Summer

Summer is continuing to fly by. I've got a brief window of quiet while Alice is napping and Max is at school. This banal post is more for myself. I want to remember later what we were up to in Summer of '10.

This weekend we hung out at Green Lake and caught the tail end of Shawn's company's milk carton derby boat race. Alice crawled around under the trees, and Max, Loren, and Shawn hung out on the dock cooling their toes in the water. Later that evening we had a fun super sunny picnic with Alicia and Loren at the Meadowbrook park up in Lake City. We fled when the mosquitoes came out at dusk.

Sunday morning we met our friends The Eriksens at Cal Anderson park and Max and Leaf played for a few hours while we enjoyed coffee and Top Pot Doughnuts. Alice napped for a few hours in the afternoon while Shawn and Max assembled the art easel from Grandma Rose out on the mage (Max's word for our small patio/deck). Max painted for less than 5 minutes and then painted on the exterior of our apartment building, staining it with acrylic red paint. Nice. Shawn went for a solo walk down to the library and I took the stir crazy kids to Fremont Peak Park. We finished the day with some book reading and looking at the huge pile of hand-me-down clothes we received from friends. Max likes his new duds!