Little has learned a useful new phrase: "one mo'?"her manipulative technique is strong to very-strong, but what seals the deal every time is the single chubby finger raised in the air. "one?"
she uses this against bim to get "mo' mo' penguins" (YouTube clips of Happy Feet) or "mo' mo' ball" (the entrancing ING Direct web site).
in other news, we're back from utah (bim, for friend rob's wedding) and seattle/portland (me & Little, for to visit sister & brother). i can't decide which moment was my favorite, what with all the mashed potato eating and sewing and skinny dipping in lake washington (Little, not me).
in portland we took the bestie cousins (Little & Lyza) to the imagination station--a giant, killer castle-like wooden play structure that our troutdale community built when i was in high school--and let them run wild. they are at the age where they interact a lot and Little could hardly bear to be separated, even for the 5 -minute drive back to the house.
in seattle we were housebound much of the time due to a vehicle malfunction (who needs a radiator?), so we didn't get to see as many friends as we would have liked (next time, guys!!), but lauren & eric more than made up for any lack with sweeeeet food and fun times. also, i got my hair cut and ate at specialty's deli no less than 5 times in as many days.
here are some pictures to help us remember a pretty perfect week. (what made it less perfect was not having bim with us, and learning that he spent the last day and a half of his deeply deserved vacation sick in bed. he had to miss sushi by the famous chef rob hale at the flying sumo in park city. what words of comfort could compensate for this loss?)
meeting new friends at crossroads park by the giant spouting orca (camera shutter stuck)
lolling with lola
lake washington with traci & marcel (before Little decided she was "all done" wearing clothes)
challenging lyza to a color-off (lyza really is a lefty--oowee!)
pancho & lefty romping in panty-hats
multnomah falls
playing "wake up!" with eric (shutter stuck again)
"mo' mo' mouse!" (ratatouille) with the diaz duo
breakfast: let the ham feasting begin
mo' mo' lyza!
5 comments:
My camera shutter gets stuck like that all the time too. Annoying. Do you have a Canon?
i'm glad you had such a great trip! i hope you were feeling well.
ps. thanks for my new and improved pack'n'play!!
dana: yes, a canon point'n'shoot. argh. i also broke the lcd screen.
kristy: thanks for the loan! i really, really wish i could have had you take some pics of ally while we were there. you do such a great job!
Lyza misses and Ally and says "where ally at" all the time. Too cute. I miss those melt-your-heart smiles.
Did you teach Ally how to do "blue steel" or did she learn that on her own? She is working the camera on that waterfall picture! So cute!
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