Bonneville

 Last week we went to Bonneville fish hatchery to see the fish or as jack says "efshs" He loves watching the fish and always has a great time when we go

 Feeding the fish

 Can you see all the fish?

 They also have a duck pond that jack really enjoys. Ducks might be jack's favorite animal right now

 A giant sturgeon!

 Jack and one of his favorite people, Sunny. Jack calls her "E"

 The biggest sturgeon they have is Herman. He is 10' long, 425 lbs and 60 years old! He was shy when we were there so we didn't get to see him.

Matt and Sunny

Painting with Mary!

 Lacy,Steve and Mary came over last week. Steve stayed with the kids (yes he is a very brave man) while Lacy and I went to go shopping at the asian market. When we got back we pulled out the supplies and let the kids do some painting

 After painting on the canvas we took some time to paint the porch!

 Jack was applauding Mary's first painting. I think he was impressed!

Life on the farm is kinda laid back...

 Jack spent his first night away from home and mama when he went with lance for a father/son slumber party at our friends farm. He had a great time!

Jack found a scooter and had to try it out

Jack wanted to sit with the pigs while he ate his lunch. He even offered to share

Watching the chickens

Bob "the pied piper" leading all of the kids to feed the pigs

Here piggie!

And like any good farmer jack never forgets to do the chores

Entertaining the group with his melodies

After a long day on the farm its time for grapes!

For some reason I haven't been able to add pictures to the blog lately. I want to apologize to everyone coming here to get their Jack fix. Hopefully I can get it working soon!

Messy fun!

I have wanted a new picture in the living room for a long time. I remembered I had a old canvas and was wondering what I could do with it when i remembered we have a budding artist living in this house. Jack loves to color with his crayons and markers so I thought it would be fun to let jack create some art.We went to the craft store and bought some tempera paint and some brushes. By the time we got home jack was ready for a nap so I prepped the canvas by painting over the whole thing in red. Unfortunately It did not cover up the print on it but that is ok.

 After the paint was dry, we but an old shirt on him, poured some paint into cups and let him go to town.

 He had so much fun he made another picture.

 Jack's finished picture hanging on the wall

We love Sesame Street!

Jack has never watched much t.v. but lately we have started watching sesame street clips online every once in a while. This is one of his favorites! He loves to dance to this 
will.i.am on sesame street

OMSI!

This the second day of rain in portland. I think it is safe to say that fall is here. One of our favorite rainy date activities is to go to OMSI. We have a family membership so we try to go at least once a week. Today Jack and his dad went and invited our friends Marcus and Sloane for

play date.

Sloane and her dad. Marcus's haircut courtesy of Lance!

They had fun going up and down the elevator. Jack tried to grab onto daddy's leg but he grabbed Marcus instead. I guess we all look the same from the knee down!

Jack loves splashing around in the water table

At OMSI there is a blue ball room with small blue balls and tubes to shoot them around the room. Jack loves to play with the air vents.