Marquis Mahem and Other Adventures: Trip to Washington!

Since Jared was going to AT in Arkansas, Cache and I went up to Washington rather than spend all that time alone in South Dakota. Of course poor Jared was caught in the biggest heatwave of the summer in one of the hottest parts of the country while he had to wear full Army gear. They even had to plan for the soldiers to get up at 3 am so they didn't have to work during the hottest part of the day. Jared is such a hard worker and hardly ever complains about anything. I know I'd be complaining about heat that bad!
Fortunately, Washington seemed to be the only state that wasn't affected by the heat wave. It sat in the 60's-70's most of the time we were there and a couple of people even had to put their heat on to keep Cache's toes warm. All in all it was pretty great though. Cache did really well on the plane from SLC to Seattle and he was super interested in all of the bells and whistles that airplanes have as well as walking around as much as possible before getting on the flight. We had cut it pretty close so we didn't have a ton of time to play before boarding, which is also why we didn't get to go back for the ENTIRE duffel bag of Cache's clothes that I forgot on Stefanie's kitchen table! How ridiculous is that? I even woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep so I got everything packed all nice and neat....and then forget half of our stuff. Oh well, it was all taken care of by the awesome Stefanie and stuff arrived without delay. :) Also it gave Grammy Jean and I a chance to take Cache shopping for some 18 month clothes and let him run around the store. I can say that he was just happy to not be on an airplane anymore! He also hadn't had too much of a chance to sleep because he had been too excited on the plane, but of course he fell asleep right as we were landing...so I got a good shot of him asleep in his stroller.

Playing on the plane

Zonked out on the way to the car from the airport

We spent the first few days with Grammy Jean and Papa Steve. It was fun and Cache always seems to love to explore new places. It usually takes a little while for him to warm up and start to explore, but he always does well. He did discover their stairs and thought it was great fun to go up them, but he doesn't know exactly how to get back down on his own. I fear for the day when he thinks he can try instead of asking for help which he does now. There are tons of things for him to look at there. It was really neat to see Lacey again. I miss having a dog around, though the barking is not missed one bit. She was actually pretty tame compared to her two sons Buddy and Scout. They would not let me pet her! They wanted all of the attention. I seem to remember Lacey acting that way when we first got her. Poor Cloey never had a chance. :) Cache seemed to love the mister potato head glasses and was always asking to have them put on his face. He has a thing for glasses at the moment which means we just had to get him a pair when we went to Fred Meyer too. Anytime we go by a rack with sun glasses on them he wants to play with them.

He looks rather studious :)

Cache's sweet glasses!

Of course I gave in and fed it a quarter. He had fun and wanted to go again. :)

It was interesting to see him playing with toys. It's always fun to watch those wheels turning in his head as he tries to figure things out. Here are a few more shots.