weekending

Beautiful weather. Preschool picnic, painting play dates, playground visits.

playdate

Fun times with A+A...

birthday dinner with friends

Celebrating the big 3 with new buddies Kea and Niko (and longtime parent friends Kapena and Claudia)! Thank you guys!

hikes

camping

Successful first family camping adventure this weekend ... luckily with some friends with more camping-with-kids experience.  Cunningham Falls is a beautiful spot.

Four campers thinking hard about what campfire time would be like without unnecessary rules from parental figures about sticks + fire.

Natester enjoyed some hammock time.

Oh sweet s'mores and jumbo marshmallows.

Jamie takes on bedtime story time with the pj gang.

abby is 5!

Day started with a new birthday puzzle (thanks G&G) after breakfast.

We got the party room set up.

The moon bounce arrived!

We bounced....

... and rode on the swings ...

... and made paper bag kites ...

... and ran around with our kites ...

... and bounced some more!

The three birthday kids ...

Nate really got into the moon bounce.

Flower pot birthday cakes were mommy's fun project.

Kids liked to eat the "dirt" and (gummy) worms!

Happy birthday Abigail!  More fun to come when A&N wake up from their naps ... moon bouncing wears a person out!

thanksgiving!

We had a delightful (and delicious) Thanksgiving with good buddies Georgia & Sophie and their family and friends!  Kiddos were thrilled to see these little turkeys made out of oreos and candy corn for dessert.

Action shot.

Hard to pull the focus away from dessert.

The littles of the bunch.

Big Girls.

Abby was thrilled to dress up her life sized doll brother in these tiny pink high heels designed for a cute teddy bear.  Nate thought the whole experience was hilarious.

And then the next morning we zipped off to see the dolphins and fishies at the aquarium.  Much excitement.  Hard to tell whether children or parents were more exhausted by all of the morning activity.

Dolphin snacks.

This cute dolphin came over to say hello.

Dancing dolphin.

 

crazy daze

Dressing up for winter ... hmmmmm....

One of Abigail's new favorite things to do: build elaborate structures of backyard toys, the end product of which usually ends up being called "a double stroller".

Now that the mosquitoes are not as thick we are using the backyard again.  Sandbox fun with neighbor Achilles.

Sandbox lid doubles as a ship with buddies Sahana & Naveen ... fun to have friends and preschool buddies just the same age as Abigail & Nate!

Have been meaning to post this from a few weeks ago ... Abigail made name cards so everyone would know where to sit when G&G were in town.

Face painting from a folk festival = fun!

 

painting

Special playdate painting time outside.