Playing in the Boy's Room

Just some recent playing around...

Welcome home

Tim - It was good to have you home for a little while.

(For those of you keeping score back at home, Tim snuck into town on Mother's Day Weekend. Dave, Wiggins and other co-conspirators helped instigate this quick visit. He's been away at Americorps for the past several months and will return home in August.)

Universal

There is a universally accepted way to play video games. Christopher is demonstrating it below while playing Mario Kart on the Nintendo Wii.

I Spy!

This is a funny series... the two cousins are interested in the book Uncle Kevin is looking at...




until their interest begins to wain...

...and then there was one.

Not a spring photo

This photo was from a month or two ago. However, we thought it was cute and hope you do too.

Pants on all by myself!

As Christopher says, "I put these pants on all by myself!"

Homemade Bubbles

We were playing with homemade bubbles earlier this afternoon. One of them landed on Clara's head and - well - a fohawk was born.

Touching moment

An older brother offering a loving hand and his green blankie (which solves all woes).

Middle Creek Park

Every year around Earth Day, Middle Creek Park has a beautiful display of Spring Blue Eyed Marys. They fill the valley with their little blue flower. Here's their classification:

Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae
Order Scrophulariales
Family Scrophulariaceae – Figwort family
Genus Collinsia Nutt. – blue eyed Mary
Species Collinsia verna Nutt. – spring blue eyed Mary

And here's a photo of us standing near a field of them.

Playing in the yard

Just a few photos of the kiddos playing in the yard. Clara is sporting her "Life is Good" attire while Christopher is decorating with some sidewalk chalk.

Turkey Ridge

Here are a few photos from our trip to Turkey Ridge this weekend.

Gobblers

We had quite a morning as you can see from the photo. Paul and I both took our first turkey today. All we need now is wheat bread, tomato, lettuce and a little bit of mayo.

Trip to Louisville

The kids and I (Annette) took a quick little spring break get-away to Louisville with Granny. We found lots to do! Some of the highlights were tours of the Louisville Slugger Factory, the Science Museum and Louisville Glassworks as well as the local parks and the hotel pool. It was great to see Uncle Todd & Svarit too... thanks for taking time out to see us!

2 Nuks

Can you ever have 2 much of a good thing? (By the way, this was all Clara's idea.)

Dessert Cookies

The kids had a good time with these delicious desserts of graham crackers and icing. The funny thing is, both of them only want to eat the icing and not the graham. Go figure. Clara is very happy to show you all 4 of her teeth while Christopher peers over his glasses, something we try to discourage.

Game trail

Christopher and Uncle Paul went for a walk (along with Papa) last Saturday morning looking for turkeys. We didn't find any, but we did see plenty of game trails and deer tracks. There were even some lightsabers someone carelessly left out in the woods for Christopher to play with (aka: sticks).

Papa with Clara

Another Easter photo to show. This one is Clara with Papa. The reason Christopher isn't in the photo is because he was throwing a tantrum at the time.

Easter Morning

Here's a photo we took early on Easter Sunday morning. Cousin Alex came over to go to church with us that morning.

Easter photos

Here are a few photos from Easter Celebrations. We had a great time hanging out with Babo at Atria. Then, later in the day, getting the Easter Eggs ready were the activity for these hands on Holy Saturday.

Friday

Today is Good Friday. For all of you who are keeping score out there in the world, know that our little guy made it through everything very well so far. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers.

Playing in the snow

After the blizzard, we went out to play in the snow. Clara was bundled up warm with her Grandma while Christopher enjoyed sleds that went both down and up hill.

Blizzard of 08

For those of you in Wisconsin, and other parts of the country, we have your snow and we'd like to return it to you. Clearly this was a mistake. We're not going to point any fingers, but you know who you are.

One Year Photos

Not only have we had fun with our latest photography musings, they also happen to be images of our prettiest little subject. Check out our little girl at one year old!

Updates

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. Here are a few photos from our February visit to the Contemporary Arts Center downtown where they were making animal masks during the Fine Arts Fund Sampler Weekend.

Clara's Birthday

We've been meaning to post a few photos from Clara's birthday party. She was very excited to get her new table and chairs. We played a game called "Cake Drop." We put a sheet of 24 squares with names in each one beneath her high-chair. Whichever person's square was the first to have a piece of cake land on it was declared the winner. We were all very excited when she picked up the large piece of cake and acted like she was going to hurl it overboard.

CAC Visit

We went to the Contemporary Arts Center as part of the Fine Arts Fund Sampler Weekend yesterday. Christopher made an animal mask while Annette and Clara soaked up the views from the Unmuseum's 6th floor.

Field Trip

Last week, we took a Sunday afternoon drive. It was a good to get out of the area for a little while as a family. Here is a photo of the family that a fellow photographer snapped of us. (Thanks for the coat, Tim...)