Life as usual

Life has been moving along and here it is, nearly the end of September! We are settling right in to new school routines, Lynsey is doing well at her swimming lessons, Adam's next session of swimming starts tomorrow (he is pretty pumped about that!), Nathan is enjoying soccer, and it looks like Lynsey will also be trying out piano lessons in about a week! We will see how she likes that! I feel like things are still under control, not too crazy busy, and hopefully it stays that way as Christmas season approaches! We are now thinking possibly about a trip to Edmonton a few days after we get back from our Honolulu trip at Christmas - feels like that might be a bit too crazy! We need to figure out if we're doing that soon and book some flights.

We made a trip to Whidbey Island a few weeks back, we really love Double Bluff beach up there. This time we decided to drive up the top of the island instead of taking the ferry back and saw Deception Pass which was quite beautiful, might have to try camping up there next summer! Other than that we've been staying close to home, enjoying our new place:). Finally finished up in the family room, the Lego table is complete! It's working really well, and it's reasonably easy to keep organized (for now). We might need to revamp our system as our Lego collection grows (which it will because Nathan loves Lego and will likely be getting some for Christmas!). We are coming up on gift season again with birthdays and Christmas, so we need to start getting creative again! We don't know how we will ever be able to top Adam's bean box, he loves it so much - what to do for him this year!

Speaking of Adam, he has started answering questions appropriately with "yes"! He has been answering "no" for a while now when he doesn't want sometimes, but he would never say "yes" as an affirmative, he would just repeat the sentence back to you in a happy tone to indicate that he did want what you were suggesting. He now clearly answers, "yesssss", it's very cool:). They are working hard with him at school! Also, he finally tried the garage swing last week and loved it! He hasn't asked to go back in, but I'm confident he will:).

We got "flocked" on Thursday night! Some friends decided it would be funny to get the girl scouts (that flocked them first) to flock us with pink flamingos all over our yard for a day. Nathan was very sad to see them gone this morning, and Adam was also asking about the pink birds. Alas, it was time for them to move on!