two boats!

Over Labor Day weekend, we had " Mama, Daddy, Zaney, Caden, Molly days" from Friday-Monday. It was great! On Sunday we braved the Bumbershoot crowds to meet up with Tanvi and Danny at Seattle Center while they were in town.

We checked out this garden while we were waiting for them to come down from the Needle (on a sunny blue sky kind of day - its been a good summer!).








Then we all went to check out the new Chihuly glass museum and garden. It was cool, and thankfully we can report that we made it all the way through without breaking anything! As you can see, Zane was impressed:





When we came across these displays (full sized row boats!), Zane said, "Look! Two boats!" We cracked up because two is definitely Zane's favorite number lately. He gets excited when he sees two of something... two spoons, two red cars, two dogs... But really it means more than one of something. Even though he can count to ten and sometimes to twenty when the mood strikes... he still says there are two things, even if there's more than two. I think he's starting to get it though because at night now when I say we have time for just two books, he replies, "No. I want A LOT of books." :)





We had a few Amazon friends over for a play date on Monday. Sophie and Zane are the same age, and I think we successfully kept the "mine!" battles to a minimum. It was also a reminder that Zane is pretty tall for his age; we tend to forget because all of his good friends at school happen to be tall too, so it just seems normal. I'm happy to report that Caden and his 3 month old friend, Alexandra, had no sharing difficulties ;)

On Tuesday, Zane got to go back to school like normal, and it was just 6 week old Caden, Molly and me during the day. Molly even started showing some interest in Caden finally. One day I walked around the counter into the kitchen while he was on the activity mat, and she immediately jumped down from her spot to lay down next to him and keep an eye on him:


Then on Wednesday Caden got to go on his very own play date to meet his friend Cooper for the first time! They are about 7 weeks apart, so I'm predicting more play time in their future. :) They were awesome shopping and lunch dates for Kelly and me!