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Mmm Mmm went the little green frogs

January 23, 2012

If 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

(French) Toasting out 2011 with one last yummy breakfast

December 31, 2011

I think today’s breakfast place will be a favorite in 2012. We’ve driven by numerous times and I fell in love with the logo: And now I’ve fallen in love with their breakfast. We went to the Cheeky Cafe this morning with Auntie and Uncle J and were thrilled to find that the menu had […]

Putting the Finishing touches on Christmas 2011

December 22, 2011

We aren’t totally ready for Christmas yet. There are a million presents to wrap in our basement despite the diligent wrapping efforts the hubby and I have been putting in between episodes of Friday Night Lights and vain attempts to exercise at the gym. But it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The […]

Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String

December 21, 2011

These are a few of my favorite things: Don’t you love how packaging is sometimes so much better than the actual gift or thing inside the box with kids? We recently got some things in the mail and the brown paper packaging was too fun not to play with! And I can’t help but reminisce […]

Alright Hubby, here’s my wishlist:

December 18, 2011

“Where’s your wishlist? ” the hubby asked me smugly after I made him watch the Glee Christmas Episode. “Me? I don’t have one. I have everything I need, “said the Good Wife. Well, almost everything I need…. So Love, if you really want to know, this Christmas I’m just wishing for a little bit of […]

Little Toy Trains. Part One.

December 15, 2011

I have to admit right now I’m a little jealous of my friends with little girls. I love the mom and daughter nails thing. I dream about doing Disney Princess tea. And when I heard in Daily Candy that my favorite local hairdo place Swink is doing Mom and Daughter hairdos I had a little […]

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 […]

Two and one on the way?

December 6, 2011

Let’s make a deal. If you have only met me for a few moments and don’t realize that I’m just lounging boorishly in the comfort of my own passenger seat in the front of my own MINIVAN while waiting for a ferry to arrive with two crazed boys wildly singing in the back, please don’t […]

Less-Words Wednesday

November 30, 2011

On Wednesdays I try and participate in Wordless Wednesdays where you just post pictures but I’m not good with having no words so I just try and write less than I usually do: Here’s what happened when I put out the turkey craft I bought at Michaels for the boys while I did the dishes. […]

Santa and Wishlists

November 29, 2011

The nice thing about going to visit Santa on a rainy day at a Christmas tree farm is that you don’t have a line and the kids get a chance to “really talk” to the big guy and tell him what they want. Santa and wishlists are such a big deal right now in our […]

Holidays have begun!

November 28, 2011

The boys and I were looking through all the flyers that have been arriving with the paper lately. “I don’t want a bird poo Christmas tree” Leelee says. If you want one, you can buy it here. We did not get that one-we cut ours this morning at our favorite Christmas tree farm. The weather […]

Five things I’m looking for on Black Friday

November 22, 2011

In an ideal world, I’d sleep all day Thursday in preparation for my favorite holiday of the year-Black Friday-but two 3-year old boys and a husband who loathes shopping is a huge obstacle on game day and efficiency, planning and a lot more online than real-world shopping is my current game-plan. So five things […]

Fall Days Flying By in Seattle

Where are all the days going? I decided late last night that I do want to make ornaments for the boys’ advent calendar and so now I’m guaranteed to have at least two homemade felt ornaments for them to find. (I have to make 2.444 a night for the 9 evenings until December 1st if […]

A beauty Advent Calendar? Yes please!

November 18, 2011

I recently bought this do it yourself advent calendar with hopes of creating something homemade for my house for Christmastime. Unfortunately the company forgot to include the directions and I have been to lazy to do anything about it. Sadly, this is how it will probably remain until next year. (Don’t tell the hubby.) A […]