rachel's continued ramblings

monday: my barefoot hippie child, twirling in the grass… okay, not quite. she FORGOT to wear shoes to micah’s soccer game. I was going to make her stay with me in the car the whole time, but then she saw 2 burmese mountain dog puppies and wanted to go see them. so I told her she had to take off her socks at least. so she did. spent the whole hour running around on the turf in bare feet. also monday: layla organized the shirts in her closet by type and color, in rainbow order… tuesday: peeling a carrot for her lunch. wednesday: september 25th and THIS is in the dairy case. thursday: much to his disappointment, micah has not received homework yet. so he dug out some on his own. friday: shane had double duty at the high school football game. it was junior football night AND junior high band night. so he had to run in at the start with the high school team, be announced, and then run up into the bleachers to play with the band. saturday: at least toby knows which pile of clean clothe...

kind of a weird week. picture taking didn’t happen as often as it should have. monday: micah, playing soccer… sort of. at least he’s not breakdancing. also monday: micah and teammate… the spray fan. I am NOT a fan of this device! tuesday: aren’t they cute in their matchy shirts? wednesday: please ignore the heinous mess in this room and focus on how cute the cat is ‘helping’ layla with her homework. friday: at the MOMS Club garage sale, the boys were all playing ‘ninjas’ outside… in other words, running around while wielding large sticks. amazingly enough, all eyeballs remained in their sockets. saturday: my mom is home!!!! we spent the evening hanging out down at their house. layla and grandma were reading jokes to each other. also saturday: keeping my toes toasty at the fire pit.

sunday: spent the afternoon doing some sorting of my mom’s stuff in their garage. trying to organize. monday: micah has been waiting for this day his whole life! he finally FINALLY got to play soccer! tuesday: more soccer. this time it’s layla’s practice. wednesday: it’s still summer! some after school sprinkler play in the backyard. thursday: this is not a welcome addition to our street. apparently there is road construction in our immediate future. saturday: how layla and micah entertain themselves at shane’s football game. also saturday: the bench of injured players. shane was first injured, so he’s the one without his jersey and pads on anymore. the rest were just dropping like flies. after the game, we got to spend some time in urgent care where we ran into #62. it was a rough game. instagrams: perpetual footrest. glass japanese fishing buoys found in my parents’ garage. I knew my mom had some of these, I just didn’t know where. how layla “eats” broccoli. totally crazy ...

sunday: lunch in west seattle at the spud. monday: heard the sound of darth vader, right out our bedroom window, first thing in the morning. pulled up the blinds to this balloon RIGHT there. tuesday: first day of school pictures for the year. wednesday: so far, micah LOVES school. BUT, pick up time does not go so well because he so desperately wants to be a bus rider. this was his reaction on the second day of school. thursday: I have a lot of small verticals that will be going into center slots and collaged by twos into a couple bigger slots from our anniversary adventure on the aerial ropes course.   saturday: happy birthday to my dad! we got donuts to share for his birthday treat. and a smaller skinny of micah and his elephant being silly at the dentist office. we had to get his dark front tooth checked out that he bonked the week before, falling off his chair. nothing concerning discovered! and some instagrams for the week: a new chore for micah – putting away his own...

west seattle is one of my favorite places in the world. especially alki and lincoln park. these are places my mom always went to when she was a kid, growing up there, and she took me there all the time as far back as I can remember. so many birthdays and family reunions and fun gatherings happened at those two places. now, I try to take my kids there when I can, which usually winds up only being about once a year, and always in the summer. this year, we really cut it close, and I insisted we go on sunday, after church, before school started and/or we lost the good weather. it was a totally great day, and we realized later that we should have brought swimsuits. we started off with lunch at spud. the alki spud is not the original, but it’s my favorite. it’s upstairs dining room, looking out over the beach is my favorite place to sit, but layla was having a major fit about the fact that it smelled like fish, and was not getting over it, so we decided to grab a table outside. there is...