Off to the Emerald City!

 No, not the one in the Wizard of Oz. Rick & his boys joined Isaiah & me for a day trip to Seattle. We went over on the ferry and the boys did their reading homework on the way there, which seemed mean except for the fact that they were allowed to skip school just to go to Seattle with me. When we got there we walked up to Pike's Place Market and looked at all the great little shops. We even bought Isaiah a tie-dyed romper that is just darling. I will save Jerel the effort of logging in to the blog by stating right now that Jerel thinks it is hideous. I'll post a picture later so you can decide for yourself. After Pike's Place we found a really neat restaurant to eat in. It is actually a restaurant/pub so I guess now Isaiah has officially been to a bar. After lunch we headed back to the ferry for the trip home. We had a good time and Asher & Mason fought over who got to carry Isaiah in the baby bjorn and push him in the stroller, so that took care of my fears of having to lug him around all day! They are great cousins for Isaiah and played with him and just generally kept him happy. I'm thinking of having them move in!

The ferry ride was good for me...next summer we are going on a cruise courtesy of my grandma and I am pretty much convinced that Isaiah is going to somehow fall off the ship into the ocean, so this was a good way to ease myself into the baby-on-a-boat situation.

The night before we had a Rick-Josh-Mandy birthday party at Theresa's house and it was lots of fun. We had a potluck dinner and I made rolls to bring. I used Jerel's mom's recipe and I thought it was for 2 dozen rolls so that's how many I cut the dough into. It must actually be for 4 dozen or something because my 2 dozen were the biggest rolls on earth! Jerel suggested we could take just one of them and feed the entire starving population of Africa...Oh well, they still tasted good. I got several hand-turned wooden crochet hooks, some great yarn, and gift cards to JoAnn's to buy more yarn so I was delighted with all of that!