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Exploring side trails at Snake Lake

This was the biggest painted rock we’ve seen yet. Landry looked beneath it for bugs

The very busy kindergartner

Full princess attire for the holiday

This window sill is Landry’s favorite hiding spot for hide-and-go-seek at Grandma Linda’s house

Dismount!

Landry wanted to go to the beach today, so we went

Hazel wanted to go to the zoo so we went there too (We saw one of the new baby penguin chicks back in the shade behind us!)

In the afternoon there was a bucket relay race

They filled that red bin to the brim in a minute and thirty seconds

Playing together without grown ups

We spent the morning at Olympic National Park

This year we hiked the Rapids Loop Trail counterclockwise (In 2016 we did it clockwise)

There was lots of rushing water

Lots

(Hazel made it across by herself!)

Still more!

Time to shed layers

We hiked way down there to the water (See Hazey?)

Here she is on the way up

Another trek down to the river brought us to some soft grey sand

Same lunch spot as last year

This guy at high noon

Still two years old but trying out three

This trick involves sliding straight through Supey’s legs!

Hazel got this fairy garden house for her birthday and the seeds are sprouting! (Click here to see her carefully watering with a tiny watering can.)

Water (in) action

This one is from yesterday — he told an incredibly long story while drawing

“Supey calls me Steve and the leafy sea dragon is Steve!”

Really excitedly reading

Concentrating hard…and looking like a lefty

Can’t resist a stick

Greeeeeen!

You might not know that woodpeckers live in rock caves and like pebbles to be thrown into their homes

Inventing a mischievous beach ball game that involves aiming for her brother’s face (and, thankfully, totally willing to have the ball aimed at her face too)

Serious about doll safety

This is what happens when the big sister pays more attention to the doll than to her brother

Here’s Hazel playing in her meticulously crafted pet store

Aaaah! It’s a dragon!

Bewildering grasses

No buckets today, just hose brigade hooray!

Pensive cuke nibbler

“I have a gift for you”

Let the 2017 day trip season commence!

With good old Mount Rainier

Landry was quite intrigued by the mineral springs outside this 1899 cabin at Longmire

All lined up and looking springy….

…Until we hit this winter wonderland at a higher elevation!

There are still 141 inches of snow at Paradise, including 11 that fell this week!! (Here was 2016 in the snow at Paradise.)

Timber!