Carmen and Ella, Painting, etc

Here are a handful of recent pics. Those are Justin Boyan and Amy Greenwald's girls Carmen and Ella, down from Providence. Alice LOVES them. I love the one with kenny where she looks like the guy from the Onion.

Easter Egg hunt

On Friday, Colleen, Kathy and Dottie (and Mima) organized an awesome early easter party for Alice.

Norwalk Aquarium

Alice and I just came from the Norwalk Aquarium - a favorite new stop in our monday rotation. Monday is the only day of the week we dont have a scheduled activity, so we do something just the two of us - peabody (dinosour museum), deja brew cafe, etc, and sometimes we just chill all day at home - but not often. leads to crankiness, for both of us.

Highlights - Alice loves to watch the seals get fed. one of them is named Ariel and we play Ariel and the Aquarium Lady all the time at home. Alice also loves the 'cafe upstairs' - which is jsut a cafeteria with greasy food that is over priced and makes me feel funny. Everytime I know I should get a salad but get the burger and fries instead and end up feeling weird. She loves the jellyfish and always tells the kids we have a jelly fish at home (wishful thinking) she also told the woman at the desk today that she wears big girl pants all the time (wishful thinking? transferred wishful thinking from my brain?). She loves the touch tank and the giant turtle too. the big excitement today was that we were stroller free- and she did great. She's really getting to be a big, big girl. last thing - when we got to the otter tank all the other kids were really enjoying the otters and laughing with them. Alice climbed up and shouted 'oh no, yuck! go to WORK! yuck, oh no! go to work!' and pushed on the glass for emphasis. I wondered if this was something I said to Kenny when he annoyed me but couldn't ever remember doing it. I finally had to carry her off. it was really funny.

better late than never

I thought I'd post a couple photos from holiday time since those are the most recent on the computer. eventually Ill catch up.

the Lacey, WA children's musuem

Alice and Kenny at the airport at christmas