Happy Friday

Love, m (who wants to be just like c)

Tent

A bunch of my Madison friends gave me an REI giftcard as a parting gift. I had been pondering what to do with it for a while, but c's begging for a tent finally tipped the scales and we bought one. It arrived this weekend, so what did we do? Put it together!

Yes, we are inside. Alex was wise enough to know that once we put it together c would need to sleep on it, and I'd much rather sleep on it with her inside than out. So inside tent it was. And it was an instant hit.

We even spent the night:

or morning (after m got up and alex and I switched place)

Max remained impressed throughout:

But I think the most impressive thing is that we managed to get it taken down the next day :o)

Fun with old Friends

Sunday was an extra special day here as c got to catch up with a friend from her daycare room back in Madison! Her family was visiting their family in Salt Lake, so we decided to catch up at the aquarium:
http://www.thelivingplanet.com/index.php

It was amazingly cute.

C's friend is more of a follower and c was thrilled to be a leader again, so the two of them blazed around the place.

Unexpected but also fun, m was actually also really interested in the exhibits

but at times couldn't really make sense of them

All in all a way fun way to spend the afternoon :o)

Thoughts from early morning walks

Two thoughts from an early morning triple m walk (triple m = m, max, and me)

1) It's amazing how much the native sunflowers are kicking the pants off the sunflowers I'm trying to grow the in the back yard.

2) Who does air traffic control for the 5 hot air balloons I fit into the same frame?

(you might need to zoom in on this one, but I promise there are 5 up there)

Update on Aardvark and Lemur

And it's not just that aardvark is hard to spell :o)

So I realized that I had been super slacking on lemur pictures, and while catching up,why not catch up on both ends?

C is 3 years, 10 months old. She is:
* Loving her new school
* Continuing to have large amounts of sass :o)
* Swimming! She's loves being in the water and can actually propel herself underwater for a ways.
* Living in shorts and tshirt and loving the weather out here
* Having way fun with her sister

M is 1 year, 2 months old. She is:
* Starting to love her new school
* Eating an amazing amount of food, all the time
* Obsessed with bubbles, and can actually blow them on her own
* Not quite running, but definitely picking up speed walking
* Really enjoying pool time
* Having way fun with her sister

The two of them together:
* Entertain each other during car rides
* Flight over the cozy coup car in the back yard
* Have way fun playing rolling catch and other silly games

LIfe is good :o)

Ski jumping

So the other big adventure we did with Nana and Saba was to go check out the ski jumpers:
http://www.visitparkcity.com/visitors/resorts/utah-olympic-park/

Looking back on that decision I'm reminded of a song that my dad used to play... "What was I thinking?!?!?!"

Of course c loved it. Of course c started alternating from begging to go out there to bragging that she could already do it. And that was just when the "camp" was out jumping. Then the professionals took the stage.

He was 60 feet up in the air, and all c could say was "I wanna!!!!!'

We're doomed.

But happy to be so :o)

The top of the mountain

Sunday we decided to check something off c's wish list and let her take the chair lift up one of the runs at deer valley. Saba and Alex went with, and luckily Saba took his camera (thank you dad for the use of some of your pictures here). This is what they saw when they got to the top.

They traipsed around up to for a while

while Melanie, m, and me explored silver lake

When the hikers decided to ride back down c had some stories to tell

We wrapped up the morning with a picnic lunch at the base of the mountain

Fun times all around :o)