Jack came over this week to play

He's really great with Francesca and Blaize...

Look at these teeth!

Clothes shopping - SCORE!

Mommy and Francesca went to Daisies and Dinos for the quarter sale. They got lots of clothes for Blaize and Francesca.

Mommy wants everyone to know that the blog is experiencing technical difficulties. This explains the dearth of post from mommy.

Francesca Acobatics and Blaize Butterfly - VIDEO 56 seconds

Francesca is a fearless flier. Blaize is fearless as well but he doesn't quite get off the ground.

A Tall Drink of Water - VIDEO: 20 seconds

Literally.

mirror mirror on the closet door

Who is the handsomest sitting on the floor?

Francesca Frost Trahan!

Francesca and Blaize Take a Bath!

The first time Blaize was in the Big bathtub and the siblings first bath together.

For the record...

Now this is the life

Hanging out with the Blaize man

Whoo hoo!

What do you have there, Francesca?

'I have strawberries!!'

One berry at a time, the bucket is filled

Zen and the art of berry picking

It's gonna take a while to fill up this bucket

Mommy and Blaize wait patiently

Francesca and daddy pick strawberries

At Sauvie's island

Ride a cockhorse...

...to Branbury cross. To see a fine lady upon a white horse. Rings on
her fingers and bells on toes, she shall have music wherever she goes!

Francesca's turn!

Blaize in our swing.

Baby Blaize and Francesca lounge with mom in front yard.

Francesca summed it up best this morning. 'I'm sick. Me sick.
Francesca sick.' Ick! At least it's sunny (it's sunny!) and though we
are not up for the park, we have a front yard.

'marching' in the parade...

Conversing with Francesca before the swimming extravaganza

4th of July parade

Thanks Nana!

Fearless Francesca flies on an airplane

In the air and space museum... She would have done this all day if
we'd have let her.

Francesca went down the big huge water slide!

3 times!

Francesca was having a fantastic time driving.

The other little girl waited patiently for her turn up front. It
finally arrived, since we had to leave the park and go home...

Awesome new tennies from Pawpa and Nana!

Blaize swinging on the 4th of July

This is outside after the swim. We were very red, white and blue.
Pictures from the neighborhood parade we walked in to follow. (Pawpa
and Nana, send those photos!!!)

Kick kick kick!

Swimming buds

Seriously

We went swimming!

This was from last weekend. Where did this week go??

'I'm taking a bath!'

Fearless Francesca flies in an airplane!

She's a born adventurer!

Blaize is into the race to the moon

Another air and space museum moment

Sweet!

A random guy gave this carnation to Brooke as we walked up to
Powell's. He said, 'You're beautiful and you make a difference in the
world!' as he gave it to her without breaking his stride. Pretty cool.

Fun with Nana Brooke and milk at Powell's

It is a perfect cool sunny day in Portland

Francesca too!

Blaize and Pawpa blaze up the spiral

Air & Space museum: space shuttle

Blaize thinks space travel is super cool

What does this mischievous grin mean?

Francesca flies a helicopter - VIDEO: 7 seconds

Francesca flies the helicopter at the Aviation Museum.
We had to stopped filming because she kept letting go of the throttle and it was drifting out of control...

Painting with Pawpa

Yay, Pawpa and Nana are here! Francesca has showed them many thing already...

Swinging in the sunshine

Pawpa and Blaize with Red Ball at Park

I know I'm his mother, but really...

Isn't he the hansomest boy EVER??

Go Asleep Little Baby - VIDEO: 52 seconds

Francesca makes up here own lyrics to various tunes.

Turn it up to 11! VIDEO: 15 seconds

It's a new record for Francesca.
Scott Barnes stops by to count Francesca's latest block structure. The long block looks like and is the size of two but can only be counted as one block. Good thing Scott is detail oriented and counted twice.

The tower was immediately toppled by the toddler.

Blaize daydreams about his next adventure

It really looks like he's learning from Francesca!

Both kids

Says Francesca...

Beary Cute

How do you measure up?

Photo credit: Adriana

Blaize quite liked his stay at Rothenfluch residence too

Relaxing at the Rothenfluch pad

Aka, "Jack's house!"

Francesca beholds her beautiful new Suess puzzle

It takes a village to do a puzzle designed for toddlers.

How can you stay away from this face??

Another day, another park!

Blaize wins friends and influences people at Canada Day

Canada Day observed 2011

This crown was produced by Francesca, mommy merely executed her
creative desires.

Francesca is ready to dive into a swimming pool

In her new swimsuit! The cutest zebra ever!!

It's sunny! We're at the park!!

Francesca edits her fashion statement...

"I'M FUNNY!"

No, this is the cute picture of day!

Photo credit: Adriana

Cute Blaize picture of the day.

Photo credit: Adriana