Here are Daddy, Jett and Monkey working on the computer. Jett has been playing more and more with his monkey, and it is so cute. 
Eating his bottle on the step. He loves that thing.
Really getting into eating his oatmeal.
Jett used to hate bathtime. He would scream as soon as he touched the water until after we got pjs on him. It was miserable. I'm glad that has changed. He loves the water now, especially running water. When we're filling the tub up, her likes to drink water from his cup that he gets from the faucet. Here he is filling up his bath cup.
Cups aren't the only drinking option though. He likes to suck water from this sponge of his too. Behind him are all his other toys, including the net that Aunt Holly got him, which he loves. He likes his squirt-y toys too, but he gets frustrated because he hasn't figured out yet how to fill them back up. 
Just being silly with his tongue.
Posing for the camera. What a nice smile!
I couldn't resist. He's got cute little buns!
This is a routine we go through at least 3 times a day. First, (and I don't have a picture of this) Jett takes his dump truck outside and then pushes it under our porch fence. Then, as is pictured above, he goes to the gate and says "uh oh, guk (truck) out(outside)". Which means we need to go save it from the scary outside world.
Next (and yes this picture is from a different occasion than the first) we go get it. And now Jett is free to be outside, and he knows it. He loves the outside so much, we go on many walks during the day.
Sometimes he makes a side trip up the stairs, now that his truck is safely in his sight. 
But after that, the truck just keeps running away, further and further. It is a rascally little dump truck (and a rascally little boy pushing it). 
Then it makes it out to the sidewalk and usually up and down the block a few times. In this picture Jett is waving to a garbage truck as it drives by. He loves any vehicle, bikes, motorcycles, cars, buses and trucks. And the louder the better. If he hears a truck in the distance, he looks at it and keeps looking at it from one end of the street until he can't see it anymore. He LOVES trucks.
Well, here are just a few pictures, I have more I might put up later, I just need to get them off the camera. Jett is such a little ball of sunshine, he is the happiest little guy around. He just plays and is so fun. The above picture is him playing peek-a-boo. He prefers being outside to being inside, so peeking around the screen is fun!
I left the broom closet door open while I was vacuuming and this is what I found when I went to put the vacuum away!
"Please Daddy, can we take the truck outside one more time?"
We keep some of our exercise equiptment in the living room, and Jett watches us use it sometimes. Lately he's been doing his own "workouts" and pushing around Rick's push up bars or lifting these 3 pound weights. He even makes a "oooooooo" heavy lifting sound.
An up close look at the Space Needle. 
On our way to Olympic National Park we drove through Port Angeles, and for all those who don't read the Twilight books, this is the "big city" where the girls in the book do their shopping etc. I took this picture for my mom, and was sad to inform her that we didn't drive the extra 50-ish miles to Forks. Rick was willing to if I'd wanted to go, but we'd done a lot of driving already.
Okay, in the previous post I showed the snow in the Park; at the bottom of the mountain was this. It was so green, trees and plants and moss everywhere. We went on a little hike through it and it was beautiful. Honestly, I don't think I've seen anywhere as green as this (I've lived most of my life in the desert). Except for the trail, you couldn't see the dirt because there were so many little plants. Olympic Park is home to La Push (also from Twilight) and the only rainforest in North America. 
This is an animatronic Donatello the Ninja Turtle from the live action movies. He lives in the Science Fiction museum in Seattle. I thought I wouldn't enjoy myself there (we went for Rick) but it actually was pretty cool. They had lots of first edition sci-fi books, props and costumes from TV shows and movies like Star Trek, Star wars, Dune and Blade Runner. I actually came away wanting to read some of the books and see some of the movies, which is shocking since usually I'm not into sci-fi at all. 
Another picture from the National Park (don't know how they got out of order). 
Rick has been doing a lot of traveling lately, San Francisco, Tacoma WA and Washington DC, just since the New Year started. He's spent the most time in Tacoma and actually is going back in a week. He's been enjoying his time there and told me how pretty it was. Even though he has been working in Tacoma, he and his co-workers stay in Seattle since Tacoma is "too boring". So I decided to go visit Rick for a weekend up there. Here he is on top of the Space Needle, and behind him is downtown Seattle
On our trip we did many things. One day we rented a car and drove a few hours to Olympic National Park. We drove up about 20 minutes and found tons of snow! It was freezing too, but so so so pretty. The view was spectacular. You can't tell from the picture, but all those mountains you see are simply covered in trees. And those are only a fraction of the mountains we could see from up there, it's insane! 
Back down in the city, we just walked around a lot and explored. A few blocks from our hotel was a glass blowing studio (we forgot to take pictures). It was my first time seeing it and it was cool, but looked so dangerous to me. I'm glad we didn't end up taking a class like we'd originally had planned, because it would have freaked me out. The glass is around 1000 degrees, too hot for me thank you very much. But a little further was this Market, which is in my 1000 places to see in the US&Canada book. It was awesome. So many vendors and shops that sold handmade things and fresh veggies and fish. There were also fun trinket stores, used book stores and a magic shop that we spent quite a bit of time in (and Rick almost bought quite a few things, too). 
This is a picture of Olympic Statue park, down by the beach (or one of the beaches, there is so much water around Seattle). Rick actually didn't go here with me, since I spent most of my first day in the city alone. I walked just about everywhere by myself and it was great. Rick joined me late that night after flying in from D.C. 
Here is just a cute shot of Jett being the man of the house while Rick was away. Usually Rick gets to come home on the weekends, but wasn't able to for the two weeks in D.C. Luckily for me I have family close by and Holly and Carlie came to visit too.
