Sawyer's first movie, Planes

It was finally time.  Ever since the commercials started coming on (even before that) Sawyer has to yell "PLANES!"  Every time we said "Guess what we're doing?" He'd reply "Disney Planes?"  No, not quite yet.  He already knew Dusty Crophopper and Rip Slinger (Though he calls him Dusny Crubopper).  We were so excited Sunday to tell him it was finally time.

We pulled up to the movie theater and he immediately ran up to the poster.

He was wearing his Dusty shirt thanks to Grandma Smith ("My other grandma bought it for me").  I guess I should mention that it was Kellan's first movie too, but he won't remember it ;)  We had a gift card and movie tickets since we never go to movies so we splurged and went for the full experience with popcorn, candy, and giant coke.  Sawyer was loving it.  It was 10:30 so the theater was all toddlers, which was good because we had him and a baby.  First thing Dusty comes on the screen and some boy yells "It's Dusty!" and Sawyer points at him and was like "He called him Dusty!  Its Dusty Crophopper!" We had to try to teach him to be quiet.

He did pretty well.  He got antsy about halfway through (so did the entire theater of kids actually) and said he wanted to go home but he soon got over it, he just stood up for the rest of the movie.  Afterwards he said it was the greatest movie ever!  It was not as good as Cars and was pretty predictable so I hope he doesn't make us watch it as much as Cars, but it wasn't bad.  As we walked out of the theater, 10 planes flew by over us, it was pretty funny.

We went to Mod Pizza after stopping by Target to get Sawyer a toy Plane.  We didn't want to buy any toys until he saw the movie.

He sleeps with Dusty now :)

Color me rad

Yesterday we left bright and early for Marymoore park for the Color Me Rad.  Andy had a half there before and I knew how traffic could get so I had signed us up for the first wave to avoid it.  Due to some construction and me taking long to get ready, we arrived at the starting line right before they were starting.  Luckily we had picked up our packets the day before so we didn't have to do anything else but line up.

Here we were before:

The race went in waves so we didn't actually start until like 8:15ish.  Oh well.  It wasn't a race.  There were no clocks, and the guy said there would be bad things if you asked how long you took lol.  The whole car ride up my stomach was hurting so I knew we'd probably walk a lot of it.  The race started and we jogged awhile before the first color hit us- some people squirting green liquid out of a hose.  We jogged along some more and got some purple chalk thrown at us (corn starch actually).  It was so hard to breathe and it was getting stuck in my teeth but awesome nonetheless. My stomach started cramping pretty bad so we walked most of the rest of it, picking back up in jogs every now and then.  There were people pulling kids in wagons so it wasn't a big deal.  We went through some more colors until the end where we received our color packet and met in the middle.  The DJ came out a few minutes later and had everyone gather into a big crowd.  He counted down from 5 and on 1 he shot green out of a fire extinguisher while everyone threw their color packets up and/or at people.  It was a MASSIVE cloud of color!  It was impossible to breathe for a few seconds but it was quick.  We looked so funny by the end.

The chalk in Andy's hair makes him look like those 90's bleach-only-the-top hair styles because of his headband

I didn't take any pics closer because with my photography hobby I'm subscribed to posts and have read over and over how the chalk gets stuck in cameras and ruins them with no hope of recovery.  We ended up running into some Pogues after too (Jordan Ashlee and Megan) so that was cool.  10/10 fun, would do again (and taking Sawyer next time)

Here's a distant phone pic I took on the way out, I thought the clouds of chalk were funny

Some more videos

I always have a stash of videos.  I'll work backwards because that's how they appear on youtube.

First, Mr. Screechy.  He is constantly talking to us lately.  He saw me and the phone so he stopped but there's a few in there.



Next, here he is opening a gift from his "other grandma."  It's kind of long since it took them forever to get it opened. I found it funny he already knew Dusty Crophopper's name from Disney's Planes.  I can't wait to take him to see it!


Here is Sawyer at soccer camp last weekend.






Here he is a couple weeks ago singing wheels on the bus and ABC


Here he is 2 months ago singing 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed

Sunday Funday

I had an iPad someone found that I had been trying to find the owner of.  I looked in our systems and called Apple and they couldn't do anything for me.  I wanted to try the Apple store since they couldn't search any info to give me over the phone (understandably).  We were hungry though and remembered we had a gift card to Adriatic Grill from a couple years ago.  It is by the Tacoma Mall (Apple store) so we tried it out.

They brought out some dough for Sawyer to play with

He loved making snakes.  They ended up looking like the Russian nesting dolls.

They had paper over the table cloths.  I got Sawyer to try some letters.  He made a "big S" (green, from the knife and the line goes down the page) and I had him make an A (the big orange A)  He also tried a K for Kellan and ended up with the thing on the left side of the A on top of the S line.  You can see the up and down line and two horizontal ones.

Then they brought back his dough, which they made into bread sticks.

Andy got a meatball sub with homemade potato chips, Sawyer got pizza, and I got salmon penne.  They were all SOOOOO good!

