Hi Friends!
Wow, July has been busy so far! We've had a few days of summer-like weather, but generally we are still waiting for the sunshine. I'm not letting the clouds slow me down though. We've had lots of adventures.
Mommy and I took a trip to the Children's Museum in Everett which is REALLY fun. As I think I've mentioned before, the train table is fantastic! I also had fun with the water table and the tree house. 
We've also taken our typical trips to the zoo which I always love. My favorite is still the blue poison dart frog, but I can be convinced to take the tractor for a spin and milk the pretend cow in the family farm. 
The bears were busy the last time we visited, which is always exciting! And the rose garden was beautiful. My favorite part is the lightswitch in the gazebo, but the fish in the pond are a close second.
I finally talked mommy into letting me do some fingerpainting last week, but it is never quite what I imagine. I just don't really like getting my hands dirty. I think paint brushes are more my speed.
The big news since my last post was of course daddy's birthday! I helped mommy make a yummy carrot cake. My jobs were to push the button on the Cuisinart to shred the carrots and then eat the carrot peelings. I love to eat any vegetable I can steal off the counter. I'm not so psyched to eat them on my dinner plate, but off the counter, or better yet straight from the garden… I can't be stopped! 
Anyway, for daddy's birthday we went out for an early breakfast at a restaurant, which I love to do. I had bacon, eggs, bacon, water, bacon, jam from my toast, and did I say bacon? I like bacon 
Then we had a party at our house with our family, including some cousins I don't get to see very often. Cohen is 5 and he was really fun to play with. He brought his little stuffed animal "spunky" and I was really concerned about spunky's loss of a nose. 
Apparently he had a run-in with Cohen's puppy. Grandma Deane came too and brought me a bag of Pirate Booty! She really knows me well I even offered to share it with the other kids, but mostly I got to eat it all up myself.
We had great plans to spend the 4th of July at a big picnic carnival event in Bellevue, but soon after we arrived it started really raining hard. 
What a bummer! I did get to jump in a bouncy house, and was mesmerized by the balloons that were frequently let go of by other attendees and floated up up up in the sky, and the kettle corn! 
The highlight of the day was probably the kettle corn. But in the end we decided to go back to grandma Deane's house for a picnic instead of hanging out in the wind and rain at the park.
And finally, we took a big trip this past weekend to Seaside Oregon for Relay for Life. We visited with mommy and daddy's friend Taeryn and her little boy Silas (not my Silas), and we walked/ran around the track lots of times. We slept in the tent, which is always fun, and took a nice break on the beach. 
It wasn't very sunny but it was warm and I had a blast splashing in the cold waves with daddy, and playing in the sand. I even stuck my face it! The bad part of the trip was the port-a-potties. At the Relay, I was excited to go potty in the port-a-potties at first. Who wouldn't be? You get to do your pee pee on the blue water! 
But Sunday morning, after much use, the potties were pretty full of yucky stuff. Mommy brought me in to do my peeps… and I started to feel yucky. Mommy helped me come out right away and I spit out my breakfast on the ground. Mommy said the yucky bathroom made me gaggle. After that, I stuck to the clean potties. Mommy said I could just pee in the grass, but I really liked the blue water so I just wanted to find a clean port-a-potty
That's probably all for now. My garden is still lots of fun. I am checking the raspberries and eating the broccoli right off the plants. Soon the sunflowers will be blooming. I am looking forward to that
Enjoy the summer!