Tulips!

This last weekend we decided to make the 3 hour drive to Woodburn, Oregon to go see the annual Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival. It was fabulous, sunny and totally worth the drive, even with 3 small kids! We had a lot of fun there, then we went to the factory stores and bought Oliver his first pair of real shoes. He has super fat feet, but they had the 5XW and they fit him great! Then it was off to Chipotle before the rainy drive home. All 3 of the kids just ran around like crazy and enjoyed being outside among the tulips and the hazelnut groves! Here are some photos from our day...

A Treat!

A couple of months ago I decided it would be fun for the kids to have a scrapbook each with photos from every month of their lives, plus pictures from birthdays and holidays and other special events. I've begun by pulling out photos from each month, and just for fun I have put them together to show a year per page. It's quite fun for me to see how much they have changed! I've posted these pictures for you to see. Enjoy!

PIPPA YEAR 1

PIPPA YEAR 2

PIPPA YEAR 3

PIPPA YEAR 4

WILLIAM YEAR 1

WILLIAM YEAR 2

WILLIAM YEAR 3

OLIVER YEAR 1

Walking Machine!

Oliver has been practicing his running a lot. This has resulted in some very fast walking rather than running. Here he is...


March 25, 2010

I'll be updating soon with pictures of the other kids!

Pippa's First Rollerskate Jam

The only thing Pippa has been able to talk about for the last month was how she wanted roller skates for her birthday. Rollerskates this, rollerskates that. So before I spent a ton of money on rollerskates, I figured it would make sense to put her on a pair first to see if she actually likes it, or if she just saw it on TV and thought it looked cool and then once she got them she would never use them again (I'm guilty of doing that on more than one occasion. So last week Aunt Silly and I took Pippa to the local roller rink to toss on a couple of skates and see how she would do.



She hasn't mentioned roller skates since.

Another Toddler?

Oh boy, it looks like we have another toddler on our hands! Oliver's no longer a baby, but a small toddler. He is becoming a really good walker, every day able to get further without falling or tripping on something. He is very steady, controlled and deliberate, always choosing to walk between pieces of furniture rather than crawling. He just turned 10 months old, so it's going in the baby book as walking at 10 months!

The best picture I have of the 3 kids together. We're working on it...

We did go for a pretty long walk around our neighborhood the other day. The weather was great and we took the long way to a new park next to the school. This new park is made especially for the preschool set and it's great! On our way we saw lots of fun things, but the favorite of both Pippa and especially William were the wind chimes in somebody's yard. He was fascinated by them and the noise they made! "What's that noise?"

The Wind Chimes

The house with the carved bears. I love the carved bears!

The Preschool-Sized Park

Pippa and myself playing outside the house on a sunny afternoon.

Pippa taking a photo of her shadow.

Oliver takes a walk

Like I've said, Oliver really wants to walk. Over the last week he has been practicing taking steps without holding on to anything. I keep turning around to see him hurtling toward me. Here's a short video of the star!

Portland Town!

This last weekend was President's Day, so we decided to drive up to Portland to get our fix of the bigger city. We always see a difference in the kids when we go on these trips; their vocabulary seems to increase at super-speed and you can almost hear their minds working overtime.

Pippa's favorite thing this time, besides the hotel and the Children's Museum, was the escalator at the mall. I can't think of any here in Bend, which seems crazy to me. There must be at least one public escalator somewhere, just nowhere I go!

Riding the Washington Square mall escalator

Oliver looking a little mid-blink! See those teeth?

Pippa running around the Oregon Garden before heading back to Bend

Trains! William could have stood there all day watching that train go round!

They were great travelers overall and we all had a great time. I can't wait to do it again!