Easter Egg Tree: Just like Mom used to make.

Except now they make fancy gold eggs.

And we used a magnolia tree. Perfect size, weird spot. Hard to get a nice shot- tried to crop out the cloudy day, the chain link fence, the trash cans, Jay's car with 2 flat tires. Note the lack of blue eggs, Theo kept all the blue ones inside to play with.

Theo gets a call on his egg phone. Note the California Science Museum sticker is still on his jacket. I finally pulled it off the other night, but stashed it somewhere in case he remembers and freaks out.

do it again

three magic words on Theo's third and latest trip to the summit for some tubing. he uttered thim after our first ride down the hill together. Big improvement from the first trip last year which ended in cold feet and crying and from the second trip earlier this winter which ended when just one ride down the hill was enough. after 2 or 3 rides down together, and with encouragement from Lillian who at just 2 requested to go by herself, he was ready to go by himself. the highlight was still hot chocolate in the lodge after a good 90 minutes on the hill. some footage:

YOGA!

This is not an April Fool's Day joke, I am actually posting to our blog. It's only taken a year. Don't worry, we did not do anything interesting over the past 11 months.

There has been a lot of yoga around here lately. Here are Theo and Emma doing a kid's yoga video. I think these two should be in some kind of hair commercial.

Another night Theo taught John the tree pose. Which somehow turned into Theo riding on John's back.

theo in new clothes

And the bribe required to get him to wear the article. You be the judge of who is the superior negotiator.
This was a tough one (as his facial expression indicates). After much protest he agreed to try it out with the stipulation that I will buy him an elephant shirt in the future. Not sure when he stopped liking monkeys.

He wanted to go outside and play in the dark, cold, rain. I insisted he wear his ski jacket which is moderately water resistant. He refused. So I negotiated a trip the Green Wood Market if he would wear his jacket outside.
This didn't require much actually. I think this jacket has officially entered the rotation. Nice picture though.

captain Theo

he likes the boat!

a sharing kind of guy

more visitors!

Whitney and Alana made a last minute trip to visit us this weekend. All went well aside from Theo being a little under the weather (can you tell in this picture?) and some confusion over Whitney's name. He's got it down now. Here we are posing for a "mom shot."And Theo reluctantly riding the Pike Place Market Pig. He was seconds from breaking down in this shot: