Cousin Devon

My cousin Michaela is in the Army and is in Iraq on her second tour. Der daughter Devon is living with my Aunt and Uncle in Montesano. This weekend we drove down to Montesano and picked her up for a weekend in the big city. She had a great time. We are glad we only have two kids.

Leo's Third Birthday

Park with Boyd and Phillip

We went to the park on Sunday with our good friends Boyd and Phillip who were visiting from San Francisco. I remember my own parents introducing me to their "best friends from college" and me thinking 'yeah, yeah, but they don't even live here' and then we would spend one hour with them having dinner or putting on a show for them (my performance of choice was singing "Delta Dawn"). For Boyd and Phillip, we had practiced the song "Filthy Gorgeous" which includes the unlikely sight of Leo screaming " 'Cause your FIFHY, and GOGOUS, your DITHGUTING!" I knew it would make the Boys from S.F. giggle! Then we went to the park where everything was about spinning for some reason....

Boyd on the evil centrifugal nightmare spinner of death from which it is impossible to escape or come to a stop.

Phillip got going a little too fast and couldn't escape without intervention. Too much Spinning

Too much even for the duracel Hassons....

Train to Sumner

Leo's excitement about trains prompted Joey to recruit his parents and all of us to take a commuter train from Seattle to Sumner (an southern suburb). Leo was so thrilled. It was the perfect three-year-old standing on the seat yelling - "FWEIGHT TWAIN!" and pointing to all the industrial things as we passed them on the train.

Sylvie in the train station

In Sumner we got doughnuts and hopped back on the train to go home.

Halloween

Sylvie was a mermaid wearing the Sleeping Beauty wig from her famous halloween debut two years ago. The wig is so knarled and tangled but it worked perfectly in the all-forward-to-the-side mermaid doo.

firefighter leo

Sylvie eating witches brew

Amazing Obama Pumpkins!