Water Slide Park

Up the road from where we live in Birch Bay is a water slide park. Where ever we go we usually drive by it. Of course each time the boys would ask.."when do we get to go there" It's not cheap. But yesterday if you are an employee of BP (like Peter) you and your family got in free. So we couldn't pass up the chance to take them. We brought our friends along with us too. It was a super hot day and it was packed. But the kids had a blast. You'll have to click on the pictures to get a better look.

Peter, Elijah and Emma on the triple tube.

Isaiah and Benjamin on the wide slide.

In the middle slide, Peter and Elijah.

Lego Show and Tell

Today the boys attended a "Lego show and tell" time at one of the libraries. Basically the kids were encouraged to create a lego model and then bring it to share and tell about it with fellow lego creators. They had to name their creation. Isaiah's was called "bumper shooter" and Elijah's was called "lego house". We each got a sticker and were asked to put it on our favorite lego structure and then a "people's choice" would win a prize. There were also door prizes and every kid got a little something. Isaiah got a great book about lizards and Elijah got a Egypt themed reading poster. The best part was when the facilitator asked each kid to come up and tell everyone about what they had made. I made a comment to a lady that Isaiah would do that effortlessly but Elijah probably wouldn't. But to my surprise when she called Elijah (before Isaiah I might add) he went right over to his structure and proceeded to tell everyone about each and every part. He did so great. I got a little teary eyed because he has changed a lot since moving out here. He's become much more social. Isaiah did great too. He really used his imagination to tell everyone about what he made. They loved this. Of course this has sparked a desire for more legos. =)

Not sure who the little girl is but she like Elijah's creation. Elijah's creation is on the left and Isaiah's on the right.

Here is Elijah in front of everyone describing his "lego house"

Isaiah telling the group about his "bumper shooter"

Our Neighbor

In our backyard there has been evidence of a woodpecker. I've heard him and the kids have seen him before, but today I finally saw him and snapped some pictures. It wasn't easy, he was very shy. We looked it up in our Birds Of Washington Field Guide Book and he is a Pileated Woodpecker.

Updated Belly Shot by Isaiah

Isaiah took this of me this morning since so many friends and family back home wanted to see the growing belly. So here it is at 29 weeks.

New Tags

More changes...new plates for the cars or as they are called here "tags" So off with the old and on with the new. It's funny because we've gotten a lot of second looks with our Maine plates out here. People will pull up next to us and look at us. I wonder if they think people from Maine have some special feature, like maybe moose antlers, or lobster claws? But now we'll just look everyone else. Washington State plates have a picture of Mt Rainer...it's' 'biggest mountain. It's really beautiful. OH ps check out the brown grass...it's brown because guess what? We've had only one day of rain since we moved here.



So long chickadee and pine cone "vactionland"

Hello Mt. Rainer and the "evergreen state"

playground fun

Well Good Morning to you

Living in the woods in Maine, my kids were very accustomed to seeing all sorts of wild life. We saw rabbits, wild turkeys, deer, moose, fox, turtles, and yes even the famous bobcat. So living in a more populated area I didn't think we would see much. This morning the kids were eating breakfast and starting yelling, "Mom there are two raccoons in our yard" And sure enough there were two bandits walking through the yard. We had actually never seen one of those in our woods in Maine. I grabbed the camera and only captured one. As you could see he wasn't too happy to have his picture taken.