Any class is First Class
When you live life like Meryl, life is good.
Quite pleased with himself
The PT journey continues! Holmes is on pace with his age, and these visits continue to be a great education in physical development generally. We’ll be back in two months and have exercise homework to do in between to make sure side preference is equal.
Family Visit
Of Meryl’s many words, ‘family’ is one she knows and loves to talk about. (We write family names on her back every night.) And she sure has a lot family, Holmes too! Yesterday, my Mom’s siblings (my Uncle Rudy, his wife Auntie Baby, and my Auntie Luz) stopped by from Canada to visit and meet Meryl and Holmes for the first time. The first thing Meryl said when they arrived? ‘I have a lollipop!’ She also offered up a ukulele concert:)
Holmes is eight months old
And he’s coincidentally wearing the same outfit he wore when he turned seven months old. So we switched the backdrop and added a sister.
Clafoutis
Cherries are at a premium these days in Washington. With the disruption of the Chinese export market this year, eastern Washington farmers have left cherries on the trees because it’s too expensive to pick them without any buyers. Not wanting ours to go to waste, Frank and Meryl made clafoutis this morning!
Thank you, Roger Federer
Roger Federer took an extra hour to unfortunately lose to Novak Djokovic this morning at Wimbledon, which diverted our plans to spontaneously meeting up at the toy store with Chelsea to return her cake tin. Luckily, we made out with airplane entertainment we would have never coordinated otherwise and a single fizzy bath soap ball for Meryl (her one item choice from her cart of many, heavily advocated for over the lawn mower she initially preferred).
Wings and tater tots
And then we introduced Chelsea, David, Everly, and Bennett to Wing Dome down the street. It’s always amazing how the not planned ends up being the best plan.
Hummingbird
Lola brought us two hummingbird feeders, and the hummingbirds are visiting!
Snack time dancing
Also to note, Meryl’s ‘pretend’ owie on her left big toe. We’ve gone through a lot of bandaids recently, and Meryl has since wised up to our rationalizations for not needing more bandaids (no cuts, not bleeding, wet bandaids are just fine, kisses have curing powers)…hence, the pretend owie - how can we resist imagination? Additionally, pretend owies sometimes need pretend bandaids; Scotch tape fits the bill.
Hilltop Field Trip
Today was a Hilltop field trip to a park with a newly renovated playground. I chose to chaperone and Meryl had a grand time with taking the bus, playing with her friends, and then lunch at her teacher’s house who lived next to the playground. My takeaways were that these are adventurous, brave, and wise kids that have so much fun. They are such good kids.
#onenationoneteam
Well, that was fun! Go USA! Rapinoe power and Lavelle confidence; it sure was great watching the Women’s World Cup final with Meryl. I had tears in my eyes throughout:) And I’m totally OK with the team being labeled as arrogant.
Meryl-Kong & Tito-Zilla
Building sand castles and smashing them down! Over and over, and over and over.
