Jeepin'

When Matt was about 8 months old I cam across one of those Hotwheels battery powered Jeeps at a garage sale.  It had no batteries, so I haggled the lady down to $10, figuring I could get batteries later. Turns out the batteries for those things are a LOT more $ than I though, so it's been sitting in the garage, where Matt uses it to pretend drive.

Last week Jamie found a person on craigslist selling a Barbie Jeep with new batteries. It was cheap enough that we decided to get it.  Now, we've got one set of batteries and two jeeps, but Matt likes to drive them both.

He's working on his driving, but coordinating the feet and hands isn't going to well for the fine maneuvering.  I'm not looking forward to 13years from now after this last week.... 

With his driving ability rivaling that of a blue haired 90 year old lady, he is of course required to wear a helmet.


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Jake

Waiting for Baby sister!

All 3 of us are anxiously awaiting the arrival of baby sister, who is expected any day now!  Hard to believe it's been 9 months already!  Matt and I have been hard at work getting the house ready both for baby sister and for winter, which sadly seems to be approach rapidly.

We did manage to have a pretty good time during the few short weeks of warm weather we got in the Seattle area this year.

Some days are rougher than others.  One day I came home from work and found this.

Before Ned had to go back to Texas we managed to get our boat out on Lake Washington. Matt had a good time getting to drive the boat. 

Jamie had a baby shower for Baby Sister one Saturday, so Matt and I met up with Drew, Ben and Ty at the park for a few hours.

Swingin'

Snack Time!

Matt's started to get very into building stuff.  Crinkles are a favorite, as are blocks and Wedge-it's.

We got a new electric leafblower to make an attempt at keeping the back deck (and therefore the house) pine tree debris free.  Matt's decided this leafblower is his.

During some of the hottest weather we managed to get some time to play in the splat mat.

Celebrating chocolate chip pancakes!

This is the Mr. Rogers face.  He LOVES Mr. Rogers.

At the Fair with Grandma, GranDan and Mommy.

Pumping

Grinding Grain

Matt's usual favorite, the pony rides.  You can see he doesn't enjoy this at all...

On the roller coaster with grandma.

One of the Mr. Rogers episodes is about pottery.  Matt was so enthralled that we got out the pottery wheel, blew the dust off and made some pots.

It's a dirty job.

Trevor and Marie came over one day and brought Matt some trains, so we got out his train set finally.  That weekend I'd say he spent 6-7hours playing with the trains.  For a 2 year old that kind of attention span with 1 toy is amazing.  It now has a permanent place in the living room.

Making Pet Rocks and playing with the dumptruck.

Enjoying the new pool with Mommy last weekend.

Making cookies!

Judging from Jamie's belly, the next update will be on the happenings of 2 kids, not just 1!

Jake

San Juans Trip 2011

Last weekend we met up with the usual crew in the San Juans for a weekend of boating, playing on the beach, and relaxing.

Matt had a great time with all the other kids, every morning waking up, looking outside and asking "Where'd my friends go?"  Usually they were all still asleep because he was up TOO early.  oh well, who needs sleep?

On the ferry with Uncle Ryan

Matt and Felix getting into trouble

Going for a little run

This was in somebody's yard, but really, can you have a stone bunny in your yard and NOT expect toddlers to want to sit on it?

We went to the Lopez Island Farmer's market to browse a bit.  

Mmmmm Costco Muffins....

Hanging out with Maya

Uncle Ned thought he could sleep in just because he was in a tent.  No such luck.

Notice the right hand yellow glove.  We'll get to that in a minute.

Digging clams!

 

Poor Matt managed to put his finger in the hinge on the boat seat.  Lost some skin and some tears, but it's about a week later now and he's healing fine.

Chillin on the boat with Ned.

Matt had a blast driving the boat, declaring himself the Captain early in the weekend.

Helping Auntie untangle the real.  Wonder how THAT happend?

Glow sticks!

There's a Poppy dog on the other end of that leash....

Helping to try and "fix" the cart.

Hanging with Grandma.

With Auntie and Uncle back on the Ferry

The whole crew.  There's a few more of us than when we started doing this about 25 years ago.

Random Pictures, a Trip to Seattle, and Horse Riding

July sure went quickly!  The weather here wasn't great most of the month, but we did manage to get out and do some fun stuff.

Playing in the yard.

Poor cat, this is basically a daily occurance.

A little marble art.

 One Saturday we went up to the Farm in Mukilteo and spent a while checking out the animals.  Matt had a lot of fun petting the sheep and goats that just wander around.

Most of the pictures I took on our visit with the Jewsbury's didn't come out, but I thought this one of Matt lounging with his phone was too funny not to post.

Breaching cellphone etiquette.

"Fixing" his bike.

Grandma and GranDan stayed at a hotel one night, and Matt took full advantage of stopping by to hit the pool.  He's getting to be almost a swimmer!

We got the boat out on Lake Washington one day, took Matt down to the mouth of the Cedar for a little wading on the sand bar.

Too much fun makes for a tired monkey.

Last weekend some of my Aunts were in town, so we met up with them down at Pike's Place Market to wander around a bit and visit.  We gave Matt one of our old camera's that still (sort of) works so that he could take pictures too.

Hanging onto Mommy.

He was pretty enthralled by one of the street musicians.

Riding the Pig!

The pictures that came off Matt's camera for the weekend were pretty entertaining, lots of the house, the inside of the car, Seattle, Top Foods, and Home Depot.  Because I wasn't the one with the camera for once, there's even some pictures of me in there!  I edited out a lot of them, but here's a little slide show of the world from Matt's perspective.

Auntie got Matt horse riding lessons at one of the local parks.  He's been having quite a blast with it, though he was trying to get the horse to go "faster" and "Jump horse!" on Thursday.  Luckily there's not much fast or jump in these ponies.

Looking cool in Auntie's shades

Learning to brush the horse.

Pat your way around the back.

Hoof Picking

Riding through the woods

Matt got to switch horses about half way through the ride with a little girl who wanted to try the big horse.  Putting Matt on the little "half a horse" was pretty funny.

That poor horse.

Matt and Sofi definitely hit it off.

Tug-o-war with the little girl.

Time to go wash up!