Family Bowling Night With The Clark's (The Other Clark's)

 To celebrate the New Year with The Clark's (the other Clark's) we decided to go bowling!  Not sure if the girls were more excited about actually bowling or getting new shoes to wear.  And who knew they made shoes Asa's size!

 Here's Aunt Liz getting a high five from Jackson.

 And Uncle Ben showing us his fancy bowling skills. 

 Asa is taking it all in for her game with Uncle Ben.  And look at those little bowling shoes!  How cute are they!!!

 Asa's turn!  They have these fun little bowling racks for the little kiddo's to use.  Asa wasn't so sure about it all at first but then quickly got the hang of it especially with big sis showing her.

Okay so is it bad when your 2 year old scores better than you?  Yes, I came in last place - heck someone had to do it!

Great Googlymoogly

On no Mr. Bill, I mean Miss Dylan.... Great googlymoogly!

D's First Public Art Show At The West Seattle Library

Dylan has sooo patiently waited her turn to showcase her work at the West Seattle Library.  About 9 months ago she, totally on her own, went up to the librarian and asked "Excuse me, can I please put my name on the list for the display case?  I would like to show my art."  So the Librarian ever so kindly added her name to the long list and asked her what her idea is to show.  "I would like to show girls that they can build Lego's too."  And low in behold after 9 months and a call to say it was finally our turn D stuck to her game plan.

Artist statement:  

Hello, my name is Dylan.  I’m 5 ¾ years old and I LOVE the West Seattle Library!  I’m proud to present “Create, Build, & Friendship” as my art show which I’ve made out of Legos. I’ve been playing with Legos since I was a little girl.  My inspiration was to show girls that they can build and play with Legos too ~ they aren’t just for boys.  My little sister, Asa (2yrs) built a wall of Duplo Lego’s to show Toddlers they can play as well!  Thank you for taking the time to look at my art exhibit ~ I hope you enjoy it!

~Dylan Ray Nicole Clark 

Dylan's first public art show now showing at the West Seattle Library through January 16th.  "Create, Build, and Friendship" is the name of her installation.  Stop by and take a look if you're in the neighborhood.

Oh God?!

Yesterday Dylan had her good friend, Avery over for a playdate.  After hours of playing it was time to take Avery home.  The two girls were in the "back back" (as Dylan calls our 3rd row) singing "Starships" like a couple of teenagers when Dylan asks “Mom, how did the very first person get on the earth?”  I’m like “uh…. how do you think?” (really thinking where the heck did this come from? and how do I answer this one!)  “God, put the first person on the earth” D says very proudly and matter a factly.  Then launches into telling Avery “first it was God, then cave people, then dinosaurs…. and did you know New York was the very first city in the United States, then Seattle.  and at one point New York and Seattle were in a war but they worked it out and became friends.  It’s true.  I know all this because my friend Lila told me and she knows this for real.”  - I’m officially stupid, perhaps I should just throw in the towel now - or perhaps talk to Lila more as apparently she “knows everything but not as much as Genya (dylan’s teacher)” to quote Dylan.  Then D says “Hey Mom, turn up the stereo.  Avery this is the Dino 5, they play hip-hop - do you know the Dino 5?”  Avery says “No but I need to have it."

Xmas 2014 With Auntie Beans

 This year Christmas was very mellow, which was sooo nice!  Auntie Beans flew in from the tail end of a shoot to spend the Holiday with us before heading back to LA.  The girls loved having Auntie Beans around! 

 The weather was great so we spent lots of time at parks.  Here's Dylan and Auntie Beans just swinging away!

 Usually Asa has needed a little time warming up to Auntie Beans (as she does with everyone) but not this visit she just ran right up to her yelling "beans, beans".

Always are favorite times with Auntie Beans.  Thanks for hanging and spending Christmas with us!!!

Santa Photo 2014

Okay so it's been over a year since I've posted anything to the girl's blog.  I apologize to all those who still even check the blog.  First I was waiting on photo's from Matt then life with two just got a hold of me and I've been running.  Lots has happened in a years time, which I'll get to soon to catch you all up.  In the meantime, we wanted to say Happy Holidays!

Happy "Two" Little Bean

 Little Bean is "Two" today!  We had a family pizza celebration at Stellar Pizza - thumbs up on turning two! And then over the weekend we had some good friends we hadn't seen for a while and their kiddo's come over for a Ninja Man Cookie Decorating Party - which was loads of fun!

Happy Birthday Little Bean - we LOVE you sooo much!  And to quote Dylan "We are so happy you picked our family!" - couldn't have said it better myself!

D's School Field Trip - Center For Wooden Boats

D and Me on the school bus with her class to the Center for Wooden Boats.  One of many field trips her class takes!  Fun day with the kids and great to get to hang out with Miss D.

Let The Races Begin - Annual Woodland Park Cyclocross

Today was the annual Woodland Park Cyclocross race.  Dylan was a trooper and got up REALLY early to head out with her Dad.  Asa and I showed up just in time for her race.  This year we talked her friend Mateo to join us and she was very excited when he showed up!

Halloween 2014

Halloween night - always an exciting night around here! Dylan made plans to trick or treat with all the neighborhood kids, which was fun for about 5 minutes until they all started arguing about which direction they wanted to go.  Here's the girls in their costumes - Garden Gnome and Space Girl aka Asa and Dylan, in case you didn't recognize them.

Dylan loved her costume and took it very seriously as you can see here from her 'modeling'.

At first Asa wasn't sure what was up but was a good sport about putting on her costume - even kept the hat on.  She picked up on things very quickly and Dylan was very sweet in showing her the ropes. 

"Hmmm, you mean if I look really cute and hold out my pumpkin bag these people will put candy in it.  I'm in!"

Asa's Birth Pictures

Oh our beautiful little bean!  Here's some shots right after she was born with what we called "the clean up crew". 

Here is Asa and me meeting for the first time.  She instantly stopped crying and just stared at me.  It's pretty crazy feeling to have this little thing in your stomach for 9 months and then be holding it in your arms!  Pretty amazing.

Here she is getting weighted in.  7lbs 10 oz. 19 inches long.

Not happy!

All better!  All wrapped up tight and sucking her fingers - happy once again.

Sound asleep.  What a beautiful little bean sprout!

Here's Asa during her hearing test the next day.  They changed the testing a bit so she didn't get the cool head phones that her sister had during her test (she looked like a DJ).

A proud Pappa.  I also think it's sinking in that he's really out numbered now.

And a super proud sister.  Auntie Beans brought Dylan to the hospital after Preschool.  She knew she was coming to meet 'the crazy baby' but she didn't know the sex until she arrived.  She was sooo happy to find out that it was a baby sister.

So excited and soooo proud!  Baby Asa brought Dylan a Ballerina doll, which D thought was super cool!

And Auntie Beans, awesome Auntie Beans!  What would we ever do with out you!  Thank you sooo much for taking care of D and Maggie while we were at the hospital.  And for all your help since we've been home!  You are the best little sister a girl could have!

Sweet Baby Asa.  We are so excited you choose our family to be apart of!  It's funny when you have one child you can't possibly think that you'd ever have enough love for another but then you meet for the first time and it's love at first sight.  Your heart just opens that much more.  We love you little Bean!