Yay! A jump house!

Wow! A portable Disneyland!

Overheating in the jump house

It was 98 degrees out that evening. Soren jumped for over a half hour. Sweating, beat red face and shouting "NOOOO" every time we asked him to come out. Of COURSE moms and dads are not aloud inside the jump house. So there is no way to retrieve your child. We had to coax him over and snatch his leg... while he screamed... and every cruel soul who isn't a parent yet laughed at us.

Jump, jump, jumping!

Note to doting Grandparents: We do NOT have room for one of these in our backyard.

Big Bouncy Slide

It might be hard to see the smile on his face in this picture but I think we've cured his fear of slides forever. What a Brave little boy!

Bouncy Slide With Helpers

Nate solicited the help of older boys to help Soren up and down the Titanic bouncy slide. Although it slowed the line of other kids down considerably, they didn't seem to mind. And did a great job of helping little Soren. SO sweet!

Soren's First Fire Engine Tour!

We planned to go on a walk this morning at a park in Wilsonville. Boy, were we pleasantly surprised to see they were holding a "Fun in the Park" festival! A real life fire engine!

Wooow!
Soren says, "Ready to go?!" He wanted to go for a ride, with sirens and all.

Definitely the highlight of Soren's weekend so far!

Grandma & Grandpa Clausen Camping trip Summer 2009

Grandma & Grandpa graciously picked Soren up on Thursday and took him to the coast for some alone time. Which worked out wonderfully because mom and dad got some alone time too. A rare comodity these days. They took the baby and treated us to a night out to dinner. Although we missed our sweet boy, we enjoyed every second. Thanks mom and dad!!! I think the windy beaches were our only rough patch of camping, the rest was wonderful! We all had our highlights, but since I'm the one who runs the blogspot, I'll share mine... please feel free to add yours too!!!

One of my favorite things is star gazing. Although I dont know much. BUT! To see the milky way dust and spiral curve of the galaxy is always a humbling and welcome view. As a bonus, we all got to watch the space station as it crossed the night sky. We weren't quite sure at first what exactly it was. When it dawned on us, we just watched in silent amazement as it passed by. AMAZING!

We Be Camp'n!

Oh... My.... Gosh!

Gotta watch what you say around a 2 year old... they are the smartest of the parrot species!

This has got to be one of my favorite videos of Soren ever. He loved Grandma and Grandpa's bedroom in the 5th wheel. He would race up there every time a car, truck, motorcycle or bicycle passed by. Nate captured this priceless moment of him talking to himself in the mirror. I'll translate verbatim for you below... Remember this is from the mind of a two year old...

"Wanna go on the bridge? Right there. Right there you get in the truck. Right there you get in the cars.".... "You gonna hold the garbage truck?"... "I think you got the wheels... You remember?... When we go?"