Peanuts and crackerjacks, please!

A few weeks ago we ended our vacation week with a fun 3 day trip up to Seattle.

After strapping little miss thang in the back seat and planting the DVD player in front of her face (yes, I am one of those mothers, lay off me.) we were on our way!

Wouldn't ya know it that our one bout of spontaneity, aka lets not book a hotel room ahead of time, led us hunting for a good 2 hours for a hotel with a vacancy. Who decided that there should be a major conference that weekend in Seattle?? Idiots. Thats who.
So, all in all, we ended up paying twice as much as we had originally planned and set up shop in our favorite hotel in town. It just so happens it's the same hotel we stayed at for our Honeymoon, and every trip we have taken to Seattle since then. It was fun to finally be able to share that with Liv.

What would be your guess for what Liv's first thing on the agenda was?? Swim in the pool of course! So swim we did!


Well, actually Daddy and Liv swam. Mommy-not so much. I didn't want to scare Liv. For some reason she already thinks there is sharks in the pool, so throw something slightly resembling a whale in there, and well, she would never set foot in water again...so, momma sat on the sidelines and took pictures. Lots of pictures....


After what felt like HOURS of coaxing her to get into the water, we finally convinced her to jump in after bribing her with the fact that she could actually feed the giraffes at the zoo we were going to the next day if she got in the water. No, we are not liars. We actually read that you could. Sadly we didn't make it there in time the following day, so we turned out to be horrible parents. *sigh* You never win. But at least she got in the water...



After a good nap in our beautiful hotel room, we got all dressed and headed off to the Mariner game that night!! We were so excited to also share this fun experience with Liv as it's something John and I have enjoyed doing since long before she came along!



Here we are all watching the game from our bleacher seats!


Here's Livie with her Mariner Moose


Me with my hot dog


Oh and let's not forget mommy's boyfriend *swoon*





Liv did awesome for the majority of the game. We got up once or twice to walk around, but we ended up staying at least until the 7th inning stretch, which seems to me to be unheard of for a three year old. I was very proud of her. And her cheering skills.

I'll post again a little later today about the rest of our Seattle trip (visiting the zoo, family, etc...)

Play ball!! :)