After a long day at the zoo, we make our way back to the car with Makaela sitting on top of the stroller.

Makaela and an arangatang come face to face at the Portland Zoo.

Makaela and I went to one of the many water play areas here in Portland. This one has many streams of water shooting 20 feet into the air. She was too timid to go near it, but we enjoyed playing at the park with our friends. It's been so hot here.

smashed lips against mommy

I wanted to see how peacefull he looks when he sleeps on my shoulder. He falls asleep on me like this throughout the day as I busy myself with Makaela.

Isaac sleeps swaddled on our bed.

At the mall park, I catch the boys smiling. so cute.

Isaac smiles!

Makaela examines her "Dirt Baby" that she made at the Agricultural Festival down in Salem, OR a few weeks ago.

Isaac moves his hands at lightning speed.

Makaela asks to hold Isaac about 100 times a day. She's getting much better at it too.

Isaac rests in his stroller.

Makaela sweetly poses for a picture.

Isaac is almost 2 months old!

Isaac throws a punch.

These are the panties that will make or break you...

Put this pair of Batman underwear on and you'll be filled with absolute joy because if you don't, you're world could crumble.....The story behind this theory is a long one but here goes: Everytime Makaela's friends Ray-Ray and Jackie come over (18 months and 3), the three of them eventually end up taking a bubble bath together simply because their lives wouldn't be complete without it. Then, after the children run around naked for a little while (my potty training technique that totally works), we attempt to put their clothes back on without too much hassel. Ray-Ray may want to borrow Makaela's pink flowery shirt, and that is fine with his mommy and with me. And Makaela will inevitably want to borrow whatever pair of super-hero underpants that Ray-Ray has on that day, and sometimes he wears two pairs just for kicks. When Ray-Ray wears them he prefers to wear them backwards so that he can see the super-hero when he looks down. It really isn't any fun with the super-hero on the back where you can't see it. The last time he ended up with just his underpants on at our house he was feeling so joyful that he was inclined to run around our house in circles for about 15 minutes. Now, everytime we hang out, there comes a time when we start dropping hints to the children that it's going to be time to go home soon. This is usually the time at which the borrowing begins and many demanding "pleases" occur. On this evening, Makaela asked Ray-Ray if she could borrow his Batman underpants. He said yes and so did his mommy...but disater struck immediatly after the boys walked out the door and Makaela wanted to forgo bedtime, rip off her pj's and put the Batman panties on. Well the temper-tantrum that followed when we wouldn't allow this (at 9:00 pm) was a long one. And Sean and I both felt that it was the biggest temper-tantrum that we had ever seen from her. She finally calmed down and went to bed, but the very first thing that she mentioned when she woke up the next morning was those blessed Batman panties. And she wore them all day, backwards.

Isaac plays while laying in our changing table. He hangs out here quite a bit so that Makaela has a less likely chance of falling on him because of her wobbly toddler legs.

We hike around at Gabriel Park in SW Portland.

Daddy holds Isaac's hands as he sleeps.

She gets into my makeup.

We rode the carousel at Jantzen Beach Mall. This one was really fast!

Our little bean

When Makaela saw me place this beer on the coffee table she headed for a drawer in the kitchen in search of a tool to open it with. After several minutes she came back with the nut cracker and tried for quite a while to take the cap off. When fed up with trying she pretended that it was open and gave it to me and said "Here [you] go". I love this face of hers of concentration.

Auntie Jocie and Makaela give hugs.

Makaela does tummy time with Isaac. They lay on the beautiful blanket that Karen Hee made for baby Isaac. Thank you so much Karen!