Last day at Burt Bruin

Today was the last day in Burt Bruin with Vada’s daycare teachers. The center is closed for a long holiday weekend and then Vada starts in the preschool room on Tuesday. Parker came to the end of year party too!

Recording studio

Toban has a nice microphone set up in his office left over his webinar days. He helped Vada record some tracks this weekend… And she loved it. They did separate tracks for vocal and then she listened through the headphones while she added guitar and percussion tracks.

Downtown

Vada and I rode the train downtown this afternoon to meet Toban. Vada stopped to frolic in this water fountain and ended up with a wet dress.

Nike Family Fun Day

Vada has been counting down the days to the annual Nike Family Fun Day… Sunday afternoon she finally got to enjoy the bouncy houses, water pools, smoothies. And the best part is finding her friends from daycare… We spent quite awhile running around with Max and his family.

My girl

Pickathon 2013

This weekend we went to Pickathon – family friendly music festival outside of Portland. We drove the van out and camped in it for the weekend. We knew that Vada was going to like it, but she had an amazing time. So much so that she would go until she dropped. Literally.

There were all sorts of activities for kids ranging from sing-a-longs, concerts, horses and hull a hoops, circus workshops, and on and on. Vada did about everything in between different shows.

Her biggest excitement was dancing to the music and boy did she dance. Vada and Carmen got to do a square dance which Vada loved. She spent a lot of the weekend playing or dancing with another girl she met there. If they weren’t together then Vada was constantly asking where her “new friend Indiana” was. She didn’t want to miss out on any possible fun. When we left she got out a maker and paper and wrote her name on it and then got all of her new friends to write their names on it too so that she wouldn’t forget their names before next year’s Pickathon.  Here’s some shots of her in action at the various events.

The venues were really amazing. There were seven stages spread across a farm and into the woods. The main stages had these great fabric covers which helped with the shade during the day and created fantastic lighting effects at night.

Other stages were tucked away in the woods and paths around the venue were lit by giant hanging lights.

The Wood stage was created out of tree limbs and you sat on hay bales and listened to the music in the woods. It was easily the coolest concert venue I’ve ever seen.

It was a really nice weekend with good food and great weather.

 

 

Figure drawing.

I took Vada with me to a figure drawing class at work today. She got to use artist chalk and draw a live model.

Enjoying summer.