Diva in Training!

Well, we all think it's really funny now but like the title stated, I swear Brooke is going to be a Diva. Especially if Auntie Janet has anything to say about it. Here is a picture of her at Auntie J's house in her bathing suit that she got for her birthday and her sunglasses. I'm surprised she didn't want her purse and cellphone! She's a pretty smart cookie though. I was putting watermelon in her bowl tonight after dinner and she counted the pieces as I placed them in her bowl. She went all the way to 10 all by herself with no help from mommy or Kyle. Pretty good for a kid who just turned 2 a few months ago. Kyle is a smarty pants too. Before he was even 2, he knew about half of the alphabet. I would have to venture to guess now that he has about 3/4 of it down now. Whenever we are out somewhere, he always points out all of the letters that he sees. I love it when he can give me the letter AND the color! What can I say....I'm a proud momma!

Kites

I have to post this funny story about Kyle. At the beginning of the month, we had the carpets cleaned so we moved all of the furniture out of the family room so the carpet guy could clean that entire room. Well, Kyle got up early that morning as usual. He is sitting on the carpet in the middle of the room with himself and this airplane kite that I bought him when we were on the Oregon coast. From the picture, you can tell that it's not small. When I bought the darn thing, I asked the guy if we had to be an engineer to fly the darn thing. Anyhow, I am trying to get out the door to go to work and Steve is just arriving home from work. What I didn't realize

was that the cat was in there trying to play with the tail on this kite. This was upsetting Kyle and making him cry. I told Kyle to tell the kitty cat NO. So I would hear him tell the cat no. Well, all of a sudden, the cat comes running out from wherever, grabs ahold of the tail of this kite in his mouth and takes of with the kite. Kyle is hysterical. The cat runs to the kitchen with the kite, the kite gets stuck between the highchairs and the sofa that has been moved in there because of the carpets being cleaned. I am trying my best not to laugh all the while Kyle is yelling NO to the cat and telling me that the kite is broken. Thank God. The kite is no broken. Good thing as we haven't even be able to get that thing in the air yet. Whole nother story there! Thought I would pass that along. Kids! Gotta love 'em!

Thomas the Train

OK, so we are now ALL about Thomas the Train in our household. Kyle is officially obsessed with the trains. He wakes up in the morning and says, "Kyle play choo choo." He would play with it all day if we let him. It's cute too, this morning, Brooke went by the train table and said, "Choo night night." It was a great investement and I'm glad we got it. Mommy already wants to build another track for the kids. Perhaps I like it as much as they do! I already have plans for what I want to get them for Christmas! Trains of course!!!
Kyle has also figured out that if he brings the ball over to the table, he can sit on it and he will be chest high to the table. Smart kid! The kids are too funny on what they come up with.

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All Aboard!!

This weekend has been ALL about trains! The kids and I went up to Victoria Gardens on Saturday to ride on the train up there. When we got there at 10:45am, it wasn't there yet. So, mommy had to tell a white lie and tell the kids that the train was still sleeping and he would be here in a little bit. We used out time wisely and Auntie Janet would be proud. We went to the Brighton store. The kids did great as the woman there gave them a cookie. Everyone was happy!! So, back to the train weekend. We went back to the train and it was there. I was really nervous that we would get up there and Kyle wouldn't want to go on the darn thing. He was a bit nervous at first but once I picked him up and we got in the car toghther, he was fine. It goes around this little area twice. We had a good time.
After the train right we decided to go up to the Thomas the Train store. We played in there until it was naptime AND of course, Kyle stunk up the place with his diaper. We headed home for our nap and while the kids were sleeping, I decided to get online and start looking at Thomas the train stuff. My mind was made up! We were going to head down to the store after naptime and get a Thomas table. So after about an hour in the Thomas isle and speaking to a very nice lady and her family, we were out the store with $$$ worth of Thomas the Train stuff! YUP! I will officially say it! The kids are spoiled! I had a lot of fun doing this with them.

