4th of July!

Oh how nice it is to have a 3 day weekend!  I had time to clean the house, and even pick some flowers.  (These were actually welcome home flowers for Andrew)  He was out of town for a week in DC for work, and we are SO GLAD to have him back! 

Chloe couldn't wait for him to take her on a bike ride!  You may remember that we got her this bike seat for her birthday.  She absolutely LOVES it!  It is pretty awesome for us too!  She is safe and secure AND happy which is a combo that doesn't really go together that often :)

Here's a side view :)

Sunday we went to the Girdwood Forest Fair.  It is like an arts fair with lots of live music, and even more hippies.  It is pretty much awesome.  Chloe really liked the music- dancing to the music, and playing with hula hoops while listening to the music.  Catching a theme?  Chloe loves live music!    On the way out we stopped at the super playground, where Chloe spent all her time in the sandbox, digging with shovels, dump trucks and excavators.  She loves her trucks!

On a mission to get the excavator from another little boy.  Mission unsuccessful :( 

After the forest fair we drove down to Whittier and went out on the boat.  It was great weather, and nobody (talking about me) got sea sick.  I took my traditional dramamine.....but this time somehow thought it was chewable, and let me tell you- if the package doesn't say chewable, don't chew it!  Yuck!  It was fast acting though!  Chloe gets her sea legs from her Dad, so it was all good times for her.  

We spent some time inside too.  Here is Chloe checking on the baby :)  She even kisses my belly sometimes,  I think she is going to be such a sweet big sister!  

 This time our boating adventure took us to surprise cove, where Andrew heard that people had been catching halibut.  Andrew and Jim decided to give fishing a go, and Chloe helped too.  Donna and I read magazines, and I took pictures and entertained Chloe (when she wasn't busy fishing that is).  The fishing must have been really good the week before because all of the halibut were already caught :)  Jim did catch some sort of fish, but it was just a baby and got to go back with its family.  They had a few nibbles, but no keepers.  

We all had a good time anyway.  Shockingly, Chloe was in great spirits all day, even though she didn't nap---at all!!  When I tried to take her down to nap, she said "no -be on boat!!!"  I guess the stateroom looked too much like a bedroom and not enough like a boat.  She was not sleepy, and there was no convincing her she was on a boat, without seeing out the big windows.  She stayed in good spirits the whole entire day, so we really really really lucked out!

 She did fall asleep immediately (within maybe 4 minutes) of getting in the car.  For those of you familiar with Whittier, we weren't even in the tunnel yet and she was already out cold!  Crazy!  And you would think that falling asleep at 7:30 in the car might mess with bedtime when we got home- you would be wrong!  She went right to bed again there too!  Wow, what a weekend!