Pike’s Place

 

After our visit to the space needle we walked over to the monorail and rode it down to the farmer’s market. While we were waiting for it to come, Bode tripped over Clint who was knelt down fixing Owen’s shoe. He fell so hard onto a metal beam. He got his forehead pretty bad and he screamed SO loud. He thought Clint did it on purpose, which made for an awkward time of it all. Seattle is not an ideal place for kids anyway, but by now we had everyone's attention. It was a huge red and blue bump that came up almost instantly. It managed to get worse and worse. The poor kid was extra clingy to Clint on the ride, but he did pretty dang good otherwise.

We walked all around to some of the shops and then got some ice cream. It was so good! Owen was a good little thing and found this little toy to play on while we sat and ate. Her kept coming back for more bites because that kid loves ice cream. Bode does not, but he surprised us and ate a little bit. I barely took pictures of this adventure because I was too busy trying to keep track of one kid, while Clint was keeping track of the other. Did I mention how NOT ideal this place is for kids? No one stopped for the stroller, there were SO many people everywhere. And when I say people, I mean weird people. Ok not everyone. (almost though…) We didn’t spend too much time here before heading down to the waterfront.

The Space Needle

We got a hotel during our stay in Washington for a night and it was a couple blocks from all the fun sites to see. We acted like tourists and did tons of stuff. The boys were kind of tired, and Clint isn’t a huge fan of anything to do with lots of people.. but he did it for me. I can’t speak for Clint, but I thought it was SO much fun! He didn’t really care if we did the whole site seeing thing, but I told him that we had to take our family to the space needle! He had never been before, and I had only been one other time with Bode (and my sis and her two oldest.) Everyone who visits Seattle needs to see it, right?! I thought so anyway.

Strollers were not allowed in the line to get up to the top or at the top, and that was kind of a challenge. Owen is all over the place, and the boys tried to wander around, but luckily it didn’t take too long to get to the front of the line. Bode got pretty bored at the top and all he wanted to do was go back to the gift shop he spotted on our way in. Go figure.

It made us nervous to have the kids up there. Especially Clint. I held Owen up to look out and Clint acted like I was going to pull a Michael Jackson and hold him right over the edge. I thought it was kind of funny… I would never do such a thing, but I guess I could have been safer? Anyway, our boys are alive and well though. We survived.

Lots of money, some stress, a beautiful view, and some family time and we can say we have all been to the Space Needle. Wahoo!

From here we rode the monorail to Pike’s Place. Until next time..

Random Pictures

 

These kids are so cute! And yes, Owen is wearing girl underwear over his diaper.

Point Defiance Zoo

While staying with my sister and her family, we went to the zoo. Kelli stayed home with baby Kacie and we met up with Clint’s friends Peter and Annie. It was such a beautiful day! It started out pretty chilly and I was regretting putting the kiddos in shorts, but it warmed right up. The kids had such a great time.

I think my favorite part by far was letting them feed the birds. They were all so excited when a bird would land on their little stick to eat the bird food. Another fave was watching the polar bears play fight. It seemed just like our old dog Gunner and Kelli’s dog, Battle, playing as pups.

The kids were awesome and Clint and Aaron goofed around and made us all laugh the entire time. They thought it was hilarious to say loudly that the animal we were looking at was in fact a totally different animal. Or we would leave a certain exhibit, for example the elephants, and they would say something like, “I wonder if we are ever going to find the elephants?!” I can’t even really describe what they were doing, but it was FUNNY. One thing after the next after the next. They went along with it the entire time we were there and we got so many people looking at us funny. I do remember that Kaylan asked for some cotton candy and Aaron told her after she was all done with her sandwich that Kelli packed for the kids, she could get some. She ate all her sandwich and asked for it. Aaron said, “Nope. Sorry.” The poor girl didn’t even get upset! She’s like, “Oh man.” Then he told her he was just kidding and she could get some. Those cute girls are just used to it! Another thing was there was a loud horn that would go off every so often. The first time it went off Aaron said, “Oh no. An animal died.” Then by the end of our trip the horn went off and all the kids said, “Oh not another animal!” It sounds terrible, but holy crap we were laughing so hard. NEVER a dull moment with Clint and Aaron around each other, that’s for sure. Bode ended up asking why animals died on the way home and I told him they were just kidding. He said, “Oh! Good one!” Our poor children…

We got home and cute Kelli was making us all my Grandma B’s potato salad! And it was delicious. She was almost done with her 7 weeks of radiation at this point and doing so well. She’s incredible! She has seriously been a miracle. Attitude is everything and she has done leaps and bounds better than ever to be expected.

Isn’t she beautiful?!