Vanilla Cake with Peach Preserves + Peach Sodas: Our celebration of Lucie’s 1st birthday.
On a very hot Sunday afternoon this past weekend, we retreated to the shade of the old Oak Grove at Champoeg State Park and hosted friends and family for a soda sipping, cake smashing, whew-we-made-it-a-year toasting party:
Perfect timing: Lucie’s passport arrived on the same day we made a return trip to Italy!
Here we are, on the far side of the sun.
At that half-way point between birth-day and birthday.
Closer to one than zero.
babyOregonian turned six months old this week, and planet earth’s orbit is headed back toward that place in space where we hung in the skies last September 17th.
Our January days are flowing calm and quiet, one into the next. A bit like the Willamette River ambles through winter landscape when there isn’t excess Oregon rainwater to manage or riverbanks to break.
I’ll take it.
This rhythm.
It’s different than travel: the go-go-go of new scenes and cities each day.
Different than work: tasks and client meetings dotted through familiar Portland and surrounds.
It’s a new sort of productive meander Continue Reading…
We’ve had our little babyOregonian for the span of time it took Jules Verne’s character Phileas Fogg to circumnavigate the world. It’s Lucie’s 80-day birthday!
Eight Week old Lucie at her first Oregon Ducks Game
We haven’t made a second trip around the globe, but we’ve now been around the block a time or two these past few months when it comes to diapers, baby baths, and try-it-and-see bedtime routines.
Speaking of, we’re not racing time for the sake of a wager, but we’ve certainly spent weeks up around the clock, desperate to get Lucie to shut her eyes and go to bed so we could have just a little time to ourselves. (Lesson learned: Sleep? Don’t bet on it.)
We’re not carrying carpet-bags or trundling along in steamer ships or railroad cars, but we’ve swapped our trusty backpacks for a classy diaper bag and we’re making our way just fine with a little baby carseat. Continue Reading…
We don’t have her passport yet, so no international flights (though this Saturday brings her first road trip, to watch the Oregon Ducks play at Autzen Stadium), but eight week old Super-Lucie is getting used to high-flying adventures…at least around the house.
As part of my new two month experiment (Short and Sweet and Scattershot), I’m shamelessly indulging this morning in a post of nothing but sweet newborn photos of little miss Lucie.
Made in New Zealand, born in Oregon, she’s the cutest little Peach I’ve ever seen…
…cute enough to make the cover of the photographer’s fb page for 15 minutes of fame (haha!):
Nine months after our adventures around the globe, on the morning of September 17th, 2013, we welcomed little Lucie Anne Rydmark into our world. Our little Peach came the day before her due date – or, right on time, if you calculate by New Zealand clocks…
I can remember one year ago, strolling the beaches at sunrise, watching women gather seaweed on the shores of Zanzibar. Meeting Salama (leading to one of my favorite memories of the entire trip – learning to make octopus curry from scratch). My, how the sands of time change the landscape of life… Continue Reading…
How do you follow up on the adventure of a lifetime? Start another one, of course…
Last year, we were crossing the ocean on April Fools, joking with each other about changing the header on the blog to read threeOregonians just to see if our parents would get a laugh…
This year, it’s no joke. Continue Reading…
