Super Happy Family Fun Time!

My dad asleep in a chair, my brother and SuHyun trying to burn a newspaper with a magnifying glass.

Rowan at her 1st Music in the Park, at St. Edward's last Thursday.

Lucy with a rewarding ice cream cone after riding her bike (with no training wheels) all the way to Baskin Robbins.

Jacob and Ryan with Rowan at the Greek restaurant on Broadway that poisoned Ryan. Those dolmas look good in the picture, but I'm pretty sure he'll never eat them again.

So it's been a few weeks! We've been busy, and my family is in town visiting. Jacob, my brother is here from Eugene and my dad, his wife, her son and their 2 Yorkshire Terriers are all visiting from S. Korea. Here is a few pics of what we've been up to...

We've been having fun but having my brother and dad here always makes me wish they were here all the time. Jake is getting ready to head to London in couple of months, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he'll come back saying things like "I haven't showered in a fort-night," and "Good day gov'na, fancy a tea with yo' biscuit?" I want to go visit while he's there...we'll see.

Happy 4th of July!

Baby's 1st stovepipe-uncle Sam hat.

Lucy and Izzy on the decked out scooters.

Proud to be an American...

Lagos on parade.

Thank heaven for nice, cool, sunny weather this last Friday on the fourth. Last year I was so miserable I think I changed clothes 3 times due to sweat saturation. We went to the Bothell parade where Lucy rode Scooty and Rowan rode Daddy through the streets. Deborah (Lucy's mom), Jen and I sat from the sidelines and watched as the dads with all the kids got closer and closer...ever enfringing on our fleeting moments of being child free for those 45 minutes :)

Afterwards Rowan and I went to my aunt & uncle's house for a barbeque, were I ate like a queen and had a feast of crab and brownies. I don't even know how many I had--I stopped counting at like six. Ryan came later, he was playing a show at Lake Sammamish on a dock, where he enjoyed shirmp the size of his fist. Needless to say, we ate well on the 4th.

p.s.- baby and I took the bus again, and it went much smoother.

New Mom Takes Bus to Target, Hilarious Results.

Who's your baghdaddy?

Last night Alisa came over and we went for a walk to Bas-u-kin Ro-bin-su. Rowan had a baby ice cream cone. Just kidding. But she is really holding it in this picture!!

Chillaxin' in the Bjorn with Alisa.

It's been so hot out that yesterday evening was the perfect temp to go for a walk, and eat ice cream. In other news, my tabs expired and I haven't gone to Worthington license yet to renew them, so I took the bus yesterday. The bus guy was so rude to me!! I was struggling to get the stroller up the stairs (which he didn't lower for me) and then he gave me a dirty look and asked me if I was "new" at this. I didn't know if he meant being a mom or being a mom on the bus, or riding the bus. He then told me I must remove the baby from the carriage (to which I thought, let's be real, no one says carriage, unless your British, and he wasn't) and proceeded to ask, "doesn't that stroller collapse?" Indeed it does, but that would defeat the purpose of taking the bus to Target to get diapers and use the basket of the stroller, now wouldn't it? Anywho, we are giving the bus one more shot today--I wanted to run up to Alderwood (except with the bus it's more like riding a saddled sloth than a 'run up') and pick up a few things, but this time, no carriage. Just a back pack and a baby Bjorn. I'll report on this trip with my next post :)