Trying to walk

Little man is doing his best to walk. He loves pushing around his lion. He pushes it back and forth. Sometimes he chases the dogs with it and they run!

Jamming

We had planned on getting our pickles done in mid-August. Unfortunately, the cucumber crop had other plans for us. I had already arranged for Wendy, Troy and Michael to help us so we made jam instead.

Michael had all kinds of country adventures. He got to go to the Dell's in Yelm and Mountain Lumber, a couple more things to check off the bucket list!

We got quite a bit done, it was a very productive day.

Meeting Emily and Nathan

Our friends Art and Lisa adopted 2 kids last year. We have been trying to get together forever so the kids could meet. Jeff and Emily got along famously. Nathan is older and I think he was over the whole baby thing. Plus, Jeff kept knocking down his train tracks. We told him this was part of the reason we called him Jeffzilla.

July 2011

Catching up.....Little man is quite a nut. He loves getting into everything - the kitchen cupboards, the magnets on the fridge, the toilet water, the dog's water....

And he likes to eat, some of it even makes it into his mouth!

And his relationship with the dogs has improved exponentially now that he throws food off of high chair on a daily basis.

He loves his toys.

And boy is he cute!

Makenzie's 1st Birthday Party

We went to Makenzie's 1st birthday party at the end of July. Makenzie and Jeff are 11 days apart in age. Makenzie was 6 weeks early though so there's a pretty big size difference.

There were cupcakes galore.

Makenzie thought they were delicious.

Jeff thinks I'm a jungle gym.

Welcome to the big top!

Jeff's Carnival/Circus themed birthday party was yesterday. A friend of mine made the cake, I never could have pulled something like this off.
We had lots of carnival games and prizes for the kids out in the garage. The food tent was in the backyard with Jason at the BBQ.

Jeff wasn't too sure about the cupcake but he got into it. We gave him the very top off of the big top on the big cake. There was red EVERYWHERE. He had to get a bath mid-party.

Good times were had by all. I'm exhausted. Back to work tomorrow after 2 weeks off, boo!

Happy birthday...

We went to the Old Lahaina Town Luau on Jeff's birthday. We had a great time, Jeff really enjoyed the show and was good the entire night. He crashed pretty hard in the car on the way back to the condo.