Hood Canal Weekend

After school, we drove down to Hood Canal to spend Labor Day weekend with Dock, Nana, and Tyler. 

The house we rented is right on a rocky beach and today the boys enjoyed exploring.(Tyler explored from the Bjorn…)

We found oysters which we collected to go with dinner, and Dock lifted a big rock and showed the boys how they could find little crabs.  Jack would not touch one, but after some initial hesitation, Owen was hooked.  After awhile he apparently found a crab that he really liked.  I say this because Owen carried him around in his shirt pocket.

Both boys brought a crab up to the house (I carried Jack’s) and put them into a tiny aquarium (aka a juice glass.)  Owen named his crab, “Lucky”  and I think that might have been a good name as the crab  survived into the evening under the care of a six-year-old and was released (still alive!) before bedtime. 

Jack named his crab, “Crabby Anderson – or you can say, Crab Abby Anderson.  Actually he is Henry Anderson which is like me only not the Jack!” 

One of the boys offered licorice to the crabs as a special dessert.  We cannot tell if the crabs liked the licorice or not…

Tyler spent quite a bit of time crawling around exploring the house.  He did not find a tiny crab, but that didn’t seem to bother him at all! 

(Tyler doesn’t usually use a binky, but Jack felt the need to give the binkies to Tyler at random times – and also take them away at random times. Luckily Tyler was content either way – and simply found Jack to be a very entertaining toy!)

They boys went wild when they realized that they got to sleep in bunk beds.  They climbed right on the beds and put their nai-nai guys away as soon as we arrived.  Bedtime was a breeze!

Eric and I lucked out on our room as well.  It was a beautiful room with a king bed and a huge window overlooking the lake.