AE | The Labor Day Weekend Lens

The kids and I spent the weekend with my parents on the Oregon coast.

We never get tired of visiting - the area or my parents.

I love that my parents are always using their camera too.

This trip Simon and I took a little "me & him" adventure down to the beach below my parents place. When I looked back through the photos I loved this series of three together above: rocks, sand, and surf.

I like the perspective of him in those shots - his size vs. the landscape.

I also managed to get in one good self-portrait while we were down there. Shot using a self-timer on a rock.

These two can not get enough of Grandma Pati. When we visit they only want her for every little thing. I heard "No, not you! Grandma!" quite a few times.

This one, she definitely has opinions. About everything. Sometimes it's hard to remember that she's really still just two.

Lily continues to be the very best dog. Her miraculous recovery still blows me away. She sure seems healthier now than she's been in quite awhile. She loves the beach.

Probably my favorite piece of the weekend was Simon deciding that he wanted to write out Old Bear Stories.

I've written a bit in the past about his affinity (and his complete memorization) of a couple of the stories but this time, instead of saying all of them out loud, he decided to write them out by hand.

It was so totally cool.

He's never written out any stories like this. The sheet of paper above is how he started and then he decided to re-write it all over again in a journal in pencil so he could erase any mistakes he made along the way. In his journal he wrote pages and pages. He'd ask us how to spell words here and there but other than that he just wrote and wrote.

Can't wait to see what he decides to write next.

GO SIMON GO

Today I'll be taking both kids to open houses at their schools. Anna's starting preschool and Simon's starting fourth grade. Lots of excitement around here this week.