Helping Daddy process sockeye salmon from the Kenai River

Wraps for Ava and the decoys

Rosemary's doll uses the potty. This was Rosemary's idea. Rosemary does not use the potty.

Ingram Creek. Lots of rain, lots of mud, no fish.

Rosemary is holding a washcloth. She transformed it from a mud remover to a mud applicator. Mommy returned it to a somewhat functional mud remover before we left, which was not appreciated. The waders are earning their keep.

Rosemary's hands in fireweed blossoms for fireweed jelly

Picking red currants on a local trail with friends

Baby and dog both drinking from hose

Rosemary's birthday cake (Daddy baked a pineapple upside-down cake)

Opening her new pink waders (matches Ava's)

Playing in the garden

 She likes to make a rainbow with the hose

Tying a fly to catch salmon. We are fortunate that salmon flies are made out of bright pink, purple, and silver sparkly, feathery, shimmery components. Big hit as father-daughter craft project.

Using the waders

Resurrection River, near Hope, pink salmon fishing

Ingram Creek, didn't catch salmon, but Mommy and Daddy each got an arctic char

Rosemary's first time helping cast and strip line on a fly rod

Arctic char for dinner

The girls accompanied Mommy to Becca's wedding in Snoqualmie, WA. We stayed at Dara's in Seattle.

Anchorage Airport

Short-lived ponytail at the gate

Getting into Ohana's bling at Dara's.

Dara's chickens, with Ima

Dara's drums, post bath. Hopefully not a preview of college.

Becca's bachelorette party. Ava presented her with a flower "sword." Ava is eating a cookie that is shaped like what she called a "dog bone." We didn't correct her.

Ava hung out in the garden for most of the party of her own volition.

Rosemary and Ava both got swag, including a new hat from Grace

And sunglasses

Seattle zoo, with Ima.

This is the African Savanna exhibit, with giraffes, gazelles, zebras, some kind of monkey and some other ungulates out of frame. In the foreground is a pond, with 3 mallards in it. Guess which things our girls, daughters of a waterfowl biologist, spent most of their time looking at?

Rosemary is defending this play structure from other children. Ava is a lemur sunning itself with its arms out.

Pig sty, stinky.

Rosemary engaged with the petting zoo.

Rehearsal picnic, Snoqualmie. Cool suspension bridge over the Snoqualmie River.

We hadn't seen Grace since we moved from Maryland! The girls were so very excited to see her.

Wedding, farm fabulous.

Picking blueberries

Chickens

Slug

Back home, new bunkbed = new fun that was promptly banned and new terrors for the parents. Also new dress up outfit. We asked Rosemary if she was excited about her new big girl bed (lower bunk). She said "No. Top," while pointing up to Ava's upper bunk.

Backpacking trip, Carter Lake near Moose Pass, Kenai Peninsula, July 1st-2nd.

They normally have a pretty late bed time, but when it's light out nearly all night while camping, that makes it even more challenging. This was a failed attempt at getting them to sleep at 9:15. It was really buggy--they're looking at bugs.

Ava's outfit at 10:30 pm

 Waking up

 Inspecting mosquitos and rain outside the tent

 Listening to loons, foggy morning

Building a "gnome house" at our campsite while Mommy and Daddy packed up

Crossing a stream on the way back

Checking out the Kenai River

Rosemary samples kale from the garden

Rosemary turns 2 tomorrow! Opening a present from Ima.