July 31
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Day 211: Lebanese Feast
July 30
Dinner at Ya Hala with our friends Becki and Dave. We ordered a feast for 4, and there literally wasn't enough room on the table for all the food at once. Yum!
Day 210: The Do Love Each Other!
July 29
What every mom loves to see. We're all glad the older two are back from camp!
Day 209: We Got the Sillies
July 28
Hamming it up for the camera on her last night as an only child.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Day 208: What Happens When You Turn a 5-Year-Old Loose at YoCream?
July 27
Nerds, M&Ms and sprinkles, oh, my.
(I'm pretty sure there's frozen yogurt in there somewhere.)
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Day 207: Tiger Fight
July 26
Today at the zoo we watched this brother and sister pair work through some sibling rivalry. *No tigers were harmed in the taking of this picture. The sister won the fight and the brother sulked off to his bedroom. Or so the friendly zookeper lady told us.
Day 206: Enchanted Forest
July 25
Ellie and her BFF Katie are both experiencing a jump this week from youngest child to only child while their big sisters are at camp, so Katie's mom and I helped them make the most of it by taking them to the Enchanted Forest. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day for these two five-year-olds. From Storybook Lane to the kiddie rides to the roller coasters to Little Red Riding Hood comedy theatre, all four of us had a blast!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Day 205: Happy Campers
July 24
We dropped them off this afternoon for a week of hiking, canoeing, swimming, climbing, and just plain old having fun in the great outdoors! It's going to be really quiet around here, but Ellie already has big plans for her week as an only child. Case in point: not posted is the picture of all three of them where she said, "Let's pretend like we miss each other!"
Day 204: Lakalaka
July 23
We had a big BBQ/Luau at our church, complete with a children's parade and several songs and dances, including this lakalaka by members of the Tongan congregation. Watching things like this makes me wish I belonged to a culture that has a traditional dress and dance.
Day 203: Peek-a-Boo!
July 22
Ellie didn't want her picture taken, but I managed to snap this one before she ran away.
Day 202: Lost in North Portland
July 21
I was taking Vicki and her friend Kate to Kate's grandma's house for a sleepover, but I'm not familiar with this part of town at all. I decided to rely on the GPS instead of looking at a map and got a little jumpy and took the wrong freeway exit. We were forced to cross this bridge (which, thanks for Vicki's 3rd grade teacher, I know is the St. John's bridge) (ETA: No, it's not. It's the Fremont Bridge. Which I knew. I swear.) twice and then drove past it several more times because the GPS kept telling me, in her oh-so-friendly way, to make a U-turn where U-turns weren't possible. We finally found the grandma's house, though, and made it home completely uneventfully. Whew.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Day 201: Matchy-Matchy
July 20
Vicki and her friend Shelbie earned these towels by selling over 500 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies (Shelbie actually sold over 1000.) Nice job, ladies!
Day 200: I Come By it Honestly
July 19
These are just some of the photo albums my mom kept for me over the years. Each of my siblings has a similar number of albums. We like taking pictures in my family.
Day 199: Cooking Lunch
July 18
She prides herself on the fact that she can cook Ramen with very little help.
Day 198: Mimes
July 17
They put on a show for us, entirely in mime. I have no idea why, but honestly, they're quite good.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Day 196: The Wait is Over!!!
July 15
12:20am
I loved the movie! The last half of the 7th book is my favorite part of the whole series, and they managed to do really well adapting it to film. It was a little bittersweet, though, because this is the last Harry Potter release to look forward to. I've been reading the books since 1999, around the time Prisoner of Azkaban was published, so I've had to wait for releases since Goblet of Fire came out. And now...the wait is over.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Day 194: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
July 13
I have been telling Chris for weeks now that I needed a book that left me feeling like a better person for having read it. Thanks to an impromptu trip to Powell's last week, I think I've found a winner. I'm only about 3/4 of the way through, but it's amazing. Thank you Emily and Mel for recommending it!
Day 193: Riding the Bus
July 12
I took the car into the shop today (hooray for working A/C!), and Ellie and I rode the bus to pick it up. She insisted on dressing up for the occassion: purple velvet sweatpants, her purse, and a floppy, fluffy purple hat, and her ensemble wasn't the strangest one I saw today. Public transportation is awesome.
Day 191: One in a Million
July 10
We recently had a change in the leadership at our church. Today we had a little thank-you party for our outgoing Bishop, and the children sang a song for him called "One in a Million".
Friday, July 8, 2011
Day 189: Monkeys
July 8
We discovered the perfect climbing tree today at a local park. Lexi's in the red near the bottom of the picture, and Vicki is the bright blue spot about 2/3 of the way up. To give you an idea of just how perfect this tree is (at least in a kid's eyes), Lexi was about 10 feet up.
Day 188: Step by Step
July 7
Lately Ellie has been writing directions for herself (and everyone else.) This one says, "Step 1, go into the kitchen. Step 2, ask Mom if I can have a snack [can you tell which one is me?]. Step 3, dance around all excited when she says yes."
Day 187: Swimmer
July 6
(With sunburned shoulders - ouch! She and Lexi learned a valuable sunscreen lesson yesterday.) All this girl needs to do is master the butterfly and she moves up to Level 10, the highest level at their swimming lessons. Definitely her father's daughter.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Day 184: Round and Round She Goes
July 3
Despite the fact that she gets sick easily, Vicki spent at least a half hour on the merry-go-round at the park this evening, and lived to tell the tale.
Day 183: YoCream!
July 2
Lexi and I had a date at our favorite frozen yogurt place this afternoon. In her words: "Best. Day. Ever!"
Day 182: Bracelets for Sale
July 1
Vicki and her friends are making and selling these bracelets to help finance their Outdoor School adventure next year.
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