Chinese Food Good Luck Fortune

Last night we got Chinese Food and here is how that went:
Drew: What's that?
Me: It's a fortune cookie (aside "crap, why didn't I hide that")
D: I want to have it
M: After dinner
D: I want to have it now
M: Eat some dinner first and then you can have the cookie
D: But I want to have it now
M: It's for dessert, you eat it after dinner
[enter dad]
Dad: Drew, eat at least some rice first and then you can have the cookie
D: No, I want the cookie now!
Dad: OK, here's half the cookie - you get half now and then the rest after you eat your dinner
[can you see where this is headed??]
D: I want more cookie
M: Eat your dinner
[Drew eats one grain of rice]
D: I wanna be all done - it's time for my other cookie
M: That's not dinner, please eat more
D: I want my cookie
M and Dad: OK Fine! Just eat the cookie!
...
M: Wait - what was your fortune? "Assert yourself. You have the power to get what you want."

Sunday at the Farm

Last Sunday was a day to take Drew and his friend Ava to the farm. (You can go to her blog to see pictures of us from Anne's camera.) It was the "Fall Festival" there with everything you would imagine for a farm fall fastival. Lots of things to do and things to pet and ways to clean your hands. (Love it that Purell is now a household name - if only healthcare workers were as good...) There were a couple of "scary silos" too that we thought about going in. When we saw 7 year olds scream their way out of there and cling to their parents, we thought better of it.


We got there in the morning and walked around a bit looking at the animals, petting the kittens and going through a corn maze before hopping on the back of a tractor to hitch a ride to the pumpkin patch. We picked out our very own and headed back for a hot dog, a puppet show and the first caramel apple of the season.

Here we are sharing the caramel apple.

This is our friend Ava with her mommy.

The family photo (rare appearance, I know)

And this is what Drew did when he finally chose his pumpkin.

Rocketship cake

OK - so here is the cake.

Fun at the park!

For celebrating with friends, we invited folks to meet us at the park to have snacks, cake and play time! It was a super morning except for the fact that there was zero parking due to lots of other events planned for the exact same place and time. It did get hot though - probably close to 80. Apologies to the pregnant ladies there - that was a hot one for you!
There is always a pull to document every waking moment of your kid's life (or is that just me??) and then there is the pull to relax and have fun. In the end, I have some pictures from the park but didn't catch everyone who was there. And - horror of all horrors, I didn't get a picture of Drew with his rocketship cake (and after all the stress over that cake making it to the park without falling over...)
Here are the shots I got! You might get hot just looking at them.
Colin, Drew, Drew and Noah

Celine, Leila and Dad Sean

Zoey and Max on the swings

Aiden and Anika enjoying the cake

Blake and Lily waiting for cake

Colin and Drew

Erica, Wesley and Henry

Last night when I was putting Drew to bed I asked if he enjoyed his party at the park. He said "Yeah, I played with Colin and then I had poopies." And there you go.

Birthday morning

Forgot to post this - Grandma Karen and I put candles on the special birthday pancakes Friday morning. It took many tries with some secret help from me in the end. Lots of spit went all over those pancakes. That sealed the deal for "no candles to school."

Birthday Boy

Yeah! Drew turned three today!
What a great day for all of us. (Minor pre-dinner meltdown excluded.) Drew did go to school today - we hung out at home for a while in the morning and got there in time for some outside play time. It's beautiful here this week - about 70 today and will be warm again tomorrow. Anyway, Grandma Karen and I worked on making the cake for tomorrow's party. This is the cake that went to school as part of afternoon snack. What is it? Race car? No. It is a roller truck! And the kids loved it!

Here is Drew at school with his friends and his cake. Notice the crown on his head - cute! He got to be king for the day and wore his birthday crown all day long.

Drew also got to open some of his presents (I think there are a couple left). This is his new hot wheel bike that Grandma and Da got for him.

Now it's late and we are pooped. Tomorrow is swim lesson and then a friend party at the park. I made a rocket ship cake for that party. I have eaten so much cake...all that great weight loss, gone.

Ellensburg

Hello everyone!

Yes, still trying to keep up with this blog and life and such. So after Seattle, we hopped the road to Ellensburg, WA to visit Aunt Erin and Chris. We had a great time and Drew is still talking about the helicopters. The biggest bummer was that our favorite bakery was closed for the week so no pain au chocolat for us. :(

Here are Erin and Drew!

We also went to the Children's Museum one morning and here is Drew playing at the Farmer's Market.

We had a great hike next to the river, but favorite of all, we got to see the fire rescue helicopters!