A Busy Weekend

As usual, we packed a lot into this weekend. Saturday Callie helped Mike and Grandpa finish getting the gate installed on the deck (that is now completely Callie safe, as long as we remember to close the gate so she can play out there to her hearts content). Callie really liked the tools, screws, and spare boards.
Then it was off to Kirk's for Phoenix and Christie's graduation party. There Callie met her cousin Grace who is four and visiting from Montana. Callie had an instant best friend whom she adored. Sunday was a trip down to Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium for a Baby Friends get together, lunch, a nap in the car, then to Coulon Park to meet up with Grandma, Grandpa, Josiah, and Julian.

Daddy's little helper. She was really proud of her self when she got the screw to stick in a hole. And she had been watching Daddy use the drill because she grabbed it, and put the tip into the wood. Also notice the mallet right by her...I am sensing a fascination.

Callie loved feeding the budgies, even if she wasn't always so sure about them.

Cousins enjoying the water.

Discovery Park

We decided to take advantage of the first warm weekend and went to Discovery Park. Callie loved hiking around in the backpack carrier. And then we got to the beach and her eyes lit up. She found a clam shell and spent a good deal of time investigating it. Opening it, closing it, filling it with sand and packing it in, and dumping it out. Over and over again. The tidepools were also a hit. So much so that she sat down in one. And refused to stand back up. She was already wet and sandy at this point, so we decided to just let her have fun.

We Moved!

After having our house on the market for a few months will little success (no serious lookers) we decided to rent it out. We met with a property management guy on Monday evening, he had it advertised on Tuesday evening, and by 12:00 on Wednesday we had a renter. And we had about 10 days to be out. And Callie, Grandma, and I were going to California for 5 of those days! But we made it. Thanks to a TON of help from both our parents. There is no way we could have done it without them.
At first, Callie liked packing (and unpacking) the boxes. But once our house became a crazy mess, she did NOT like it. She was so upset we had to take her away. Fortunately Grandma Mary watched her for the rest of the day, and took her for a few days that week so Grandma Dicka could organize the house during the day.
Now a good chunk of our stuff is in a storage unit and we are camping out and Grandma Dicka and Grandpa Gordy's until we figure out were we want to buy our next house. We really aren't sure, so we could be here for a while :)

Seattle Aquarium

After taking Callie to the doctor's office for her 15 month well child check (and we don't have to go back until she is 2!!!) and watching her fall in love with the "ish" (fish) again, we decided to visit the aquarium. And since Point Defiance is no longer 10 minutes away, we ventured to Seattle for the BIG aquarium. As we suspected, she loved it. She came as close to a run as we have ever seen when she walked in and saw the big wall of fish tank.

So excited about the touch tank!

Completely amazed by the octopus.

Enjoying the dome of fish.

Hanging out on on the bike rack outside the aquarium requires such serious thhought that sticking out the tongue is necessary.

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day we went to the Children's Museum with Grandma Mary and Grandpa Stu. As always, Callie had a great time. She discovered that she could dump the water out of the water area (hence the wet shirt in all the pictures), found a stacking toy that she would probably still be playing with if we hadn't taken her away, tried to eat the pretend food, and was a little apprehensive about the dark "lava cave." This is the second time this weekend the darkness has made her a little timid. On Saturday she was walking into the shed, and stopped at the doorway. She wouldn't go in until Mike turned on the lights. I think we might be entering the age of darkness being scary. Hopefully it isn't too painful for any of us. I foresee checking under the beds for monsters in our future :)

Not so sure about these fish.

This thing was so much fun, we went home and ordered her something similar.

Who is that?

Shopping is serious business.

Easter Fun

So I am a little behind, but here are details from Easter.Callie enjoyed picking up the eggs and handing them to someone to open so she could eat the goldfish crackers that were inside. She quickly figured out the ones with fish made noise when she shook them and the empty ones did not. Callie did not like wearing the bunny ears Aunt Drenda and Uncle Lonnie bought here. And she really did NOT like anyone else wearing them. The bubbles Grandma and Grandpa got her were fun. And the paints that the Easter Bunny brought were really fun, and messy too!

What are these things?

So many eggs to put in the basket!

Walking with all these eggs is hard work!

Joshiah's 2nd Birthday

When organizing pictures, I realized I forgot to post these. We went over to Pasco for Josiah's 2nd birthday on April 9th. Callie had fun hanging out with her cousins.

Julian and Callie in the wagon. I think Callie was impressed with his incredible mohawk.

Callie and Josiah in the wagon (and yes, Callie really enjoyed the wagon).

Just relaxing with Dad.

Discovering the joy of sidewalk chalk.