Super Sam (no we haven't shortened his name really)

I hope every one enjoys watching this as much as I did. I have more clips of his little antics but have to figure out how to email them. His new indoor pastime is doing front flips into his pack and play. He stands on a chair, hangs onto the side, and tips froward head over heels. I have never had a boy, maybe that sort of thing is normal, I think he is precious and wild; who knows?

What we are working on.

Nick
I thought to put this last. It makes what the rest of us are working on look so very small. Here is the rookie's project; Nick gets to do this and that to see how strong the up and down thingy's will be when there are various pressures applied to the horizontal whacha-ma-callits...


Leah

My new friend!

This is my anniversary present! Eat your heart out ladies, you may get fancy dinners and sparkelys, but I get a hot, Reel (old school) lawnmower. I am so pleased! Actually, Nick bought this for himself and I commandeered it.

I am so excited to have this perfect yard. Today we bought seeds and such for our early veggies and herbs and I hope to spend this week at work in the yard.

Lillian

Lillian is still hard at work being crafty. She has been painting, making clay pots, and recently decided to try cross-stitching. I will have to let you know how the stitching project turns out.

Lillian loves to write. She has started spelling words funeticly. Her spelling is almost as good as mine...

L's foot (she asked me to make it blue)
She is a sneaky little photographer. I catch her with the camera documenting and capturing the world creativly. These three photos are hers.

Blue bird and Azalea

Self Portrait

Samuel

Samuel likes to help Mom in the kitchen. He stirs his pots and helps unload the dishwasher.

He LOVES music and gadgets. He resets Nicks alarm (accidentally) often and jumps around on the bed playing his "Tar" or drums while he listens to the music he has turned on.

He likes to work on FOOD! Corn dogs (doen-da), Pop-corn (Bah-bone), eggs, and craisins are his favorite's right now.

Muffins are pretty ok too.

And juicy apples while climbing...great!

Hair

It turns out that Samuel has curly hair; fuzzy but curly. This is our recent hair saga. Samuel no longer has his Mohawk, he now has moppy fuzzy stuff. Lillian on the other hand...

Lillian has had a hair growth spurt! It became to difficult to maintain and she and i decided one day that it was enough. No more screaming whem it is time to brush.

She looks so cute! We are pleased and it seems to fit her spunky personality. As for me and Nick we are in a moulting phase. Well, I don't thing Nick is going to sprout new feathers.

Venturing out

The Mountains are really more imposing than this picture suggests. I could hardly take my eyes off of them.

This is my buddy. I enjoy going places with her so much. Both of my children are fun to take places (generally).

This is Puget Sound. It smelled like a seafood restaurant. There are also places to play around the lake; which is 1.5 miles from us in the opposite direction.

A train track that is quite busy runs along the edge of the water. It was fun to see the long trains necklacing the hills.

Today a friend of mine took me to the "Beach". I am so thrilled I get to live here! Look at the beach. It is so different than any beach I have ever seen. This beach is actually five miles down the road from me. I am going to go back as often as I can. There are so many beautiful roundish rocks and pebbles; orange, black, white, green. It was cool at fifty two and a bit damp. But...it is like a fairy tail. I feel like I am living in a book. Around me are familiar things but the stage is so very strange still. I love my new friend, she is much like Washington for me; familiar and different (she is English). I could go on with my observations. I feel like Christopher Columbus though with the "New World" documenting. I can't wait to explore the rest of the world further. My Father made all of it, how could I ever love just one place? It is all so amazingly unique. Here are poor images of the Mountains I keep talking about. I think you can get a feel for how different they are from our round, bushy, hills on the east coast (which I miss!). I look at these mountains and think of a great epic novel (but not LOTR, I promise, I am way to original for that). I think the folks around here are aware of the truly epic history they all have. It is both sylvan and rugged. I can't imagine living out here with horses and wagons and canoes. Watch Ken Burns doc. on Lewis and Clark. Anyway, remember, I live in a smallish BIG city. I hope you are enticed to visit. It will cost you! But at least there is a delightful family to stay with.