As of this morning, Kyle has been playing with this Thomas the Train since about 8:30am and it is now almost 11am!!! He loves it! I am so glad that I got it. Brooke likes it too it's just her attention span is much shorter than his! We have officially entered the world of Thomas!

1st Ferry Boat Ride

While in Seattle, we decided to take a ferry boat ride up to the San Juan Islands. We drove to Anacortes which is about 1.5 hrs from Bellevue. From there, we walked on to the boat and took an hour ride up to Friday Harbor. We packed a picnic lunch and ate on the boat. The kids did really well. I love the fact that we can throw anything at them and they just go with the flow. Our entire plan, entirely thought up by Pop Pop, was to go up and get an ice cream cone in Friday Harbor and then come back. The weather was awesome and we could have stayed longer but the next ferry wasn't for 4 hours. Friday Harbor is a very cute quaint town but to walk around for 4 hours, too much especially with 2 2yr olds. We decided after our ice cream to walk over to the docks. We were over by where they sell fish and there was a harbor seal. Poor thing was missing an eye. The kids were waving to him. He was definitely not hurting for food. he must have weighed a ton.I wanna say his name was Seymour. We didn't stay long and it was time to head back to the boat. It was a short stay but we decided we would come back and have more time and stay for the weekend.

A Day at the Lake

The weather was so nice in Seattle. At times it was even too hot! It was the humidity. My parent live about 10 minutes from Idylwild park which is right on Lake Sammamish. Steve and I went down there after the kids got up from their nap. Grammy and Pop Pop took aunt Kaye to the airport and met us there. What a great time!

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All that great weather makes me want to move up there tomorrow. I would however have to have air conditioning. Global warming is making that place HOT!

Happy 4th of July

I am behind and Lord! don't I know it. What else is new?!! Anyhow, the 4th of July was spent up in Seattle at my parents house. we were not having a huge party but by the way we decorated, you would've thought we were having a ton of people over. At one point during the day, Steve asked if this was all of the people coming. YUP! It was fun. Mom and I went hog wild at Party City buying decorations and we started hanging them days before. The guys just shook their heads! I brought up my red, white and blue lights from home and we had the backyard lit up like a runway. The poor hummingbirds didn't know what to think. Here we are decorating:
We didn't stop there....oh no! Mom and I had gone to Kohl's and we bought MORE stuff. We got Pop Pop a shirt for the 4th. Much to the boys' surprise...they had the SAME shirt. The were cool about it. i almost went totally overboard, drove out there again and bought uncle jared the same shirt. I think they would have killed me. So the house was decorated, everyone had on their 4th outfits..we were set to go! I even pulled out my Betty Crocker apron and made a 4th cake.It wasn't perfect but it tasted OK. I was the total Nazi that day. Pop Pop wanted to make bratwurst. HELLO! On the 4th of July. Nope! We had hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, potato chips, baked beans and you guessed it...apple pie and my cake for desert! ALL American! I am a dork! I loved doing all of this especially now that I am a mom. These are the things I want to pass down to the kids! Traditions and family fun!

I want to also add how smart my son is. When I came downstairs that morning after my wonderful husband let me sleep in, everyone was in the kitchen. Apparently, Kyle went through the ENTIRE 4th of July sign and was able to tell daddy every letter and number. He just turned TWO! Although he has had almost half the alphabet down since before that.

We had a great day playing in the backyard. Uncle Jared and Daddy had too much fun with the t-ball set for the kids. I think they were having more fun than the kids. You'll see the expression of Steve's face from the photos. A few of the balls met their death with the "big kids" playing with them. Side note here, I called the company and they are sending me 5 more balls for FREE. I didn't tell her how they broke. You're all set to go Jared. However, I think I will buy you your own set for Christmas!!

We wound down the day with some cocktails on the back patio. I love my parents backyard. I appreciate it now that I live in CA on a postage stamp lot. It was all lit up and it was a great way to end a great day. Now those of you looking at the picture might think that we turned in at 8pm. Nope! The great thing about Seattle is that it stay light outside pretty late. I would say this picture was taken around 9:30pm. If we could move tomorrow, we would.
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