Rain + soccer

This weekend Ellie has a soccer tournament. And it rained...fortunately the girls didn’t get rained on while they played, but the fields were a muddy mess and everyone was cold. The girls had fun. Ellie has some dives and saves but didn’t have to run through a mud puddle or get mud up the back of her uniform. 

The Millennium Falcon

Santa brought a lot of legos to our house. Including a 1500 piece Millennium Falcon for Calvin. He has gotten pretty good at putting together smaller LEGO sets. However, the focus, drive, and grit of Calvin as he works on the Millennium Falcon is impressive for any kid, but it’s almost unbelievable for a 4-year old. Every morning he has woken up early and worked on the set. He asks for help with the stickers and when he makes a mistake and has trouble taking the pieces apart...this set has a lot of flat pieces that are hard for him to take apart. He’s getting there...

Hulk, nirvana and Nintendo

Our second day in Seattle was all about the Museum of Pop Culture. This is the rebranded EMP museum in the Gehry building under the Space Needle. Lucky for us there was a Marvel exhibit happening at the same time so pretty much everyone had a geek moment. Some of the memorabilia was super cool and covered all of pop culture. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Freddy Kruger, video games, comic books...it had it all. And it was interactive so the kids kinda felt like they were playing all day...until we made them go into the exhibits for Nirvana and Pearl Jam...apparently not their tase in music! 

We also took a ride on the monorail.

A troll, a needle, and some fish

We took a quick trip up to Seattle over winter break. The very first day we were there we saw most of the highlights in the city: the troll, Space Needle, Chuilily glass museum, public market, and SafeCo. Although it’s not baseball season, Safeco had a holiday event with a twinkle light maze and ice skating. The kids did not enjoy the glass museum...We had stereotypical Seattle weather as we searched for the fun wall and waited for flying fish. 

Phase 2 - braces

Today she got brackets on her front teeth. Here we go into Phase 2...

Happy 2019!

Everyone was back to school and work and normal schedules today. Pfew! It was a long and jam-packed two weeks of Christmas break.

Our first adventure involves going to Disneyland on the Saturday before Christmas. It was crowded but not overly so and we did everything we wanted. As Calvin is now 40.5” tall it meant he could ride the big-kid rides...although, just because one is tall enough doesn’t mean he’s ready. He loved the Cars Land ride and thunder mountain. He also loved Soarin and we rode it twice. We also rode the swings in California Adventure a couple times. He hated Tower of Terror and it may be a while before he rides Space Mountain again...he peed his pants, just slightly. Splash Mountain, the one he was looking forward the most ended up not being a favorite ride. He also got to meet the Incredibles, those of us taller than 4 feet rode the new IncrediCoaster, which is awesome! And of course we did our other favorites, Buzz, Toy story, pirates...the usuals. It was a LONG day and he didn’t even make it back to the car awake.