Our Chicago Weekend

Ok, so I'm a weekend behind. LAST weekend [not the one we're now recovering from], we had a Chicago adventure weekend. We went to the Brookfield Zoo on Saturday and the Cards vs. Cubs game on Sunday [courtesy of my bro]. It was nice to be home! Home weekends have been precious and few this summer. ANYwho, we enjoyed both adventures very much. The Brookfield Zoo is pretty nice, and it was a warm summer day. I mention that part, because warm has not been in our meteorological vocabulary of late. It got down to 54 last night! The weather for the ballgame was fabulous, and we enjoyed our ballpark hotdogs ;)

I thought this shot was funny.

As with our last trip, Riley enjoyed watching colorful birds flit about. He was much more animated about it on this occasion though, as he is now 3 months older!

Should've cropped this pic, but my favorite animal of the way was the wombat in the Australia house! They're very silly creatures.

My boys, with camels.

Out front of Wrigley Field. Our Cards lost [again, see post from Aug 11, 2008]. But we had a great time. This was Riley's first baseball game! You can't tell but he's wearing his Pujols Tshirt.

Moooommmm...I want a chipwich!

The experience was apparently exhausting.

Check Out My Garden!

You might remember back on a very early morning in early June [see 09June09 entry...can't figure out how to link], Rew cut a nice bed in our yard by the garage for use as a vegetable garden. I had started little pots of various squashes and beans [see above], and planted them there along with some tomato varieties and my poor strawberries [trabidies!] from last year. Then we went away to Yosemite, leaving them as little sproutlings in a big patch of dirt. When we returned, our garden looked like this.....!!!!!!!!

Those are my squash and cucumbers threatening to take over the fence. Clearly I needed more room for them- live and learn. Everything is even bigger now of course. This week, we had our first harvest. We enjoyed the fruits of out labor immensely!

Little or Big?

So during our trip to Yose-mite, we put the LM down next to this Redwood. K grabbed this great pic. I think it's fun to think about scale- we have this 9month old who is coming close to tripling his birth weight, and doubling his birth length. Next to this tree [which, mind you is probably an infant itself], this all seems so insignificant. Just think of the biomass being created in each case!

Summer Travel Take 2.1

So I've been meaning to update with a post about our vacation to California, but I seem to be short on time. Riley started "school" last week, and we're getting revved up for our next trip[s]. SO here're a few pix to tease you - I'll post more later!

Here we are geared up for one of our "hikes" in Yosemite. Riley thought the umbrella was funny [and I bet everyone else on the trail did too!].

Turns out, rocks ARE interesting!

On a walk in a Redwood grove.

weeeeee!

Back in SF, some interspecies communication.

In the city for dinner, Kristin snapped this family shot of us.