Bellingham in October

In mid-October we took a trip up to Bellingham to see Andrew's folks and go to a Brian Regan comedy show. Andrew surprised me with tickets to the show on our anniversary in August. It worked out well since we had some grandparents to babysit!

We always have a great time on our visits to Bellingham. Can't wait to go back for Thanksgiving in a couple weeks!!

We also had fun at the neighborhood park. Although, John did get a bloody nose, as you'll see below...

BONK!

 John is such a good kid! I instructed him to hold on to Peter on the slide. He sure did, even when they spun around backward. He took one for the team!!

Apparently Peter has a hard head!

At the show with my handsome date!

Family Trip to the Zoo

On Sunday we took a much-needed family adventure to the zoo! I try to do fun things with John with our friends. We usually have weekly play dates with other moms and kids. But there is just something special about doing fun things as a whole family! I know Andrew wishes he could do more fun things with us, but he works very hard to support our family - and we appreciate it! =)

John had a great time looking at all the animals. He is at the perfect age for enjoying the zoo! Here are some pictures from our wonderful family day:

Loved the slide! =)

Palm Sunday Weekend

We went up to Bellingham and enjoyed a wonderful family gathering. We arrived on Friday and left on Sunday night, so we had a nice long weekend up there. The weather was pretty nice and we got to take John to the park two days in a row!

On Saturday we had a family party and enjoyed the company of some extended family that we don't get to see that often. John really enjoyed playing with his second cousin, Sydney. She is eight years old, and John just adores her! She gave him her old basketball hoop, which he really loves! Even now that two weeks have passed, he still talks about her every day. The conversation is very predictable - this is how it goes:

John: Sydney?
Me: Did you get to play with your cousin Sydney?
John: Fun?
Me: Did you have a lot of fun with her?
John: Go?
Me: She had to go to her home.
John: Basket?
Me: She is so nice, she gave you her basketball hoop!
John: Home.
Me: And you got to bring it home with you!

Here are some pictures from the weekend:

Another Sunny Day

Fortunately the weather.com people seem to be wrong about their predictions of rain... so far! We have had two beautiful days in a row; although yesterday was rather cold and windy. Today John and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and go to the park down the street. We had a lot of fun there and then I decided we had enough time to journey a few blocks down to the water front. It was perfect timing because we got to see the ferry coming and going while we were there! We even saw a sea lion! Too bad I didn't get a good picture of it. =( There was an older boy at the beach who was throwing rocks in the water - one of John's favorite things to do! So John was huge fan of him right away. I loved how he watched him and tried to imitate him. So cute!

 

Playdate at the Park

Yesterday we had a very nice morning playing at Evergreen park with our friends - Lauren, Elena, and Madeleine. It has been so rainy lately and John and I have been so sick of staying indoors! I checked weather.com and apparently yesterday was the only nice day for another week or so (bummer! I hope the weather people are wrong). So we took advantage of the sun and had some good times! We played on the playground, went on the floating dock, threw rocks in the water, chased birds and squirrels, and we even got an ice cream cone! I'm looking forward to many days like this!

Making a new friend. She gave him the stick, so he was happy!