Ernie Wernie Plays Ball

Living in a new part of the continent has introduced me to all sorts of new brands of weather inconveniences. Atmospheric river paints a pretty vivid picture of what is about to happen to us.

I was excited to see that UW has a popular player named Penix. The jokes write themselves.

Ernie Wernie is pretty good at playing catch for such a lil guy.

Lydia strapped Ernie in for an early test of the baby carrier. We'd tried it before but his neck was still wobbly and he was too small still I think. This time worked much better. We walked over to the Google offices to check out their Christmas light set up.

Rein of Terror

Ernie's little blue eyes flashing in the nightvision of his crib cam at 4 in the morning is like a little horror movie.

Today we met up with our German friends Miriam, Christopher, and their son Max in their neck of the woods at the Cougar Mountain Zoo. It was an odd place. We were here at this particular point in time to witness the majesty of the Annual Issaquah Reindeer Festival. Calling it a festival seemed like a stretch but there were reindeer present.

Many zoos go for a natural aesthetic to make the people and the animals feel like they are in a relaxing earthy atmosphere. This place was more like an internment camp run by a retired blacksmith. Everything was metal.

Like how many sets of bars can you spot in this picture? "Wanted: animal jailor. must hate animals and self. Serious inquiries only."

Spuds With My Bud

Today Ernie got some exciting gifts from his family.

His St. Louis Grandma bought him a fun rattle thing.

Aunt Zoe bought him a singing and sound repeating cactus that has been making the rounds on social media.

We watched the sun set over Lake Washington while strolling through Juanita Bay Park. I like this park a lot because it's very close to our house yet has a wild wetlands feel to it and has a lot of fun animals in the area.

Ernie tried his first swing set at Juanita Beach Park. He liked it fine but I think it's still early for him and he was having more fun watching the other kids play.

We stopped at Spud Fish & Chips on the way home and Ernie tried his first french fry.

Cup Time

Ern has been busy exploring the new toys that came in his subscription box. It's kind of nice because now buying him toys is off of our to-do list, and they are also all age appropriate so I don't have to worry that I'm spending a bunch of money on something that he isn't going to think is interesting.

Toy Boy

Today was Ernie's second full day of school.

Ernesto coming home from school is a big daily event for me now.

I thought this was weird and sad. We'd just visited 67-year Woodinville institution Molbak's for the first time a little over a week ago and now it was getting killed by some developers. Sad.

Ern has a subscription to Lovevery which is an age appropriate toy box that come every couple months. Unboxing them is quite the hullabaloo.