oh how Mya will miss school!

We've been so lucky that Mya loves school and her teachers so much! They are wonderful ladies: in the purple we have Miss Tammy who has had Mya since she was four months old, the younger lady is Miss Nakita and is Mya's main toddler teacher, the lady in grey is Miss Natalya who has also had Mya since she was four months old and has been teaching her Russian along the way, and finally the lady in yellow is Miss Gail who is devastated that she won't get to have Mya in her preschool class - incidentally she is the one who broke down and cried with me on Mya's very first day.

ear tubes

Mya had surgery to put ear tubes in on Saturday, it went great and she seems to be feeling better than ever. We're very glad we got it taken care of after seeing how much better she seems to feel, though cotton balls and vaseline at bath time to keep water out of her ears is quite an adjustment. Mya may be one of those people who has a phobia about cotton balls before this is all over with!

Mya quotes

Mama - What does a cow say?
Mya - moo
Mama - What does sheep say?
Mya - baa
Mama - What does a frog say?
Mya - ibbit ibbit
Mama - What does a mama say?
Mya - baby

visiting papa's work

In the office and in the pumpkin patch.

Mya quotes:

Last night Mya picked her nose and got a boogie on her finger then she looked at me and said "mama I got germs".

festival of family farms - farm 3

This one was a dairy farm, needless to say Mya loved it!

farm 2 continued

Ran out of room for photos - man it was great having a camera to use for the weekend!

festival of family farms - farm 2

This one was a vegetable farm owned by a very nice man named Farmer Dave that I sort of know through work. Here they had pony rides, hay rides, vegetable and flower gardens, and pigs. Mya loved the ponies but would NOT ride them! She also loved the pigs and didn't want to leave them.

festival of family farms - farm 1

On Saturday we toured an alpaca farm or as Mya calls them 'pacas'. She really really likes pacas! We got to see a baby get a bottle feeding and a shearing demonstration and we even got to pet the baby.

the big news!

Yesterday we finally got the news we've been waiting months for - Traven got the job in Florida. We will move in about a month, we don't really know any details or have a plan yet, but it'll come together somehow.

In the meantime here is a shot of Mya eating oatmeal at the table like a big girl!

papa's mini me

I think Mya looks EXACTLY like Traven in this picture. She's dressed up in layers of my maternity clothes. My camera is in the shop again so I'll have to start digging back through older pictures that didn't get posted before...

love the dog-dog!

Katie is such a good dog, she tolerates lots and lots of toddler hugs and even wags her tail for it sometimes!

papa's beauty shop

Here is a picture of Traven and Mya fixing the baby's hair.

Mya's moving service

Mya will come and rearrange your furniture for a nominal fee!

not so surprise...

So I think that most my blog readers know but I guess here is your official announcement: Bentley #2 is on the way and the due date is April 19th. Even though it's still really early I'm already not fitting into most of my pants. Here are some pictures of Mya playing dress up in my maternity clothes.

"wocks in da wada"

The weather was beautiful on Sunday so we went out to west beach at Deception Pass State Park. Notice Mya's choice of shoes. :-)

peppers!

We're having a late summer here and our garden is finally starting to yield. Here are a few shots of Mya sampling the Hungarian wax peppers (they're not hot). Last night we steamed the broccoli from our garden and Mya loved it (no big suprise there since it's one of her favorite foods but she was super excited that it was HER broccoli). Also notice her T-shirt, these pictures were from Saturday and all three of us were in our Razorback finest!

I'm also noticing that ever since I got my camera back from the shop almost all of my pictures turn out really dark - any suggestions?

little artist

Here are some shots of Mya painting, a well loved activity at our house!

sunday bbq

We enjoyed a very lovely bbq at Alex and Emily's place on the Swinomish Channel. Here are some shots that our friend Morris took.

working in the garden

Mya likes to 'help' me in the garden. She waters plants, pulls out those pesky flowers, and harvests tomato leaves ;-)

fun with G-ma Virg and P-pa Otie

More pictures from early August...