We're here in our new town and finally got hooked up to the internet today. We unpacked in three or four days and have been settling and exploring since. Some things we've been doing that I haven't had my camera for: playing at B.F. Day elementary, a mere one block from home, trying out the zoo, ten blocks from home, stumbling on a great wading pool in a park in Wallingford, a long walk or a short drive, gorging on amazing Cuban food from a place five or so blocks away, and reading and sorting shapes non-stop at home with Simon. He can say the names of a lot of shapes now without prompting, like octagon, triangle, half circle, and oval, he's starting to get counting, and he knows a lot of words in his books. If he would just stay in bed, he'd be about perfect. ;) We do have pictures of our apartment, gasworks parks, and some pictures from walking up the big hill we live on.
We got a queen size air mattress, so if anyone wants to come for an overnight visit, we have a place to sleep. When we go to the zoo all three of us I'll take pictures, and bring the camera to our playground soon too. But, even better than pictures is seeing it in person!
Here's one half of our living room, with Simon standing in front of his books and blocks.
The other half, with a lounging boy.
Simon likes to say "a dot!" and poke the dots, which he got from his beloved book, The Dot.
Simon's toy and book corner, and Simon looking rather sad. He wasn't though.
Toddler bed, with Simon shaking his kitty about. I really don't know why.
Tiny kitchen with a misplaced chair. The kitchen has a big open area that gives us ample room for our table and highchair. There are pictures on the blank wall now, photographs Bob's sister took of gumballs and donuts. It looks much cooler than it sounds.
I didn't get a good one of our room, but here's the deck off of our room, which Simon loves to run on, throw balls, push his popper, roll his big trucks, and do other things it's not nice to do when people live below you. We also see a lot of seaplanes that have just taken off from Lake Washington. Simon yells "airplane!" until we look.
The Fremont Troll, a creepy thing under a bridge.
Simon taking a break from the uphill climb to dance.
He's recently become very serious about his coloring.
Gasworks Park, at the top of a really steep hill that people fly kites from.
Trying to prove to myself that we live in Seattle.
Simon requesting another bite of ice cream.
It's not Portland, but Seattle is beautiful too.
