Time in Washington

My grandmother died two weeks ago and I went to Washington to attend the funeral with my family. When my mother changed her plane ticket to stay longer and try to tie up loose ends, I changed my plans to stay as well. I sent Jeremy and Carolyn back to Portland with my sister, and Blake and I stayed to help.

We found lots of interesting things in Grandma's house. My mom says this is what people used prior to high chairs. In fact, she's sure I used this when I was a baby.



Apparently, my mother has a picture of me, with her and Grandma that was taken when I was a baby in front of this same church building. This is our only picture with Blake looking at the camera. He wanted to watch all the cars zooming by in front of us.
Sorry about the blurry picture, but you have to move fast when you want to take a picture of your dad wearing a pink, flowered apron!

I am glad that I was able to help my mom, and I am very grateful to Blake for being the best baby anybody ever saw! He slept wherever I placed him and happily played by himself for long stretches of time so I could work.

Aloha!

Well, we didn't go to Hawaii but my brother and his wife did. Without their kids. So Grandma flew down to take care of the grandkids. She handled the first 4 days and I took the last. Going from one child to four is quite the adventure. We had a lot of fun. But we were so busy, this is the only picture we have from her trip.

It was a lot of fun. And exhausting. Carolyn really enjoyed spending all her time with her cousins. In fact, she was a little sad when we returned to our apartment and she didn't have any playmates.