School's Out For Summer

Rowan showing off her dress and giving a wave!

Lucy and "Scooty" on the trail to Bothell Landing.

Sisters...

Lucy's school got out last week and she's been singing the Alice Cooper song nonstop, and really utilizing her summer freedom by searching for Alice Cooper music videos on You Tube (no joke). We walked (I walked--Rowan slept and Lucy scooted) to Bothell Landing earlier this week, the weather has been really nice and sunny. Today we took Rowan to the doctor for her 2 month check up, poor babe had to have 4 shots and is the fussiest I've seen her EVER tonight. Not even a rousing episode of Wife Swap is cheering her spirits up...she did weigh in at 10lbs 10oz. though, and the doc said everything looks great :)

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Here's one of our Lucy girl. Her last day of school was today, we haven't talked to her yet but I'm pretty sure that she's excited for school to be done, and to be able to say that she is now 1st grader. I know that she will also be excited to know that we are planning a trip to Ohio in September...she loves going out there, and I'm so glad because it reminds me of how excited I used to get when we'd travel up to Seattle to visit our family...I lived for those trips, and I feel that same excitement from Lucy when we talk about going to back to visit family.

Lago Update!

She's 8 weeks old today, getting more smiley and cute too!! She's got that tounge out all the time, and is such a mover...but still has that calm that she's had since the day she was born...except when she's done riding in her carseat or hungry. Generally though, she's pretty content and a good baby!

Here are a bunch of new pics...they are all of this last month, mostly just stuff we've been up to...and mostly baby. Lucy's done with school now so hopefully soon I will get some of them together...mostly I take pictures when it's just the two of us in the morning or evening.

She's been sleeping through the night--the past two nights anyway. 7 hours!! The funny part is I'm waking up in the middle of the night to feed her, and she's fast asleep...I'm still waiting for my body to catch up with her.

Playing in the morning...she's happiest in the a.m. right after she wakes up and eats :)

Sporting the Led Zeppelin outfit from Robby, Lindsay and Kristi from when Kristi went down to LA right before Rowan was born. I didn't think this thing would fit forover, but it fits now! It looks awesome. Thanks guys!

This face cracks me up, she does this a lot, and I think it's more because she can't get her head all the way up, so it looks like she's cocking her eyebrow.

Angus making lemonade on the hot day we had Monday.

Rowan in the cute outfit from Great-Aunt Kendra in Ohio. We got our tickets yesterday to fly back to visit Ryan's side of the family in late September. He'll be in Chicago for 1 week at a trade show for work, and his cousin Danielle and I will fly out with the girls--he's meeting us out there and we'll stay for a week to visit. I'm excited for them to meet the baby.

Happy Father's Day!! Rowan wasn't stoked to take these pictures, but I wanted something documenting her first father's day with Ryan. This lake was so pretty, I'm excited to go back when it's a little warmer to actually swim. The kids were fearless and got right in, pretty sure they are crazy. Or part polar bear.

Lucy, Angus and Izzy playing in the water. Yes, that's snow on the mountains :)

My birthday was on Sunday! And so was Father's Day. We went to our friends' cabin for the weekend, they have two kids that Lucy is great friends with, so we had a little weekend celelbration. It was super fun--we took the ferry over on Friday and then came home Sunday evening. We ate, played games, had a bonfire, ate, roasted marshmellows, ate, slept, ate, went on a row boat ride, and ate, again. The cabin is close to Hoodsport in the Olympic Mountains, and it was Rowan's first real trip :)

Here is my first attempt at posting a video...actually second attempt, which would be the successful one :) I still can't figure out how to rotate the whole thing, so it's sideways for now. I love her little talking noises, and what I super love is that I have a phone that I can do cool stuff with now! Finally! I'm getting excited for Lucy to come home tomorrow so that I can get some cute pics of them together up here. Birthday countdown: T-8 days.

6 weeks old and lovin' life

Here are some new pictures--Rowan is six weeks old this week, I can't believe how big she's getting so quickly...but still so little! She's really starting to smile and coo, it's been a lot of fun for us. It's funny to see three people that are so enamored with this tiny creature that just makes funny noises and faces :)

new outfit from my childhood friend Ashley in Portland...she had a baby girl 2 weeks before Rowan was born.


In other news, I got a new cell phone!!! I've been using the same one for over two years, and it came free with the plan we signed up with, it's pretty much equivalent to those old ones from the 1980's that were like the size of a brick with a big rubber antenna. Jake and I had one of those, a toy one, it was so awesome. I've been taking lots of pictures with it, and it's so easy to upload them to the computer, I feel so technologically advanced. I've finally caught up with the rest of the world.

what's up attitude!?

Everything else is going well for us; I've started working a little bit again, picking up a few shifts at Macy's and watching my friend's kids a few days a week. I'm getting excited for summer stuff to start, always kicked off with my birthday...June 15! I'll be celebrating 25 of years of Esther. Awesome.