Play yard at Ava's school

Eating hooligan fish (dried and salted), then hiding it behind her back, at a potluck

dentist office waiting room

Shield bug, named it "Shieldy"

Gardener

Craft project at the museum

Hats and sandals short-lived

Took a trip with some other kindergarteners down to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center

Petting a caribou

Ava loves this dress from Aunt Laura and plays in it most afternoons

Enjoying sunshine

Important things: cookie, newspaper, baby, puppy

Sleep not imminent

May Faire at Ava's school

Daddy braiding hair

Playing on the slide (with Daddy's braid in Ava's hair)

Very pleased that she can climb up there herself

Lots of pollen cones on the spruces right now, which release a very satisfying cloud of pollen when smacked with a stick

Pleasantly sunny and calm (i.e. not super windy) day at Kincaid Beach

Putting in a garden row

Sandy hands

Drawing, eating chalk

Watching the bore tide at Bird Point

Waiting for it

The bore tide wave is that white line across Turnagain Arm

swinging

 spruce tips

 pajamas, helping Daddy before bed, captured by trail camera

 lost another tooth, leaving it for the tooth fairy in a colorful pouch

 We spent Mother's Day weekend in Seward with two other Waldorf families. Two of us mommies and the five kids traveled to Seward on Saturday morning by train, from Girdwood, while the daddies drove down trucks with camping gear and dogs. We camped near the water and went to the Sea Life Center and had lunch in Seward on Sunday before heading home.

On the train:

There was a curve here in the track, so we in the middle of the train could take a picture of the engine.

On the rocky beach by the camp site, high tide

Daddy took down kayaks and paddled Saturday afternoon

Big trees in the campsite (I think Sitka spruce)

Sea Life Center

Rosemary immediately tried to bite the octopus made out of beachcombed trash

Reading a dinosaur book at a coffee shop. This is after the Sea Life Center but before lunch, and Ava is very tired.

Seward Brewing Co. for lunch. Rosemary was very busy, but Ava immediately fell asleep on my lap, and we had to take her lunch to go.

Taking a break on Turnagain Pass on our way home. Pussywillows there just starting.

Rosemary inventing downhill trail hopping, which is terrifying for the parents