The Keene Family

Date Night for May was supposed to be dinner at Coho Cafe in Issaquah and then dessert on the boat while we floated on Lake Sammamish. Sounds great, right? But then it got really rainy and we went to plan B... which was really fun, too. We went to Fondi for lunch and had their 2-for-22 special (medium salad, medium pizza, two drinks for $22). It was very yummy. Then we saw The Avengers in 3D. Isn't Jim funny? :) Finally, we hit Ben & Jerry's for dessert. Uptown Gig Harbor is a nice place to spend the afternoon.

For some reason we had three playdates in a week. The weather was spectacular and we had such a great time with friends for all different areas of our life. Our first playdate was with Asher, a friend from church. Trying to be as tall as the dragon tail Asher and Petra hiding Favorite part of this picture? Asher feeding Haley her sippy cup. Then we met up with Emi and Kenzi, who we know from Kinderswimmer. The teeter totter was a huge hit! Then again, so were the swings. Look at Emi pushing Kenzi - she's getting so big! JT must have felt outnumbered by the women because he found some boys his age and spent some time with them instead. :) I'm glad he's friendly! This is one of my all-time favorite pictures of both my children together. I also love how it happened.... me: "Stand with to your sister, JT, I want a quick picture." So he does. And Haley moves away, just a step or so, so they're not touching anymore. JT moves...

Jim organized a Mother's Day boating trip with us, my parents, Jim's mom, and Jim's sister and her husband. My parents brought their boat out, too, and we tied up together and ate pizza in the boat. Then Jim and I got to ski before we headed back to my parents' house for some amazing brownie sundaes. First up - my annual Mother's Day picture in the boat! It's come a long way since the first one ... and there will be many more. The "other" boat Matt feeling Baby Small kick around Watching Mom and Dad ski with Grandma Cole Our boat Jim, his mom, and sister Jim wrote a very nice note in his card to me about growing kids and growing flowers. I got to go buy some new plants to add some color to the front flower beds... and I got two huge hanging baskets for the deck. JT helped me pick them out, plant them, and water them. He also picked out the glittering pinwheels that he insisted we post in the flower beds. It edges o...

That's not a typo. Over the weekend, Haley got a new room! But JT used to say " new oom " when he moved to his new room before Haley was born, and now Haley says "new oom" too. Since I knew we were having a baby girl, I've wanted to paint the walls yellow and get white furniture. But since I already had a perfectly good cherry dresser and crib, we stuck with it. Until now! With Aunt Jennifer's due date this summer, we had a timeline for passing off the crib and I had been looking for white furniture and a white toddler bed on Craig's List. I found some on Friday and off we went. Then I was so excited I stopped and got paint... and then my mother-in-law suggested that she sweep the children off for the day on Saturday so I could Extreme Makeover Haley's room without interruption. Here's what it looked like before... Then... ta-da! It is tough to pick a yellow, and it doesn't look as nice in the pictures as it does ...

This weekend we drove down to Portland for a baby shower for Jim's sister (JT and Haley's new cousin is due August 5th!). After the shower, we went to a park and played in the sunshine. Seriously. She loves it!  Haley kept crawling up the slide and falling backwards down it. She was determined to get it. The MAX train went by the park every fifteen minutes or so. A few times Jim took JT and Haley to the fence to watch. Once the engineer blew the whistle at them! Racing back from the fence.. The next day we went to the Oregon Zoo. I have wanted to go there for awhile because they have animals that our zoos do not have. JT has been asking to see crocodiles and we just don't have them. I had a great time trying out the aperture mode on my camera and many times I could get better lighting and color than auto mode, which was very exciting. I love the zoo and took lots of pictures of animals. Watching the sea lions swim by There's one...