Zach pic, NaBloPoMo

I took this pic of Zach last week and I thought he looked so much like Craig.

You're probably wondering, what the heck is NoBloPoMo? National Blog Posting Month. I am participating in this with my other blog. Basically, the goal is to post one post a day for the month of November. It's only day 6, but I haven't missed a day. Check in now and again throughout the month and leave a comment.

The letter "K" is rescued

The letter K was missing.

Gabe has an alphabet puzzle and at some point we couldn't find the letter K. We thought maybe it got lost in the move last year, but I distinctly remember marveling, when we packed it up, that none of the letters had gotten lost.

But the letter K was M.I.A.

So after all these months, about two weeks ago, Craig decided to check underneath the fridge and lo and behold…

Gabe was very happy to have the letter K back. He pretends to lose and find it again, too. I asked him today what words begin with letter K and he said, "Kite and kick."

Um...just stuff

It's been a while! Here is a link to the latest article I had published in Portland Family Magazine about unschooling. Had some friends over last night who are vegetarian, so I made a vegetable pot pie (a recipe I got from another friend who made it for us right after Zach was born). It was very tasty!

Gabe is going to a birthday party this coming weekend where the theme is, of course, Halloween. He is going to be a pirate. Zach will be a pumpkin (if he tolerates being in the costume). Two years ago, I was Lt. Uhura from Star Trek for Halloween, but this year I just bought some cat ears that blink.

I'll just post a few new photos of the boys.

At the LegoLand party at the

Children's Museum.

With his friend Ariella at the

Children's Museum.

Counting fish.

Big bro, little bro.

Summer visit with mom/bro

We didn't do much in terms of outings because Zach freaks out if he is stuck in the car seat for longer than 15 min. He has gotten a lot better lately, though. Here are a few pics:



An outdoor concert










Picking blueberries

Coloring Thomas trains

Gordon


Henry


All 8 steamies

End of Summer

It's been a very busy month; mom and brother visiting, working on a writing assignment (me) and of course still adjusting to two kiddos. Zach is four months now and was 14 pounds at his four month appt. in early August. Will post some pics shortly.

My assignment is due this week and I'll be writing about some of what I learned from the unschoolers I've talked to on my other blog. Hope everyone is having a nice summer.

Hagg Lake

Yesterday, we drove out to Hagg Lake, near Forest Grove, Oregon. You can go hiking, boating and swimming there. We'd never been there before, so we primarily went to check it out. It was really nice and Gabe had playing and wetting his feet in the water.















On the way back, we wanted to check out downtown Forest Grove, but by the time we got there the kids were asleep. So we headed home. But when we were about 5 miles from our house, Zach started crying and we had to stop like three times on Ore.-8. I now loathe this road, because there are too many stop lights and with a crying baby, every second seems like an hour. The next time we go, I think we will take Rt. 26 there instead.