21 June 2008
What else does one do on a hot day but play with water and soapy bubbles and get super soaked. Who knew a large bucket filled with water would be such a hit. We had a few of Kayla’s friends over in the yard as the playground was just too hot.
Flash has been enjoying the outdoors more as well, and seemed to be loving the sun this day. She is still a bit wary of our youngest, who gets so excited when she sees Flash that she yells “cat” and runs after her. It is pretty cute though Julia doesn’t get to pet her so much because of this. Flash comes around a lot more and often sleeps with Kayla.
Rather than getting soaked like her sister, Julia decided to hang out under the kitchen nook and go upside down. This is one of her favorite things to do lately.
We biked down to Fremont to take our girls to see the Solstice parade. There were tons of naked bikers this year leading it all off. Seattle is quite the exhibitionist city… We watched most of the parade and enjoyed the beautiful day. It is one of the more interesting parades out there. Lots of crazy costumes (or lack thereof) and interesting people, floats, music, etc. make up the parade.
15 June 2008
We decided to go camping for fathers day to Scenic beach state park over near Bremerton. We headed to the ferry after Tim got off work and had a picnic dinner on board. The girls loved the ferry. They loved running outside into the wind and dancing, laughing and twirling. I must say it really beats driving in the car. The drive to the park wasn’t too far from the ferry dock.
It was somewhat low tide when we went to the beach, and the girls (and Tim) had a great time looking under rocks for crabs. There were many of them. We saw a giant sea star perched on a rock too. The beach was mostly an oyster beach, so it was a good low tide hunting for things beach.
We had a chance to do a little “hiking” and both girls had fun finding hiking sticks and walking around the campground and to the beach. Julia still is too young to walk far, but Kayla was doing really great.
There was a little playground near the beach. Both girls are becoming quite the climbers. It is really interesting to see how fearless Julia is. She is climbing things already that are a bit frightening to me. I’m not sure if it’s the younger following the older one thing or if she is just more coordinated than most.
The girls often have fun together. Here they were being pretty cute in the tent after a good nap. The sleeping at night went pretty horribly, but we had so much fun during the day that it didn’t matter too much. It was so great to see Kayla so excited about camping and the whole trip, and to let her wander off a little bit more than usual to the water spicket, for instance. She really enjoyed that freedom.
12 June 2008
The girls and I headed to the science center with some friends. We hadn’t been there in over a year I’d say. The girls found this giant dinosaur footprint to sit in.
The girls might be a bit young to really “get” most of the exhibits, but they had fun anyway. Why, they had a chance to play chess, what more might a 1 and 3 year old want?