Basically, this post will cover all of our March activities.
We took an extra long weekend at the end of my spring break/beginning of Dave's (b/c of course our spring breaks don't overlap...that would be too convenient) and headed west to Whidbey Island outside Seattle. It was a 10 hour travel day - car, train, airport tram, shuttle bus, rental car, ferry, car to the cabin! Both boys did great on the trip there and back...O really liked the variety of the travel modes we got to explore...plus the 3 hours of Thomas the Train videos on the plane ;)
Greg and Kate drove down from Vancouver to spend the time with us. It was great to see them, and have them see O again, and meet little E!
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| headed for the rental car...yup, that's E car seat precariously balanced above his head. We were like a travelling circus with all our stuff. I was pushing the stroller (with 2 kids) with the perched car seat, carrying the diaper bag, a backpack, and one of the bags, Dave had the other car seat, a packnplay, and the suitcase...it was a bit of a gong show! |
Napping on the car ride to the ferry
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| missed the ferry by 3 cars! But had time to stop for ice cream and clam chowder as a result...not a bad compromise! |
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| Whidbey Island, full steam ahead! |
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| ice cream goatee |
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| dopey baby! |
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| driftwood = excellent excavator! |
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| breakfast time!! |
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| chillin' with Auntie Kate |
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| quality beach time |
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| Auntie Kate is an experienced storytime reader! |
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| insisted on putting Osa in the baby carrier |
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| a little chilly, but beautiful |
O and Kate were the only 2 who had gumboots. Unfortunately, O got a little overzealous running into the water and turned his gumboots into more of a wetsuit as the water overtopped them. His pants had wicked the water all the way up to his thighs by the time we got back to the cabin!
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| "hmmm...maybe this guy's alright" |
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| hammock time |
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| headed for a walk on the beach |
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| walking with Uncle Greg |
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| clamming! Sort of...minus the shovel and bucket |
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| it took a couple days, but El warmed up to Uncle Greg |
And then we came back to reality...which was nice for a couple days before the snow came again (it's warming up again next week though!). We took advantage and spent some time outside while we could.
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| sandbox is back open for business! |
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we spent a lot of time sending his trucks and
a marble we found down the slide |
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| El actually enjoys the swings...unlike O |
And in other news, El is on the move!! His crawl is still a bit more of an army crawl, but he manages to make his way across the room...and relatively quickly if he has a location in mind. And, he finally cut his first tooth!! That one came in while we were on Whidbey.
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| watch out Flax, you're not safe anymore! |
