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Baby. Laundry Basket.

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My First Play - A Preston Post

My mom and I took Preston to the high school musical "Bye Bye Birdie" on Friday night. It was originally just going to be my mom and I, but at the last minute I decided to bring Preston with us. I wanted him to feel special and go on a "grown-up" date. I also wanted him to experience a live play.

It took him a while to get used to it - it was hard to figure out that the people on stage weren't just random people talking and singing, but were there to purposely entertain us just like the movies we see on TV. He really liked the singing, and the parts where there was physical comedy. Oh, and he loved to clap too when it was the audience's turn to clap.

This play was put on by the high school where I graduated from. I was heavily involved in the drama program when was attending high school, but the program has definitely evolved so much since I'd been there. I was so amazed at the talent, and the level of the play they chose to do (Bye Bye Birdie has a lot of singing and dancing, with a lot of dialogue). I was really impressed. I was also slightly jealous that the high school had a brand new auditorium - it definitely made everything feel much more professional as well.

The woman sitting to my right could not get over how well behaved Preston was during the entire play. I looked around and I think he was the youngest person there. I'm pretty proud of him. He was really a good kid, and so patient too - considering that he was out past his bedtime.

Afterwards we went and got ice cream. It was a great night!

Happiest 7 month old ever!

Happy 7 months Taylor! (and happy St. Patricks day to the rest of you!)

Taylor just started talking, a.k.a. "babbling" yesterday. It is sooooo worth you watching this video. And this was just when he started, he's improved his skills even moreso since filming this short video. Every time I try to put him down to sleep now, he wants to practice his newfound skill instead.

Yellow.

So, I painted our kitchen yellow today. Cornmeal 13b yellow to be exact. I would show you, but I don't have a camera. Well, we DO have a camera now, actually. Canon sent us a new one (happy dance!). But my Will has it in the Columba Gorge this weekend as he is running the Waterfalls 50K and camping with my Dad. That should end up being a fun blog in itself, assuming they take lots of photos.

In the meantime, while our new camera is roughin' it in the Gorge with the boys, you can imagine my sunshiney happy yellow kitchen. :)

Camera-less

I just saw Will's brother's blog about how they currently don't have a camera due to it being broken by one of their children who shall remain nameless. :) Haha.

We are also currently camera-less. Except our's was dropped into the Pacific Ocean on a recent kayaking trip. The person who dropped it into the ocean, shall also remain nameless.

1 digital camera that lasted us 6 years that finally gave us error codes right around Thanksgiving, prompted us to buy a new digital camera for Christmas and it only lasted us 2 months. I don't think getting salt water into your camera qualifies as a free exchange.

The following are the final pictures taken on our camera before it got dumped into the Puget Sound. Thankfully the memory card survived.

Utsalady Bay, about a 2 minute drive down the hill from our house...

Yes, that is ice on the kayak. It was below 20 degrees outside.