In Bloom

Aren't these flowers Brad got me for my birthday just beautiful? I sure do love that husband of mine.

Tub Time

Johnny takes showers here at home. Mostly because we only have a shower, no tub. While we were visiting my family, he cried for a bath about 7 times a day. We even caught him two separate times climbing in the tub and turning the water on himself.

His new obsession with bathing followed him home, and even though he can't take a bath here, he asks to take a shower about 3 times a day. Maybe it has something to do with the hand-held shower head. He loves spraying it around. What a fun kid.

Grandparents

After Seattle, we drove to Bellevue to see my grandparents. As you can see Johnny loved playing out on the deck. He was very good at opening the sliding glass door.

My Grandma Goodrich was VERY anxious to see baby Isabela. Even though she was happy to see the rest of us too, we all know to whom her heart really belongs. It was also a special visit because my Grandpa is Johnny and Isabela's only living great grandfather.

Tulips and Fish

Our walk downtown led us down to Pike Place

I love seeing the fresh flowers, and since the tulips just came into bloom, there were about a million of them everywhere

Brad's favorite: fish

My personal favorite: random street performers. This guy was playing the guitar, while hula hooping, playing the harmonica, and balancing another guitar on his chin. Now if that isn't talent, I don't know what is.

Saturday Morning

You would have never known Johnny had a rough night, because he was so happy when he woke up the next day. Baby Bela of course slept like a champ, just like at home. These two love hanging out taking it easy together.

Yet somehow it always ends in this. . . I can't wait until the day she is able to do the same to him. It's gonna be great.

Love Them

While visiting home, Fran asked me to help paint my niece Emma's room. We started working on it Friday night, and once it got late Brad took Johnny back to my parents' house to put him to bed. Apparently Johnny woke up and was "inconsolable", crying for mom. I came home right away, Johnny calmed down, I left the room for literally two minutes and came back to this:

So much for just wanting mom. Even after I picked Johnny up to lay him down to sleep, he woke up in my arms, got down and jumped right back up on the couch with his dad. I love how much he loves his dad. And hey, I don't blame him, I sure like falling asleep next to his dad too.

Wild Wild World

We hit up the zoo on Friday, our first full day of vacation. Johnny was very fascinated with the sit-and-stand stroller Fran let us use. While I was terrified because he would randomly jump off the stroller while in "stand" mode, he thought it was totally awesome. I'm thinking it's probably a good idea we only have "sit" mode on our stroller back home, because once he realized he could stand, he did not want to be belted at all after that.

I couldn't get a picture of him in "stand" mode, because he only wanted me to push the stroller, and once he was standing he usually just was hopping off anyway. Thankfully sister took a great nap. She's such a good baby.

Johnny loved this monkey and kept saying "back, back," after he climbed away to join his friends

Johnny liked the napping kitty, better seen in this picture below:

and the gorilla

Oh and FYI, those aren't rocks in front of that giraffe, they're hippos just taking a snooze

We had a great time and were happy Johnny had fun too!