After weeks of the boys being Kyla and T-bird, the hubby and I are ready for the duo to start a new sport. So the other night we headed to Kent for the first time to see the Thunderbirds in their “new” stadium. (We used to go regularly when they were at Key Arena, pre-duo […]
Read MoreI can’t imagine a more serene or beautiful place than Crystal Cove. I’m not sure why we never went here before. Maybe the Newport Beachers want to keep it a secret for themselves? When we checked into our hotel, (I seriously can’t recommend the Marriott Newport Coast Villas enough!!!) we overhead someone talking about the […]
Read MoreLast night I promised the kids I would take them on a bus ride today and then this morning the weather was yucky and with the unpredictability of public transit to somewhere we could drive to in our own “silver bus” seeming unfathomable and scary, I tried to backtrack on my promise. I found and […]
Read MoreWe 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.) […]
Read MoreThank goodness for cookie cutters. One boy wanted frog pancakes for breakfast. I just added the Pocky sticks because they were pink and on the counter but the guys pretended they were chopsticks. I pretended that I did that on purpose so they could try to pick up their pancakes and it turned out to […]
Read MoreThree must be the new thirteen. I didn’t think I’d have to answer tough questions this early, and they keep coming rapid-fire. “Mommy? How did I get in your belly? Did you eat me?” or “Mommy? Why is my poo brown? Why Mommy! Tell me why!” And then we have the days when we don’t […]
Read MoreThis is how I imagined my boys would look at Disneyland. But one boy is currently a little scared of indoor rides, loud noises, things that have scary parts, anything that might have a tunnel and the outside of the Tiki Tiki Tiki Room. So at one point we had a few tears and it […]
Read MoreSome 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 […]
Read MoreCupcakes in bed when the duo goes to sleep. I admit I reluctantly shared this delightful cupcake I picked up in Fashion Island( my favorite outdoor mall ever!). It was pretty yummy and looked a whole lot better before it was decimated. And though it might not be the absolute best part of vacation (I […]
Read MoreI didn’t even have time to spell the whole word. Within minutes, it was destroyed. Goodbye January! Goodbye Jan. What a weird weather month you’ve been. Warm enough weather for biking at the park. Snow. And glorious sunshine. (Maybe this doesn’t count as actual Seattle weather because it involved an airplane, but it certainly helped […]
Read MoreThis is what waiting at the airport looks like sometimes with kids in tow. We bring things like our trunki suitcases to keep our kids entertained but in reality when flights get delayed or there isn’t a lot of space to sit down in our waiting area, there isn’t much we can do. Sometimes we […]
Read MoreA perfect morning for the boys and I, is a trip out to our farm. I guess it’s not really our farm, but we feel like it is. It’s only about a half an hour away from Seattle and we adore Farmer Jayne and the other staff who work there. We take a lot of […]
Read MoreIf there ever was a beach to make you yell “I heart beach” at the top of your lungs this is it. This is Newport Beach in California and it’s probably our favorite. When we think of all the beaches we travel to and love it’s always this one. And ona perfect day there isn’t […]
Read MoreI read about the National Children’s Castle in this book about Kid’s Trips in Tokyo, (a little-bit outdated guide from 1996 but useful nonetheless) and it sounded very cool, kind of like the kids’ museums we have in Seattle. Don’t mistake it for the Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Hall. That one is currently closed until at […]
Read MoreThere’s been a lot of talk in the mom world lately about Carpe Diem, and frankly, whenever I hear that phrase, all I can imagine is Robin Williams eerily whispering it to those college boys in Dead Poet’s Society and it creeps me out and makes me feel old. I prefer the mantra you see […]
Read MoreIf you are in Seattle on a rainy day in the winter, one of the most delightful places to hide away is in the Rainforest at the Woodland Park Zoo. It is warm and cozy and full of neat exhibits to explore and our favorite exhibit is the Poison Dart Frogs. It keeps us out […]
Read MoreThis 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, […]
Read MoreAfter 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreJaguars can swim. I never would have believed it if I hadn’t seen it at this zoo. We love the Singapore Zoo by the way. And now we know that jaguars can swim and it seemed like they could even smell raw chicken in water from the shore. Each time they dipped underwater they came […]
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