Meditations on Life and Parenting
“Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.” – Brian Tracy
The kids are accusing me of only taking pictures of Cooper. Which is unfair because I let them be in pictures with Cooper. 🙂
Squeezing in the last bits of summer – going out for ice cream and even spending some time down on the Seattle Waterfront.
The heart of the week is a water dot on Cooper’s forehead. A bit of a stretch, I know. So I’m making up for it with a cool Shakespeare sign of the week.
“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz
One of the many things I love about living in Seattle is that Mt Rainier looms up from so many different angles just driving down the freeway. (photo credit to Miss O)
This bull frog was the wildlife we saw when we went on a lovely hike with Deb (Closer to the Edge blog and my wonderful colleague on the Heart of the Matter blog). It was too hot for the wildlife — and maybe for us. But still so fun to hang out with the amazing and fun Deb again!
The slide started out so well…
I took the kids to their first ballgame. I’m not sure what Mr. D was doing – catching flies? Ba-dum-dum. I’ll be here all week folks.. 🙂
Guess who learned to blow bubbles? It is amazing how entertaining that is…
Mr. D says cleaning the grill is equally as entertaining.
Sign of the week
And a beautiful cactus heart of the week. Contributed by the delightful Cristiana (of the Crisbiecoach blog and my colleague on the Wise & Shine blog).
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
It’s unusual to get a photo when even Bun Bun is looking at the camera and smiling.
Christmas elves and…
Keebler elves
Mr. D saw a little bit of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. And guess what – it’s still a pretty good movie all these years later.
I know it’s just a spoon rest so it’s supposed to catch drips – but I’m pretty sure this one is a magical heart shaped one!
Is there anything better than a grandparent?
How was your week?
“Learn character from trees, values from roots and change from leaves.” – Tasneem Harneed
Fall finally arrived in the Northwest!
So the kids built a fort under the bear that fits them both. Really – they are both in there.
Pumpkin carving. Miss O does not agree with Todd Fulginiti’s assessment in Halloween Hall o’Fame that the best Halloween smell is the inside of a pumpkin. And we were all scared when Mr D insisted as only a three-year-old can that he could do it himself.
When there was some construction activity in the neighborhood, Mr. D wanted to bring his trucks to the site to compare for authenticity. Or at least that seemed to be the point.
The signs of the week. How was your week?
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” – Pablo Picasso
See quote above… 🙂
Go Mariners!
Another week of incredible weather!
Miss O wanted to ride bikes to school. I made a deal with Mr. D that we could throw rocks into the lake if he rode on the back of my bike. A win for everyone!
Everything is a toy!
Did you crawl out of any bushes, have tons of fun riding escalators or have some not-good sense creativity this week?
“The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen
We experienced a lot of salt water this week – mostly sweat and the sea. There is a small island that is a nature preserve about 40 minutes from us and it has an incredible expanse of tidal flats. In the heat of this week, it was the perfect place to go.
Mr. D had a birthday and it seems most of the pictures I have are of his sister openings his presents for him or showing him how to play with them. Ah, the life of the younger child.
I’ve lived in my house for almost 20 years but it when we painted our motto on the front walk, it felt more like home than ever!
That’s what we dug this week. What are you digging into on these summer days? Do you have a motto?
Does it make it okay for your child to write on the railings if they write “I love you Mom!” when they do it?
Planes, ships and automobiles! I would have thought my kids would have had enough of transportation after flying home from vacation. But then I discovered they’d charmed their way into the front seat of an ice cream truck.
We spent a lot of the week making Teacher Appreciation Week cards and finding gifts for our wonderful teachers. It’s going to take a lot more than a week to express our gratitude to these amazing teachers but we had a lot of fun trying!
Flipping through my photos I could barely remembered that the week started with a warm Seattle day and we traveled from sea
to
Snow!
And along the random way enjoyed all the fun of being on vacation!
Hope you all have had a great week!
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:
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!
Surprised By Joy 