What's Your Talent?

Jonah was talking yesterday about talents.

"My talent is jumping and doing flips," he said, "And your talent is taking pictures."

"What's Lydia's talent?" I inquired.

He didn't miss a beat.

"Following you around."

Look at these cool girls!

Audrey

This is for my family:

I'll finish the other ones from the birthday party tonight.

Finally

I never feel like I'm able to get a good picture of Lydia. She loves to pose for the camera, but she always gives me that silly grin and never a nice smile. I followed her around the yard a few days ago. I finally captured her-- the Lydia that I see-- the beautiful, dainty girl that warms our hearts. I love this picture.

I Found it Interesting

I was at the playground tonight with the kids. We were the only ones there until an older kid came and started swinging.

Jonah was very calm when he came to me and in his I-can't-quite-get-my-words-out voice he says, "The squeaking on his swing erupts me."

"Erupts you?"

"Yeah," he says, "It's disappoints me. I need earphones or an ipod."

I found it very interesting. Sure his vocabulary was not quite what it should be, but I understood what he was trying to say.

The squeaking bothered him.

At that moment, his brain was completely in sync so he knew as soon as the squeaking began it was going to bother his brain.

I'm thankful that he's learning to recognize that which causes him to get "out of sync"-- and that he can verbalize it to me.

He put on Lydia's hat at my suggestion and told me that it helped a bit.

Good for him.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Seriously. My kids are into their silly faces.

Seattle, Part II

Troy and I took pictures most of the weekend, but here's a small collection of some of my favorites.










Can you tell we had one adventure after another? The Space Needle, the tide pools, a tourist "duck" tour, a motorcycle ride, a three hour time change, Pike's Place Market, the original Starbucks, three meals of fish and chips (yes, T & A, they had another meal at the airport:), a playground, the monorail, a personal tour of Fire Station #10, Ashley's wonderful cooking, the Seattle aquarium, two consignment stores, plenty of money in parking meters, one heartfelt conversation, and lots of love shown by an aunt and uncle.

Seattle

We returned from Seattle at 2:30 a.m. this morning. I have lots of pictures to post, but I'm not sure when that's going to happen with all the work I have to do with TFP this week.

Here's an initial favorite: