Oregon
Ethan and I are in Oregon right now, visiting my sister and her family. It's been wonderful for Ethan to get to know his cousins. I wish they all lived closer.
We left on a 6am flight on Thursday, which meant getting up at 4am. On the way to the airport we saw lots of frogs crossing the road, their hopping bodies caught in the light from headlights. Ethan predicted that we would also see a deer, and Mark and I sort of laughed and said yes, not really believing it. But sure enough, a mile down the road was a big dear right on the side of the road.
Ethan was a good traveller, and his usually friendly self. In the seats behind us going out to San Fran were two teenage sisters from Maine. Ethan flirted shamelessly with them, but they loved it. ("Mama -- tell them that they are pretty girls"). They even invited him to sit beside them and share their color pencils. They drew for him a unicorn and a green snake, which he got to keep. They suggested to me that he might like acting and drama when he was older, something they like a lot. In the San Fran airport Ethan played in the Kids Spot play area, which made the 3 hour layover go very quickly.
We've done lots of fun things out here. Yesterday we went to a drive-through Safari zoo that had lots of animals running around. We saw bears wrestling in a pond, giraffes that wandered by, cheetahs sleeping in the shade, and hippos wallowing in another pond. It's the closest thing to Africa that's here in the US.
Last night we went to see a stage production of the Wizard of Oz. Ethan sat on my lap and asked questions every three minutes (Why is she mad at dorothy? Is she a real witch? Is she really angry? How did the dog get back? So he thinks he needs a brain? -- you get the idea.) It was quite a good production, and Ethan seemed to like it a lot. Today he's watching the film version with his cousins. Earlier we went blueberry picking, and we all picked 14 pounds of blueberries, plus whatever we ate.
Ethan's cousins S. and P. have been wonderful with Ethan, playing with him and entertaining him for hours. It means a lot to him to have family members giving him so much attention. However, our one six year old has managed to burn out all 5 of us adults in the last few days (S. is 14 and P. is 19, but I'm counting them as adults).
We left on a 6am flight on Thursday, which meant getting up at 4am. On the way to the airport we saw lots of frogs crossing the road, their hopping bodies caught in the light from headlights. Ethan predicted that we would also see a deer, and Mark and I sort of laughed and said yes, not really believing it. But sure enough, a mile down the road was a big dear right on the side of the road.
Ethan was a good traveller, and his usually friendly self. In the seats behind us going out to San Fran were two teenage sisters from Maine. Ethan flirted shamelessly with them, but they loved it. ("Mama -- tell them that they are pretty girls"). They even invited him to sit beside them and share their color pencils. They drew for him a unicorn and a green snake, which he got to keep. They suggested to me that he might like acting and drama when he was older, something they like a lot. In the San Fran airport Ethan played in the Kids Spot play area, which made the 3 hour layover go very quickly.
We've done lots of fun things out here. Yesterday we went to a drive-through Safari zoo that had lots of animals running around. We saw bears wrestling in a pond, giraffes that wandered by, cheetahs sleeping in the shade, and hippos wallowing in another pond. It's the closest thing to Africa that's here in the US.
Last night we went to see a stage production of the Wizard of Oz. Ethan sat on my lap and asked questions every three minutes (Why is she mad at dorothy? Is she a real witch? Is she really angry? How did the dog get back? So he thinks he needs a brain? -- you get the idea.) It was quite a good production, and Ethan seemed to like it a lot. Today he's watching the film version with his cousins. Earlier we went blueberry picking, and we all picked 14 pounds of blueberries, plus whatever we ate.
Ethan's cousins S. and P. have been wonderful with Ethan, playing with him and entertaining him for hours. It means a lot to him to have family members giving him so much attention. However, our one six year old has managed to burn out all 5 of us adults in the last few days (S. is 14 and P. is 19, but I'm counting them as adults).
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