Nana's Visit

It has been four days since Mom left our house for the airport after a wonderful week with her! How fun to have Nana around to just share in our new fall routine- kindergarten, preschool, swim lessons, the farmer's market, church, hanging out on the front porch, and even a trip to the zoo! And highlight for mom and dad...getting out on the town and eating some good food. Yeehaw.

The sea lions at the zoo put on quite a show for us. Rynn got a hold of Nana's camera and took a million pictures. Here are a few of the highlights.


The days are shortening at an ever increasing speed lately. According to the paper we are losing six minutes of daylight a day. Fall has arrived, and we are finally settling into the pace of our new schedule. Eleanor is adjusting to preschool and enjoying meeting new friends and having them over to play when Rynn is at school. Her quote of the week, "Mommy, I think I 'm allergic to yellow." Oh well, at least it's not wheat gluten.
Yesterday Rynn said, "I don't want this day to ever end. It has been so fun." So, I think school is suiting her. Every once in a while she spouts something in Japanese to which I reply, "what did you say??." She says, "MOMMY, that means 'sit down,' or 'happy birthday,' or 'hello' in Japanese." Below is a fun historic picture of her elementary school which was built in 1851- the oldest school in Portland PUblic Schools (not sure that is something to be excited about...but, hey, fun picture anyway!). It appears that having a school garden is not such a novel idea.

Ohh...and one more note of the passing of time. This week's blog entry represents the one year birthday of "Little Family in the Big City." How the year has flown! Happy birthday, blog.