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Menchies (Seattle, WA)

December 2, 2010

Rumor has it that Menchies might open tomorrow on the top of Queen Anne. I took a stroll by and it’s everything adorable I’d like to see in a Froyo place. Crossing my fingers for mochi! Not sure who will love this more, the boys or me. Cute sign, eh? admin

Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, WA)

December 1, 2010

After 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 […]

Seattle Public Library Spanish Storytime(Downtown Seattle, WA)

November 29, 2010

I’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 […]

first time cutting a christmas tree near north bend

U-Cut Trees at Christmas Creek(North Bend, WA)

November 28, 2010

Early Saturday morning we headed up to North Bend Washington to try cutting down a Christmas tree for the very first time. We didn’t do much research for this endeavor, so when we saw “Christmas Creek” had a working website, was 3o minutes from Seattle and had a decent “Yelp“(albeit from 3 years ago!) we […]

Westlake Center all lit up! (Seattle, WA)

November 27, 2010

And us, out past dark with the toddlers. Here’s proof. admin

Black Friday Adventures!

November 26, 2010

In my past life, I would scour the deals on Thanksgiving, plan my attack route and shop from the time the first store opened its doors until I could no longer fit any more bags in my car. Not this year. (Okay, I stayed up until midnight last night to buy this traintable at Costco.com […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 25, 2010

On a snowy Thanksgiving morning, our family found ourselves at the zoo, one of our favorite places in Seattle. Most of the animals were curled up somewhere warm where we couldn’t see them, but the penguins were frolicking and so were we. And a little ocelot had a little snow treat too. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! […]

Toddler Books and Art Round Two

November 24, 2010

Yesterday’s activity was so successful that I had to try it again today-actually the guys were the ones to make the connection, not me this time. Since we are snowed in, I am desperate for things to do to. The guys found a bottle of glue when we were playing downstairs(thank goodness they couldn’t open […]

Toddler Art: Making connections with favorite Board Books

November 23, 2010

The boys are really into a book called “Trucks Go” by Steve Light right now. It’s a board book that simply features different big trucks and the sounds they make. These trucks include a fire truck, a box truck and an auto-carrier; pretty much all the kind of trucks that make toddler boys go ‘WOW!” […]

Toddlers’ First Hot Chocolate

November 22, 2010

We went to the zoo yesterday and were greeted by cold weather and a few flakes. So today it was no surprise to see:andThe snow is still falling at our house while the guys recover from this morning’s adventures.(I’m hoping we tired them out tremendously-let’s go 4pm naps!) They also got to try something else […]

High Five Fish (Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA)

November 19, 2010

You never know where you’re going to see something truly remarkable. Here’s the High Five Fish at the Seattle Aquarium. I should have looked at what it’s really called, but you can find it in the back area with the Sea Horses. We visited him last week and every time the guys put their thumbs […]

Truly Amazing Evening (sans wee ones, Seattle, WA)

November 17, 2010

Every so often mom and dad need a night on the town, and we truly had a spectacular evening at Canlis last night. (This was my first time at this iconic Seattle institution and it was everything I dreamed it would be and then some.) Ever since I drooled over the Chocolate Covered Chocolate dessert […]

Wild Ginger (Seattle, WA)

November 14, 2010

(PS. I’m not sure what the prices are like now in 2023….for reference my kids are now 15 so we haven’t had a kids’ meal in a while. But I keep posts like this so we remember what things were actually like when our kids were little. I can’t believe this was a $3.50 meal […]

Ray’s Cafe (Seattle, WA)

November 12, 2010

If ever one could have a perfect meal at a restaurant with toddlers we nailed it at Ray’s Café on Monday. We had the perfect spot on the patio where the twins could occasionally get out of their highchairs and watch the kayaks and longboarders paddle by through the glass. The sun was shining, the […]