Look at what was down at the boat launch today... smelly salmon carcassess... tasty tasty!  With all the fisherfolk on the river road, we can guess that it's salmon season!

 So we decided to walk up to the water pump and the lower playground.  The upper playground was taped off today for rebarking... luckily, we were able to use the lower slide for a bit.  AND... guess what we saw?

 

 A digger up close!!!

 And this morning by coincidence, you said 
"wear digger shirt please"!

 You also thought they needed to use a "bush trimmer" at the park... things were a bit overgrown.

 You even tried out the swing for a few seconds!

 Time to use the BIG kid slide... usually we use the lower/safer slide... but today we made an exception.

 After naptime, you washed the backseat of Daddy's truck.

 And swept, of course!

 You brought a huge rock from the driveway and enjoyed tossing it down the stairs...

 And then you said "Beep beep sluga"  (move slug!)  which you did...

 Filling up the cart with wood...

 "Alex build it"

 And you were very interested in all the off limits cleaning supplies that were under the sink... oops, it was leaking tonight!

Daddy stayed home with us today... and we sure had a fun morning.  You slept til 9 (and Mommy had to go wake you up!)  Then we had breakfast at Ihop and you loved your pancakes... and Daddy taught you to dip them in sugar.  Never heard of that before.  Hmmmm.  Our next stop was to Target... a sleeper for your sister and you managed to pick up a new bulldozer, alphabet-numbers for the bathtub, and some snow pants.  And, on our way back home, we stopped at Linda's Dahlias and picked some gorgeous flowers to take to Miss Jenn at speech tomorrow.  For $5 we picked 13 different flowers and they are absolutely breathtaking!  What a deal!  After your sister is here, we'll go back next week to take some pictures in the garden.  BEAUTIFUL!

Feeling a bit tired after playing outside for a couple hours straight...

 Eating the blackberries we picked by the gate... yummy in your tummy!

 

And the day will be....

This morning, Daddy and Mommy went to the doctor (you played with Bre).  We learned that your sister has moved from the transverse position and is now in the head down position and not yet engaged.  The radiologist did an ultrasound to check on her and determined that Sierra has a pretty large head (bigger than 10 cm)

 Profile...

So..... on Saturday Mommy will have a c-section and your sister will officially be here on the outside world with us.  We are so excited!

Daddy is a sweetheart and came home a bit earlier today... and we all spent some good family time outside (as usual!)  

Not sure what happened to the bottom half of this picture... you were on the mower

 After nap time, you played with some blocks and built a "water tower"

 And, with supervision, you learned how the stapler works

 You wanted to dig and weed... and helped Daddy get the slide set up in the yard.   First, we had to figure out a good location and angle... you tested both out for us.

 Then it was time to officially set it up!

 Wheeeee!!!!