We spent the last week up in Seattle visiting Erik's mom and dad, his sis Rachel was able to come up as well. Kimball had such a fun time getting all the special treatment from Halmoni and Hadaboji, his favorite being sleeping in between them at night. Don't ask me how I let that one slide. We enjoyed way too much food, Mommy's homemade kimchi ji gae always being a favorite of Eriks and mine. And no matter how much one can argue the rain is an issue, there is just something about Seattle that always captures my heart leaving me with a yearning to live there, at least for a season of life anyway.
A visit to the aquarium
"Tiger" and "Lion" wrestling - aka, Kimo and Hadaboji
We went to the Pacific Science Center, similar to a children's museum. I had to laugh at this particular exhibit, it was this huge machine where you had to slowly pull up this lever to form a large screen of soap film. Kimball so patiently waited his turn in line with kids twice his size who repeatedly could not get the hang of this thing. Then Kimball did it perfectly and got all these bubbles out of it and people actually started clapping, it was really funny.
This was the insect world, Kimo got to touch some creepy crawlers
Here are a couple of the many butterflies that we saw in the buttefly atrium. I hadn't been to one of these since I was kid but they really are fascinating.
One even fluttered right down onto Kimball's elbow
And this is what it looks like when we go out to Korean food. My camera couldn't fit all of it but that's about 3/4 of the spread. And when we eat at their home, it pretty much looks the same. I so married into the right family.
"No more pictures Mommy!!!!"
A great seafood restaurant on the water where I devoured Seattle's best clam chowder
5 of us that are prego in order of due dates from right to left. The first 4 of us are all due within 2 weeks of each other, last January must have had some serious love in the air. Well what else do you do when it's freezing cold outside? ha ha ha
Laughing at themselves and the disgusting words they came up with for the mad lib although it was a little bit cleaner this time than it was at her bridal shower 5 years ago....
Sarah's cute mom Deann covers her mouth laughing in shame, the truth is, she's the one who made it disgusting this time, we had great laughs
more candid smiles...
and cute lil linzey loo came all the way from LA
babes...and Jen and Ang who are on the left and the right are both single! Too bad only girls read my blog, the guys don't know what they're missing
"But what is this blue line???" Oh, the laughs that come with the last generation trying to take a picture with a digital camera. note to self: loose fitting blousy shirt not the way to go when you are pregnant and taking pictures, I'll keep it for church ;)
And last but not least, I would not dare post a bare belly pic of Sarah if it were in any way going to embarrass her but seriously, how cute is this??? It is a darling belly and I am INCREDIBLY jealous of her beautiful skin color. My stomach is translucent. seriously.
The little guy finished his last week of gymnastics for a season or two. He was in classes at Gymcats all summer and it was the highlight of his Tuesdays! If the kids are 2, the parents are required to be with them during the class to help out. With me getting bigger and more lopsided, imbalanced, or whatever you wanna call it, I kept getting stuck in the foam pit among other difficulties on the various apparatus. So, Erik has been taking him to class the last month and they've had a lot of fun together. The only fear Kimo has yet to overcome is the rings, he only did them very hesitantly a couple of times but then again, it was a pretty high climb to get up there and once you were swinging it was a nice long drop. I plan to put him back in when he turns 3 in the spring, let me know if any of you want to join in with him.
