Harold and the Purple Crayon

We purchased a season subscription to Seattle Children's Theatre for Izzy this year - there are 3 shows for her age group and we saw the first show in October: Harold and the Purple Crayon.  It was cute - and Izzy really liked it!  We spent a bit of time at Seattle Center before hand having an early Dinner and walking around in the cold Fall air.

Heart Walk 2011

 As usual, Gerald, Izzy & I participated in Sellen's Heart Walk Team.  It was different this year since I wasn't running the show - but nice to see everyone!  We brought Heather, Odeit, Jason, and Kristi with us and had a blast!

The 3 of us ... and Silly Katherine in the background!

Gerald and his adopted Husky for the day - Harriett!

Odeit & Izzy

Kristi's surrounded!

Heather and her kiddos (their backs at least!).

Post-walk dancing!

Fall Fest at Sky NurseryIz

Alecia & I took the kids to Sky Nursery's Fall Fest in early October - Izzy, Pasha & Dima had a blast enjoying fall crafts and eating special treats - hand-pressed apple cider and popcorn!  Pasha helped Izzy make a scarecrow that we posted on our front stoop throughout the fall.  It was a fun day!

Izzy & Pasha

Pasha's Dinosaur Birthday Party!

Izzy's buddy from school turned 4 over the weekend and his Mom & Dad hosted a dinosaur birthday party at their house on Saturday.  The activities included pizza making, dinosaur stickers, a dinosaur fossil dig, feeding the chickens, opening presents and eating cake.  I can't believe how big these kids are getting - time flies!

Izzy & Luke playing Dinosaur train

Pasha & Izzy making pizza

Colin & Pasha making pizza

Dima playing dinosaurs

Cameron with the dinosaur robot

Izzy & Isabel doing dinosaur stickers

Isabel, Luke, Izzy with dinosaur stickers

The gang's all here (except Luke - he was busy finishing his sticker masterpiece!)

Dinosaur dig!

Looking for fossils!

Present time!

Pasha going for it!

Roar!

Happy Birthday Pasha!

Dinosaur cake!

Swedish Issaquah BBQ

Gerald's construction project at Swedish Issaquah is wrapping up so the Owner hosted a project completion BBQ at her property in Eastern Issaquah.  Complete with a swimming pool, climbing toys, RC Car track, softball pitching machine, and all sorts of cool toys, a fun time was had by all!  Izzy particularly liked driving the miniature 4x4 truck around - I think she drove in circles for nearly an hour!  Another member of the owner team brought his 11 week old lab puppy and Izzy was taken by her - she was pretty cute!

Gerald and Mike Ryberg racing RC cars at the race track.

Izzy 4 x 4ing

Checking out the neighbor's horses

Izzy terrorizing the puppy.

The puppy - SO CUTE!

Manicure / Pedicure

I swore that I wouldn't be one of "those Mom's",  but I buckled and brought Izzy to the nail salon last weekend to get a manicure/pedicure with me.  I had intended to only have them paint her nails, but they ended up giving her the royal treatment!  They even painted her toes with hello kitty and her thumbs with flowers.  She really behaved herself and was the entertainment for all of the women at the nail salon that day. Rest assured that this won't be a regular occurrance, but I do think she'll be back again!  Here are a few photos of the fun:

Izzy in the pedicure chair

Izzy and Auntie soaking their feet.

That tickles!

Fingernail painting

Hello Kitty toenail polish!

Tumble Bus

Every Tuesday at daycare Izzy gets a chance to do gymnastics on the Tumble Bus.  She has been tumbling with "Coach Tom" every week since she was 9 months old.  I finally got a chance to watch Izzy in action a few weeks ago - it was so fun to see her and her friends bouncing, tumbling & flying through the air on the rings.  I think we have a future gymnast on our hands!