A Day at the Fair

Lucas loved the rides as you can see. We did also see the animals for Nora. And have some REALLY greasy food. It was very fun and I think will become a family tradition.

I hear the pitter patter of little.....

raindrops outside my window (ha! you thought I might say a baby is coming). It's pouring here in Seattle. Lucas is asleep in our bed right behind me, good thing he's a heavy sleeper. Which means he will be wide awake tonight night until 10pm. I hear the Kitty Kitty lady calling her cats in from the rain. Literally, she can call "Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty" really fast so it sounds like she's rolling her R's with her tongue, a fasinating gift. Nora is asleep too which means she will be up in 10 minutes. So it seems like Fall is here. Lucas was asking for snow already this morning. The older I get the more I dislike the winter and lack of sun or maybe it's the influence of my husband. But I'm sad that our short summer is over. Maybe I will be surprised and get a sunny warm September. That would be nice since Lucas' birthday is coming up.

Well, enough of my blabbering, although I do see some blogs out there that should be novels.

Here are some new pictures:

This is a dress our neighbor Jing made for Nora for her birthday. She's quite proud of it and loves to wear it.

Lucas hanging out with his neighborhood buddy, Noah - Jing's son.

Seattle's Children's Museum 8/16

Mom and Lucas

Today Lucas took a nap which always mean in our household that Lucas will be up late, usually goes to sleep between 10 and 11pm. It makes for a long evening. Anyway, we sat up in Lucas' "tree house" (more of a play structure) and told stores to each other. Ted went and got a rare photo of Lucas and me. It's usually me that gets the pictures of Ted and the kids.

I've got to get back to blogging...

A couple of pictures to keep you up to date on the cuteness of our kids.

First, Lucas, Nora, Grandma and I went blueberry picking last friday and

got 31 lbs of blueberries. I've made some jam and a blueberry crisp and froze the rest.

The other pictures is of Nora who discovered this hat at mom's house. Mom (Grandma) knits hats. Anyway, she put it on today (a warm day) and wore it home and just look very cute. It will be interesting to see what she does tomorrow when it's even hotter.

Lucas misses preschool and can't wait to go back. He's really looking forward to his birthday and has a list of all his friends he wants to invite, all the presents he wants and all the things he wants to do.

Nora is getting into jewelry more and more. Mom has found a lot of fun jewelry at her house and let's Nora rummage through it. She getting more proficient at taking care of her babies.

This last picture is on that my friend Michelle took of the kids at the park. We spent the morning with her on sunday and she took some great pictures of the kids.

Girly Girl

Nora is such a girl. She loves all that is shiny and sparkly. And her dolls, loves her dolls. I never thought I would have a girly girl since I was a tomboy but she's very cute with it all. My sister started brushing Nora's hair yesterday and Nora probably could have fallen asleep with her doing that, she loved it. This is our bike carrier. Lucas loves it and Nora as you can tell doesn't enjoy it that much.

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Dad remembered.....

Dad's memorial was today. I think it went well and mom felt loved. Attached is the video that I made for the service.

My brother Chris wrote and read a beautiful history of my dad.

It was good but we still miss Dad!