Afterwards the boys danced to the music that was playing




We tried taking the iPad to Apple but there was nothing they could do.  I put an ad on craigslist that I found it.  If it isn't picked up in a few weeks we can master reset and use it ourselves.  I hope they find it though, I feel guilty just taking an $800 ipad from someone.


Then we went to the beach at Dash Point.

Dempsey day

On Friday morning Andy sent me a text that word was that Clint Dempsey was about to be signed by the Sounders.  I ran into my backroom office thing and immediately searched the internet.  I knew what that meant.  I didn't follow soccer at all until the Sounders showed up in Seattle, and since then, I still haven't known any of the players we were signing until they became part of our team.  I definitely knew who Clint Dempsey was.  I searched the web and could only come up with rumors and that nobody had any solid evidence apart from some guys seeing him in an airport heading to Seattle.

As the day passed on, more sources were "confirming" it.  The closest it got to being solid was a guy that worked for the Sounders say he "wasn't surprised" he was receiving a call about it.  By Saturday morning ESPN was reporting dollar amounts ($9 mil transfer paid to Tottenham and $8 mil a year).  And Tottenham Hotspur organization officially announced they sold him to the MLS. It was still up in the air as far as anyone could tell though where he was headed for sure.  Not long before the game started, the Sounders posted a FB status saying to get to your seats by 7:15 for a "special presentation" could it be???

We got to the stadium and I saw a fair amount of Dempsey jerseys (USMNT jerseys) floating around.  There were also some signs.  Everyone was kind of on edge and eager for this presentation.  Around 7:30, we see this:

What you are seeing is a huge amount of press coming out of that tunnel and the crowd over there was cheering.  We couldn't see that well but we knew what that meant.  The cameras finally went on the little stage in the middle of the pitch- he was here!

They said he was here checking out teams in the US or something...it was hard to hear because everyone was yelling so loud.

He asked him if he decided yet.  He nodded. Commence hoodie unzip to reveal...

RAVE GREEN!!!

omgomgomgomg

The tifo read "Keep Calm # Dempsey watch" (you can see the real one at the bottom of the pic)

Here he was doing the "Scarves up Seattle" before the match started

We won the game 3-0 (free haircuts!)

Now that you read my version, here is the video version.  Apparently he raps lol.  Its kind of cute because he is obviously super nervous when he talks into the microphone.



I can't wait until I see him play in rave green!  The next home match is against Portland too so it is going to be a HUGE game!

Rolly polly

We finally got Kellan to roll.  He would do a weird scooty around thing that would move him, but no actual rolls.  Today I stuck his toy monkey in front of him and we all told him to roll and it worked!

I tried a second time a little later for the picture.  We tried the monkey and he lost interest pretty quickly.

We tried a pacifier

He decided his feet were more interesting

I was mean ol' mama and pulled his hands off.  He tried a few times before flopping down.

Thanks to Sawyer putting 3 pacifiers down, he finally made it up.

Then daddy went to change his diaper and found him like this when he went to grab the new diaper.

Get back over!

We also got him to giggle this week (apart from those super creepy sleep laughs they do since they're born) we have to get all high pitched and go "tickle tickle tickle" while tickling his armpits and we can sometimes get one.

He also likes his bumbo now.

Summerland, Mt. Rainier

My parents invited Erik and Destiny hiking this weekend (well more of a casual walk around Sunrise at Mt. Rainier) but Erik had to do some hard construction work so he was too tired.  I called my parents to tell them they couldn't go (they were at our house) and asked if I could go instead.

While they had a casual walk planned for Erik and Destiny, apparently that was not the case for me.  I guess they decided to try a new hike at Mt. Rainier to Summerland.  Round-trip it is 8.5 miles and there's a 1500 ft elevation gain.  I am not in shape since the baby and my legs were KILLING me.  It was pretty steep in some spots and was constantly going up at some point.  We were almost to the top (but didn't know it yet) and I saw a lady that had to be at least 85 on her way down with a bunch of other older folks that encouraged us to keep going right as it was getting hard to lift my legs another step.  I still have no idea how all those people made it up- I hope I'm in that great of shape when I'm old!

We started in a forest with a few random streams, then went over a log to cross a river, and ended up switch backing through a few meadows of wildflowers.  It was beautiful!  You could see the top of the mountain and the glaciers since we were pretty close to the top right below the snow line.  We actually passed some snow.  When we got to the top, it was even more beautiful.  My dad described it as hobbit land lol.  It was a huge meadow with a big stream going through.  There was a "bathroom" (composting shack) up there and a little covering you can sleep in if you camp up there.  There's poles to hang your food from to keep them from bears.  A marmot even ran right across my path.  We stopped to eat snacks on some boulders, making sure to rock-hop as to not step on the meadow.  The way down was easier, but our dusty feet hurt and it was really hard on my knees.  I couldn't even walk after getting out of the car.  I would definitely say it was worth it though!  I can't wait to go back when I've done some squats to build up my legs first :)

The bear pole