hiking and jam

Friday, our second hiking carrier arrived for Isabella. I was so excited, I took it out of the box and got it all fitted for her in less than 6 minutes. I have been wanting to go hiking since we first moved to Washington and last year having a troubled pregnancy it was so out of the question. Now that I finally can go, I am stoked.
Saturday we headed up to Deception Pass, which is thankfully only about a 30 minute drive for us. It was a beautiful day, after 12 and the kids were in a great mood. All in all the whole thing turned out really well. We did a short hike from the beach area to the boat launch area and then did another loop while in the middle letting Adrien play on the beach a bit. This hike was more of a getting to know your carrier and dealing with it hike. Scott's is a bit older than mine and he doesn't like it so much. Adrien will grow out of it much faster though, so he is just going to have to suffer. Isabella loves to see everything. She was laughing and giggling and talking away. Adrien had picked out a little Hot Wheels car at the store on Friday and hadn't let go of it since, even all through the hike and the beach. It's been in the tub, outside, in the car, EVERYWHERE. He also got a new pair of sunglasses, which apparently give him super human fast powers..




Isabella had a dried apricot to chew on and she was so intent on it that she refused to breastfeed and wouldn't let go of it the whole time, either. She's kind of a chow monkey.


Yesterday I made some jam. YUMMY! It is so good. It is strawberry raspberry jam with some lemon zest. I love it and am going to make more tonight. I have a ton of strawberries and I don't want them going to waste.

a taste of summer... or spring

This last weekend was B-E-A-UTIFUL! In the mornings, though it was cold, you could see bits of sunshine peeking out of the clouds and hear the birds singing and all that fun nature type stuff that happens. As Scott put it to me after cleaning out the car early Saturday morning, "You know how when it is so quiet after it rains that you can almost hear stuff growing?" How sweet was that?! When he says stuff like that I know why I married him all over again. Right when I am about to feel like he doesn't notice little things or he feels possibly like I don't, he says something like that that just melts me.

This weekend was Izzy's foray into some serious 2 group foods. She ate some vanilla biter biscuits and had some peaches, oats and plums, I think it was. That girl knows how to eat! She loves food, she starts shivering and shaking when we put her in the high chair, and then she attacks the spoon like her life depends on it until the jar is gone, empty... not a single scraping of food left. It's amazing!

Now, today, Monday it is raining and not quite as cold as it has been. I am taking that as a good sign. Hopefully we'll be seeing summer soon.