Closets and Cabinets

I knit this sweater!!!  It is my first non-dishcloth knitting project.  There are some mistakes, but I think it is very cute.  I made the 18-24 month pattern guessing it would take a long time to finish.  It didn't really come out in the photos, but there is some detailing on it.

Lilly discovered the plastic drawer at Cathy's house during play group today.  She had a great time.  I expected her to enjoy pulling everything out, but was surprised to turn around and find her in the cabinet.  

Then we came home and she thought taking everything out was such a great game that she should try it in our closet.  

And just in case you were concerned that we had forgotten all about our wonderful Mark- he was sitting on island talking to Lilly the whole time.  And asking us to take him out in the snow- we got a few inches today maybe 4 and it wasn't even forecast to snow.

Just Lilly

Lisa, Lilly and I went to Melissa and Dan's wedding.  We had a great weekend (actually 36 hours) in Portland.  We got to hang out with my parents, Amanda, and my downriver family.  Somehow I only took ONE photo the whole time.  I think because we were so busy.  So here it is- Lilly at her first wedding.  She did awesome- slept well in the hotel, played on the airplane, and nursed through the ceremony.  

The rest of these I just took today since we are just hanging out at home.

Lilly thinks she can walk- we keep reminding her that she just hit 8 months and she isn't strong enough yet.

She can crawl up on her knees now

Happy, playing baby :)

A nice weekend around our house

We made my garden boxes.  Both kids helped.

Then we went to boulder and had a nice brunch and walk around.  Both kids thought they should sit on my lap.  Lilly is asleep in the carrier- Mark is trying to take all the sugar packets out and put them in the ground.  We were bummed to find out that the great breakfast place we had found last time was closed- so we didn't get banana bread french toast.  But, we had a great time hanging out in the sun.

Mark playing on that statues on the walking part of Pearl Street.

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Lilly was really unhappy about the driving.   We pulled over, nursed, got a new diaper, and played for a little while.  It didn't really help, but we had nice break.

Children's museum this morning

So we finally managed to pack up and make it out of the house in the morning.  We had been doing lots of afternoon trips, but Mark is going to Jamie's house in the afternoon now.  We went to the Children's museum this morning.

Mark was pretty excited to use the tools today- specially the saw and the drill.  We have played a little in the construction area before, but today was the first time he really wanted to make the tools do something.  No interest or intent to be making a product just using the tools to see how they worked.

I used to take Mark here when he was very little and enjoyed this crawling area of the museum.  It is a lot harder to take two kids here.  Lilly wants to do the slow exploring and Mark wants to be in the bigger kid areas.  When I asked him to stay in this area so Lilly could play he was able to find fun things to do for about 10 minutes.  I am proud of his ability wait- it's really hard for a two and a half year old.

Lilly is teething for a couple of days now.  This rolling pin was perfect for her- she held it almost the whole time we were there.

Mark put all these things in the cave and then left for Lilly to come find them.  Sometimes two kids is hard but mostly it is just wonderful.

Easter Weekend

Mark "washed" all the cars ("Daddy's car, Mommy's car and MY car") and we headed to a hotel for a mini vacation.  Yes, the wood is still in Herman from my trip to home depot last weekend.  Maybe this week I will get a few minutes without the kids to put the garden boxes together.

First we went to dinosaur ridge.  it was pretty windy and cold so we decided to take the bus up instead of walking.  But, despite what it said on their website, we missed the last bus.  We played in the gift shop and the kid area for a while.  Marks wasn't too happy because the other kids who was playing there came over and hit him on the head with a plastic shovel.  Lilly was plenty happy to ride around with Daddy and see stuff.

Happy kids in the hotel.  

I tried to get a moment laying down by myself, but the kids and Tim all thought that they should be involved in my moment- Lilly is in my other arm.  

Getting ready for the pool.  It wasn't outside so the hat was just for show.

Back in the room after the pool trip.  Both of the kids had a great time playing in the pool until they were cold and we had to make them get out.  And Tim did a great job of watching both of them so I could sit in the hot tub for a few minutes.  I just love how curly Mark's hair gets when it has been wet.  

We went back to Dinosaur Ridge on Sunday and it was nice so we walked up.  Mark eventually got in the stroller and fell asleep- dinosaur tracks and geology lessons just weren't all that exciting to him.   We thought the dinosaur tracks were amazing.

Then we went to have Easter diner with Lisa and Betty.  Betty made ribs (yum) and hid eggs for Mark.  He really liked running around their yard finding them.  Unfortunately, only took video of that and my video converter isn't working.  Lilly and Tim had a good time playing this drum.

Remember this photo of Mark?

I took this same photo of Mark on morning.  Lilly is just about to grow out of this onsie so I had to get the repeat photo.  Unfortunately the Mark photo is stored on my other computer and so I don't have it to put up right now.  If you go to Aug 17 of 2007 you can see Mark wearing it.   I will add that although Mark was wearing this shirt at 3 weeks old- it is too short to button at the bottom on Lilly now.