Sports schedules have slowed a bit in the last couple of weeks and we have opted for long evenings and weekends in our backyard, eating watermelon and playing in the sprinklers.
Isaac had his first ice cream bar last month and I fear we’ve created something of a monster.
But a cute monster…
Watering my plants takes twice as long when Isaac is around, but is four times as fun.
Sometimes it’s just too damn hard to choose which pic is my favorite, so…here they all are.
(Juliette is also a sucker for a sprinkler…)
We’ve dusted off the Rad Wagon and are back to Sunday bike rides to Hiawatha and Good Society.
Shane and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary last month with a trip out to Vashon Island to linger over the places we breezed past after Juliette’s softball game the weekend prior.
Isaac was pretty enamored with the whole ferry thing. This pic sums it up – Isaac so focused on the boat’s wake that Shane and Juliette could actually have a deep conversation, probably about the NBA finals.
We rolled off the ferry with a hankering for coffee and pastries, so we popped into the town bakery before finding a shady bench on the lawn near the Saturday Farmer’s Market.
We sat on the grass and listened to a couple of old guys play country songs about the women they loved and I reveled in the feeling of not having anywhere else we needed to be.
Shane shared a formative piece of his childhood with Juliette at the nearby arcade/ice cream shop…
And we played a very long game of pinball at this glitchy machine that kept giving us ball after ball after ball.
Once we had dilly-dallied to our heart’s content in town, we made the short drive out to Dragon’s Head Cider to spread out our picnic blanket, kick the soccer ball around, and raise our glasses to another year of bliss.
Happy Anniversary, Shane!
Mama’s still got it!
My boys…THIS IS BLISS.
We eventually had to rouse Isaac from his nap and peel ourselves off our Adirondack chairs to catch our ferry home. Juliette read while Isaac ran laps – the beauty of massive transit!
Wrapping up May with some cozy vibes because even when it’s sunny outside, snuggles rule supreme.
Get her, Buddy!
Seriously, though, this boy is aggressively affectionate. Juliette is so good at rolling with it.
Ahhhh, I love being on cusp of summer – good times ahead! Living room forts do for now, but I see a backyard campout in our future.
