Remember when he had sooo much hair?

Probably four years apart!

New beach adventure today thanks to a classmate play date! And, sun!

We traveled to Australia today and went on a scavenger hunt around Melbourne to find a kangaroo! Our friend is working on an Amazon beta program offering 1:1 travel experiences all over the world…and it’s pretty cool! We walked the streets, saw artwork, saw what life is like in Melbourne and talked with a local. Search “Amazon Explore,” and you too can travel!

We started swimming. And both kids are so, so excited and thrilled and eager for more. The WAC limits one family per outside lane with the center vacant, and with the building pretty vacant on weekday nights…it’s the family time we have come the love so much. Lessons start tomorrow, though the instructor stays masked (and dry) on deck and us parents get take the lead. Good luck to us!

Xanna sent an olive tree today to add to our budding living room garden…which got Meryl thinking about aloe and an owie, and then we started trimming our four and a half year old aloe plant (thanks, Jenna!). Meryl has stated that she’s going to become a teacher and a gardener so here we are, growing:)

An audience most certainly inspires confidence!

After walking right past it, we fell for this garden and all that we saw above and below ground in it. It’s got it all from an apple and pear orchard, to a salmon lifecycle mosaic path, and (surprise!) frogs under logs!

Because salon styling is an art form.

And yet, it’s underneath a bench that seemed to captivate the most interest.

Aside from benches, the Yesler Swamp also has a pathway of boardwalks that are pretty fun to run around while not paying attention to learning about the swamp being nature’s sponge collecting runoff or spotting lichens on dead logs:)

Talk about happiness sweat sessions goals.

Holmes:)

Our five-day long home vacation has already been activity packed, more pictures to come! But for now, we’re cheering on our visit to a children’s garden in the winter (read no people, or plants really) and lots discovered…frogs under logs! Stay tuned:)