best boy ever

sue has been watching palmer on mondays while i do my paperwork but they had gone back to visit family and wisconsin and still needed a little time to settle in so palmer came to work with me today. it's so fall here, finally. i LOVE it! he was so good i had to buy him a present, i know i know, but i went to a thrift store and he picked out a couple books and a little metal dump truck. i got a few books too, some plant based cook books. anyway, then we came home and ate lunch and took a nap and when he got up we went to the central library. i know i am always talking about how much i love it but i love love love love the library. the people there the books. the central public library, which i drive too even though there is a closer one, is a federal reserve library. it's amazing, it's huge, and i love it. and i think i'm teaching palmer to love it too. he said, "thanks mommy i love you." i asked "do you know what i love you means?" he said, "ya, it's poopie cack", which is pooty cat, i think, which maybe i guess it is.
ok, i only documented the part when he was being sweet, not when you was standing on the window sill jumping onto this cushions. he also ran races "on your mark, get set go. . . " back and forth in the deserted isles. he asked me to wave a flag as he ran, so i cheered and waved a pretend flag for him. "i am the guy, i am the winner". i got a book about track and field. :) there was no one there, it was dusk, trees turning and rush hour traffic going by. it's cool and crisp outside and over cast. . . . ah. . . my favorite weather (i'm totally an oregonian at heart)
he rumbled with this stuart the mouse for a while


just reading. . . such a good boy! he really is the most fun kid ever, i'm so blessed!
he was saying to kiko, "i am your best friend." and then he saw me too and he said, "i am your best friend forever too." awe. . .

fall day

palmer picked out "mater the greater" to spend his birthday money.


he calls it mater that jumps over cars.

little hipster!
we had to go buy a new faucet on friday because the mechinism in the other one broke. . . it sprayed water all over me in my face all over the kitchen, everything under the sink was sopping. i thought since i installed it i did it wrong but the plumber said it was an actual defect in the faucet so i was kind of bummed i had to pay him to come out, but he did show us how to work our gas fireplace too. palmer said he was too tired and needed to rest on this nasty dirty bench outside an asian market that was next to store.




palmer and i went to play at the park yesterday so kiko could do some work.

skates, bath, balloon in bed

palmer got skates from his aunt missy and cousins alex and frankie. . . he does love them, thanks!


pretty cute. . .

we cut his hair too. . .

weekend fun

at a baby shower for kiko's friend pat & his wife melissa
this is what no nap gets you
dan & sue are out of town so palmer came with me to do my running around today. . . i got him some cool new blue shades.
i told him if he was good we could go to the library. . . he was good :)

birthday cupcake

this was at stueben's for palmer's actual birthday. . . yey for cupcakes

trash man

palmer said he was the trash man

hugging monkeys. . .

this is what kiko looks like lately. . . bent over papers during all waking hours. though we did get to seek out to CHOMP!, a community vegan dinner my buddy from whole foods josh helps organize. it was good food, i thought, and i got to see a bunch of my whole foods buddies. . .

palmer taking his birthday bike on a spin, he can peddle just fine on hard surfaces!