Thatch's Kindergarten Grand Finale

In some ways I can not believe Thatch is already done with Kindergarten, but in other ways this has been the llllooooonnnnngggggeeeeessssttttt year ever! School in The Pole ended a month ago, yet here we are just beginning the wind down. Last night Thatch had his concert at school where the entire Kindergarten performed. I was early, yet still only found room in the very back (which was probably a good idea since Cooper was, well, Cooper. Clearly I need to step up my A-game to keep up with all these over-achiever parents. Game on.

 Here's a few zoomed in photos and a couple blurry videos :) Oh, and good news-my camera only takes blurry photos when it loses charge. So I guess I just need to keep on that. Yay, another thing to do.

He's in yellow, right in the middle. Super Star!

One thing I've learned in the past year's performances is that Thatch is either totally into the hand movements or totally unimpressed by them and just doesn't do it.

 Here's a video of their last songs of the night. So stinking adorable!!

Thatch had a poem he read during the performance. By the time I made it up to the front, whilst wrangling Harper, and got the camera started, he was already done. So I made him do it outside the school. Ha.

And in other Thatcher news, he's really become quite the artist. Some of his drawings are sweet, and some are just plain hilarious. Like this little ditty...

It's the I-5 bridge that collapsed. Totally awesome.

And with that, we're all caught up :)

Love you long time!
S

MIA- A recurring theme.

I don't know what my problem is, I love blogging and telling you all about our escapades but I'm terrible with keeping up lately! I'll just add a few quick tidbits on what we've been up to and then pretend like this lapse never happened...kind of like how I pretend that I'm always on a diet.

Geez, I don't even remember the last thing I blogged about. Let me go stalk my own blog for a minute to find out where we were...

EASTER? Good night Sabrina, get with the flipping program! Seriously, sorry guys. I know how hard this must have been for you ; )

So my Dad and Michele came to visit in April! It was a whirlwind trip and we didn't get to see much of them but the boys did! I drove them down to Seattle and they traipsed around the city for Saturday, then drove up. Here's a couple blurry pictures, because my camera sucks.

Papa and Coopster

Papa and Grandma Jonesie :)

The official portrait from the restaurant in the Space Needle. Have I mentioned I am uncomfortable with heights? Eating up here was...difficult...by which I mean slightly terrifying, but the food was AWESOME. 

After that we had baseball, which was chilly. It snowed one game, which is totally abnormal for here. To that I say, "Sorry Washington, that happens wherever we go."

*this is where my camera started taking blurry pictures. A trip to Best Buy to complain is in my future.

Thatch had a school performance about the ocean. It was HOT in there, like faint in the metal chair hot but it was cute. Again, my stinking camera only took blurry video and pictures. Maybe that's why I haven't blogged?

J stood while I sat. We had to tag team kids though.

Because our kids are heavy. For me at least. Not for him, he's like Hercules. Ha, I just made myself laugh out loud. 

A blurry picture of Thatch. Damn you camera, damn you.   

Thatch being eaten by a killer whale. What, you don't see it? Just blur your eyes a little.

We've found a place we love to visit. It's super kid friendly, has excellent food, and it has a distillery (for Jonathan's pleasure). It's Bellewood Farms, an apple orchard with something for each of us. My thing is the apple pie, J's is the apple gin, the boys is the tire yard and the mass amount of farming equipment they get to play on. We're cool with it, because of the gin and the pie.

One day we were driving around with MeeMaw and we swung by there on what happened to be the Apple Blossom festival. It was beautiful! Not that you could tell, because the picture is blurry.

It's hard to see but that's Mt. Baker in the background. That empty field is going to be a pumpkin patch soon :) 

It was a gorgeous, sunny Sunday when we went! Can't you tell by this high quality photo?

This would have been Christmas Card worthy, had I not bought a crappy camera the previous year. Stupid sales.

 At this point, I switched solely to the iphone camera, which oddly enough took much better photos than the camera. So here's a couple of random ones that have been on Facebook, but I realize that not everyone is on "the book". <--- I just made that up.

Harpie's true colors are showing. 

She is the apex predator of the tub.

We went to the Sudden Valley fire dept pancake feed but it was closed by the time we got there. Boo. That makes me want to go eat pancakes right now, just to show them.

Don't EVER turn your back on these two, even to switch laundry. They are T.R.O.U.B.L.E. together.

Thatch had a couple of field trips in April, or maybe May, one to Great Harvest Bread Co. and one to the library. It was fun to chaperone and get to know the little kids Thatch talks about at school

Learning about wheat berries, Thatch is super interested. Or not.

I think he's more of a kinesthetic learner. 

Here are the little boys with their "bookmarks" but using them as cell phones. 

A rousing game of Duck Duck Goose in the library grassy area. Pretty, huh?

Somewhere in here J and I managed to sneak out to Seattle for a date. We went to the Pikes Brewery at the Pikes Market, which is now Jonathan's favorite Brewery. Poor Redhook.

Possibly the first time, ever, that J has worn one of our children.

Yeah, that's more like it.

Awh, look at us girls! 

She's saying "Look at me or I'll scream!" She screamed anyway though.

And then, just to give Redhook one last chance, I took J there again for Beer AND Bacon night! It was pretty fancy, there was lots of beer for J to have. For me, there was Bacon Chocolate Stout Cheesecake.

Glaring at me. Did he honestly think I wasn't going to take pictures? 

The menu. It literally was a steak of bacon. Some people at the fat, I did not. It was all epicly awesome...

But this was straight from heaven. Candied bacon on a chocolate stout cheesecake. Oh. My. God. I'm drooling now.

So we met this guy at the tasting and Jonathan pointed out that this is what my cousin Shawn is going to look like in 20 years. The resemblance, and even personality resemblance, was unnerving.

 We've gone back to the orchard a couple of times and explored the fields. That's where we found this herd of cows that totally loved us. The followed us the whole way. It was kind of freaky.

 Onto last week...We went to a new park and Thatch had a field trip.

Harps on her prefered ride.

Cooper is a monkey, he can climb on anything.

A selfie. That's a stupid name. 

Harps, toddling around.

The ENTIRE kindergarten went to the tide pools. There was also 3 other classes that showed up afterwards. There were a LOT of kids there. Oh, and I brought Harps and Coops with me too. Goodness.

Thatch and Coops had a great time exploring. We'll go back again one day, once I figure out tides and all that jazz.

I say smile and this is what I get from him.

And then there's this pose.

Afterwards they all ate lunch together. Thatch is such a good big brother, he's never worried about being too cool to sit with Coop and I. This shall pass though, I'm not crazy to think it will last but I am smart enough to enjoy it right now.

Harps likes corn dogs.

And finally, here's an adorable one of the Coopie. I know it seems like he wears this shirt a lot, and he does. It's because it's bright and I can find him very quickly when he runs off.

This past weekend the kids and I drove down to Battle Ground to visit the Glazes and for Beau's 4th Birthday but I didn't take one stinking picture! Darn me!

Okay, so there we have it. I have punished you enough with this update and I promise to keep them shorter in the future.

Until then, I bid you ado.

S