2 Dogs, a Baby Make Five: Our First Visitors

Not the alien kind, although that would be pretty cool... well if they were nice :) A visit from Grandma and Grandpa Hahm has already come and gone. They were our first visitors in Seattle (my sis was a little jealous the title wasn't going to go to her (she is headed here in mid Sept). We had a big project list for Kevin's dad. We got a lot of things done; however, not as much as we'd have liked because me and Kevin were behind getting stuff (knobs, faucets, stuff like that) OWELL, we had fun being tourists instead of working! The biggest thing was that Nate's room got painted (the reveal will come when the decor is all up) It's similar to his last room, with some changes.

Besides just hanging out and catching up (which really consists of watching and playing with Nate) we did all sorts of Seattly stuff. When people visit it forces you to learn your new city. Well the touristy part of it anyway. We went to the Woodland Zoo, Snoqualmie Falls (top and bottom), Space Needle, Olympic sculpture park, Pike Place Mkt (twice), The Aquarium, A one hour boat tour along the cityscape, Boehm's chocolate factory, Kirklands' waterfront, Wine tasting at Chateau Ste Michelle, Shopping in a couple of places, Museum of Flight, Hiram M. Chittenden Locks/fish ladder, quick tour of UW campus, I think we saw almost every lake around us (sammamish, pine, union, washington), puget sound, a golf tournament (The Boeing Classic) a 1000 Starbucks runs and a ton of restaurants. Oh how could I forget the rock throwing. Almost everywhere we went we tried to find a rock throwing spot. Nathaniel really likes to throw rocks. He collected a few everywhere we went with the hopes of finding water.

One funny thing is we think Nate thinks the space needle is actually Seattle. There was a Little Einsteins episode where they fly to Seattle and go to the space needle. After we toured the needle he said Seattle was fun. Another great moment was when the bears at the zoo put on quite the show for us. They were real active and one was swimming right in front of us... really cool. The chowder we ate at Pike Place chowder was pretty tasty. Nate had to have raspberries while we were there so Kevin found him some. The market is so full of stuff you never know what Nate zeros in on.

I think grandma/grandpa really enjoyed aimlessly driving while Nate napped. We were out and about up until his nap time a lot so he'd fall asleep in the car and I'd keep driving so that he got a little rest. They got the full tour of a road here called the 202 :)

It's always hard when they leave. Not only because of their great company - love our coffee conversations, but you get used to having a helping hand around pretty quickly. It is so great to see Nate's face light up when someone else gives him all kinds of attention and love. It was great to watch him point out things to grandpa at the toy store 'Look at this grandpa' I could listen to that all day. Of course, me and Kevin were chopped liver anytime grandma walked in the room. 'Play with me grandma'

A couple of the days we had fun relaxing after a day of touring with some rum and coke happy hours. Nate played with his water table and new kickball game they bought him and we enjoyed the great weather. Here are a few pictures from our fun times. Fun times that seemed to fly by.