By request, we will post a few pictures of our local goings-on. We will also hope to soon post some pictures of our new addition. At this moment, Keriann is 9 months and 2 days pregnant, so we should have a new family member quite soon. (About 3.5 cm, 70%, and -1 for those medically oriented).
Any name suggestions would be welcome. We are trying to find a name that would work well in a Limerick. Last night we kind of ruled out a few names...
"There was a young lady named Abby,
Whose thighs were quite notably flabby..."
"There once was a girl named Pearl,
Who kind of resembled a squirrel..."
We similarly ruled out Ellie, Matt, Tipper, and Frankie. (You may mentally compose those lines of verse yourselves). Keriann did point out to me that if I had tried to rule out previous names based on silly limericks, we might not have a Mattie or a Sam. I guess that's true.
Now, onto what is happening. After 1.5 months homeless, we finally found a nice little home to rent. The children were happy to have a place to call home. While our new stomping grounds are not as warm as we have been used to, Everything around us is very pretty.
These and the picture at the top were taken at Rosario Beach. It's about 10 minutes from home, and on my way to work every day. No white
sandy shores where we can lay and accumulate actinic damage quite like Florida, but there are great tide pools, and fun places we could explore if we had kayaks (Father's day hint?)
Other local highlights include a huge forest trail system, several small lakes, and Deception Pass. The trails begin right across the street. When we went the the other day we found a newt, a cool tree frog, and all the banana slugs one could ever desire. We have not yet done the hike at the pass, nor been out on the lakes, but we will soon.
The kid's are very cute, of course. Sam recently celebrated his third birthday, and has started, just in the last couple of days, going pee pee on the potty. I am trying to upload a little movie of his birthday celebration. Stand by for that.
We were recently fortunate enough to have Grandma Barlow visit us for a week. We enjoyed her visit very much and we think she enjoyed herself, too, although her quarters were rather spartan. Before she left, we hung out in Seattle a bit. We went to Pike's Place Market, checked out the old beach house where she lived a long time ago, and went up the Space Needle.
That's about it for our update. We will try to post again soon once our yet nameless child is born. If possible I will try to get close up video of the child's grand entrance onto the world stage, just in case any of you still doubt that child birth is a beautiful thing. Oh, wait. Maybe posting that would violate Blogger's user agreement. Maybe an audio recording will suffice. We will look forward to soon being updated on each of the rest of you.
Love,
Tom, Keriann, and family
Katelynn stuffing her 1-year old face so she can go back to playing in her sandbox
We bought this tub and filled it with sand so Katelynn actually has a place to sit and play. She loved it. Notice all the attention she is getting. Below Katelynn is cuddling up with the bunny a friend gave her. The Chinese love stuffed animals and that is what every one of them gave her. She always grabs the stuffed animals at the market, so she is happy to have her own now. On the left is the van we cruise around in. A nice little ride although it doesn't go too fast and it sounds as if it will explode at any minute. The last picture is of a "water cow". We have yet to figure out it's purpose in life other than sloshing around in knee deep water. We will have to do some more research.
