Busy Weekend

Lincoln Park (West Seattle)

Discovery Park

Got Milk?

Summer Fun


Birthday girl Jen and Danielle


Elana, Taryn and Noah


This past weekend was a busy one for us. On Saturday Charles played at the West Seattle Art Fair and our good friend Jennifer turned 40. On Sunday we had a playdate/get-together at our house with 5 kids and their parents.

I totally missed the boat on taking pictures and missed some great photo-ops. I'm bummed about this.

One reason that I didn't get many pictures is that Max is still in his pushing/not sharing phase. Charles and I feel that he needs to be shadowed around other kids (more than usual) because he isn't quite grasping the concept of being gentle. We don't want any accidents! We are absolutely confident this is a passing phase so we are just dealing with it right now.

We are teaching him as best we can about sharing. It was especially good having kids over for Max to share all of his personal toys with on his own turf. It was also fun for us being with other parents. We'll be doing that again.

We continue to be happy with Max's daycare. He says daycare! daycare! on the way there and doesn't want to leave at the end of the day. What a complete turn around.

I credit them for teaching him please and thank-you.

Some of our favorite phrases right now are:

More milk pees

Mama/Dada help pees

bubbles bubbles ehrwey wer

ahh wahh u ( the ultimate heart melter)


Max is parroting so much of what we say and using new words everyday. We are having so much fun with our little man these days!