This Joy’s Life

When I think of going to the beach, I think hot sun and sand. Not so with the beaches out here in B-town (greater Seattle), but any time I go to the beach it still feels like a getaway so I’m trying to go more often. Especially since we have 3 beaches within a 5 minute drive of the house and many, many more that are 20 mins or less. It’s a crime not to in the summer!

On our way, we stopped at the local consignment shop, Lollipops, to buy some boy swim trunks for the girls to get wet and dirty in.  Clara enjoyed finding neat rocks on the beach and collecting or tossing them in the water at her whim.  Sydney enjoyed putting neat rocks in her mouth.  She did not enjoy mom taking them out.

See it all for yourself:

My friend Rawee claims I favor Clara on my blog over Sydney . . .

It may be true, but I’m working on rectifying it.

Ok, but, in my defense, Clara is at an age now where she can listen to direction when I’m trying to get pictures of her.  Sydney is at an age where she ain’t studin’ that.

Just a couple pictures of Clara and Sydney that are cute.  The first two are from Ben’s first birthday party taken by my friend Carrie of Clara and Jack and Sydney and her shovel.  The others are of Sydney in the bath I took this afternoon.  Now that she can sit up on her own, bath-time has become a whole lot more fun!

Story Time for Jack from Joy Fisher on Vimeo.

I’m going to post on a regular basis.

I’m going to post, at a minimum, monthly pictures of my kids.

I’m going to write about my new “diet” (as in what I eat, not how little I should eat) and weight-loss strategy.

I’m going to do regular book reports on my blog of all the great books I’ve been reading.

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Yeah, so, following-through – not so much.  Knowing is half the battle.  And, I will give myself credit for the last one, since technically I’ve not read a book since Clara was born 4 YEARS AGO.  If it seems as if I’m proud of that, I’m not.

What am I even talking about here? I’m not sure.  But, since I’ve been remiss updating my blog, I’ll leave you will two things.  A blog post by a blogger better than myself that gives you a picture of what my day-to-day is like: The Glamorous Life

And a picture of each kidlet from the month of May.

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Clara shaking her “cookie maker.”  She’s got mad dance skillz, yo!

She likes to move it, move it from Joy Fisher on Vimeo.

Admittedly, I have been remiss in posting pictures of our newest addition lately.  I’m going to attempt to rectify that a bit now by posting just a couple miscellaneous pictures from the past few weeks.  The big thing going on here, besides the lack of sleep, was that our friends Suzanne and Kevin with their two year old Sylvia came to visit us last weekend.  Those pictures will come soon.  In the meantime, here are a few pictures of Sydney looking and acting like her sister only three and a half years ago.

You’ve already seen our current thinker:

Thinker A

Compare that to the Clare-bear:

Thinker B

One thing our girls know how to do is pout and cry. Can you guess who this is?

Pout A

And this?

Pout B

By the time Clara was 3 months, you can really see that she is she in her pictures. I’m curious to see if by 3 months, it is as easy to see how Sydney has come into her own more. I’m afraid if these girls ask me years from now whose baby pictures are who, I may not be totally sure of the answer.

Finally, here is a picture of Sydney hamming it up for the cameras (she wears her sunglasses at night, y’all) as well as a picture of “our family” that Clara drew on her dry-erase board earlier tonight. Of course, I think her drawing abilities are amazing!

Cool dudette

Clara's Family by Clara Louise Fisher

It’s Halloween and though baby Sydney is officially due today, I don’t think it’s going to happen. Ah well, we’ve got lots going here for Halloween anyway.

We went this morning with Chad’s parents to visit Clara’s great-great Aunt in the nursing home. Appropriately, Clara dressed as a nurse and handed out candy to residents there. She was pretty cute about it and people seemed to enjoy her.

Nurse Clara

Then, home for lunch and to change into another costume. Nurse Clara meet Clara the Clown!

Clara the Clown & The Great Pumpkin

Dad, the Geisha and the clown all headed into downtown Burien for storefront trick-or-treating and a hayride. It was quite a pleasant afternoon with no rain so far. We are feeling pretty lucky and optomistic that we will have nice evening for neighborhood trick-or-treating after Clara’s nap. Then time to relax and try not to eat all the candy in the house before our own trick-or-treaters arrive!

Dad & daughter hayride

Clara, interviewed by her grandmother, reveals baby sister’s name to the world . . .

What’s Baby Sister’s Name? from Joy Fisher on Vimeo.

I know, you just fell off your chair because you took a chance, a crazy chance, that I might, just MIGHT, have FINALLY updated my blog with something, anything!, for Christ’s sake. But you didn’t really BELIEVE that it would be so. When lo and behold, there WAS a new post. And that’s when you heard the thud and realized you’d fallen right out of your chair, and, oh my, look at the dust bunnies under your desk. REALLY need to sweep under there next time.

Two weekends ago, we made our annual trip to the beach in Seaside, OR. I did a lot of taffy eating and laying around and not a lot of picture taking, except for one afternoon walk to the beach with the Clare-bear:

Clara on the beach at Seaside, OR

More Clare-bear

All smiles!