Gig

Immediately following my birthday I took the kids to Gig Harbor, just the three of us for a long week. We got into a great summer routine with nothing else to do but have fun which meant that I said "yes" alot more than usual. This felt great and the kids totally responded. Leo jumped about 6 months forward, starting pooping on the pody and speaking grown up sentences and using the correct conjugation of verbs. These milestones only make me smile for a moment and then I get all misty. Of course the weather wasn't great (again) but once the weekend came, and daddy showed up, we made it out on the boat for some serious summer. Sylvie and I even took the boat out just the two of us and decided to dock on a specially secluded beach where I had a really hard time getting pushed off by myself -don't get stuck on a boat with no cell phone. I acted cool and she didn't notice but my foot was totally cut up from the barnacled rocks for about a week.
My favorite part of the week was the creation of a new tradition. After bath, in p.j.s we would walk around the forest beach loop with Sylvie on her bike and Leo fading in the stroller. It was still light out and the tree canopy was bright green it was the perfect mellow end to a summer day. Though at times there was some yelling to keep to the side of the road.

Clams from the beach, corn, edamame and grilled bread + wine = summer

After this long week we went to the Great Wolf Lodge. No photos from there and I still haven't figured out how to describe it in words here is all I can say...vegas meets wildwaves meets lake quilnalt lodge with constant arcade beeps and whoops enveloped in more sugar per sqare inch than you can image followed by exhausted kids all sleeping together surrounded by all of the fattest people in Washington state topped off with HUGE smiles for two days straight. PHEW