Meeting Simon

We had a great time in Spokane! We loved the walk from our hotel to the convention center because it gave us a chance to see Spokane's downtown area.

On Sunday we went on a walk around the Spokane Riverpark Square Mall. We enjoyed looking at the city from all the connected sky walks. We met our friends Mellad and Sulochana at the Sawtooth Grill. Mellad is an amazing guitar player in an Irish band called An Dochas. I would highly recommend their CD's! Their first album Dragonfly is my favorite upbeat music to keep me motivated to clean the house!

Simon is two weeks older than Brooke and such a cutie! He has the most beautiful dark brown eyes and a very sweet demeanor. We forgot to bring a toy so Brooke enjoyed sucking on the spoons, borrowing Simon's turtle and both babies enjoyed banging their binkies on the table.

In the waiter's own words, "That's the cutest thing I've seen all day!" We agree!

Brooke really wanted to grab Simon but he wasn't sure what to think of all this aggressive attention!

Thanks for the great lunch!

All three of us decided we were pretty sick of that hotel room after three days. Brooke really wanted her freedom of space, I wanted our bed and Kent wanted to go skiing up at Mission Ridge! On the way back Brooke started SCREAMING! I asked Kent to quickly pull over to see if I could figure out what was wrong. After feeding her and checking her diaper she was still screaming UNTIL she looked up at Kent. At that moment she forgot about being mad and the huge tears in her eyes and gave him the biggest "I got you!" smile that we've ever seen. Grrrrr! As we got her back in the car seat we saw a cop pull up behind us! We've never been pulled over from the side of the street before! Good thing he just wanted to make sure everything was okay. After this, Brooke fell asleep for the last 2 1/2 hours and we all had a peaceful ending to our trip. Thank goodness!