Babysoroos

No album today, just this one picture that I think is stunning…. Look at the larger one, his eyes are just piercing.

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Just a few pictures from a recent sunny day in the garden.

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We went for a walk last weekend, in the Saratoga Woods Preserve, a short drive from our house. It’s a beautiful forest with a very Pacific Northwest rainforest-y feel. Ben learned the word “slug” and used it many times — to point out the many slugs we were passing. And he’s been talking about “walk woods” ever since.

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We intended to go to Folklife on Sunday this year, but it poured all morning, so we chickened out and went Monday instead. Monday turned out to be a beautiful day, and Ben had fun listening to, dancing to, and playing music. Well, playing drums and shakers. Listening and dancing to Marimba, Taiko, Cajun/Zydeco, Brazilian, Andean, and various other bluegrass, folk and African music. He was so exhausted he slept through most of dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant in Seattle! (We saved him some tofu and green beans.)

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We went to the beach last Sunday, a different beach. This one has a really shallow bay and lots of nice sand, so much more appropriate for a kid to play and paddle. The weather was lovely and the water wasn’t even too cold.

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A few more from our trip. While we there, we took a short trip to the Lake District in England. And it snowed. Probably more snow than Ben has ever seen in Seattle.

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These are from our trip to Northern Ireland in March. In less than two weeks, we were in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England. Ben had lots of fun with his grandparents, and met his cousin Garrett for the second time (the first time that he remembers, though, since he was only five months old last time). He still asks for “Gar-deet” quite regularly. I think he had fun.

Getting good pictures of the two of them together proved slightly challenging though.

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We have several hand drums around the house, and Ben loves to play them. This little wooden ashiko is the perfect size for him, and he actually plays it pretty well!

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We recently discovered an amazing playground at a community park near our new house — less than a 5 minute drive away. We’ve been a few times and Ben loves it. (Loves most of it, at least. He’s a little less than thrilled with the walkways that move.) I think we’ll be going there regularly when the weather’s good this summer.

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While we were in Virginia visiting Eric’s parents recently, Ben got to play on a more appropriately sized green tractor that used to be his dad’s. He’s not quite big enough to make it go on his own, but he still had lots of fun with it.

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