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Happy 3 month birthday, Little!!



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Snoqualmie Ski Weekend

It only took me 12 years to figure out that Elan knows how to ski!! As for myself, well...it turns out it's not like riding a bike (which I'm also not so great at), so I got to learn all about the wonderful Stewart family tradition of skillfully swishing to a stop and spraying snow all over the rookie who has crash landed. Apparently I have Josh to thank for this trick?

Even with me spending most of the time on my rear, we got a few good runs in while the boys played with Auntie Em, Leon and Roger.




Nap time came very suddenly in the middle of a car race.










We stayed in a "Bring Your Sense of Humor" rental.
The above photo is the entrance........yes, really.
Unfortunately, we didn't realize that it was also a BYOP situation.
(That's: Bring Your Own Propane) so we skipped the fireplace and hot showers for the weekend. Luckily our upstairs neighbors DID remember to bring their Dance Dance Revolution game which they enjoyed very much until 3:00am both nights.

Elan and Drake going from our cabin to the car the graceful way.



Emily attempting the upright method.



"wake me up when it's over"

Translation:

Here is your handy guide to the many Drakisms that make life on Bell Street a constant riddle:

New Chicken: pork
Brown Chicken: beef
Kangaroo yogurt: wallaby brand plain vanilla yogurt.
Food with Holes: waffles
New Milky: cow milk (not formula or milk from mommy)
Woody's Buddy: Buzz Lightyear
Elephant Movie: "Ice Age"
Meemo: "Finding Nemo"
Green Food: kale
The White thing with the One Chicken Movie: the Wii
The Lots of Chicken Movie: "Chicken Run"
Loud Cereal: O's
Last Night: any time before right now.
The Red Guy: Santa
The Silly Man: Inspector Gadget
Movie with the Little Mans: "Snow White"
Emiwy: Emily or Emery; a constant source of confusion.
Other Peanut Butter: almond butter
The Green Green Green GREEN Movie: "The Grinch"


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Popo x 3

Suddenly Popo finds herself the Grandma of 3!!
Marti got to meet Gorgeous Grace last night. Gracie makes a certain other new baby look like the Incredible Hulk.

Aloha!!

We just booked a vacation!! Sunshine and sandy beaches, here we come! Elan just found out that he's being sent to Honolulu for training, so he'll spend a week here:


Then the boys and I will join him for a week here:


So cool! Can't wait to show Ewan what sunshine looks like. Poor kid only knows about rain and snow, so far! And of course, Drake the super traveler is sooo excited about a plane ride and sleeping in a TRUCK!! And looking for turtles!! And fish!!
Yippee!!

Super Mom/Wife

Naptime

Apparently cars need naps too...who knew?

Thinking inside the box

I don't see this ending well....

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Pancakes and smiles

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WHY, Mommy?

Things I have googled so far this week to answer "WHY???"



















Thank you, google.

Big Brother's quote of the day

After having been asked to sit down in his little purple chair and eat his dinner:

"I can do dat because my butt is yittle, Daddy.

And Baby's butt is still yittle.

And Mommy butt is big

....

Why is it Daddy?

....

Why are you putting your hands on your eyes, Daddy?"

Just a phase

I wonder if Drake lays in bed at night wondering if mommy is just going through a phase, or if all 34 year olds are this difficult.

I think his new strategy in dealing with mommy's silly phase where she tries to set limits is to head off the conflict before it can happen. Today he threw a car across the room, put it into "toy time out" and then came to tell me that he was putting himself to bed......

Cousins!

Ewan and Drake met cousin Grace today! What a cutie!


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Happy Birthday Big Brother!

For Drakes big 3rd birthday, we went sledding at Snoqualmie Pass.

It was pretty cold; well below the freezing point of cupcakes!

Martin and Drake getting a good push from Julia

Ewan says "wake me up when it's over"

Napping with Daddy while
Mommy gets in a few good sled runs.

Piggy-back up the hill.

Birthday Boys takes a run with Daddy

Lydia's awesome hat hair!

Time to go get warm.

JJ-Drake's hero

The grand finale....I guess this means it was a fun time...I'm realizing now as I post this that the first instinct of a truly good parent would probably not be to reach for the video camera during a tantrum of this magnitude ....oops.
And I didn't even manage to shoot it right-side up....but you get the idea. It was an impressive and articulate tantrum. Good endurance too.