She Crawls!

The biggest news in the Beene world is that Vivian is crawling! She started taking a few timid pushes with her arms about a week ago and now a week later....... put her down and she's 6 steps away in a flash. Wow talk about fast!!!

We think she'll be walking very soon because she's already pulling up and doing more of a monkey (half walk, half crawl) type thing. She needs to start catching up to big brother!

We are in the process of painting the house and have had a landscape company come and work on our flower beds. Looks better than it has in the three years we've been here.

Also are some pictures of the Alki Art festival that Charles and his band Puppet King played at. It was a beautiful day and really fun event.

And last but not least Max had a reunion in the park with some of his dearest friends from ELDC. Hard to believe these kids are moving on to kindergarten this year or next.

I need to get some video of her crawling up on the blog! I'm not very proficient in transferring video and I need to learn it. Can't wait till the kids learn this stuff so they can teach me!

Aikido.....more pictures to follow

Denny Creek Camping 4th of July

It wasn't easy to get pictures while camping! Most of the time Vivian was grabbing at the camera while in the Ergo. I managed to get a few and Max actually took the one of me and Viv!

It was our second year going to Denny Creek on the 4th of July. I don't know how Max is going to like camping with just us anymore. He had so much fun with his friends Jonas, Elana, Ioni, etc. There were lots of kids to play with. He and his dad rode bikes and we did 2 hikes (one to Franklin Falls). JP brought tons of hockey sticks and everyone had fun with those. Especially Max who played for an hour one day!

I loved being with so many good friends. It wasn't easy at times for the adults....the adults with kids I mean...... but a nice campfire and a little beer helped with that.