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.

Start of Summer

Viv has been siting up like a champ for the past three weeks or so.... I guess we put the official sit up time for the records at 6-7 months. She is now way up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth. She actually does push backward but looks like she'll be crawling forward very soon.

Max is two stripes into his yellow belt and has also made some major progress with his swimming. I wouldn't call it swimming yet but we'll get there!

We are looking forward to our first camping trip this weekend as a family of four! We're going with 6 other families and plans include several competitions such as balancing an egg on a spoon, wheel barrel (wheelbarrow) races and best decorated campsite.

I looked up the term because I wasn't sure how it was spelled when humans play this game and it looks like it can go either way.

Max Magnuson Park 2011

Ferry Rides and Aikido Belts

Here's our pride and joy both smiling! Max has a black eye from playing with friends after Aikido. After a lot of hard work he earned his yellow belt! He is so excited to work with the other yellow belts in his class!

It's fun to watch them interact. I hope they become the best of friends...

I remember buying these shoes for Viv before she was born. I was so excited to buy something girlie. Look at the adorable leg chub :)

Max on the Ferry to Port Angeles.

Random pix

At Northwest Trek with Paw-Paw and GJ.

Bouncy baby
Use the force, young Jedi.

Silly kids
Vivian and her Paw-Paw

Vivian's drum solo