FAMILY TRAVELS
Best Bagels in America! (Eltana Bagel, Capitol Hill, WA)
October 2, 2011Looks like the Bean was right about this place, it is definitely drool-worthy. The food world thinks Eltana Bagels is pretty amazing too, apparently they are the best bagels in America! My favorite is the salt bagel. The boys love the plain. And we all love the honey-almond cream cheese. We stopped in this morning […]
Read MoreBreakfast with Tortoises at the Phoenix Zoo (Phoenix, AZ)
September 26, 2011A couple months ago we received our first issue of “Zootles,” a magazine for 2/3 year olds by Zoobooks. This issue was all about turtles and we learned some great facts about these reptiles, for instance the sea turtles like the ones we’ve seen in Hawaii have flippers and can’t put their heads in their […]
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Best Souvenir Ever (Polynesian Cultural Center,Oahu, HI)
September 2, 2011On our last trip to Hawaii, we visited the Polynesian Cultural Center for the first time because Leelee loves luaus. We had a blast exploring all the “islands” with our three year olds and while we waited for dinner we spotted a booth that for 5 dollars you could make a beaded bracelet. Little did […]
Read MoreHow to wash toddlers while camping
August 31, 2011After two days camping the toddlers were filthy and the thought of bringing them into the not-so-pristine camping shower with one of us seemed horrific. Thank goodness we bought a two in one camping bin/bathtub. We heated water on the stove while they were roasting marshmallows and they were thrilled with their jacuzzi. Camping would […]
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Great Airplane Books for Toddlers
August 9, 2011Right now, the boys are definitely in love with airplane books, and here are a few we have been reading to prep for some upcoming getaways: Airplane Flight has lift-up flaps and a catchy-rhyme-y story. The boys love the part where the plane flies around a storm. The Bean was awake when we went through […]
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It takes two nights to be a camper…(Fort Flagler, Washington)
August 6, 2011At about 2 am on Sunday night, you might have heard a scream resonating from some forest far away that sounded like a crazed woman yelling “I’ll never camp again. Get me in the car and take me home-now!” But with good reason. The kids were waking up every 20 minutes, they were a little […]
Read MoreHawaii 2011-where do we begin?
June 27, 2011Travel is getting easier with the duo. At nearly four years old, they can almost navigate themselves and they are a lot more self-sufficient. We went to Oahu a couple weeks ago and had a blast at the Outrigger Reef on the beach. It was a low-key trip where we planned just to sit on […]
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Maui Ocean Center (Wailuku, HI)
May 16, 2011The 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 […]
Read MorePana ‘ewa Zoo (Hilo, HI)
May 13, 2011When 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 […]
Read MoreSan Diego Zoo (San Diego, California)
April 13, 2011We are a definitely a zoo family, (we frequent our local Woodland Park Zoo at least once a week!) so when we went to San Diego we made sure to spend a couple days at the World Famous San Diego Zoo. We debated whether or not to use our strollers, but I’m so glad we […]
Read MoreCafe 222 (San Diego, California)
April 1, 2011A couple blocks away from the New Children’s Museum in San Diego is a lovely little cafe that my hubby went to without me (TWICE!) when he came to San Diego (sans double stroller and haggard baby-momma) one time on a conference. Naturally I wanted to go to, so when we visited San Diego with […]
Read MoreGlamping at the Paradise Point in San Diego
March 30, 2011I love the outdoors but I prefer to be somewhere near civilization at the very same time. It’s not that I’m a diva or anything, but when I’m away from my own home I do like comfortable beds, big bathtubs and fancy toiletries. So when I heard about Paradise Point in San Diego I was […]
Read MoreI HEART the New Children’s Museum (San Diego)
March 11, 2011The New Children’s Museum seemed like a funky, artsy-fartsy and ‘grown up’ chic-sparse place to me when I first read about it, so I wasn’t sure how it would actually be in reality for the toddlers. I knew I would probably love it though so when I saw it had free admission with our Kidsquest […]
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Pancake Toppings Buffet at Portage Bay Cafe (South Lake Union, Seattle)
March 3, 2011Apparently it was pancake week this week and while we’ve been enjoying lots of pancakes at home lately (thank you Snoqualmie Pancake Mix) I think we owe the guys’ flapjack love to the Portage Bay Cafe one of favorite places to get pancakes in Seattle. Our current favorite is the “Dave’s Way” pancake that comes […]
Read MoreHow to Babyproof a hotel room (Kaanapali, Maui)
February 11, 2011I could also have called this post “Slice of Heaven at the Mahana”, as it was this hotel that proved to us that we could travel with babies when we went there in 2009(beachfront, suite-style hotel rooms, in room laundry, and kitchen with dishwasher), but when we got there this trip was definitely more a […]
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Tigh-na-Mara (Parksville, Vancouver Island)
January 30, 2011When I booked this trip, I never imagined how much of an impact it was going to make on our lives-the above pic is now hanging in our living room! My friend S had just gone to the Tigh-Na-Mara resort with her husband and raved about a fabulous spa dining experience and I found a […]
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Tutta Bella Pizza (Wallingford)
January 12, 2011You know it’s going to be a good night when your kid looks like this before a meal: My other guy takes it a little more seriously…..he knows what’s coming.We all love Happy Hour night at Tutta Bella pizza. So much so that when the pizza came, I forgot to take pictures this time. I love that […]
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More California pics…
January 11, 2011I’m working on our video, so I keep finding pics I love. Here are a couple more from the California trip, the beach picture being my favorite EVER! admin
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Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, WA)
December 1, 2010After our second trip to the post office, we finally got Baby R her package in the mail and Auntie P’s noodle card delivered. And then the boys wanted to go to Fred Meyer. They love the big drivable cars. But because it was glorious outside and we only have so many of these spectacular […]
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Seattle Public Library Spanish Storytime(Downtown Seattle, WA)
November 29, 2010I’m not sure how a trip to the post office brought us downtown to the library, but we had a great morning riding the escalators, shopping in the “Friends of the Library” store and hanging out in the Children’s section. The only two pictures I got from this morning are here: They don’t do the […]
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