Parker's Motorcycle

My Dad got Parker this motorcycle for Christmas.  It hasn't seen much action since then, but now that it's nice out, Parker has been driving it around the front yard forever.

Ski Hockey!

Parker brought a book home from school about Ice Hockey, so now he's obsessed with it, and here he is wearing his "Ski Hockey" uniform.

Happy Mother's Day

We took the kids to brunch at Anthony's for Mother's Day.  I figured the place would be crawling with families out with Grandma to celebrate Mother's Day, but apparently we were too early for the "out with Grandma after Church" group, because they were the only kids in the place.

But they did well enough (except for Cecily's meltdown over the pepper on her Mac & Cheese) and I had a fantastic meal.

Parker's PreSchool had a Mother's Day party on Friday, Parker made this picture of me:

This is what happens when Daddy abandons us.

Keith had an engineering conference (yes, I'm sure it was just as exciting as it sounds) in Tulalip, so I took the kids up to "borrow" his hotel room and play in the pool.

Once they were clean, I sat them in front of the TV so I could take a luxury shower in the fancy hotel bathroom.  This might have been their first time watching regular TV (rather than Netflix), they couldn't seem to understand why they couldn't just watch "Thomas" when they wanted to.

You turn your back for 2 seconds...

..and you get two kids (plus a play house, a hand bag, and a whole bunch of carpet) covered in lipstick 

I'm 90% sure this is not where we put them to bed

Car Wash

Since I was driving my friends to the Women's Retreat this weekend, I thought it could use a little cleaning (actually, a little more than a little; amazing what's crusted under a car seat).  The kids helped me wash the windows & seats as well as vacuum out the car.  Then Cecily suggested we take it to the car wash.  Probably a good idea, so we stopped on our way to preschool.

Of course, by the time we got there, Cecily had forgotten that it was her idea and wasn't so excited about it.

But Parker held her hand through the whole thing and they both had a good time.