Don't be disappointed. I just wanted to share my free-off-the-side-of-the-road triumph. I pulled this little gem off the side of the road a few months ago. I wasn't feeling the orange shag and stenciled flowers. So I went to work...
Look at her now! New upholstery and a nice worn sanded finish and I have myself a new nursing chair! I especially love the book/magazine rack on one side, and the fold-out table on the other. Good stuff!
On Thursday we had a fabulous post-nap picnic on the porch.
Mmmm.
Then we hit the trampoline.
Eli was not a fan of the staticky hairdo.
Today we had one of our Sunday Playdates with Eve and Miles. We took a lovely picnic to the Botanical Gardens.
Miles was born for these photo ops. He's so cooperative and cute! Unlike Eli, who I'm basically wrestling to get him near the hole.
Miles had to settle for a shot with me.
The boys had a grand time wandering the gardens together.
Cutie Miles!
Such good friends.
Super sweet.
Good buddies exchanging a fistbump to end a lovely outing.
This is Eli's pitiful makeshift crib on the floor beside Kelly's bed. He's blocked in by two laundry baskets covered in blankets. But hey, it worked.
This was his crib buddy at Yaya's house, crazy cat Robin.
Eli is a super big boy lately. Here he's coloring and having his first booster seat experience.
Betty (my sewing machine) and I have been very busy since we've been home. Here are today's project - Froggie booties for Tummy Baby. Awww.
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!
Yesterday Yaya, Madeline, Alex, Grifinn, Felix, Eli and I headed to Camano Island State Park to the beautiful rocky beaches of the Pacific. We had a grand time.
The happy fishermen didn't catch a thing, but didn't mind.
Eli was most content amongst the drift wood, playing with rocks and logs.
I have always loved hunting for little crabs, and now the next generation is into it. Grifinn collected these guys and brought them to show Eli.
He thought they were bugs and wanted in on the action.
Singing and rock organizing.
Action shot.
Can't see a thing under this hat!
More rocks. More logs.
Traversing the rocks.
Hanging with Yaya in the cool driftwood fort somebody built. Yaya tickled him with a feather and he thought that was hilarious.
Getting hungry.
