Birthday Boy Turns 2!

Winery grounds

Vic and I have a membership to a winery in the Woodinville wine country here, and we had a shipment to pick up, so we took the kids to play on the pretty grounds. There is a resident peacock, duckies, outdoor music concerts, and a little cafe, so we had an impromptu picnic, explored and just hung around one afternoon.

Family Tea Party

We took the kids to a cute and fancy little tea room in downtown Seattle where they have a children's tea for our birthday girl. The kids got several courses of goodies and got to admire all the fancy girly surroundings. Vic and I had a very yummy lunch and grown up tea.

Birthday Girl!

It was Sofia's 7th birthday and she invited 4 girls from her class for a Junie B. Jones birthday party. She loves those books and knows so many silly details that we tried to incorporate into the party. One book has her wearing a "hair net" (we used a shower cap) and rubber gloves when she works in the school cafeteria, and Junie loves chocolate donuts, which we had instead of cake. She also likes to wear hairbows, so we played "Pin the Bow on Junie B" and played a "musical chairs" type game where each girl had to put on something that Junie B wears when the dress up bag stopped at them. Sofia thought of so many of the ideas, and all the girls really had a good time together. We loved only having the 4 of them, it was just right. The girls got to take home a Junie B. book of their own as the parting gift, and, of course, the shower cap. :-) (little N napped through the whole screeching, giggling party, that boy can sleep!)

Feb 2011

We had a beautiful, sunny February except for a very snowy Valentine's week, which was very cold! The kids had Valentine parties, then were out of school for a mid-winter break, so it worked out that they had lots of free time to play in the snow. We dressed up fancy for Valentine's day and had a fancy chef-daddy dinner. Sofia read her Junie B. Jones "Mushy Gushy Valentime" book and a "Stella" snow book to us. To get out and soak up some sun, we went on a couple of hikes along nature trails close by and rode bikes at a nice lake park. We're looking forward to getting outside more this summer now that we're all moved in, and can't wait to see all the pretty tulips soon, and a date night out in a couple of weeks, just the two of us, at a very well-talked about steak house here (gotta see how this omaha beef stacks up to texas best.)