passing time....

another day of pacing the floor, wondering what activities i can find to fill in our last days of summer before school starts. berthusen park is always a great standby. unfortunately, ALL the bugs in whatcom county also thought this would be a good spot to pass time. of course, i can't have children who are content to just swing, like 'normal' children, but they want to explore and find as many disgusting animals (seriously, they found every one) as possible. and of course, it wouldn't be a trip to berthusen without making our way to the rope swing, which i might add is in the belly of the whale, so to speak. thankfully, once they started giggling (boys do that too) it was worth the ninety million bits and cuts and sweat and.....it was worth it all.

big boy is lovingly trying to get little boy to fall off the swing so he could have a turn. it worked.

"mom, this is a place to play, NOT to waste our time taking pictures. hurry it up". good thing we had 30 otter pops and 7 water bottles along for break time. i guess that explains why that backpack (which NO ONE wanted to hold!) was so bloody heavy. at least we were hydrated.

jacko was a pro at this. except of course that time when sambo tackled him to the ground.

sorry this is blurry but the more i looked at it, it looks like i meant for it to turn out this way. i didn't.

this rope swing was a thorn in max's side. can't say as he enjoyed it so much.

this is my dear friend lynda and two of her three children. mady and keaton. love these sweet souls.