Westport 2012

We had a great time again in Wesport this year.  I actually think Wesport 2011 was one of my first blogs ever so I think its pretty much my blogging anniversary!  We went with Tim's parents again but this time Tim was able to have the time off work to come.  The weather was even nice for part of the time.  Most of what we do there you can do in the rain anyway so it didn't matter too much.  We even swam in the inground pool/hot tub in the rain.

My boys can always spend hours exploring on the beach.

The condo where we stay has a roof with a patio where we ate dinner one night.  Georgous views.  The Olympic Mountains in the distance didn't quite make the picture.

On the oceanside trail...

Putting in his pajamas...

Ezra could only do putting for so long.  After a while he entertained himself by blocking the holes and making it more challenging for us to sink it.

The beach has great cliffs for jumping.  Ezra was big enough this year to participate!

Throwing sticks in the ocean and watching how long it took for them to come back to us...

Christian also had the incident with the door on our last night in Wesport.  The front door of the condo is pretty serious.  Quite heavy.  Christian was going to try to find Ezra who was playing hide and seek and had gone to hide in the elevator.  Somehow Christian had his hand in the door and it slammed shut.  It was pretty obvious right away that we needed to go the E.R. so off we went.  Grammy stayed back with the other 2 boys.  Christian was very brave.  He fell asleep in the car on the way to the hospital which was a good thing because he was able to be a little rested to endure the procedures that happened to him.  He had x-rays which determined that he did fracture the tip of his finger.  He also (sorry this is gross) dislodged his fingernail and it had to be stiched back on.  Needless to say I didn't watch.  We made it home by 12:30 am so we were a bit tired the next morning but it certainly could have been much worse.  I was really thankful that I wasn't home alone with the boys when it happened.

Firsts and Lasts

Actually, I should call this "Lasts and Firsts"

Last day of kindergarten...

First broken bone... 

He actually only broke the tip of his middle finger and there will be no splint or cast.  He did have to have his fingernail sewn on at the E.R.  We were out of town of course, in Westport.  More details to follow...

Little Boy Treasure

We caught a whole mess of tadpoles.  Some are frogs and some are salamanders.  We are doing our best to take good care of them and feed them in hopes of watching the transformation!  Tim's parents have this wonderful nature pond in their neighborhood where we caught them all.  We plan to let them go there again when they have grown.  Some of the salamander tadpoles we caught already have 4 legs.  Pretty awesome nature lesson!

Crazy hair day at school!

 I shaved Austin's hair into a mohawk.  That was a bit of a challenge but it turned out pretty well.  Even Ezra participated.  I was at work, so dad gets to claim the handiwork with the colors.  Way to go dad!

Happy Birthday Tim!

My husband turned 40 last week!  Hard to believe.  We had a few good surprises cooked up for him though.  His best friend Jon, who lives in Omaha, flew out for 4 days.  I blindfolded Tim and drove to the airport and we picked up Jon.  Tim was totally surprised.  It was great fun.  Tim and Jon have kept their friendship going through the years.  They are more like brothers than friends.  We lived in the same town as Jon and his wife when we were married and even in the same neighborhood for a while.  It was great to have him out visiting, especially for Tim.  Although we have some great friends where we live, we don't have anyone we are friends with that we have a long history with.

We went straight from the airport to Camano Island to a zip line course.  None of us had ever tried this, but it was great fun, and adventurous!  There were 6 zip lines and 2 guides that went along with us and did all the hooking up and sending us off on each line and catching us on the other end.  It was BEAUTIFUL weather.  I could not have been more greatful for that. 

Beautiful view of Mt. Baker off in the distance.

The scariest part of the whole thing for me was getting down at the end.  You had to be lowered on a rope through this hole in the platform and come down.  It wasn't too bad, but sitting down at the top through the hole and letting yourself fall back a bit did give me pause...

We also had a small party one night with friends from church and Tim's family.  I dressed the boys and cousin Levi up as "little old men" and sprayed their hair white.  They came down the stairs marching and singing "Happy Birthday".  Quite cute.

Tim and Jon and his brother Chris...

Unidentified Plant!

This post is mostly for my dad.  This plant was living in our front flower bed when we moved in to our house.  It has continued to thrive and spread.  It blooms May-July with these purple flowers.  I wish I knew what it was!  Anyone have any ideas?

Cute sayings

I don't want to forget the cute things that Ezra is still saying.  Being 4 he is really the only child young enough in our house to still come up with those cute little kid sayings.  If I don't blog about it, I'll forget it.  When he saw this book at the library he commented that "its just not fair...everyone gets to go to Hawaii except me...even Froggy!"

He also loves to play a game with me that I never win.  We call it "I'm thinking of a superhero".  It came out of the game I started which is "I'm thinking of an animal".  Its a game that used to get us through long car rides or kids fighting at the dinner table.  I would think of an animal and they would ask me questions until they guessed the animal and then whoever guessed it would have to come up with the next animal we would ask questions about.  So now Ezra does the same game with me except with characters like Spiderman, Dr. Strange, Mr. Fantastic, Bat Man etc.  I really do try to come up with good guesses and clues, but I'm pretty hopeless.  When its my turn to "think of" someone, its usually Wonder Woman!