Monday, December 1, 2014

"Don-tey Scare Me"

Seth was home this morning and so he woke up with Isaac and let Ezra and I sleep in. (These are my favorite mornings.)

I woke up, though, to a shrill scream and the sound of Isaac running. As I lay there, gathering my bearings, I heard Seth talking to Isaac and trying to comfort him.

  "Isaac, what's the matter? Can you show me? Are you hurt?"
  [soft crying]
  "Isaac, are you scared? Can you tell me what scared you?"
  [pointing to the front window, where Isaac had been standing]
  "Isaac, Daddy will hold you. I will protect you and keep you safe. Tell me what you saw out of the window."
  [shivering and glaring out of the window] "Don-tey scare me. Don-tey scare me."
  "A donkey scared you? A donkey? Isaac, did you see a deer?"
  "Deer. Baby horse. Don-tey scare me."

Isaac then proceeded to cling to Seth for the next few minutes and repeat "don-tey scare me" until Seth brought him to me and Isaac told me the same thing again. The best we can determine, Isaac might have seen the deer that Seth had seen earlier in the morning. He certainly saw something that scared him! And several times today Isaac has brought it up again, in random intervals. Each time he ran to me and needed me to hold him and reassure him. I'm a bit apprehensive that he'll have nightmares tonight, and remember it tomorrow.

"There's a Rattlesnake Under My Stage"

We were watching a bit of The Nutcracker and Ezra, of course, decided he wanted to start dancing. So he dressed up and started twirling around the living room, with frequent requests to "watch this move!"

He stopped, however, panting and declared he was "out of energy". When I asked him why he was out of energy, he replied "well, there was a rattlesnake under my stage and that made me have to run away!"

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Caper Acres

Caper Acres was always the highlight (well, ok, second to Mimi and Pappy's pool) of a trip to Chico. Ever since I had kids, I've wanted to take them, but our last two trips to Chico have proved unsuccessful in that regard (why is the park closed on Mondays?!?!)

This trip, however, we made it happen. (Even after tears on my part, when I was convinced that we'd lost our opportunity due to a rainstorm.) And Jack and Esther tagged along too!

We had a great time, even though everything is smaller than I remember it.





Monday, November 10, 2014

Eric's Visit

I've been joking that Eric is Seth's BFF, because it makes me laugh. It's also probably true.

Seth and Eric met freshman year at TMC and were roommates sophomore through senior year of college. They were best men in each other's weddings and they even planned to get pregnant at the same time - twice (ok, maybe it wasn't actually planned, but that's how it happened).

Eric doesn't have any local sports teams to root for, so when he was a kid he picked the Cowboys as his team. But Dallas is a far trip to make for a game, so since Seth convinced him to root for the Seahawks as his #2 team in college, every other year or so Eric flies up to go to a Hawks game with Seth. This year they bought tickets for the Giants game.

Eric flew in Friday night and then Saturday we ventured to the brand new Bass Pro Shop to see what the hype was a about, got BBQ, and then the guys went to a movie. And on Sunday they of course went to the game and then Eric flew out Monday morning.

One of the many things I appreciate about Eric is how well he loves our kids. Ezra was probably just as excited as Seth to see Eric and Eric made Ezra feel as if he had come just to hang out with Ezra and Isaac. Of course, Ezra made Eric promise to bring Mommy's friend (Rachel), his friend (Jesse) and Isaac's friend (Jude) next time (which isn't that far away! January!).






Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Taco's Tail = Mustache

Ezra got such a kick out of pretending Taco's tail was a mustache:


Monday, November 3, 2014

Library and Puddles

Goodness, it's been rainy! So today we met our friends at the library for a few hours. All three of the kids were rather energetic (maybe they'd been stuck inside for too long?) so I don't know that it was a particularly relaxing visit. But we got some books and played with some toys.

And then Ezra and Isaac had a great time splashing in the puddles in the parking lot! Such a great time it necessitated a strip down before we got into the van.


Monday, September 22, 2014

"Ra-ra"

Isaac is talking up a storm. He can communicate very well and is very opinionated as to what he wants and when.

