Seattle family

Seattle Top Pot Morning

February 18, 2012

We were running errands all morning and I asked the boys where they wanted to go for a snack as a reward for tagging along. And they decided that they wanted doughnuts. (Or donuts?) But what they really wanted were “sprinkly” Top Pot doughnuts to be exact. (I guess I didn’t specify a healthy snack.) […]

Pepper painting and the saddest attempt at macarons

February 9, 2012

Some days are meant for lying around, reading books, painting and baking-especially a grey day after a week of sunshine. I thought we would make cheery pepper flower paintings. I saw something similar in a recent Family Fun issue using celery, and thought they were amazing. Peppers make more of a peony shape. They boys […]

Come In Winter (when we get snow in Seattle)

January 19, 2012

This morning we took a a page from the boy’s Owl Book where he welcomes in Winter and brought the snow inside to play because this was one of those rare mornings where we woke up to snow in Seattle. It was almost as messy as the snow disaster in the Owl book we read, […]

Snow Day

January 18, 2012

After two days of waiting, we finally woke up to enough snow outside that we could really call it a snow day. Do you get snow where you live? In Seattle it seems like we only get snow like this every few years. We hung up our bird feeders. We made pumpkin seeds and pumpkin […]

What you do the day before the Biggest Snowstorm Ever!

January 17, 2012

According to this article we have a “juicy storm” coming our way. I totally thought it was coming today so I’ve prepared for the biggest snowstorm ever. I forgot that living in the United States the news is always Armageddon with the weather so I totally wasted my day thinking I would be stuck on […]

Books, Babies and a Brief Encounter at the Seattle Aquarium

January 14, 2012

The boys love this book that they received when they wee babies (Thank you Marcia and Ken!) and I think because they love it, they also love the sea otters at the aquarium. So when I told them that one of the sea otters was going to have a baby a couple weeks ago, it’s been […]

great membership deal at seattle aquarium with kids

Wordless Wednesday: Active Octopus at the Seattle Aquarium

January 11, 2012

Some days the world just seems a whole lot more wonderful. I could watch the octopus at the Seattle Aquarium all day. It’s probably the most active one we’ve ever seen and we love to check out the octopus tank when we come to the aquarium to visit our undersea friends. The kids also love […]

Anjou Bakery (Cashmere, WA)

We went to Wenatchee this weekend looking for snow and found a bakery, of course. And we didn’t find snow in actual Wenatchee-but we did at LAKE Wenatchee which made it absolutely perfect and then we found more snow again at the Hyak Sno-Park on the way home. And all of that was lovely. But […]

Things you don’t really need at Ikea but should buy anyway

January 6, 2012

This morning we headed to Ikea because we wanted to get some drawer pulls to replace some that had broken. Unfortunately we couldn’t find them in the maze and it felt very cliche to be shopping for organizational stuff the first week of January anyways. So we didn’t buy anything functional. It was just a […]

2/366

January 3, 2012

Two days in and I’ve already sort of broken two of my resolutions. We were going to try and eat out less in 2012. And then we ate out tonight. We couldn’t even make it through the first week without eating out, so I think I’m going to addend my resolution to say that […]

Photobooth Shenanigans

December 14, 2011

Best three dollars I’ve spent in a while and you can even use a credit card these days. This photobooth is one of the only ones I know about in Seattle and I hope it’s still there. This photobooth is in Westlake Center. You see it immediately when you come off the monorail near the […]

If you give a toddler boy an Iphone…

December 8, 2011

There are no words for this one. I gave my toddler boy an iphone while I was busy doing an errand and needed him to be quiet so I let him do the draw anything screen. Of course my phone comes back like this after a few minutes of silence and then a round of […]

In case you were wondering what jet-lagged twin toddlers look like

November 9, 2011

This is 2am on Saturday night. We are making pancakes and waiting for the sun to rise. This is after about 14 trips to the bathroom and me waving a white flag. This is what jet-legged twin toddlers look like. Two of us were thrilled-pancakes at midnight? What fun! And one of us is too […]