September Photos

So, in an effort to get caught up, here are some of my favorite photos from September. Hopefully, sometime this week, I'll get totally caught up, but we'll see...

These photos are from a trip to Timber Linn Park in Albany. We wanted to show Sid the ducks, which he wasn't that interested in. This one just cracks me up for some reason. Not sure if it's his belly or his sunglasses.



Pretty much all photos of him walking are freaking adorable, so here is one I love.



This one was taken on the play structure. He looks so cute and happy.



Here's him making sure I'm following.



Us going down the slide.



Going over the bridge with Dada.



This one reminds me of Reservoir Dogs. He looks all bad-ass.



Here's another pic of him and his dad. I don't know why, but I just love photos of these two together.



This next set were taken in the back yard. He is such a ham.

























I helped Sid with this tower, but his dexterity is improving. He used to knock the blocks over when he tried to stack them, but he's much gentler now and is able to stack them pretty high without knocking them over.



One of Sid's favorite things to do is walk on us. Here is walking on Dad..







In these photos we are at a local park. Sid loves going down slides and even went down this one by himself with some encouragement.





Getting ready to come down the slide.



This one is a little blurry, but he looks like such a big boy.



Pushing his Wal-Mart shopping cart.



Stuart Jay liks Sid's couch.



I just love Sid's face in this photo. He looks like such a little stinker.

Soap

Hi All,

Hope you all are interested in Michael and I's (Diana's) journey into soapmaking. Here is a melt and pour soap I made. The picture is not the best. The soap is pink and has rose petals in it. Unfortunately, it did not smell good and the rose petals were kind of gross. I used one bar, gave one to my mom to try and ended up throwing out the third!



This next soap Michael made. The black spots are flax seeds. The red spots are a colorant we tried rather unsuccessfully to use. This soap had a mix of White Tea, Milk Honey & Oats, Energy and Relaxing fragrance oils if I remember correctly. It smells good, but is maybe a little bit *too* exfoliating.



This next soap I made and is probably my favorite so far. The fragrance is called Summer Fling and it's a nice mix of berries, floral and cream. I used a pink pigment and created my first swirled soap.







The last soap I made is an Ocean-frangranced soap. I added seaweed and sea salt to it and tried to make a blue swirl, but as you can see, it turned out looking a little different. It was super stinky for a week or so, but the scent has mellowed. I still think it smells like detergent, but some have said it's a nice scent. We're looking forward to trying it. I think it's a cool looking soap.









That's it for now. I've made some body butters and sugar scrubs, but the pictures probably wouldn't be too exciting. The soaps are much easier than the body butters, which I would not have expected.

Wasabi Soap

In case anyone is interested, here is the Wasabi soap Angelo and I made. I'm not sure why it looks there's a footprint on it!

August Trip to Avery Park

Sheesh, am I ever behind in sharing photos. Here are some pics we took during a visit to Avery Park in Corvallis. Mom likes this picture. She thinks it looks like a senior portrait.



I loved running and playing around the dinosaur bones.





Here's Dad standing in front of the train.



Here's me on the engine!



I love slides! This was back when I still needed a little assistance.





Bet you didn't know I'm a rock climber!



Running through the grass.



We finished the visit off with a little lunch.

Family Vacation Pt 2

So, I don't have much time, but I wanted to finish the pics from my family vacation in August. One thing we did was go to the aquarium. Mom thought I looked like a big boy walking into the aquarium with my family.



I got pretty cranky walking around inside looking at all the sealife. I wanted to run around and Mom didn't approve of me doing so in a crowd of people, so outside we went. Here I am pondering which way to roam.



Walking with my DaDa.



Just being my cute self.



It was good to get a nap after all that adventure.



This picture is blurry, but it's of me giving my cousin, Emily, a kiss. The only people Mom and Dad have seen me kiss are them and Tanya, so they thought this was super cute.



Here's me playing on my Superman couch.



Here's me relaxing with my mom. I really just wanted to post some proof that she actually went on this family vacation.



On the way to the coast I freaked. Mom and Dad pulled over at Boiler Bay and Grandma and Grandpa had to follow us as we were caravaning. I thnk my parents were a little irritated by this, until they saw the whales. Unfortunately I do not have pics of that. However, we did go see some sea lions and I have photos to share..

Dad and I posing in front of the sea lions.



You have to look really close to see the sea lions. In fact, I'm not sure you can see them in this photo of my Mom and I.



Dad couldn't figure out why I was crying. Can you?



After all that indignity, I had to get away. Grandma came with me to keep me safe.



And finally, here is a trunk Mom is obsessed with buying me. Too bad it costs WAY too much!