Gus' Electricity Experiment

So this evening, while we had guests over for our new home community, Gus decided to start experimenting with the electricity. Specifically, he got my wedding ring off the desk (I was doing dishes) and put it between the baby monitor power adapter and the wall socket. One blinding flash of bluish light later we had all rushed over to him to see what had happened. This is what we found.

Date Night at a Hockey Game

Rose and I had a nice date night this past Saturday. My work paid for hockey tickets to the Seattle Thunderbirds for all the employees who wanted to go, along with a guest. Rose and I took the opportunity for someone else to foot the bill on our date night, and my mom graciously watched the kiddos.

It was a lot of fun, and our team won! There was even a genuine fight, and a couple smaller scuffles. I think we are going to do it again in November if I overheard the guys at work correctly :)

Long day!

We had a long day today, but it was (almost entirely) a good one. We had two birthday parties to go to - one in the late morning for Elijah, a friend of Gus' from MOPS, and then one on the afternoon / evening for Chelsea. Both were fun, and included good food, but that meant we were out of the house from 10am to 10pm!

Given the circumstances, both kids did great. Ruby slept through the whole first party (the hour we were there, anyways) and the trip to Olympia for the second. She also napped a bit at Jason and Chelsea's house. Gus only slept for a short time on the way down, so he didn't get his normal 2-hourish nap. He was actually a ball of energy at both parties - and I had a hard time keeping up; lets face it, I didn't fully keep up... and it was a good thing there were others there to help out!

They did both finally give up on the way home: Ruby cried most of the way while Gus took off his shoes and socks, wiggled half-way out of his carseat straps, and then knocked our leftover dinner all over the floor of the car. We took a quick break in Tacoma to deal with those things, and that was a little stressful, but all things considered it was a lot better than it could have been with those two.

Anyhow, I wanted to give everyone who reads this a little insight into how things go these days. I didn't take any pictures to link to today, but Rose and I will keep posting photos as we have chances to - so check in from time to time on our Picasa account as well as Facebook.

Puyallup Fair

This past Saturday my mom took Rose and me, and of course the kids, to the Puyallup Fair. It was a lot of fun, and we saw all sorts of cool things for sale and neat projects people had submitted as exhibits. Rose particularly liked the quilts and other hand-made items, while I enjoyed looking at the photo galleries - not something I would have enjoyed much a decade ago, but as I've gotten more into taking pictures myself I have gained an appreciation for the art form.

Gus of course got to go on some rides, though he is still too small for most. We have pictures of the rides, along with some other things we saw, on our Picasa account. Not pictured there are the fun things we got to eat: scones, elephant ears, fried pickles, funnel cakes, and Hawaiian shaved ice. Bonus points to those who can guess which of us ate each of those items :)

We ended the day with a train ride. Gus has been *loving* trains recently, thanks in large part to Thomas & Friends and a little train set he got for his birthday. It was a nice end to a nice day.