Anniversary weekend activities, update 1

mini art show featuring professions Blaize is considering

Dad lovin' Robot Cat, by Francesca

The dynamic thoughout the party.

Francesca and April swimming away from Blaize.*
Blaize looks on longingly. **
Hey girls, little brothers are people, too!
*(Lisa, April's mom, is in the adult in the pool.)
**(Later, I forced Francesca to play with her brother for 5 minutes.) ***
***(Lesson: one cannot force graciousness in another, even if that other is one's offspring, perhaps especially if that other is one's offspring.)

And cool kid with goggles

Swim birthday party! (For Francesca's friend Alida.)

Forgive me if I have already shared any of these bday party pics...my memory escapes me.

Riding to school with mama!

Swimming nirvana

At Francesca's friend Alida's bday party at Mt Scott.

I made my mom a mom for the first time and this little blue-eyed nugget did the same for me! Feeling 2016 Mother's Day luv.... (This was summer 2014, for the archivists keeping track at home!)

Mother and son and tire swing time at the park! Whhheeeeee!!!!

The Oregon flag, according to Blaize. Or maybe it's the Blaize flag.

Flower Tree, by Blaize.

Happy (meta) Mother's Day!

These kids.

That face!

OPB Open House!

After dinner park romp with Daddy