an impersonation

Dom came out the other night thinking he looked just like Mel's dad.

change over time

What a crack-up to see how Evan has changed from Kindergarten to now. I had him looking just right for the Kindergarten picture and then at the last second, his coach yanked up his shorts for him, how nice! Now he has his own opinions about how he should look, thus the long hair. My mantra, pick and choose those battles!

the beginning of Spring Soccer season

Capturing the action

Can't resist putting these vid clips on of the cousins together last weekend!

Reminiscing

I took this photo last weekend down at Alki beach in Seattle. It just seems like I have so many memories from this little spot on the earth. When I was in college and visited my cousin Doug in Seattle, he and his friend Dave took me and my friend, Kiersten down to Alki at night. That was the first time I had every been there. When I moved out to Seattle in 1992 and lived with cousin Doug, I remember walking and running down at Alki in the summertime. When I met Mel, he was living just four blocks away from the beach and he introduced me to Pegasus Pizza. We took my dad out to eat there when Dad met Mel for the first time. When Mel and I were first married we lived on Beach drive just around the curve from the light house. We would walk over to the Alki Cafe on Saturday mornings which was also a favorite thing to do when anyone visited us. I also remember when I got pregnant with Evan while we lived there and I was so sickened my the smell of the seaweed on summer mornings! Even after we moved to our house in Burien we would drive up to have Fish N Chips at Sunfish. The day Dominic was born we went walking in the morning down at the beach and ate breakfast at the Alki Cafe.
I'm so glad that we can visit this place and revisit these memories while at the same time create new ones!

Birthday Fun!

I really cannot believe we have a 10 year old living in this house. First of all, I can't believe he actually survived for ten years without seriously injuring himself! Such is the lament of a parent with a child that has heaps of energy. One of my favorite things to tell about Evan that I think describes him to a T is that we didn't let him set his feet on the ground in a parking lot until he was 3 years old. This is because Evan never walked! It was like you set him down and he took off like a wind-up toy. There was also a period of time where I couldn't go to stores that didn't have carts if I had Evan with me.
So anyhow, I think the 10th birthday was pretty fun for him. He was able to invite some friends from school to go play laser tag downtown. They had a great time, and it's so nice to see the friends together.
In addition, we celebrated Evan's birthday with cousin Dylan who has his birthday one day prior. We took a trip to Seattle and took all the cousins to Alki to play (in the freezing weather) and then to Pizza at Pegasus.