A School Goodbye

Orin's classmates through us a going away party at Hopworks
yesterday. The kids made a poster that has all of their pictures
and says "We will miss you Orin!" on it.
As soon as Jessika unrolled it, I started to cry.
We are going to put it up in Orin's room at the new house.
Mother Nurture's was the best school we could
have ever asked for with the nicest kids...
we will all miss them dearly.

Orin gets dressed part two

Wetland Plants

Months ago I started working towards my wetland delineation certificate.
When we decided to move to Cape Cod, we picked our moving day
for a couple reasons; one of them being that
it was the day after I finished my last class
(Casey's term finished up a couple days before).
So although I never planned on spending my last week in Portland
in an intensive wetland plants course, that is how it happened.
Although I have to say, I have never had a nicer class that this one.
This, if you care, is a picture of Snowberry.

Sleepy heads

Tiny surprises

After my last Coffee Sunday, I noticed this flower in the parking lot

surrounded by an ocean of asphalt.
I made me smile, I hope it does the same for you.

Swim Date

The other day Orin and I went to the Mt Scott Community Center
with Sarah Lee and Cosmos for the preschool swim.
At first Orin was shy, but after a few minutes he warmed up
and decided to try the lazy river.
By the time we were ready to go I had to drag him out of the pool...
we had a great time.

Getting dressed...

This is what happens when
I leave Orin in charge of dressing himself...