He says" no" now. And a million other words. Ok, it's probably around 75. Oh, plus animal sounds. He learns a good 2-3 words every day. Crazy!! I stopped trying to keep count!


He calls EzRA "Ra-ra" and I just die every time. He loves Ezra and wants to do everything Ezra does and he wants Ezra to see and do everything that he does too. On Saturday Isaac was walking in front of me and suddenly gasped and stopped short. His eyes were wide and he pointed carefully at the ground. "'lug! 'lug! Ra-ra? 'ook! 'lug!" Ezra wasn't right with us, so we had to run and find him and bring him back to see the 'lug. Isaac was so excited to show Ezra. It was so important to him!

Friday, September 19, 2014

Doing the... Wa State Fair?

"Wa State Fair" doesn't have the same ring to it as the "Puyallup State Fair," but perhaps it's more accurate.

We went twice: once with Hannah on opening day (free admission!) and then again with Seth. Each time Ezra got to go on three rides and we spent a lot of time looking at (and petting) animals. We hardly went through the Hobby Hall and didn't go through the Exhibition Halls, but it was pretty hot both days and we had fun anyway.

September 5th:















September 18th:









Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Friday Update #35 (8/29/14)

This was, in my mind, our very last week of summer. Of course, September is the nicest month weather-wise in the PNW, and summer doesn't officially end until my birthday, but we're going to start school and our fall schedule on Monday, so.

It's easier than ever to take both boys places by myself and it's even really fun most of the time. Since Seth was gone for three days, driving a UHaul to Arizona (and flying back), I took the boys out and about a lot this week!

Aunt Kathy called me up last week and asked if the boys and I wanted to join her for a movie in the park near her home in Shoreline. We love movies in the park and it was a way to visit with her and my grandparents, so we drove up there Saturday afternoon. My mom tagged along and we spent a few hours at my grandparents', complete with a surprise visit from my uncle and his family (including his grandson, Wyatt, who is six months younger than Isaac). 



Then Aunt Kathy, Mom, the boys and I headed to the park to watch Finding Nemo!


We spent a lot of time in Mom's garden this week as well, picking blueberries and tomatoes and came home with quite a bit of produce. Now to wash/process/freeze it...





Mom bought the boys plastic army men... but David discovered them and organized them by color...




I took Isaac on a walk.


We met up with our friends, Tiffany and Joel, at the "renown" Frog and Kiwi cafe and played for hours.



I caught Ezra coloring on his arm and scolded him... but when he told me he just wanted to draw a volcano like Aunt Ruthies... I helped him. He was very particular about having enough "bumps".


We dropped Seth off at his customer's house early Wednesday morning. As soon as I closed the door on Isaac, after Seth kissed the boys goodbye, Isaac started wailing. And didn't stop until he threw up all over himself. So we took a pit stop in a gas station and got all cleaned up and then looked at their bears.


Isaac was so very sad all week long and repeatedly asked me "Daddy back? Peese?" He loves his father oh so much.

Emily and her friend Ciri came over to babysit while I got a hair cut and then we had Jenn and Aurora over to our house for a playdate. Ezra showed off the wonders of the Malibu's trunk?


Thursday Dad picked up Ezra and took him to the airport to pick up their exchange student, Tom (but he told them the wrong day and Dad and Ezra spent several hours waiting before that was determined... oops). Emily had come along and talked me into taking her to IHop for breakfast, since she's about to start college and be "so unavailable".


On Friday we met up with our friends Hilary, Olina and Stella at a park and swang a good deal.


We had a picnic once they left and then met up with Tiffany and Joel again at the Children's Museum. Oh, except first we stopped at Ruth's work to get a smoothie (because "only Auntie Ruthie's smoothies taste good").



And then we headed to Stewart Heights to watch Frozen! We sure do love our outdoor movies.



Ezra fell asleep at the very end of the movie, poor guy. For a good five minutes before he fell asleep he laid there eating popcorn. I was cracking up! And then his chewing slowed down...


I bundled the boys back in the van and they slept the entire way to the airport and back! Success!