Barp

On a recent family vacation to Portland, Oregon we enjoyed: food trucks, a trip to Astoria, ice cream in Seaside, a trek with cousins and 2 six year olds to the top of Multnomah falls (that covered an 620' climb in elevation) and dinners with 4 generations of the Hank and Leona DuPertuis family.


Jameson had Sydney and I cracking up on our third night with one that went a little like this:


At the end of a long day, in which we had spent over 4 hours in the car for our round trip to Astoria, Jameson lay on his bed with his new journal from his Auntie Bree open in his hands.  He asked Sydney and I "what should I write about?" to which Sydney replied "right about your favorite part of today" so he grabbed his pencil and began to write.  As he was writing I laid down next to him and after a minute or so looked over at his progress to see one "word" spelled out "BARP".  Because at this age his spelling is often phonetic I didn't comment on it, but kept an eye on him to try and figure out where he may have been going with this beginning.  But after another minute or so he turned to me and said "I think I spelled Barp" (exactly how you would imagine that this word would be pronounced).  To that I replied, "Yes you did.  What were you trying to spell?"  He looked at me and said, "Baump".  I thought and said, "Baump?".  He said, "yeah, baump.  Like, (to the tune of Eye of the Tiger) Baump..... Baump, Baump, Baump!"  It turns out that he was trying to write out that his favorite part of the day was listening to "The Eye of the Tiger" on our road trip.


This past Saturday he lost his first tooth. 


For his birthday we had an ice skating party at the Toyota Sports Center where he skated with a (boys only) group of friends from school and kids of friends of ours.  He had a blast showing off the skills that he has gained from his recent 4 week Hockey Basics Course where he practiced ice skating.


The weekend before last we did a 3 night camping trip at Kirk Creek campground in Big Sur California.  Fun was had by all, but the highlight of the trip for me was being out in the ocean with a friend and having a humpback whale surprise us by popping up 25 feet away from us, blowing out a breath of air so loud and surprising that it knocked my buddy off of his paddle board!  The whale proceeded to swim right in front of us taking about 3 more breaths before disappearing just as quickly has he had appeared.  Such a cool encounter!  Not as close as the great white shark sighting off of El Porto beach, but even more exciting!