The Big 2-0

Well, Lizzy is now 20 months old and had another fun, summer month. She has loved spending lots more time with her cousins and is going to miss them big time when they go back to school. One of our favorite activities was riding the TRAX Train downtown and then playing in the Splash Park at the Gateway. Lizzy also loved the PBJ Family End of Summer Bash when we did a hike up Rock Canyon, played at Seven Peaks Water Park and Lizzy saw her first movie in the theater, Winnie the Pooh.

Favorite Foods:

- Gogurts (Frozen)

- Tortilla chips dipped in sour cream

- Plums

- Strawberries

- Fruit snacks, but only if they're Tinkerbell.  She will not eat Rapunzel ones or other princess, etc.  IMO, there's a 50 percent chance that the others are actually harder for her to chew.  Whatever the reason, it must be Tinkerbell.

Lizzy's favorite new words:

- Seal

- Shoulder

- Sa (Sun and Sunglasses)

- Moo (Moon)

- Tar (Star)

- Slide

- Swing

- Yeah (We are loving this one.  She says it all the time now! It's now safe to ask a yes or no question.)

- Bru (Brush, she carries her brush around all the time. And every time we leave the house she carries a little purse with her brush and other essentials in it. She takes really good care of it and never leaves it anywhere or forgets it.)

She loves playing inside this cupboard.  We have since moved everything out
(except toys) and she just closes the doors and has a good time.

Another favorite activity is driving the car.

This is when we went downtown to ride TRAX since Lizzy LOVES trains.  We
stopped at the Gateway just to have a destination.  We had a great time at the
splash pad and luckily there was an Old Navy nearby... she was DRENCHED. (See the video below.)

Another new favorite activity is coloring.  In fact, colors and counting are two of her favorite things.

Loving cousin time during the hike as part of the PBJ End of Summer Bash

At 7 Peaks as part of the party.  We've loved being able to go for "free".  :)

For a special date we went to Farm Country with Anna.  Here's Anna on the Pony Ride.

Here's Lizzy crying "Chur" (Turn) over and over during the whole ride.
(We've tried her riding it in the past and she'd never let us put her on the pony.)

The magic of having a cousin do it first.  Lizzy took her first pony ride!

Anna and Lizzy enjoying the farm animals.  

For a special date with Stephen we went to the Dinosaur Museum.  But we stopped at the
gardens while we waited for the museum to open.  Don't they look cute walking together?

See we really went to the Dinosaur Museum.

So the Tillamook tour came to Thanksgiving Point.  We love both so count us in for that!
Lizzy just carried her cheese sample around.  She wouldn't eat it, but she wanted to keep it.  

This is Squawkers McCaw.  He was a gift from Shawn's parents a long time ago and
Lizzy has just recently started loving him.  They dance together.  I guess we should get video of that soon.

So, I was going to post some videos, but they aren't uploading for me.  I'll try to post those soon...