We're Overzealous: Excessively Enthusiastically...Outnumbered

* A shout out to Tea and Kate, who originally inspired us with this technique.

Avery, Almost 3

And in this video, you can see him breaking away, like the big boy he (almost) is:

Dressing (and undressing) the Tree

Black Friday: Ferry to SF's Ferry Building

What do you do with a drunken sailor?

One of the many reasons it's helpful to have 2 adults on all excursions

From Redwood City with Love & Turkey & Shoes

Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent the day in Redwood City with Chris's mom, aunt and uncle, and cousins.

Christine's cousins Diana, Jeff, and Atlas sent these shoes to Zeal along with this line in the card: 

"Because babies need shoes." Maybe only ventriloquists' babies need shoes.

Avery and Mama collected neighborhood leaves for the table.

Grandma's orange tree

All dressed up with Lambie

Cuz babies needs shoes!

The only pic of the matching outfits though the moment was not joyous.

Zeal with Grandma

Zeal with Great Auntie Adeline

The end of a family-filled day

Tula and Avery (forever)

Avery is pretty infatuated with his lovely young friend, Tula. She is two years older than Avery, but that's part of what makes her so appealing.

Now, this is sooooo amazing. I wish I knew how to make pictures move in sequence like this, but it was just a total fluke. You can see Avery playing the "let me look at your barrette" joke in full motion.

Our handsome Zeal Henry! (In front of a bee hotel - sans bees)

Oh, and the seed mix/cover crop we're using this winter on the garden because I think this used to be a garden-themed blog.  More garden news soon for those of you waiting!

Zeal's Spa Day

Diaper rash. A baking soda bath followed by a ground oat bath. 

Zeal did not mind.

Then a massage with coconut oil...

Sabine Play then a Sick Day

Zeal now goes to Sabine's house to play the way Avery once did. The only difference is that Sabine is a bit older and can do things like picture-read a story. Zeal enjoyed.

From Sabine's we can walk to Omega Salvage, a reuse store.

Here's a giant mailbox.

Then Avery got a fever and we spent the weekend hunkered down in the den.

He was so cuddly.

And thank goodness this little one did not get a fever!

Lick no evil

Scream no evil

Speak no evil

Crab Cove, Last Days of Warm

So the post title is a bit misleading; it's still warm here most days and the day we went to Crab Cove wasn't that warm. But Avery isn't one to pass up water play, no matter the temperature.