Bizarre Bedtime

Normally when I put Vega to bed it's a long process of convincing her it's time for bed, putting her back in bed when she get's up, etc. Last night it went a little different. She was playing with me in the living room, when all of a sudden...

Vega: Oh no!
Daddy: What's wrong?
Vega: I have to go to bed, I'm really tired!

Vega then turned around and ran out of the room and up the stairs.

Vega: Come on Daddy, I want to go to bed.

The entire time while I was getting her ready for bed she was really cooperative and talked a ton.

Vega: I like to play chase
Daddy: Who do you like to play chase with
Vega: My brother, you, my mommy
Daddy: Who else?
Vega: Umm
Daddy: What about Niall?
Vega: Umm, no, he's too busy.
Daddy: Doing what?
Vega: He's busy playing with his toys right now.

Vega: When I grow up I can have grown up drinks
Daddy: What kind of grown up drinks.
Vega: Umm, beer, umm, and coffee
Daddy: What else?
Vega: More beer.

Vega: I'm gonna grow up big and tall and I can't fit in my own bed anymore and I'll be sad.
Vega: Look at my bed. It's very beautiful. It's really cool. Do you like it?
Vega: We went to Texas to see my grandmommy. She is very nice. I love her.

After talking talking talking the whole time we got ready for bed, she jumped into bed and yelled...

Vega: NIGHT NIGHT DADDY. I'M GOING TO SLEEP NOW!

And did...

Snow Day in Seattle

I was working in my office downstairs because it was a snow day. I was wearing my headphone and listening to music. Vega walked in...

Vega: "Hi Daddy, can I listen to your headphones please?"
Daddy: "Sure, hear you go", I turned down the volume, selected some music she would like and give them to her

Vega puts on headphones and starts dancing

... a minute passes ...

Vega takes the headphones off
Vega: "Here you go daddy. I can't dance right now, I'm too busy. I have things to do"
Vega leaves room

Later, while putting Vega to bed, again...

Daddy: "Why are you crying?"
Vega: "Because I can't sleep Daddy"
Daddy: "Do you want to sleep or do you want to stay up and cry?"
Vega: "I want to stay up and cry"
Daddy: "Ok"
Vega looks very very confused and stops crying

Popsicle

Vega stripped off her clothes and started eating a popsicle...this makes her happy. She started dancing and sicking.

Vega: (singing) I apologize. I'm going to take your ice cream and eat it all up

A trip to the Blueberry Farm

Today we planned to go to one of the many U-pick strawberry places around Seattle. I had been talking about this with Vega since yesterday so we definitely didn't want to miss this. Unfortunately we wasted too much time doing stuff at home after her nap and we ended up getting out of the house too late to get to the u-pick places.

So instead we decided to go to the blueberry farm in Bellevue. This places is just across Lake Washington from Seattle so it's really easy to get to. The problem is that blueberries don't ripen for another couple of weeks. There is a produce stand there though that does sell all kinds of berries from farms around the area. Vega was thrilled. She got to 'pick' strawberries, raspberries & rhubarb.

Then we went on a walk around the marshes & blue berry farms of the Mercer Slough. Vega went into full-on Explorer mode, saying "Ok guys, let's go. First, grumpy troll bridge..." The funny thing is this trail has tons of little bridges over irrigation ditches and marshy areas. So at every single bridge she would stop and pretend to be the grumpy troll, saying "you can't cross my bridge" until Athena and I did something, like count to 5, or dance or jump up and down or make a silly face. One time Athena counted but I didn't and Vega "Ok mommy, you can cross my bridge. You still have to count daddy".

Camping at Lake Wenatchee

This weekend we went to Lake Wenatchee to go camping with the kids. We left Seattle Saturday morning since we didn't want Deklan's first camping trip to be a two day event. The drive was nice though Vega was freaking by the time we pulled in to the campsites. In fact she was freaking out so much at one point that I had to pull over and talk to her on the side of the road. She had a time out under a big tree.

The lake is gorgeous. The first place we went to was way around the left side of the lake. The road to the campsite is pretty crazy with steep slopes on either side. The driveways for people's lake cabins were basically sheer dropoffs. The campsites we found were great, but the mosquitoes were relentless so we decided to try a different campsite. This site appeared to be better but later when I was setting up the tent I discovered how horrible they were. After quickly setting up the tent we went to the lake shore where somebody said "ouch, looks like you got bit too". My face was covered in bites.

The lake itself was great. No mozzies, warm & sunny. The water was absolutely freezing but Vega didnt' seem to mind. Especially because whenever she got too cold she had a dad around to pick her up. We spent a ton of time in the water and once you got used to it the temp wasn't that bad.

Back at the campsite, Athena and Deklan stayed in the tent while Vega and I built a fire. She was so good at listening to instructions! She helped me gather kindling, she helped me stack up the wood in the fire pit. She stayed back while I cut down the logs with my ax and never tried to touch the fire. She had a blast though stomping around the campsite and naming things. Once the sun was down and the fire was going, the mozzies seemed to go away so we hung out by the fire for a bit before going to bed. Vega and Deklan both slept really well.

Since the mosquitoes were waiting for us in the morning we decided to have breakfast in Leavenworth before heading back to Seattle.

Singing a little song

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