Reef visit from Hawaii

Abe: Our pal Reef and his mom visited this weekend and boy did we have fun.  He slept in our room all night, and we went out and did a bunch of fun stuff:  Like OMSI, then rode the Tram, then played in the water park.   

And on Sunday we hung like monkeys at the playground, did an orienteering race and ate pizza, too!  Look here at these pics and flicks:

Look! A Green Booby!

Koh - Every day we look at the Willamette River from our home and seems like we're always driving by or playing by big rivers.   I like spotting the boats and ducks and logs and buoys out there.

Mommy thought it was funny when I saw this green buoy from our car on the bridge the other day.   What was so funny, Mommy?

Angel's Rest to the top!

Today we set our new "toughest hike ever" record by hiking all the way UP and DOWN this great Columbia Gorge hike all on our own two feet.  Well, we also each used our bellies and face once, but that was just to make sure we were COMPLETELY covered in mud!   We like running downhill only the belly smacker made us cry.

It was more than 4 hours long and 4 miles and the top was WAY UP so high we HIKED INTO THE CLOUDS!!  Over 1500 feet high above the river!

This was really fun and we got special treats at the top and bottom for being so tough.    We threw rocks and saw lots of flowers, waterfalls, slugs and a snail.   Plus we climbed on rocks near the summit just like the playgrounds only if we fell here we would keep falling and die.

We want to do this some more!    Click here to see 30 more pics. 

Alphabet

Koh:  I can write all the letters of the alphabet - see!

Meatballs

Abraham:  Mommy, that girl on your cup... look at her big... meatballs.  I'm going to eat her meatballs.

Big Boy Bikes

Abe & Koh:  Yesterday was just about the best day ever because we got new bikes.  Bye bye trikes and hello skinned knees.  We rode around the neighborhood after dinner and did just great.  Koh crashed a little bit, but he was tough and got back on.   The next day we rode them at the school playground because it wasn't hilly like at our house.  Mommy was surprised that after just five minutes we had already discovered how fun it was to ride our bikes straight into a brick wall.  We laughed and had fun doing that until Abe did it too fast and smashed a tender part of his body on the top tube.