Babyup!

…and here we see our intrepid Minecraft adventurer keeping active while waiting for the sun to come up in the Minecraft game. Cue the waiting theme song!

We just missed Chloe’s Grand Battle of the Llamas! She is on an epic quest —— for pants! To make pants she needs leather. Let’s see what happens, shall we?

Will she get pants? Or will she run around without pants? Watch and see!

And here is our young scholar, starting her first day of school. Since this is 2020, Year of the Pandemic, all her school stuff is happening at home, remotely.

RAARRRRRR!!!!

Chloe is ready for Halloween — she’s already got her costume! Yes, she’s really in there!

Yesterday we went swimming at Hagg Lake, a reservoir near Forest Grove.

Chloe is not fond of sunscreen. Every time I have to show her my scar from where my melanoma was removed.

Dogs on paddleboards!

Chloe models her new life jacket.

Chloe has turned 10 years old. Holy cow! Here’s some photos from the birthday party. Much smaller this year, only two guests. Virus, you know.

Photos courtesy of Lisa Peters

It’s been an eventful month. Here’s an example of the damage one can do with a Cargo Bike:

And well, I think it would be the rare viewer of this blog who didn’t agree that non-whites shouldn’t be treated any worse than the rest of us schmoes, and perhaps the whole concept of how we do the po-lice thing should be re-thought. Here’s an example of the local graffiti about the issue:

Serious stuff over, and done with… now here we are putting together a gingerbread “tiny house” and having fun…

Sure, using our fingers to spread the red icing on the roof will work just fine! Let’s do it!

Sprinkles!!!

More sprinkles!

Ok, Bozo was asking for it.

Let’s paint for a bit an let the cops get lost in the hedges….

Sure, no clowns were killed in this sink.

In one hand pizza, in the other hand Unicorn Goo. Let’s not get them confused!

Happy Second Easter! Chloe had so much fun with calendar-correct Easter that we decided to do a second one. This may turn into a regular holiday tradition. Here’s a photo of her from traditional Easter:

Egg dyeing time!

Here’s all the eggs decorated.

Easter Basket!

Here we are on our egg hunt.

…and frequent visitors will remember this climbing structure at Westmoreland Park. It seems to be getting smaller over time…

Open your eyes, silly pants!

…and here we on the loop trail around the wetlands in Forest Grove, a short bike ride from Chloe’s place. There’s a home that’s got a big fenced yard with various chicken-like objects that are fun to watch.

Chloe loves carrying around her Minecraft “Creeper”. A “Creeper” is a critter in MineCraft that blows up when it gets close and tries to hurt you. Yet it makes a cuddly stuffy.

Here’s the Creeper hiding in the bushes.

Here’s Chloe and Lisa and the Pokemón card collection that Chloe is very proud of.

Did you know that you can take photos of the real world and put Pokemón characters in that photo? Yes you can! In the background is your friendly author, titled “Portrait of the artist as a fat old guy facing the other way and hidden behind Pokemón”.