Halloween Party at "Old Carmella's School"

Tonight (10/26/07) we went to a Halloween party at Kaeli's Montessori school that she attended last year. She got to see a lot of her old friends. This picture is her with Maddie, a good good friend, and Loren, who is a new Arcadia student. Maddie and Kaeli were shy with each other for about 5 minutes, and then back to good friends. We hope to set up a play date for the two of them soon!

Zoo Boo Day

Kaeli and I spent our "special day" this past weekend at the zoo. We didn't know that it was Zoo Boo day, and there were lots of kids in costumes. Kaeli got her face painted with a big beautiful butterfly. We completed a bat scavenger hunt in the aquarium, and rode the carousel, and had lunch at the cafe, where Kaeli polished off a pretzel with something that was called "cheese".

After about three hours at the zoo, we went to Owen Beach to watch the high water and waves, and then drove the Five Mile Drive and saw lots of racoons!

A Clean Room and A Proud Girl!

Kaeli was quite proud of how clean her room looked after she worked on it while MaMa was working on cleaning her own room. MaMa was especially amazed at how clean it was, and asked Kaeli where she had put everything.

Kaeli gave MaMa a REALLY big smile and threw open the door to her closet, where she had neatly piled everything that didn't have a specific home.

Riding the Carousel

Racoons on Five Mile Drive

A family of four racoons, waiting for dinner delivery on Five Mile Drive at Point Defiance. We saw a total of NINETEEN!! on the drive, all on the left side of the road. I didn't understand at first why each group (1 of 2 racoons, 4 with 4 racoons, one single lonely one) were all on the left side of the road and all approached the car each time I stopped! And then I saw a car pulled off to the side and the driver was feeding the racoons. We'll have to do this drive again, next time with fruit!