SUNSHINE

Today, we finally woke up to some sunshine!!

At Port Townsend:

A fort (prior to getting the cool fort making kits from Grandma)

Visiting the navy base:

Back on Addison's birthday:

Is it Odd...

that THIS is my daughter's favorite song?
Is it strange that she know every word and begs to listen to it soooo often that I had to give her a "once a day" limit?



Ok, so it might be weird. She IS only 4. But isn't she downright COOL?!

Other current Addison Favorites:







And both kids are nuts about this:



Family Dance Parties and tuneless singing are known to spontaneously break out in our household... and that is AWESOME, to say the least. My kids ROCK.

I had noticed that Addison seems to choose songs based on the lyrics and the mood behind them. She prefers songs about love, hope, and freedom. She likes her ladies to have full-bodied voices and her men to have sweetness and poetry. When I asked her if she even knew what "free" meant, as she loves to sing that word at the top of her lungs, she was silent for a bit, and then she said, "Well, it means that you get out of something you were stuck in...." (and with that, the little twinge in my gut that tells me I have a smart and challenging little soul in my care started to act up on me.)

Aidan is a bit more traditionally "young male" in his musical taste. He likes anything he can rock out to, preferably with a bit of air guitar and a false look of angst on his face. I imagine years of hard core teenage-monitoring in my future, because this boy can shake his hips and has the long eyelashes and dashing good looks that will be a magnet for the gals as he grows older. (well, as long as his dance skills improve moderately and he stops wearing superman capes, that is....)

six

The Athletes started to arrive.....

They were intense....

They were confused.....

They were cute....

They did a little smack-talking about who was going to win the race.

Race numbers were pinned...

After a warmup and some stretching to the "Chariots of Fire" soundtrack,

they lined up at the start line.

And they were off...

Thank goodness we had some course monitors to keep the little ones going in the right direction.... sorta in the right direction, at least.

And Thank Goodness -- The birthday boy won the race!

Joey

Giovanni

Jorgito (winner of the toddler group)

Cannon

Addison and Cora

Graesen

We rested and had some energy drinks and bars.

Did a little long jumping...

Softball Throw

Cupcakes and Rain quickly followed...

Award Ceremony:

It was Epic.

I can safely say that everyone left tired.

And smiling :)