August 7 -14 Hanging with Friends and ANOTHER Trip

I can't figure this software out, so I'll just write down here. Anyway, you'd think we would have learned by now. This is the second time Miss Luna has gotten hold of the clothes bin and promptly emptied its contents onto the floor and into her crib. As you can see, she looks mighty proud of herself, too. "Look what I did, Daddy!!"

Then it was out to the living room to play with Gus or "Dis" as I think I hear her saying. She loves him to death and squeals with delight when she hears him or sees him coming. He seems to like her, too, and even tolerates her pulling handfuls of fur out of him.


Later that day, Marcus called. "Hey baby, what's shakin'? You want to come over to my crib?"


He was anxiously anticipating her arrival.


So she stripped down and we all headed upstairs to the play room.


We can always take a break for Dr. Seuss.


Then it was time to put on jammies and read one last bedtime story.


Luna met a new friend, Cole, this week, too! They posed for pictures.


For about a minute. Then it was time to party!


So much partying makes Luna tired. Mommy and Daddy get tired, too, but how on earth is this comfortable? It is a common sleeping position these days.


August 11-13: Yet ANOTHER road trip. This time to Spokane or Spokangeles or Spocompton or Spoklahoma or Spokanistan as all the different t-shirts said. Priceline ROCKS. We stayed at the Doubletree downtown on the river.


Walks are our favorite. We have become quite attached to our new back pack. Daddy and Luna got all ready and went for a walk by the river and around downtown. I put on my cool cosmonaut hat for the occasion. Then we headed out. It was a great day.

North Cascades Institute

Mommy was at the North Cascades Institute for a grant meeting August 3-7, so we went to visit her for a couple of days. It was a lot of fun. Have you ever been to this place? If not, you have to check it out! We stayed at the Learning Center which is situated on Diablo Lake. Our first night there we took a walk out on the dam. Wow!







The second day we were there, we went for a hike on the Sourdough Creek Trail. I was excited to get up and get going. Do you like my SWEET purple PJ's? I'm still growing into them.


I can't believe they make me wear this giant, pink hat. Ugh! Riding in the backpack is fun though.



The forest was gorgeous!




There are 2 shelters like this along the trail. NCI uses them during some of their classes and workshops. Nice shot, Daddy.



A gold finch (I think) came to visit us on our hike. He hung around singing and chirping for quite a while.



Okay, seriously, how cute am I?


When we got to the overlook, there were some really beautiful views.



My favorite was Pyramid Peak. Check it out!

July 25 Maya's First Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to Maya! Luna's friend turned a year old a few weeks back. Luna had so much fun at her party. Here she is with new friend Eli.

Here is new friend Sam pushing Luna in what was the most popular toy in the house!

Luna HAD to have a turn pushing it.

She was so fast, we could barely get her on film. Zooooom!

Maya was like, "It's MY party. Where's the cake already?"

Mommy didn't disappoint.

And then Maya went to work.

Sam wanted in on the action!

July 31 - August 2 Camping at Baker Lake

So...a three week road trip across the western United States wasn't enough excitement for one summer. Mommy thought it would be great to go on a family camping trip, too. We packed the car and headed to Baker Lake. Daddy kept saying something about "without reservations?" But it was just fine; we found a terrific spot at the lovely Baker Lake Resort. Here I am with a new hat Oma bought me.

Grandpa took me for a walk. Here I am trying to catch some mosquitos that kept buzzing around my head.

Hey look at that cool shiny thing in the sky. They named it after me!

Aunt Emily, that's an awesome hat. Can I wear it?

Thanks for reading The Hungry Caterpillar to me Uncle Patrick, but I'm confused. I thought a butterfly came out of a chrysalis and a moth came out of a cocoon. Which is it?

I learned 2 new important words this week: glamping and tentominium.

That's so cool when the caterpillar eats through all that stuff in one day. I could just read that part over and over.

Walking with Auntie Em.

Gorgeous Mt. Baker on the drive home. No these aren't chicken pox. Why does everyone keep asking me that? They're just a couple of mosquito bites.