still very cute and soft, heart.