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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

July

Starting with videos for July: Mitch found a bumblebee costume that is meant for an infant while we were putting away some old clothes.  He thought it would be a great idea to run around with it over his PJs.  The other two videos are Mitch and Elliot apparently beginning their band already.

Now for some regular pics:

 Playing in the sprinkler at Gillian's house on the 4th of July




 Watching street fireworks

 We went to a party this summer with friends that I work with.  Mitch met Rowan, the daughter of a friend and co-worker, Michelle.  It took a little bit but they eventually played with each other all night including Mitch's first game of hide and seek!

 Work peeps


 More work peeps

 The making of the band...Mitch is in love with this ukulele.


 Happy 3rd birthday Mitch!  Still trying to keep up birthday pics with the elephant though he looks like he's in a headlock right now!

 Mitch was pretty lucky this year, he had 2 birthday parties.  This one is a combined party with a friend from school, Alexa.  They have the exact same birthday and we had all the school friends meet at the playground gym where they had some organized games and open play to basically run around and act silly.  

 Cupcakes!


 All the kids finding their ears.

 Then we had some of our other friends over that afternoon.  The cake this year was James from the Thomas the tank engine series (Mitch's request obviously).  It turned out pretty good and he was excited as you can see.

June videos

For some reason I couldn't load the videos onto the last post so here they are: one of Mitch dancing to the music at the Grilled Cheese Grill and Mitch pushing Gillian on the swing.

June

 Spelling names with wooden blocks

 What railroad engineer doesn't wear only underwear and rain boots?

 This was the beginning of Mitch not napping at school, fell asleep in the car and stayed asleep on me once in the house.  I have to say, I didn't hate the snuggling part!

 Went upstairs to wake Charlotte up one day and this is what I found...only her front paws sticking out from under her blanket.  She covers herself up during the night and apparently in the morning it was too bright!

 Train track building with blocks


 Eating lunch on Father's Day at the Grilled Cheese Grill.  They have many variations on grilled cheese and the booths are inside of an old school bus.  They played some pretty rockin' music that Mitch bounced/danced to the whole time he was eating!


 Just some cute pictures of Mitch and Charlotte hanging out


 Mitch and Gillian on the swing before heading out on their tricycles.  Portland has a few Sundays every summer where they close the streets to cars and allow bike traffic only.  The kids rode their bikes to the nearest park and then played for a while before riding home.

 We even got there early enough that we could hang the bikes up!

May







Here are a few pictures of Mitch wearing all of my hair clips at the same time!



Mitch after his haircut with new "spiky" hair

One of Mitch's favorite things to do when I'm about to do his laundry is climb in the basket and have me put all the clothes right on top of him so he's buried!  Then he jumps out and makes a big mess!  (but usually helps to clean it up too.
 Over Memorial Day weekend we took a trip to Lincoln City, at the Oregon Coast.  We stayed in a small house very close to the beach.  The first day was the sunniest and it was still a little chilly but that didn't stop us from exploring the beach.  Here's Mitch standing on the porch.

 Bringing the bucket down to the sand

 Nice sunset

 Running on the beach




 Burying feet

 It's a good age when the boy and his dog are interested in the same things.

 Family photos


One of the more interesting (and stressful) parts of the beach trip was that our car broke down (luckily right in the driveway).  With lots of planning and waiting since it was a holiday weekend and no parts stores were open, we ended up having our car towed all the way back to Portland!  The tow truck driver was very nice and the car seat and Charlotte all fit though as you can see here it was a bit of a tight squeeze!  Mitch was pretty excited about the whole thing!

"The ants go marching" and some of Mitch's rules


Sunday, June 5, 2011

Oops...more April pics



Here are some pictures from Easter, reading "Down by the Station" which is one of Mitch's favorite books (actually he's singing it). He was very excited when the Easter Bunny brought it for him!


We had some pretty nice sun coming through the windows that day, thought I should post a picture of one of our other children, Charlotte.





Playing on the play structure in the back yard


Out in the Gorge, looking at waterfalls


Bubbles!



Dying Easter eggs was a pretty big hit though I think I was the only one who actually ate any of them!








Here's Mitch singing "Down by the Station" with a little help from Mom every now and then




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