Alice the Cricket

Alice is the Cricket who came to live with Charlotte for a few days...

..when she was at Cricket Day (!) during a preschool visit.

After her sleep-over, Alice was shown the front yard, where Charlotte picked out an appropriate habitat for Alice's new home.

BYE ALICE! We'll be seeing you around the neighborhood...

Music Class

The Wood Kids and Cousin Connor enjoy music class together on Tuesdays.

Aunt Mela has been learning the intricacies of playing the rattle..

That curious kid

Charlotte is still enjoying school a ton. A few weeks ago she came home telling us all about using a magnifying glass at school ... she now has her very own looking glass.

That clever kid

Our kids are pretty curious and clever these days. Ryan says pretty much every word in the English and Mandarin Dictionary. His favorite thing to say is "backhoe [pause] scoop [pause] duuuuump!" He also likes to kid around and claim that everything is the color green -- he loves to get our "that's not greeeeen!" reaction. He can even point to his facial features, what a clever little boy!

Children's Museum

As you observant types will notice, these pics are "pre Charlotte haircut" so a little out of order... but I thought they were some fun pics we took a few weeks back at the Children's museum in Factoria. Who knew there was a MUSEUM in Factoria?

Ryan spent abou 3/4 of his time rocking this boat around.

Hey! It's Peter Dahlin! Small world!
(Don't Petey and Ry look like they could be cousins?)

What? BFF Riley is here too? Charlotte had a blast playing with Riley, and just goes to show you, on a rainy weekend day in Seattle, the world of parents gets really small.

This and That

The three Wood kids are all getting along very well these days. Two of them still wear matching PJ's whenever possible.

Barkley has just surpassed Charlotte in size.

Ryan practices up for the Wood Band.

Ryan and Charlotte play in their impromptu fort!

Ryan's Encore

Ryan performs an encore... the video is only 6 seconds long, becuase I ran out of memory on the camera, but I think you get the idea of what the rest of the performance was like.

Yes, he's dancing to the classic children's song, "Mud On the Tires" by Brad Paisley.

There's a place I know about where the dirt road runs out
And we can try out the four-wheel drive
Come on now what do you say
Girl, I can hardly wait to get a little mud on the tires