Sisters

From Emmaline Ruth

I love my sister! I want to hold her and kiss her.

From Emmaline Ruth

I want her to love me!

From Emmaline Ruth

We laugh together!

From Emmaline Ruth

Best of all Mama made us matching dresses this week.

Four

From Meredith Jane 4th Birthday

What do four year old kids do?

From Meredith Jane 4th Birthday

Open presents from aunts early and make birthday cake pictures!

From Meredith Jane 4th Birthday

Help Daddy make a birthday cake!

From Meredith Jane 4th Birthday

Open presents on my birthday!

From Meredith Jane 4th Birthday

Blow out candles!

From Meredith Jane 4th Birthday

Let everyone know how old I am!

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Camping at Lake Wenatchee State Park

From Emmaline Ruth

Last weekend we went camping at Lake Wenatchee Sate Park. My Mama and Daddy didn't want me to crawl around in the dirt and the dust, so they brought along my play yard.

From Lake Wenatchee State Park

We all went on a hike to a lake. I rode on my Mama's back. Theo and Meredith hiked all the way there themselves!

From Lake Wenatchee State Park

While on the hike, we found a tree Theo and Meredith could stand in!

From Lake Wenatchee State Park

We all had a GREAT time!

Pony Tail

From Emmaline Ruth

My hair is getting longer! Long enough to have a pony tail (small one, anyway)!

From Emmaline Ruth

Isn't it cute?

Big Kitchen Helper

From Emmaline Ruth

Meredith & Theo get to stand up at the counter on their step stool to help Mama and Daddy make things. I guess I'm not big enough yet. But I'm big enough to pull up on the toy kitchen and pretend that I get to help too! I can't wait until I get to help my Mamma and Daddy like my sister and brother do!

Spinning!

From Emmaline Ruth

My sister and brother love having Daddy spin them in their bilibo toys. I have one too, but I haven't spun around in mine yet ... until a couple of days ago. What fun! Daddy spun me slower than Meredith or Theo, but I still liked it! What else can I use my bilibo for?

From Emmaline Ruth

My Walker

From Emmaline Ruth

I'm beginning to learn how to walk. I'll walk if someone holds my hands -- like my Mama, Daddy, or even my big sister or brother!

I've also figured out that if I grad a hold of one of these chairs, I can walk around by myself in the living room. Aren't I smart?

All Smiles!

From Emmaline Ruth

Look, Dad, I have teeth! What is that clicking sound coming from the camera?

From Emmaline Ruth

Who's that in the reflection in my eyes? That's my Daddy. I may look like my Mama and Papa (Mama's Daddy), but I still love my Daddy too!

From Emmaline Ruth

I love smiling for the camera!

Geocaching!

From Meredith Jane 3 Years

Have you ever gone geocaching? It is kind of like a treasure hunt! Daddy does something special on the computer to get the treasures on his GPS. Then we go around hunting for the treasures. Sometimes inside we'll find a bunch of small toys. We bring something to put in the geocache and get to take something out. What fun!

Daddy & Mommy thought we would like to try it out and the Richland Parks & Rec department was holding a geocoin challenge. If we found 10 of 12 geocaches hidden in the Richland parks, we would get a geocoin. Well, you know what?? Even though Mama and Daddy didn't think we'd get much past 3 or 4 geocahces in a day, Theo & I LOVED it... we just kept wanting to find more treasures! We ended up visiting 11 parks yesterday, 10 of which we've never been to! Translated... we got to play in 11 different parks yesterday! On Friday we found one in our neighborhood park.

So, yes, that means we found all 12 even though we only needed to find 10. Let's just say I'm goal oriented ;) Don't you think the geocoin is pretty? If we want to, we could hide it in another geocache and as long as the people who find it log where it is, we can watch it travel from place to place!

From Meredith Jane 3 Years

Tall Things!

From Seattle 2011

When we went to Seattle last weekend, we saw a lot of tall things. But, you ask, where's the tall things in this picture? Well, we had to hike to get there... through a forest of TALL trees ;) Some of them weren't as tall, like the tree stumps we're standing in for this picture.

From Seattle 2011

What is one of the tall things you think we saw (and walked under, around, and over)?

From Seattle 2011

The bridge at Deception Pass State Park!

From Seattle 2011

We could (barely) see the north Cascades from on top of the bridge. Do you see them out there?

From Seattle 2011

See, I told you we walked over the bridge. Hold on tight!

From Seattle 2011

Do you know which mountain (volcano) this is? Daddy says it is Mt. Baker.

From Seattle 2011

At the beach we saw the Olympic mountains.

From Seattle 2011

I'm tall too, but not as tall as a bridge or mountains!