He lost his first tooth!

He told us his tooth was loose and demonstrated how he could wiggle it.

This was a lot for me to take. He's too young for a loose tooth!

Then about 10 minutes later the tooth was out!

I personally am still reeling from this experience.

The tooth fairy gave him a whole dollar for the tooth, which concerns me. I fear that he will start yanking out other teeth to just make more money! I told him I think the tooth fairy only gives a dollar for the first tooth and after that it's a quarter.

Jason recently gave us this lion suit. It's warm and delightful to look at!

And Ezra has developed an interest in cabbage. He started sneaking away at the grocery store and returning with pieces of cabbage that he'd taken from various heads. So I bought him his own head, and he not only eats it (raw & plain) but he also sculpts with it.

He calls it: Cabbage Face.

Mother's Day Retreat at Breitenbush

This Mother's Day we had an extra special treat of getting out of the city and attending a retreat at Breitenbush. The retreat included lodging, all meals, hot springs, a sauna, yoga, hiking trails and child care each morning for three days. I think this may have to be a yearly tradition!

Ezra got a good snooze in on the way there.

And I busied myself taking pictures while driving.

You can't see it too clearly but there is a gorgeous snow covered mountain between the trees.

We arrived and got settled in to our lodging, the Orchid room complete with gorgeous stained glass windows.

During one of my free mornings I took a five mile hike in the gorgeous Mt. Hood National Forest. There were several makeshift bridges such as the one pictured above.

The bridges crossed over the Breitenbush river, an exceptionally clear and beautiful river.

Another makeshift bridge- thanks fallen tree!

Everything looked quite magical.

Including this tiny orchid! It was about the size of a pencil.

Dew drops on fungus tree growth, you can tell I was really blissed out on everything : )

While I was out and about Ezra was making new friends! Here he is with Simon, a boy who loved Ezra.

Here Ezra leads the boys in search of the giant mosquito.

He's got the best balance- he was the only one who didn't end up with a muddy shoe from falling off this log.

He slept the whooooooole way home!

My 300th Post!

I was going to call this post "Con Amigos" before I saw that it was my 300th post because here is a collection of photos with our wonderful friends. The above shot is Benjamin, a friend of Ezra's from school. We went to OMSI and he was a super serious astronaut.

I told them both to pose as though they were looking at a new planet that they'd just discovered. Ezra is a little more convincing somehow.

On a cozier note, here Ezra and Maya are all snuggled up on the couch at Maya's house. Little besties.

They are playing that Ezra is Maya's baby, and she comforts him in bed. Pretty sweet.

Then we got some ice cream. I got Pinot Noir with dried cherries (that's the ice cream flavor!) and they both got vanilla with chocolate sprinkles.

We took a walk and found this lovely wall art.

Back at Cayce's I hung out with Jupiter. His teeth configuration really reminds me of Quasimodo.

As we take pictures of ourselves Cayce (in the background) does yard work.

Crumb face.

We took an adventure to Mount Tabor park and wondered about this statue of Harvey Scott.

Sorting their collections.

Derrier of Mr. Scott.

And finally the playground. It's been summer lately in Portland, and we're enjoying every moment. It's exhausting! We need a rainy day to catch up on chillaxin.

Easter & Grandma Visit & Etc.

 Ezra and Corina's daughter (I'm spacing out on her name!!) made this sculpture of a cemetery with pine cones and wood chips. She's a little sad because we were supposed to go to the zoo that day but didn't make it...

 Ezra blowing bubbles in his milk.

Painting Easter eggs with Maya & Jupiter. Later we hid them many times and then they smashed them all! 

Then we went down to the sandbox and had some fun in the sun.

Gotta take a picture of myself in the mirror sometimes.

Snarky in tree.

It would be such a good one if he wasn't grabbing his crotch!

Out to fancy breakfast with Grandma before we saw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea puppet show.

A Portland favorite: Stumptown Coffee. Once again, would be a good one if his fingers weren't in his nose- doh!!

We might have done too much this day.

Hiking around Forest Park is a favorite of ours lately!

Sorry for the lack of posts, I will try harder!

Nuts About Nature

Sorry for being such a poor poster as of late! We have been taking care of children non stop for 2 weeks and with school work on top of that it leaves little time for the poor, neglected blog.

So, at the end of April Ezra stopped going to Trillium Pre School where he'd been attending since September. It was a combination of reasons, but mostly that I felt as though Ezra had gotten all he was going to get out of the class. I decided to enroll him in some other classes, including a class called Nuts About Nature that meets every Wednesday in Whitiker Ponds Park, a lovely reserve with lots of birds, slugs, plants, frogs, trees, and beauty to explore.

He LOVES his new nature school, and I tagged along last week and shot this short film following the class. It's not the best quality, I was fooling around with some new-to-me technology that I definitely stand to improve upon, but I hope you enjoy seeing his cute little face (and more, watch til the end, there's a grand finale of sorts!!).

Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vXfBbx2YtY&feature=youtu.be

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