purse-hooks, planks and red-heads.

another good weekend

full of family & friends....

love

&

laughter.

 saturday night i got to escape for a couple hours with some of my favorites

(sarah, heather & nanny...and wine and cheese!)

we listened to live music and shared a couple of bottles of wine and great conversation at Roxy Wine Bar downtown Kennewick. it is a great little place that offers a comfortable yet trendy environment.

(i left baby boy in good hands with Daddy and Grandma G).

i couldn't help but notice how much my stamina for the night life has been greatly compromised by motherhood. i hadn't been "out" for a year and four months and as i sat there i felt like an old shell of myself.

tired.

older. wiser.

{happier}

 yes, this is a PURSE HOOK.

sarah proudly busted this out of her purse (as i was kicking my bag under the table and letting it slide across the dirty bar floor...) and illustrated a genuine benefit of a seemingly ridiculous knick-knack. classic.

Plank Pose (Kai likes yoga, too!)

Kai has been really enjoying plank pose as of late.

he is taking the crawling business more serious with each day (boo!)

and we are cracking up over all of his efforts at movement.

he scoots on his tummy, rolls himself to where he wants to go,

but the plank has definitely been his fave...

Kai was born with a head full of fuzzy blondish hair.

we were SURE he would be a tow-head as we both most definitely were....

but with each day that Kai grew, his hair turned slowly from blonde

to blond(ish)

to {strawberry}.

his eyelashes and eybrows are invisible

until light is reflected onto them

and they are most definitley

blonde with the slightest tint of

{orange}.

my, how we love our busy growing little redhead.

whose giant gummy grin and big baby blues

has {brightened} our life.

 Kai and his five-year-old cousin Cole

 (who is trying to stretch Kai's chubby cheeks into a smile).

{adorable}

Cole has THE most kissable, adorable freckles sprinkled across his nose.

I'm hoping that Kai sprouts some of his own...

we will be going through TONS of sunscreen this summer with these boys!

"There is more, much more, to being a redhead than the color of one’s hair."
G. Adam Stanislav, red-haired photographer

"Of course, part of the problem with redheads is that there aren't enough of them.

They make up just two percent of the population.

So they're pretty extraordinary.

Redheads are too numerous to be ignored, too rare to be accepted."
Grant McCracken, author, lecturer, anthropologist