The Pink Ladies

Mickayla has started her soccer season. She's really excited about it and reminds us every time we see her when her next soccer game is. Her first game was this past weekend. I wasn't able to attend but Rod went. He said that at some point in the game she was playing defender. The ball was on the other side of the field when she noticed that Rod was there. She started waiving to him and then was throwing herself on the ground and acting weird... completely oblivious that the ball was now coming her way. They yelled at her to pay attention and she finally noticed right before the ball got to her.

Mom sent us Mickayla's schedule so that we could come to any of her games that worked with our schedule. I laughed as I read through the names of the teams, which were obviously chosen by the kids. We have Mickayla's team, who is the Pink Ladies. The other teams are: The Pink Panthers, The Seahorses, The Angels, The Pixies, The Mambas, The Pink Bunnies and the Dolphins. lol. I think probably half of the teams have pink jerseys. Should be a fun soccer season. :)

Science Center

On Labor Day we decided to take Will and Mickayla to go to the Science Center. I was pleasantly surprised that Will had a lot of fun looking and playing with all of the things there. I thought he'd be a little too young but he loved it. He was amazed by the dinosaur bones. Mickayla said that her favorite part was touching the things in the tide pool. (I don't know who taught her to smile like that, maybe Reed?) They both also really liked walking through the butterfly room.

I swear I dont beat my child

This picture is sad but it makes me laugh. It looks like we beat Will, but I swear we don't. The cuts by his nose are from falling at Mom and Dad's house on the brick patio outside. The next evening he got a bruise on his forehead while playing with a toy truck (apparently it somehow attacked him) and then the next day, right before he went back to Brett he was running around our apartment and fell right onto the coffee table and got a cut/bruise under his eye. hopefully CPS wont come after me. Someone please tell me this is normal for children.... Rod says he's amazed the kid is so smart after hitting his head so many times.

Potty time

Will has found a fascination with the potty. At first he just wanted to watch us. (Which both Rod and I felt a little weird about, but tried to realize it's only natural.) Then we asked him if he'd like to try to go potty. We helped him up on the toilet and he concentrated really hard and got a drop or two out. So we decided to get him his very own potty seat. We're not really potty training him but we're letting him get the idea of going potty on the toilet. I can't believe that he's already doing thing since he's not even two yet. Just a few days ago he actually full on went pee in the toilet! It's amazing the things that become exciting when you are a parent.

Repeat stage

Will has gotten to the dangerous, yet fun stage of repeating everything we say. The other day we were at Mom and Dad's house and we would ask William where his foot was. He would show us and then walk around the room showing where everyones feet were. Then nose, then arm.... and so forth. Reed decided to ask him, "Where's Mommy's bum bum?" He didn't know what a "bum bum" was, but apparently he thought it was a funny word because he yelled "BUM BUM!" We all of course busted out laughing. He waited until we stopped laughing and then yelled it again. We laughed again and this went on and on for quite a few minutes. I have since taught him where his bum bum is.

Also, the other day we were driving home and I was teasing Rod about something. As Rod was getting Will out of his car seat he said in a silly voice, "Will is your Mommy a Poopy Head?" Will then mimicked "Poopy head." I didn't want to laugh, but it was just too funny. We haven't encouraged that one though. :)

William Shaving

As I've told you before, William loves to do everything that Rod does. The other day Will went in the bathroom while Rod was shaving. He said "up please" and Rod put him on the counter. He watched intently as Rod continued to shave his face. So when Rod was done he decided to lather him up. He then took a toothbrush and used the back of it to "shave" Will's face. Will thought that it was the coolest thing ever.

San Fransisco

A few weekends ago Rod and I were lucky enough to slip away from our normal day to day lives and fly down to San Francisco. We hung out with some of his friends from college and went around with Keith to many of the wonderful attractions in the San Fran area. It was a quick, but much needed get away for me.

Keith took us out to a beautiful beach, which at first we could not see because of all of the fog. But as the fog lifted we were amazed at the beauty.

As we drove down around the beach we saw a little bit of wild life. Soon after passing by some Great Blue Herons Rod stated, "Hey look, those are some weird looking birds" as he pointed out to a group of something in the water. Then he followed it with, "Wait, those are sea lions!" Turns out there was a Harbor Seal pupping area. We thought it was pretty funny that the Harbor Seals could be mistaken for birds.

Unfortunately for me I only had a few days to spend with Rod down in California because on Saturday he departed on a week long backpacking trip with his friends. Rod had hardly ever been camping before, so I was a little worried. But I was hoping that his friends would watch out for him. He some how survived and came home in one piece, even though he had a bit of a run in with a bear (he'll have to tell you himself sometime.)

In my time between Rod leaving for his hiking trip and me flying home Keith was kind enough to show me around a bit more of San Francisco. My favorite part of course was going shopping down town. Everything was beautiful and large scale. He was kind enough to be patient with me as I spent probably about an hour in H&M (my new favorite store, we totally need one in Seattle.) Below is a picture of me at Weisfield Mall. I'm down at the bottom with 2 of Keith's friends, he stayed at the top to take the picture.

I had a wonderful time in San Francisco. I wish that I would have been able to see Ann for longer. I had breakfast with her when I first got there, but then she left for Asia. I was also lucky enough to have lunch with LaDawn right before I flew out as she was in for her Job interview. I miss my sisters.

Thank you Keith for being such a wonderful tour guide. :)