Babyup!

Since I moved up to WA I simply wasn’t *in* Oregon very often this summer, just a few days a month on average.  Thus, fewer days with Chloe and fewer photos.  Here I’ll try to catch up since her birthday back in June.

Chowing down at the new Fro-Yo place!

Holding a baby duck at the Forest Grove Farmer’s Market

Here we are at the Swallowtail School Farm for the big ice cream social before school started.

Good photo of Mother and Daughter

Meanwhile, back at the pool…

We’ve got a long way to go with the “learning to swim” thing, but she’s taught herself the doggie paddle, so I guess we’re on our way!

Here’s Daddy, wondering how he suddenly was nearly 50.

Ice cream issues!  You may notice her eye looks funny – that’s because she’s been fighting a weird eye infection all summer.
Yes, it is getting better and finally going away, slowly.

meanwhile…

After 20+ years of driving my Mrs Beesley’s Daddy-o finally stopped for a yummy burger…

Birthday Girl!  Pony cake!

Chocolate cake with chocolate inside!

Pool time!

How about we put our ice cream cone on our nose?

Everyone into the pool!

Shark towel from Gramma Diane!

This past weekend Chloe and I slept over in Betsy, Joyce’s camper:

Chloe’s favorite Dad breakfast?  Chocolate Pancakes!

After breakfast we rolled out to Lincoln City for a few hours at the beach.

On the beach!

Lovely day out.

You should have seen all the crazy jellyfish we saw that day.  Sorry, didn’t get a good photo.

Searching for fossils at the fossil store!  Chloe was very excited to get a piece of whale bone and some big shark teeth.

Mermaid!

Chloe, Bailey and I went out for some fun the other day.  It’s spring in Portland, which means… BABY BIRDS!!

Here Bailey gets a goose to eat out of her hand.

Holy cow, we saw an Eagle!

Here’s some goslings for you. The baby wood ducks were incredibly adorable, but I didn’t get a good photo of them.

Chloe really enjoyed the pipe cleaner unicorn Gramma Diane made for her…

…and the kitty! Look at her big smile!

Check out this redwood they cut down from the front yard of a home across the street from the park.

A real giant!  The sign says the wood will be used for improvements in the park.

Here we are at a friend’s birthday party.

Then we’re at the park.

Someone’s being silly!

Holy cow, another birthday party!

We call this place, THE REALLY FUN PARK.

Dad’s personal fav photo right here.

Chloe measures herself by how much better she gets at climbing these things.

Alley Oop!

Watusi!

Here we are racing around Salmon Street Fountain.

Chloe tries on the the next hot look for those who dig through junk store stuff!

Hey, guess what? We renewed our membership at the Zoo! Here’s some things we saw:

I loaned Chloe out to some old white-haired guy to take her up to play in the snow on Mt. Hood.

She’s still pretty timid on the sledding. May be a few more years before the snowboarding lessons.

Christmas 2017

UNICORN!!!

Grama Diane’s painted star!

Santa was here!

The night before, Chloe found some plastic bags and decided to make her own shorts and shirt.

Chloe gets a Unicorn to ride on at Lisa’s place

Santa brought Steve a Jamón!

Daddio has a buddy

Daddio has a short-term holiday job at UPS that required me to shave the face.
I left the mustache at first.  Maybe you can’t see it, but reminds me of
photos of Pop-Pop when he was in his 20’s.

Chloe says “Hello!”

Chloe and her undersea castle

Here we are starting to decorate the tree

Lost a tooth!