Max at the Carkeek Park Tot Trek checking out a spider web!
Alice and Aunt Ruth with the Fox's dog.
Happy Max playing on the ranch.
Handsome Max on Brian and Jamilah's deck.
Picking a plum for the birthday girl.
Alice enjoying playing in the dirt!The month is flying by. The fall weather is upon us in a big way. This morning I took the kids to a Tot Trek at Carkeek Park, where we learned about spiders. We had fun looking at spider webs in the rain. It was really neat to watch Max watch the instructor talk.
It's been a busy month, earlier we spent a week down in Santa Cruz with family, and Alice was part of a 4 family member birthday celebration at the Fox's ranch. Both kids loved running around eating yummy ripe plums. ...I'm still in shock over this one, I couldn't find Max, several folks were helping me look all around, I eventually found him in the Fox's house. I could tell he needed to take care of business, so I left him alone, came back, got him cleaned up, and realized I needed to run out to the car for a diaper. I was gone about 5-10 minutes as I was saying goodbye to some family members who were taking off. When I returned to the house he had the fireplace broom in hand, and said to me calmly "don't worry, I'm cleaning up". He had broken several ceramic fireplace tiles with the fire poker!!! I felt horrible. I immediately called Shawn and asked him to tell his Aunt Tammi what had happened. We picked up the broken pieces and took Max back to where we were staying to go to bed. I regret not marching him down to where the party was to say sorry to Tammi and Tom. I can't believe he did so much demolition in such a short amount of time!!! Other than this shocker, the trip was fun. We got to spend a lot of time with family visiting from San Diego, and with some Santa Cruz friends. We had some great afternoons playing in tide pools and hanging on the beach.
Other September happenings, Alice turned 1 on the 7th! She's walking up a storm, and climbing and working on running. She's got a few words and just seems so much more grown up! At her 1 year appointment last week she weighed in at a petite 18.2 lbs and is 10th percentile in height and weight.
We are in the throws of potty training with Max and hope, really hope (pull-ups are $80 a month) that he gets it down soon. Frustrating and messy don't even begin to describe it.
I'm applying for half time work at UW. I really want better benefits for me and the kids, and I need a break, and some time to do some non-kid stuff. Fingers crossed I'll land one of these jobs!
I should go clean up, a pile of dirty dishes is looking at me from across the room. The kids are asleep and Shawn's downtown at a friends book reading. Speaking of books, this Friday is the SPL booksale at Magnuson! We bought a friends of the library membership so Shawn can go to the preview sale friday night. Can't wait to see what he'll come home with, he's always so happy after going to the library sale :)
One last thing. Shawn's company laid off three employees today. Fingers crossed, prayers, and positive vibes that Shawn will not lose his job!
