Cripple Creek Ferry

We've been keeping busy with various projects this month. One of these projects is some yardwork. Shelby happily tried to get rid of some of the extra dirt for us.

Camden had a big month with a very important potty training step finally accomplished. As one of his many rewards, I took him to Chuck E. Cheese one afternoon and he had a lot of fun on the hamster cage for kids. Those of you who know him, know he would NEVER have done this a year ago. We both had a great time - him playing and me watching from a normal distance.

It is hard to get a good picture of both kids together. Aren't they super cute?!

Camden finished his first year of preschool and "graduated". He even did some of the motions to one of the songs and we were very, very proud of him.

Memorial Day weekend we had a fun time riding a ferry with Grandma & Grandpa Cochran and Uncle Neil. Here are a few of the pictures.

We've been getting out to ride bikes a lot lately and our preschooler powered by endless energy certainly keeps us going. This is an outing with Matt, Shelby, and Camden on the Interurban trail. There's Camden way up ahead in the orange jacket!

Shelby rides behind Matt's seat in her own seat.

I got to hear all about the bridge that went over the water. It is, apparently, very impressive to a 4 year old.

Curious George

On Wednesday we had a great time with some friends at the Children's Museum in Seattle. It was really hard to keep all kids holding still long enough for a picture of them all, but at least in this one you can see them all. Here are Camden, Grant, Shelby and Levi enjoying a motorbike in Japan.
They have a grocery store for kids to go shopping. The only bad part is you have to put it all back when you are done shopping.

They had a Curious George exhibit and Shelby enjoyed talking to Gnocchi, the chef's cat on the wall.

they have a water area set up with a little waterfall and water toys to play with. and a neat place with big foam blocks to put up a conveyor belt.

This week we babysat a friend's little girl for a few hours. Shelby is 3 months older than Caitlin. Camden grew a caterpillar at school.

And, here are the peas in progress. The carrots are now up and growing too. Soon it will be time to thin them out.

What little boy doesn't like to play in the dirt?

On Saturday, Matt took Camden to the Museum of Flight to see a B17. This was taken in the kids' play area.

and, finally, here's Shelby walking on her own! We've had a busy week...