Friday, June 24, 2016

Lizzie's Big News

I have to tell you all that Lizzie has stopped sucking her thumbs.  I am so proud of her, because of course I understand exactly how difficult it is to accomplish this task.  But she has done it and it will certainly be one of her year's "biggest accomplishments" in the birthday book.  YAY, LIZZIE!!
With her reward...
At my parents' beach

Seattle!

We've only been in Seattle for ten days, but it's been full of fun!  On Monday we go to Laramie so my next post will be filled with photos from time with Grandma Sid and Grandpa Ollie.

Our trip here was great - the 14 hour flight felt fine and while Lizzie steadfastly refused to eat any plane food, I was more prepared than I have been on previous trips and managed to keep her tummy full enough to not get sick.  The jet lag wasn't great, but it's over now :)

The highlights of our trip so far are named Dylan and Winnie.  There aren't many pictures of Winnie but if you look all the way at the bottom of this post, you will see her and she is worth scrolling through all the other photos.  It has also been nice to see Dylan and Winnie's parents, whatever their names are.

Playing near the beach after hiking through the woods with Grandpa

The kids have spent lots of time in trees, including the one below on the right, which is in Mom and Dad's front yard.  They formed a club with a secret password.  Grandpa has been admitted membership because "he can make things for us".  So far, Grandma and I are o-u-t.
The zoo - see the penguins swimming behind Lizzie?
More penguins:

Dylan playing in a puddle with a stick.  I sent these photos to Eli and he replied, "OMG, JUST like T!"  And it is true that my sweet nephew reminds me quite a lot of my sweet boy when he was (nearly) three.


Here is Lizzie happily holding Hannah's baby Jade, and walking to an antique carshow holding hands with Dylan.
The hike!  Can you guess what the best part was? (The snow.)  Lizzie received lots of compliments from our fellow hikers - and she made it six miles which is very impressive.





Water fight with Grandpa in the backyard.  I'm not sure how the game worked,
but that's Tommy doing the "obstacle course" while being squirted..

At the park near my parent's house

A meeting in the back yard.

The girl you've been waiting for!!
Lizzie reading to Uncle Vyn, in a tiara of course

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Finishing up the school year!

Hi friends - sorry for the long absence.  It has been a busy month, but I suppose they are all busy and that's not much of an excuse.  Here is a summary with accompanying photos.  We are now in Seattle (arrived on June 11) and are finally over jet lag, hallelujah.

The weekend after my birthday, I went on a girls trip to Dubai (it was 36 hours long).  We had the below delicious drinks:


(We still miss Kathy)
We spent quite a lot of evenings at the beach.

The Lu received a clean bill of health on her arm (except that it will still be healing for two months more):
We went to the park at the same time as a woman brought a big box of kittens.  So that was painful.
We went on a very fun trip to Dubai so that we could spend three days in a row with Eli before we abandoned him for the summer.


We had our last playdate with Miyu (who is moving back to California!) and our LAST DAY of kindergarten and third grade!  My kids are too big now.
We said goodbye to Daddy...