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.

Check.

Check.

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

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

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

We are on a family vacay in Laguna Beach and I wanted to share some of the pictures I’ve been taking in all my relaxed free time. I hope you enjoy them as much as I’ve enjoyed taking them in this sunny, warm, beachy, seaside town!

House on the cliffs overlooking Dana Point Harbor

Caution!

Citrus inspired tree

Public Restroom tile work

seaweed

swim at your own risk

surf's up!

who needs sunglasses?

what's that?

splish, splash, more fun than a bath!

these waves are makin me nervous

the ladies' man

Another holiday video for your enjoyment. This is Clara and Jack doing their best “Chubby Checker” to a VERY ’70s version of Jingle Bells a couple days before Christmas: