Portland sun

Hadley spent the night last night so this morning we took a nice walk to Laurelhurst Park.  Here are the buds getting ready to walk:

Hangin out at the park:

Chloe and Mom and Dad:

Happy girl:

First time on the swings:

If we could only have LA weather with Portland life!

For the Children

A few weeks before Christmas Kevin and I worked with Petie to clean up his room. We knew more toys from our generous families were on there way, so we tried to clear out some clutter. We taught Petie that some of his toys we were giving away to children who didn't have as many toys as he did. He didn't seem to pay much attention to the clean up and was just happy we were all in his room spending time together.

Fast forward to just a few minutes ago. Petie comes out of his room after playing quietly by himself for the past 20 minutes (rare these days) and says to me, "here mom, I want to give this fire truck to the children. I already have another firetruck and I want them to have this one." I said, "are you sure honey? I know how much you love firetrucks (more than any other vehicle he tells me) and I just want to make sure you want to give it away." "Yes mom, the children don't have many toys so I want them to have this one."

I squeezed him extra tight. I almost cried with pride.

We are blessed for sure.

Twenty ten begins

Here was our only snow day of the season. Technically this was 2009, late December. There was just enough snow for Petie and Kev to play for about an hour outside before it got too dark. By the next day it was all melted. It paled in comparison to the Artic Blast of 2008 that gave us many days of the white stuff and Chloe among other things!
Chloe at 4 months, in the bath. Starting to get big enough in the little tub that she really makes a big mess kicking and splashing all over the place.

Starting to like tummy time more and actually look around some before declaring defeat and getting her diapers all in a bunch.

Petie and mom's craft hour. He's a dinosaur and I'm a bunny if it isn't blatently obvious.

Just looking cute as always. She is only interested in sitting up now. No more of that baby lying down when you hold her nonsense. Thanks to Katie for her trippy new outfit.