Happy Halloween - Seattle edition

It rained! It was dark! We got to light candles inside pumpkins (no fire restrictions!). So much fun.

Halloween pt 2

Our neighborhood party, right nextdoor. So much fun.

Autumnal Leaves and Sunshine

Hard at work

After the evening constitutional of running around in circles to avoid B.E.D. Miriam decided she had some work to do. Pulled out Zs little old laptop toy, and lay on the floor to type, and put in a CD to play some music, and check her email.

Looping around

The advantage in our new house... 

Testing the fire ladder

Gymnastics for the gold

Zachary was inspired by the summer olympics. He would like to win a gold medal, who wouldn't! So he sensibly asked what event we thought he would be good at. Given his mad climbing skills and upper body strength we suggested gymnastics. He had already been really engrossed with pommel and rings. So I found our local gym - Seattle Gymnastics Academy. Z has class once a week and comes away glowing. On a Saturday, the SGA has free time at the same time Mimi can indoor playground. So here she is running around enjoying herself. Once she is three she can start classes too. She can't wait. 

Morning Commute With Miriam

Miriam: "Red, Orange, BLUE!"

Sarah:  "What, the traffic light? No, that's red, orange, green!"

Miriam: "NO! TREES!"

Sarah: "Oh. First they're green, then they're orange, then they're red."

Miriam: "YES! Trees!"

Sarah: "Yup. Look, just like that one."

Miriam: "Then what."

Sarah: "Then they fall off!"

Miriam: "Green, Orange, Red, THEN COCONUTS!"

Sarah:  "Sure, close enough."

Breakfast on the Terrace

requisite - smiles and monsters

Grandpa Michael Turns 70

Sit and Spin Cousins

Exploring St. Michaels Mount

At the Playground of Zs new school

NO KISSES

We are settling in here, and will try and get some pictures and stories up.

But until then...

NO KISSES.

Miriam is having a very serious, very in control of the universe stage. She is happy to tell you where to go and what to do. And also? NO KISSES.

Which is surprisingly hard because she's adorable and a total clown and kissing her on the head is basically instinct. But of *course* we want to respect her wishes. And if you forget?

NO KISSES.

WE MADE IT TO SEATTLE

There were some good things, and some bad things. Linus left us in Oregon, although we haven't given up hope. Wherever he is, I imagine he's having an adventure. The children are settling in nicely, as you can see. Really taking advantage of the upgraded space. Mark even managed to arrange to have the truck unpacked yesterday! The neighborhood seems amazing, now to settling in. More pictures soon...

Goodbye chickens, goodbye playscape...

T minus 10 days. We're accumulating last ofs, and goodbyes, and wrapping things up, and eating down the food.

This weekend we had a lovely party with lots of friends, and a prime HEB chocolate cake with a squiggle-ized Space Needle rendition that was pretty damn fancy (and delicious, the last bites being consumed now). Last week we sent the chickens to their retirement village (really a retirement village, not a euphemism.)

It turns out two and a half + moving is a rough ride. Who would have guessed it. Miriam is incredibly verbal, so sometimes it can feel like she is much older... and then she has total utter meltdowns just because her feelings are big and the world is big and there is a lot going on. A lot going on. Sleep is erratic, and comes late, and she requested the other night to "Go to sleep in the new house in Seattle." Soon, baby, soon.

Sunday a local school sent folks to come dismantle the play structure to take it off to its new home, where lots of children can clamber all over it, so we're going to call that a definite win.

Still not packed up for the Seattle dump truck, but getting closer. Pictures are coming off the walls, clothes are getting significantly

Mark & my dad scoped out the new house, and it appears that we haven't made a tremendous error, huzzah. Just a little over a week now.....

Sno cone season

It was dreadfully humid today, as we were mostly spared the storms that have been flooding humid. We had some banking to do in Fiesta (man, am I going to miss Fiesta), and the kids earned "bunny icees" (sno cones) from the best sno cone trailer in Texas.
And then, for a minute, instead of being nutsobozo, they were super sweet.

(Miriam let us know at dinner she was ready to go in the dump truck to Seattle. Almost there, baby girl, almost there.)

Spa times

Honestly, what words do I have? She was eating yogurt, then she wasn't, now she's in the bath.

Spinning by the Space Needle