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Kidimu Museum and Bainbridge Island (near Seattle, WA)

May 30, 2011

Last week, my mom came to visit for a couple days. I told her that I would be braving the trip to Tacoma alone to see Sesame Street Live with the potential for a meltdown if she didn’t come (hint, hint, hint) and she took the bait. She took me to see Ernie when I […]

Sunset at Newport Beach (California)

May 29, 2011

One of my favorite pics ever, I might have blogged this before, but I wanted to use this for my entry for Decliousbaby’s Photo Friday. We went to California for Disneyland in December and had a fantastic time with all things Mickey, but some of my […]

One of those days where you make food, go fishing and do crafts

May 28, 2011

Last night I went to a Bento class at Bellevue Whole Foods taught by a sweet blogger I love for her drool-worthy tweets about Japanese food. I learned to make a few yummy things and thought I’d try to make the Tamago Yaki-it’s pretty much a folded omelet but I’ve never been able to get […]

On our own

May 26, 2011

The guys are so into doing this on their own right now. I think they deserve credit for cleaning up today. After making rice for lunch, I had them help me clean up the water they spilled. Leelee asked for brooms so they could get up the rice bits too. Here they are making a […]

Solo Concert at Granville Island with kids

May 22, 2011

What is my favorite thing to do at Granville Island besides eating and drinking yummy delights? What does anyone do at Granville Island besides eat and drink and take in this incredible foodie paradise? Do we ride the seas on the aquabus? Yes, we do that too. Sometimes we just ask them for a sight-seeing […]

PSA: a lesson learned at dinner about smoking

May 16, 2011

What is this, you ask? An asparagus. A harmless green vegetable that my kids have seen on their plates many times before. This same green vegetable sometimes induces gags with one of my kids and the inevitable stinky diapers with both, but never in a million years did I expect to see what I did […]

Maui Ocean Center (Wailuku, HI)

The cloudy days around this years’ Mother’s Day made me reminisce for the first plane trip we took with the kids when they were 9 months old. We thought that Maui would be a good idea, and that they would love splashing their feet on the beach. They did not really love the ocean or […]

Pana ‘ewa Zoo (Hilo, HI)

May 13, 2011

When we went to the Big Island with our family and the grandparents last August, I needed an excuse to drive an hour or so to Hilo to get this mochi I read about and couldn’t leave Hawaii without trying: . It is from a place called The Two Ladies Kitchen and they are famous […]

Workout Want List

May 12, 2011

Working out for health or looking good are great reasons but I need a workout incentive plan to force myself to the gym and in the long run the price of the incentive is WAY less then paying for the healthcare from not exercising, right?. Currently there are a couple things driving me to sweat. […]

Happy O Day!

May 9, 2011

Some days seem to have a trend and Friday ended up being a definite “O” type of day-especially when it came to food. We started the morning with Trader Joe’s Os. There was an Eltana bagel snack. And then friends decided that we needed to get some energy out at Jump Planet in Bothell and […]

Small steps for babies

May 2, 2011

A couple days ago I had a conversation with someone that went like this: “My guys? Yeah, they’re all over everything! I can’t get them to stop climbing.” “Yeah, but they are two-year-olds, they get into everything and can’t help it.’ “I guess that’s true. Do you have kids? “No.” “You sure know a lot […]

Adventures with Playdough

Anyone else love playdough? I’ve tried making the home-made stuff but this Playdoh Ice Cream set was a total deal (under 8 dollars!) at Target a couple weeks ago and I couldn’t resist. I loved playing with playdoh when I was little-we had one with barber chairs where you could squish playdough out of a […]

Ballard Locks

April 29, 2011

These toddlers have a ton of energy and I sometimes feel like I can’t keep up. But then just when I feel like I have my hands totally full, we run into something like this duck we saw the other day at the zoo and I’m reminded that I only have two Littles and not […]

Dear Henrik and Daniel,

April 26, 2011

Maybe the little spots of sunshine we’ve had in the past week have thrown your game. Maybe you’d much rather be riding the False Creek Ferry, or trompsing around the beach picking up sticks, or playing pick up hockey/basketball/soccer while standing around on a deck or riding on an imaginary bus. And that is understandable. […]

Why Amazonfresh is the best thing ever

It’s not just that we don’t have to run out for milk at night when we’d rather sit on the couch and catch up on last week’s Glee. Whenever we put in an order at Amazonfresh we order something frozen-even if we don’t need it. Anything. Peas. Popsicles. A berry pie for the next time […]

More Easter Shenanigans and the BIG DAY!

April 24, 2011

If you are wondering what the above photo is supposed to be, it’s an abstract version of an egg-shaped scrambled egg sandwich in a macaroni and cheese nest. Not as pretty as I imagined it in my head, and I probably should have made the nest out of shaved cucumber or something less carb on […]

things to do with kids to celebrate Easter

Easter Treats

April 23, 2011

A couple weeks ago, I was wondering how to make shaped pancakes and someone suggested cutting them out after I cooked them. So when we had a few friends over for an Easter bunny appearance, I thought I’d use the same idea with a baked tortilla recipe so we’d have cute healthy chips to go […]

Toddler Coffee Art

April 18, 2011

Our hands down favorite coffee store for beautiful delicious coffee is Espresso Vivace near REI in South Lake Union, so on this cold sunny day that had a rainstorm in the middle, we spent the downpour part in our happy place. The kids loved their mini hot chocolates in little espresso cups (see the lovely […]

Getting ready for Easter

April 16, 2011

I saw these lovely egg decorations on the Family Fun website and thought we would make them to decorate the house for Easter. Today was yet another crazy adventure with messed up naps, on and off rain and a stop that involved going to the craft store to get the yarn-the boys selected bright orange […]

A day at the park

April 14, 2011

I was on the way to check out a musician at Izilla Toys with my guys and I put in the wrong info into the GPS and ended up in Madison Park instead of Capital Hill. I was too late to turn around so we stopped in at a cute little consignment store called Sugarlump […]