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The same weekend that Taj's friend Chris and fiancee Kathy were in town, Sky's co-student Valerie and husband Nick and 5-month-old daughter Layla stopped by for a visit. Mostly we just hung out and visited, and dressed the babies up in dinosaur costumes for fun. We also went to the farmer's market that weekend. In addition to the aforementioned baseball game. And, no, everyone, he has not yet been to a Sounders game but it is on our list. If we can just get a free weekend...
The weekend before that we met the McWethy-Morrison-Rogers clan for a camping trip up at Larrabee State Park, about an hour north of us on the Puget Sound. We had a couple camp sites for a couple nights and all hung out and...well, camped. Dave and Pam brought the boat over so we got a bit of fishing in, we went for some walks, enjoyed playing around with all the cousins, relaxed in front of the fire, made some s'mores, etc. Two nights didn't quite seem long enough, but we had a really nice time. Peregrine definitely enjoys camping, though he did take a couple pretty serious diggers. The weather cooperated, it was not too hot and not too cool, and it didn't rain. The only down side was the train. It turns out Larrabee State Park is gorgeous and cool and right on the water...and a major freight track runs right through the middle of it. You can throw a stone from pretty much any of the campsites and hit the passing trains if you want. As it turns out, that's not as bothersome as you might think - you kind of get used to it - but many of the adults didn't have the most restful sleep. (The kids all slept fine, of course. Actually, so did I!) On the plus side, it made the impact of nearby Campground Yahoos pale by comparison. We didn't even really notice if there were any late night partiers!
Let's see...last weekend was our Anniversary, so we celebrated by dropping Peregrine off at Lys & Billy's for the evening, then headed out to Teatro Zinzanni for dinner and a show, and to the Pan Pacific Hotel for a night of as-much-luxury-as-we-can-afford. (it's actually a very nice hotel). Teatro Zinzanni is a lot of fun, it's a three- to four-hour live dinner theater, with comedy, music, professional caliber cirque du soleil-style acrobatics (aerialists, balance acts, juggling, etc.), and occasional involuntary audience participation, accompanied by a five course fancy dinner. I think we both thought the show was outstanding, a lot of fun across the board, and we both thought the meal was only OK. It's definitely an experience, though, and I think we would go back (they change the show/performance every few months). Sunday afternoon we headed back to Snoqualmie Ridge to pick up Peregrine and ended up staying for lunch and just hanging out with the Morrisons for a while. It was a great weekend.
As far as the little fellow goes, he's just great. He keeps getting bigger, and I swear he's learning even faster now that he's in day care with other kids. He has a great time at the montessori school, though he still doesn't like being left there (pretty much as soon as we're out of sight, he calms down and starts having fun!). He's walking along like a pro, only sometimes smashing his head into the ground with his excitement over something. He's really using his signs a lot, for "more", "please", "milk", "food", and "all done". He has joined that with a burgeoning vocabulary of "uh un" ("pick me up please"), "on" (for things that are turned on as well as things that are "on" his head), "cuck" for cracker, "ball", "truck", and he has words for light, surprise, uh-oh, and "ok ok ok ok". This last week he started saying "ma ma" which is just about the cutest thing ever. His car and airplane sounds can't be beat. So, you know, he's just really cruising along. And still pooping on the potty, though he does also occasionally go in his sleep or whatever. And he loves to dance by rocking side to side, still (if not even more than before!)
Anyway, it seems busy busy. And I'm sure, people for whom this is being written, that you don't really care about any of that and probably want to see pictures. So here you go...it's not many, but there are a few.
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