Meditations on Life and Parenting
God bless the dentist for installing a kid’s sized door.
When we went on our short train ride last weekend, I gave Miss O a cheap digital camera to take pictures. I looked at them for the first time last night and kinda fell in love with the different perspective. It also made me realize how much kids see of other people’s noses. 🙂 Here’s a gallery of her pictures:
Miss O is lucky that her uncle (my brother) loves all water activities and is willing to take her paddleboarding in March!
Other than that, it was our usual week of:
It’s nice to see that someone has a sense of humor about the price of gas!
Inspired by her amazing 1st grade teacher, Miss O was doing art at 7am to put the finishing touches on her leprechaun trap. Green paint, green slime and a lot of signs that lured the leprechauns right to the trap door made for a lot of St. Patrick’s Day fun.
Watching my kids, I understand so much better every time I’ve heard a guy say, “I grew up with older sisters.”
And pictures from our adventure last weekend to ride light rail, get off wherever we wanted, eat donuts at a coffee shop and happen upon a nice policeman that let Miss O get on his motorcycle!
My daughter rode her bike to a sleepover at my mom’s last weekend, an event that marked for me how grown-up she’s getting on so many levels. This picture shows her with her grandparent escorts, my mom’s friend who Miss O calls her “honorary grandpa” in the rear carrying her stuffies in his backpack.
We also did a lot of good spring cleaning this week. When we aren’t at the carwash (and like Bridgette, I might have to get a monthly membership), Mr. D is usually satisfied by being able to wash the windows at the gas station.
This week we went on a boat ride around Lake Union. Anyone recognize this memorable house from a movie set in Seattle?
And here are other pictures from our cruise.
Tenderness: kids and animals
Our friends gave us this cat as a 4-week old 1.4 lb feral kitten that had been living in a dishwasher on the front porch of a home that was being renovated. Miss O was 3-years-old and pretended to read to her until she became comfortable with us. Mr. D has been talking to and trying to train her. Mostly he shakes the treats bag and she comes running.
I am a dog person but my kids have done a great job making Simone into a pretty fun cat.
I’ve often heard it said that Seattle has the highest sunglass sales per person than any other city in the United States. That might be an urban myth but this past week was so sunny, inside and out, that I believe it!
They say that love changes the way we see things – but I didn’t know you could catch it on film!
We went on a boat this week to see the sea lions in Puget Sound. The sunset over the Olympic Mountains and the sea lions were so amazing, I couldn’t pick just one picture.
All images are my own.
Sometimes it’s hard to find a matching pair of shoes in this house. When diving deep into the shoe basket, it’s best to use the buddy system. 🙂
Surprised By Joy 