We got the beat

What to do on a sunny afternoon after school is out, but to blast the Go-Go's and dance on the front porch. 

dancing and art

 

Over the weekend we got to see a great kindie band play. The Board of Education writes fun dancy songs about nerdy stuff, it's a great combination. (Their most famous song is called "Why does dad get so mad about Star Wars?" and it's about the generation gap between the 80s Star Wars movies and the prequels. )   Pretty awesome, you have to admit.

 

 

 

 

We went with a bunch of friends from preschool days and Unity had fun dancing with them.

 

 

and with dad of course.

                                      On Monday Brixton and I went to the Kid's Museum with Tarah and Baird.
                   We used to go all the time with Unity but it's been a while, and B had mostly forgotten
about it. Which was great, it was like a whole new place to him.
                                     

                                He loved the pretend grocery shopping. Sometimes, it's the little things, right?

Our Weekend

We had one of those social butterfly weekends. The summer picnic at the preschool. Some kids are moving on to other schools soon (one of ours) and some new kids are joining soon (one of ours.)

                              Swim lessons and family swim at the Y.
                              Reading stories and catching up with old friends who are in town.

                                       Hosting the incredible rotating date night. Our usual ratios were off,
                                we had five kids and three adults. Still had loads of fun.

                                     
                                            Poor baby Baird missed his mom. He's at that stage where
                                           nothing else will really do.

                                      The older kids had a jam session with bongos, ukulele, shakers and
                                      voice. Lots and lots of voice.

                          The jam session turned into a wild dance party. Sometimes that happens.

                               Hard to see this party weekend end, but now we've got to put on our
                                serious suits and get ready for the week.


                           Linking with Amanda for Weekending.

This long weekend

This weekend was pretty busy.

                        Swim lessons and farmers market and date night.

                            Haircuts and beach dates and visiting new babies.

                                   And then today we went to the Folklife Music Festival and heard several of Seattle's great kindie bands: Johnny Bregar, the Board of Education, Harmonica Pocket and everyone's favorite, Caspar Babypants!
                                   

                            We were there with a ton of our friends and neighbors, as well as everyone else in Seattle who has kids.

                            Dance party!!!!

Linking with Amanda for Weekending.

Germination

                            Growing something takes time, and attention. It's a different pace, a long slow pace, with little sudden bursts of activity. All of that preparation and checking and letting it sit and then suddenly-

                                   transformation.
                                 (This is my first sourdough, using lots of help from this book. )

                                   Sometimes you can't see it yet, but you tend the soil and wait and dream....

                                         It's amazing, every time, how all that waiting and gentle attention can
suddenly ease this burst of change, this transformed being, into the world.

Showing us the essence of themselves that was waiting there all along.

Are you tired of date night pictures yet? Well we're not tired of doing it so....

                                I guess we'll have to manage somehow.

                                  We had a dress up dance party.

                                   and a group drawing project.

I am sorry we don't have any pictures of baby Baird. I guess we were too busy holding him.

and the snow has almost all melted away into muddy slush. so we can go back to the usual. hurrah.

Weekend- whew

Yes, Cooper is breakdancing.

                               

My gracious, did we have a busy weekend! It was all really great though. We went to a birthday party for Sylvia, had a date night dance party, tried to finish up some packages and projects for our loved ones and for our adopt-a-family, opened our Saint Mikulas Day presents from Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Bill and hung them on the tree, and had a Chrismas carol sing-along with some friends from Meeting. As if that wasn't enough, I've decided to start a new project- embroidery. My friend Oma showed me this very cool pattern for an alphabet sampler using letters from lots of cool old vintage fonts. So I ordered the pattern, gathered the materials and this weekend I traced the pattern on to my fabric. Now, I can start teaching myself the stiches. Thanks Oma, I think.

Linking with Amanda at Habit of Being.

Dance party