Magic Mushroom

I thought about putting together a post on all the thing we have acquired to fulfill Eamon's need to go "outsiy?" (trike, bike trailer, a bike for Ray (finally), seems like everything BUT a yard). However, this sums it up and is far better:

Our blue mushroom. Gives one some Mario-Brothers based urges.
Not quite ready for that 50cc, aunt Missy, but I'm working on it!

But-tay

For my mom, some Sunday cute:


Eamon like his bunny (and loves his chair). Even cuddles the bunny some of the time. At some point maybe he'll learn to say "bunny" (and "kitty") correctly.



(This happened while I was posting, and is an add-on for Aunt Missy. He still loves the book, although sometime it goes "to sleep" for a while when he's not looking and his parents are nearby. Huh.)

Godot?

I know, buddy, we're all still waiting on me to get all those pictures edited.


Oh, never mind, you were waiting for something else entirely.

(Mom, here's another form of your revenge. He does this to me, too..)

(And I'm posting this from the Mazda, parked outside the farmer's market while kiddo naps. Enjoy.)

Deep thoughts

It has been a hectic couple of weeks. Two trips in a row, and lots of pictures to come once I edit (although I can't share some of them because they're not of our child).

I've learned some fun things in the last two weeks..

-I can get myself and E to the airport and go on a flight all by ourselves. I do not want to do this for any flight longer than about two hours.

-Two toddlers in adjoining airplane rows will share toys freely- as long as they get whatever the other guy had.

-Eamon will sleep on a plane- if the flight starts two hours after bedtime.

-I can take care of three toddlers at once. They entertain each other, which is nice, but I was still very aware of the minutes until bedtime. Also, this produces a lot of diapers.

-Three hungry toddlers can make it very hard to get dinner on the table. They do not see the irony in this at all.

-I knew Heather and Pete would feed us great food. I didn't realize they'd teach us the lazy way to cook corn (10 minutes in the microwave, turn halfway through), make me so jealous of the crazy honors system farmstands in Maine, and get Eamon to eat kofte or potato burritos. The fact that E was the only male to like the ginger ice cream is just a bonus.

-E is okay with riding along in a kayak. However, the kayak tends to contain cold lake water, which is unacceptable. Thus, he prefers the canoe. Then he can lean out and splash in the water to his little heart's content.

Sorry, did you come here for pictures? Here are a some from three of the six flights we've taken in the last two weeks:








If you came for edited pictures, well, I'll be on that soon!

Shoh? Outsiy?

The posts have been a little short the last week or so, I know. Perhaps that's because we have put on our shoh? and gone outcie? (Yes, these are both interrogatives at all times.)

I assure you that normalcy will be returning soon. And someday we'll get the stink of those keens out as well.

Friday Cute-Do it Yourself Edition

I have no caption. You?

Purple horseshoes?

Despite his Irish heritage, Eamon is not sure about the whole Leprechaun thing, but he thinks there should be a push trike at the end of every rainbow.

A look ahead

For the first time I feel like I got a look at what Eamon will look like as a teenager.
If he inherits certain tendencies/hobbies from his father.





Yup, I can totally see him as a lasertag/paintball/watercannon gunner, ranging the target.
Best reason to do morning walk in pjs on laundry day.

MWAH!

In case you haven't noticed, I take a lot of pics for Ray when he's traveling. A lot of them involve a captive subject (easier to get non-blurry ones that way).
I'm supposed to clean WHAT with the towel?
Silly Mom, my face isn't dirty!
SEE?
He sends his love to ALL of you.
MWAH!
Who wants kisses?






(Admittedly, in that first picture, he probably was cleaning off some jelly that he put back there earlier.)

Hawaii Day 5: Hilo: Part 2

To see the rest of our Hawaii trip to this point, click here.

After the park, we headed down into downtown Hilo. And I do mean down.
Note the ship, that white blob on the water... it's about 3 miles by line of flight...

We'd seen the ice cream place on our walk up, and thought we'd earned it by now. Eamon got his first cone...

Hawaii Day 5: Hilo: Part 1

To see the rest of our Hawaii trip to this point, click here.

I haven't really mentioned this, but Eamon had insane jet lag. He woke up about 5 AM for most of the trip. Ray is better at mornings than I am, so he generally got up with the kid and went and made nice in the still-closed buffet to get coffee and food. In return, I generally took the morning nap shift in the cabin so he got to hang out with his family. This arrangement, however, means that there are pictures like this, for which I have no explanation:

Anyway...

Steve had a fantastic photo tour in Maui, and now I was really interested in seeing some waterfalls, so after Eamon's nap, Ray let me plan a brutalizing 8-mile day to walk from the boat, into Hilo, and up to Rainbow Falls park. He does love me. Fortunately, I'm not really that crazy, and before we left the dock I spent some time negotiating with the various bus drivers. Unfortunately, none of them could get us there (as with much on this trip, we'd missed our bus, literally, due to Eamon's nap).

Fortunately, the taxi driver I had started off with saw us start walking away and apparently realized that nobody else was coming off the boat anytime soon, so he negotiated with me for a cheap ride to town - we figured we could handle the short walk up from there and 4 miles DOWN, no problem. (For the record, I think Ray still considers himself to have incredibly bad luck with taxis- I negotiated, therefore it's my good luck/persistence?). Anyway, we got a ride to downtown and then hiked up to this place:

Sonrise, Sunset

A few other images from our weekend in Salida.

Serious boater face.
(Crazy Uncle Steve says:"I r serious kayaker. I can has ball now, yes?")
"We're goin' boatin'!" face

And the gorgeous sunset in our campground.

Looking Back

If you haven't, you've got to go read the comments on this post.
Thank you all for making that one fun!

HOT!

People, it has been very hot here. 90 degree temperatures and actual humidity (50-100%? Is that legal in Colorado?). I know, I heard, Minnesota is worse. I'm still sweaty (sorry, Mom: glowing).


We're dealing.

Easily Amused

This is why fathers are good for little boys. Mine is lucky to have a very good one. Eamon invented this game last week, but Ray seems to have caught on to the rules quickly.

Easily Amused on Vimeo.