Singing Fish

Happy 3rd Birthday

Sort of an update

Big Feet

This is my brother Sam. Isn't it a great story! This was from a couple months ago.

Camp Long Yarn

teeter totter

painting

Table saw box.

building deck

Waterworks garden

more

Running in the grass

Construction update

We had a few setbacks like having to replace a cracked retaining wall but mostly things are going pretty smoothly. The stair treads are temporary. The room is about 10 by 10. We had to shrink it because of the power lines. Then there will be a deck on top of that. I climbed up for the first time and you can not only see the Olympic mountain range but also Rainier which is a nice surprise. Rad.

Your moment of zen

It was a long and pretty productive day on the project. Sam had watched Finn all day. We have this plastic white lawn chair that the previous owner left. I was sitting in it and had just taken my boots off. It was such a nice moment to sit and watch sawdust glint through the evening wind. I would yell "encore! sweep!," so many times that I only had to say encore and he would sweep some more. May I draw your attention to the perfect z strolling off into the sun? Also I was smoking a cigarette. I smoke when I do a construction work. I don't otherwise. Building a fence? Takes two packs. The deck going down to the dock? Maybe 2. Quarter inch scale model of Graceland out of toothpicks. 1 carton. No, this is what I project it will take though.
This current project will take about a month still and I don't know if my lungs can take it.

Soulfood Easter 2

I feel like we kind of veered off the original path of soulfood easter because there was lamb alongside the ribs but I think slight infringements on tradition is sometimes acceptable. Next year I plan to use lard. We have moved from simple staging to full action film. {POW}
I had misgivings about the end with the christ getting x's. I thought it was too cartoony. I didn't edit it out though. I didn't because I thought that was censorship. Or something. Special thanks to Mark and San San for their mad Easter skills.

Liz, it's your turn

Demo work begins

Hooray! We finally got our permit!

For Finn's first birthday we made him a carrot cake sweetened with fruit juice and now he eats cookies and sweets fairly often and I don't bat an eye.

Dancazilla

Drumming

Chip gave us this great snare drum that Finn has been using a lot.

Hot Air. Balloon.

Finn slept in until 10:30. Our first day out of the house in a week and we went to the Children's museum. Finn usually goes to this room first. They have tubes you can put balls in and they are whisked away to other parts of the room. I tell him there are "fans" that push the balls. He repeated back "fan" as if I had told him Gods true name.

Sick Finn

Finn was sick for about a week. Coughing and fever and matted gunky eyes. We brought him in a second time to the doctor and they finally gave us antibiotics for an earache. He still has a little cough but he is fine now. Kendra caught the ear infection too. I have dodged it so far because I am lucky. Why do I know I am lucky? Because I was out walking two day ago and I saw a man step onto his patio and reach up to a light socket and then spring back as if he were getting electrocuted because he was getting electrocuted. Then only a block later their was a woman maybe in her fifties standing at a bus stop with a cigarette in each hand. Is not like absentmindedly leaving a burning cigarette in an ashtray. She would have had to have held the one already lit while she lighted the other. Could someone have handed it to her as they walked by? That's lucky. I don't think I have ever seen a stranger get an electric shock before and then the cigarette conundrum only a block later. Lucky.
Finn hasn't been this sick before. He just wanted to cuddle and sleep. We logged a lot of hours on netflix streaming movies. Like the never ending story, a documentary on breakdance, and the first three seasons of weeds. In the middle of the night we sat in the bathroom and let the shower run to add humidity to help his cough. We looked on Youtube at examples of whooping caugh to see if we should take him in for that. It sounded surprisingly simmilar. His belly is even a little smaller after barely eating anything for a week. Poor nipper.