Squishy Tummy

So, for a few months now, Matthew has been in the habit of hitting my stomach and saying in a low voice, "you have a squishy tummy!" Yeah, yeah, I haven't been exercising as much these days and I suppose it is a little "squishier" than it used to be, but still? This morning I actually went out for a run around our neighborhood for a total of a little over 2 miles. Matthew met me at the door as I came inside and said, "where did your tummy go? Let me see it." (I have told him before that I need to run to get rid of the so-called squishy tummy) I lifted up my shirt and sucked in my stomach as far as I could as he hit it hard with his hand. "See, it's still squishy, you have to run for a couple whiles."

He makes me laugh and makes me realize how much I do need to exercise!

Preschool

Well, Matthew had his first day of preschool this week and he is loving it. Grace has the hardest time when we drop him off. When we get back in the car, she cries her head off and points to his car seat, "brudder! brudder!" I'm trying to make the most of our girl time and hopefully she will come to look forward to those days, but for now, she misses her brudder.

Summer at Seaside

We spent a week at Seaside and Cannon Beach to end the summer and had a wonderful time with friends, playing at the beach, the pool, riding bikes (Matt's getting pretty good with the training wheels), the merry-go-round, flying a kite and just relaxing together. Grace ran straight into the ocean the first time we hit the beach and she realized how freezing it was. Later that day we got our suits on and headed for the pool. After sitting in the 87 degree kiddie pool for a few seconds, Grace looked at me and said, "better." I knew exactly what she meant!

Day Out with Thomas

Well, we recently experienced the culmination of our son's train obesession. Yes, the famous Day Out with Thomas. He actually got to ride on the real deal and meet Sir Topham Hatt, or as Matthew pronounces it, "Top-a-hat". Grandma and Grandpa got in on the action too. What a day it was, and here are the pictures he has been pouring over ever since we got home!

More Thomas

Funny Kids

Our neighbors gave us this basketball hoop and this was what the kids did with it! It was too funny, we put it back up but they keep pulling it down to climb on it and through the net.

More Summer

We are loving the summertime and we celebrated Grace's half-birthday last week, as you can see in the pictures. She devoured her brownie delight and still has a ton of energy to keep up with her brother. Auntie Brynn has been over to play a few times lately too. Her dog, Famous, has been a big hit at our house!

Happy Father's Day

This was Matthew's Father's Day present to Clint. His teacher at school asked him about his daddy and this is what Matthew came up with. Not sure it's exactly accurate, but not bad and great to get Matt's perspective.

The Gig Maritime Parade

Last Saturday, we spent the day at the downtown parade. What fun it was! The kids couldn't get enough of the floats, marching bands with music and bubbles, and everything being thrown to them like candy, balls, candy, rubber duckys, and did I mention candy? These pictures show us with our friends, Meg, Mesh and their kids Nate and Riley. Super fun day!!!

Discovery Bay

We just got back from an overnight trip at Discovery Bay, between Port Townsend and Sequim. The kids loved playing at the beach, getting pizza from the train restaurant, and Matthew even got to use his own money from his new wallet to buy candy at the candy shop in Port Townsend. He was pretty proud of that!

Random pics

Helping dad with homework, hanging with Grace G., and just having a fun time together!

Close call

We had a bit of a scare a couple weeks ago when the kids were playing with the paint and having a good old time in the sunshine. After awhile, Matthew decided to get the hose to clean up and then filled up the large bucket with water. Grace immediately jumped in and splashed in the "pool" for 20-30 min. As you can see, she is having the time of her life, but apparently became numb very quickly and I ended up having to take her to the doctor to get her circulation going again with a hot pack. Yikes! It was scary, but here are the picture to prove that there was really no way of knowing that she was too cold or in any kind of pain.

Mama's Sweet Babies

My Little Monkeys!

Playing around inside too