What we've been up to...Part 2

- A trip up the Columbia Gorge, complete with dinner out at McMenamins, fabulous views, a little hike and lovely waterfalls.

-  An afternoon where napping turned into playtime, and Kai had me laughing when I found him wearing his stuffed dog's sweater :)

-  A living room camp-out with daddy = little sleep and lots of fun.  Here is the aftermath.

-  A lovely viewpoint near our house.  I should have guessed that our son would like the red dirt better than the view :)

- A trip to the coast for some surfing, sand-digging and swimming.

- A copious amount of ice-cream devoured.  How could you not when ice-cream joints like "Salt & Straw" exist, with flavours like "Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons" and "Honey Balsamic Strawberry"?

Yes, my thoughts exactly.  So so good!

Other non-photographed events:

- Kai's new favourite game = traffic jam building.  Hmmm, how can I tell that we now live in a city?

- Kai deciding to climb out of his crib for the first time just a few days before our big move = not fun!  We would find him all over the house at night, like sitting on the kitchen floor at 3 a.m., sleepily drinking a glass of water.

-  Gearing up for a little bit of homeschool pre-school for Kai this year, and applying for pre-schools for him to attend next year when he's 3!  Hard to believe.  He's recently been playing school with his stuffed animals though, so I guess he's getting ready.

-  Starting the "Couch to 5K" program.  I've done really well at completing the couch portion for the last few years so it feels good to move onto the 5k portion :)

- Leaving our home and friends in Sandpoint behind.  This has been especially hard for Kai to understand.  He still consistently asks to "go home to the brown house", and repeatedly talks about his friends in Sandpoint.  One night he even started packing up his stuff and told me he was all ready to go home once our car was fixed :(

-  Downsizing to one car.  So far so good!  (Except for the long story involving us buying a lemon.  I guess you live and you learn, right?!  We just ended up being a bit poorer along with being a bit wiser.)

- Having a sandbox delivered to our door by a neighbor on the same afternoon that I had been sitting in our backyard wishing we had a sandbox.

So so much to be thankful for, and so many more things to look forward to in the next few weeks as well.