Blog Much? Neither do we apparently.

Sorry for the break.

Here's a little fun we've gotten into the last day or two...
Literally - in to.


The boys love fall! School starts back. More students move into our building. They buy furniture and let the boys play in the boxes. Win, win, win, win!


Today we took a loooooong walk.
The primary destination was Ben and Jerry's. Clearly.
After B&J we meandered home through campus, stopping at all our favorite spots.
The pond. This is one of those places we go a lot. Ergo we have lots of photos here of our boys at all ages. So sometimes when I see them here it hits me: "GEEZ! They're huge!"

Eli ustacouldn't see over the rail. And now he stoops and can still rest his chin on it.

HUGE!

And sweet baby Amos came here as a two-day-old.
And today he started at one side of the rail, and step by step, grab by grab, made his way to the other side.
He's a gem.
I love this photo. It's making me even more excited about the photography class I recently signed up for.


And we finished off the adventure with a little brother snuggle.

Good stuff.

Iphone birthday fun!

A very generous Gram gave Eric and me iPhones. These phones are way cooler than we are and we're both totally dorking out on them.

They take great photos and will be our go-to cameras from here on out I suspect.


Before we get to the birthday fun - a pitiful but very cute little detour.
Eli visited the doc today to check in on his giant tonsils.

Dr.'s report: Yes. His tonsils are huge. No. We're not concerned.

They did however want to draw blood to check on a possible egg allergy. I thought it would be a pitiful fest - but Mr. Tough Guy expressed nary a whimper! I cry more when I get blood drawn. I was amazed.He did like the sympathy of showing off his bandage though, and kept talking about the lady who gave him a "hole."
Man that child is beautiful.

Now...onto the birthday fun! Eric got home from his 8 day mission trip in Miami today. YAY!
Tonight we got dinner at Mellow Mushroom, then icecream, then played in the fountain.
Amos was fearless and got completely soaked. He shivered and turned a bit blue - but loved every second.


Little break.


We love the rotate feature of the iphone camera. Just push one button and the point of view changes to looking right at you. It always cracks Eli up.
Everybody was worn plumb out. They're snoozing away and Eric and I are fiddling away on the new phones.

Great day.

Fountain Fun

There's a new spot in town that has our favorite restaurant (Mellow Mushroom) and our favorite fountain. On a beautiful day like today, it was the perfect destination. And the grass watering sprinklers were a total bonus.Yum.



So big!




Fun fun!

Boys and blossoms.

We stopped to play in the springy goodness near the wandering fountain on campus the other day. Amos wouldn't look at me and Eli wouldn't come near me. Too busy playing...just as they should be.





Eli's going to end up in that fountain someday. Mark my words.
Big man loves to stand!
I'm not sure what happened in this photo, but it was the only one like it and I love it.

Such a Tourist

Eli visited two must see Seattle tourist attractions. First, the musical fountain at the Seattle Center. When I was a kid, this thing was MUCH steeper and the fountain part was encircled with jagged shards of something meant to dissuade us kids from playing on it. Didn't work. Now, thankfully, they have re-worked the fountain to be kid friendly. It was a blast.

Ooops! Almost got wet! (incidentally, he never got wet. He danced just outside the water's reach and was very happy with that).
Felix got wet.
Grifinn too.
Eli stopped to read my palm. The future looks bright.

And today we made a swing through the tulip fields of Skagit county. It's Tulip Festival time and they were breath taking. I remember ten, no, make that twenty years ago going to the tulip fields with my baby sisters who are now 19 and 21. Geez I'm old.




I've never asked him to smell anything, but somehow he knew what to do when I said, "Can you smell it." He made sniffing sounds and all.








What fun!