Slow in the driveway.

Jake's grandparents have a super long driveway at the farm. With appreciation for Kai's love of vehicles, Jake let him "drive" up the driveway. This made for a pretty happy baby.

Pow wow.

Every summer on the reservation where our cabin is located and where I grew up, there is a huge pow wow that lasts a whole weekend. This was the first year that Jake was able to attend. Last year Kai was just six months old. Although he was interested in the goings on then, he was interested in just about anything. This year Kai did a little dancing and bouncing and seemed to enjoy the time we spent there very much. I was so happy to be able to share the experience with my new little family.

Boat ride.

Kai went on his first boat ride last weekend at the cabin. The boat is the very same boat that my mother learned to water ski behind in the seventies. It is in need of a little love in the upholstery and paint departments, but is running like champ at nearly forty years old! Kai was a little curious at first about the whole boat business and then became a little concerned. Aside from attempting to drive the boat he spent much of the ride cuddling Jake or me.

Pulling away from the dock.

Jake and Kai zip each other up. Brr.

Kai steers the boat, tentatively.

Perfect bread.

Crusty. Chewy. Delicious.
By far the best looking loaf to ever leave my oven.

This weekend.

Kai learned to play the harmonica. He sometimes even sounds like maybe he wants to play a little blues. I am completely serious and have been attempting to capture this on video. I will post as soon as we get a good one.

We looked at 10 houses, four on Saturday and six on Sunday. There are three in our maybe pile and zero in our yes pile. ZERO. We just complied a list of about a dozen more. Hopefully our house is in that batch because trying to find a house is exhausting. I took a nap with Kai both days!! Kai did really well with the whole thing though. He was a little rammy at times, but mostly just rolled with it and attempted to pet homeowners' kitties and yelled "mow, mow" at them.

Tomorrow we are going to a playdate at a house of a moms' group member and will be meeting all new people. Hopefully they are super nice and Kai has a great time. We are also meeting up with some moms from the Attachment Parenting group that we belong to. Kai really seems to enjoy playing with a couple of the boys from that group and the moms are fantastic, so I am looking forward to that.

Today Kai and I went to the home of Karla, the La Leche Leage leader, and her son Beau. Kai seemed to have a pretty great time. Beau had a great sandbox with lots of toys in it which Kai really enjoyed exploring. I got some clarification on the leadership accredidation process and some idea or organizing all of my new La Leche League resources. I am off to start working on that right now.

I think he is a genius.

We magically arrived at the public library right at story time. I thought that it was yesterday and that he had napped right through it. But, no, it was today. Yay us. During the last story time we attended there the story teller had the toddlers place a duck on a felt board. When it was Kai's turn he just went up to the board and stuck the duck on like it was no big deal. Now, that felt like a pretty big deal. The other little ones did not do this, so I was especially proud and frankly a little amazed. Well, today, they were supposed to take turns finding the little boy asleep under the hay (you know the rhyme, right?). The story teller brought her board around to each of the little boys there (all boys today, how weird) and Kai was third. When the board got to him she asked him where the little boy was. Kai first pointed to the hay, okay it was a little translucent, and then he lifted it right up. None of the other boys did this, she had to show them. I was one proud mama!

"Love you."

So, when we put Kai to bed at night we say a lot of the same things. First I ask him if he is ready for "night, night." Then we say "night, night" to animals, people, toys, whatever is around. Then we shut the shades and say "night, night" to outside. During this process I am mostly doing the talking and Kai says random "nie, nie" here and there. He also points, waves, blows kisses. and turns out the lights. Then we play down in bed and Jake says "night, night" "see you in the morning" Kai gives him a kiss and usually waves to him and says "nie, nie." He has in the past said "out, out, out" to him which was good for some laughs. Every night Jake tells him "love you" at some point in between the night, nights and see you in the morning and what have you. Tonight, Kai said, "ove ou" right back to him. Oh my goodness. What could break a mommy heart faster than that?