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| He's learning to dive in. Lots of belly flops today....:) He is swimming so much better after just 5 lessons with Tessa. |
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| Boating with the Bonds! Kelly and I tubed, and we also drove their jet skis. So fun. |
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| Andrew (4, Jackie's son), Olin (6), Danielle (14), Adrienne (12), Jojo (11), Christian (9) |
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| The beginning of tearing up the wood floor and the cork underneath. |
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| We bused over to Montlake and Wilson and Stacey's house to meet my mom for dinner. |
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| Huge vent in our bathroom |
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| Evening time. They removed about half our floor and it's down to concrete. The dryers are very loud. We had to shout loud to hear each other. And the fans created a ton of heat so we weren't able to keep the place lower than 85-90 degrees even with the a/c on. They moved our washer/dryer in to the living room. So much work.... |
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| Like mother like son. |
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| Crumpet shop! |
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| We rode the Big Wheel. |
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| Close-up of Olin's side-eye |
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| Christian captured a ton of photos of this hilarious squirrel that was getting food from the garbage can. He got so close to the squirrel I was afraid the squirrel would jump right on him. |
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| Today we went to all these fun places in Portland: Adidas employee store, Columbia employee store, and H&M. Here we are at Columbia. Got some nice items like a ski coat for Olin, a Timbers jersey for Christian, and some new running shoes for me from Adidas, among other things. |
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| Lunch at Pioneer Place mall. |
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| Photos Mal took at Madison Park in Seattle. |
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| And then she used an App to create this funny 'studio photo'. haha. |
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| "French Picnic". Essentially Costco items I picked up when I needed a last minute dinner. The following night I did French Picnic again but it was definitely sad, deflated French Picnic...frozen panini rather than baguette, older cheese, no red wine, no corn, no blueberries. |
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| This is how Olin sits a lot of the time on the toilet. It's almost as if even he is a little impatient that it's taking so long. |
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| I never thought Christian would get in to Harry Potter but he finally gave it a chance and read it. And he really likes it. We would read about 20 minutes per evening together, and then he filled in the rest with his own reading. He's on to Book 2. |
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| Somehow he wandered in to our room one evening when I was in the office on the phone, and I found both he and babz asleep... |
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| Olin has entered 3 Rollarena Limbos and won all 3. He's usually among the smallest of the contestants, but I gotta say the guy can get really low on those skates. Christian has been among the top 3 finalists every time as well. |
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| Finally found a seaweed flavor they love again. Teriyaki flavored. Way too expensive at Fred Meyer so I ordered it on Amazon. |
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| Kindle Paperwhite! Purchased on Amazon Prime Day as a "birthday gift from Dae". Naturally I did the ordering and handling of gift and Dae had barely snuck a glance at it by the time I had polished off my first digital book. I love it. Ev showed me how to download Libby (free library digital loans) so I'm off to the races. |
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| I brought it to our family dinner at Anthony's and told Dae I was going to pull it out if there were any lulls in our conversation. hahaha! Anyway, he has threatened that this will indeed be my only gift this year because I've pulled this early-gift stunt before.... |
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| In a stroke of luck, we got our 4th-6th grade teacher Tessa to come babysit for the kids on the few days I work this summer! She brings her huge craft bin and comes up with things that they want to do together... |
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| Park |
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| Helping take care of Tessa's dog Stella |
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| Playing chess at the crepe restaurant Kagen. I can't believe how we lucked out to have a teacher be our babysitter. She's so great. And her rates are extremely reasonable. |
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| Husky Night at the Mariners, our second annual trip. The weather was perfect and even though we lost 5-0 we had a good time. Mariners ticket holders get to ride the Light Link Rail for free, which is a nice bonus. Free Husky/Mariners hats. |
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| Our seated neighbor at the game bought some fried crickets because their 10 year old son had wanted to try some. They asked if we wanted to try some. I was the first one to say yes (it wasn't bad! Kind of crunchy and like a chip, or seaweed), Olin was the second to say yes (he spit his out after a few chews) and Christian was the third to say yes (he ate the whole thing and said it was ok in the beginning and bitter at the end). Dae was the only holdout. |
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| Glass class at Barnard Griffin. Only 3 days, and only 1.5 hours each day. Contrary to prior years, I think I undersigned the kids up for camps this year, ergo I am going slightly crazy being with these clowns all day every day... (side note: since I can easily look up vocab words on my Kindle, I am learning all sorts of new words....ergo was one of them) |
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| The kids' suitcases are going to have a short shelf life if they keep handling them with the non-delicacy that they do. They ride these things around like they are trollies or something. |
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| Photos to document kids' signatures |
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| Christian wrote the "Lee" portion of this because he said Olin forgot how to do cursive capital L |
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| Namdaemun market for meat buns for breakfast |
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| Always delicious yogurt drinks from these little mobile coolers on wheels that are all around Seoul. |
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| Noryangjin Fish Market |
Well child visit. His BP was a little low (80/64) so they did a longer blood pressure check and told him to make sure he was WELL hydrated. ...
