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August 15, 2006
5 more days!
Ethan has taken to counting down the number of days until his birthday. Every morning when he wakes up, he says, "Only 5 more days!" Or whatever. This started around August 1st.
He's finally decided he wants a Devil's Food cake for his party, with a stegasaurus on it. I hope he likes the cake. It's from the Williams-Sonoma cake cookbook that he loves to read. Speaking of that, we also got the ice cream cookbook from them - and an ice cream maker attachment for the Kitchen Aid. We made our first ice cream on Sunday. We used real vanilla beans, and then made it decidedly non-gourmet by adding mini-M&M's. They made it all colorful and swirly. Ethan liked it, but BOY was he sugared up.
Sunday night we went to a new playground. I had bought this book called "Out and About With Kids in Portland" that I really like, and one of the entries was about Ibach Park in Tualatin, of all places. It's a very cool playground, and once Ethan warmed up to it he loves it. There are dinosaur bones, a creek, and a "ferry" that goes back and forth on a wire. Linna and I just chilled out in the shade while Jeff and Ethan played. Then Jeff and I switched, and Jeff asked me to tell Ethan not to get his pants TOO wet... I was too late. He was wet through and through, but it didn't really matter. He had a lot of fun. Next time we'll bring extra pants.
Matty has been saving us for the last few weeks. Brittain had a freak bicycle accident that involved slicing her heel in the spokes, and she's been out of commission. She's coming back today to see how it goes. Fortunately for us, Matty was able to fill in. I'm glad Brittain's finally doing better.
Posted by ktingey at August 15, 2006 09:18 AM