The beautiful thing that happened today at Lewis' preschool.
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Our church is gone.
Long day and too tired to write much about this. But it's a super sad thing. I just loved that building. Now it's gone. All that aside, the new friends and community we've found there remain. And so do we. Here's a real good story in our paper http://twincities.slideshowpro.com/m/embed.js SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-332242", width: 800, height: 600 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://twincities.slideshowpro.com/images.php?album=332242", displayMode: "Manual", transitionLength: 0.5 } }); http://twincities.slideshowpro.com/m/embed.js SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-332353", width: 800, height: 600 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://twincities....
*Almost* all Minnesota cousins represented.
Last weekend, while Ben was still in North Dakota, I took the kids over to my Uncle Dick's house for his 70th birthday gathering. 70!? I can barely believe it. I think he is permanently 60 and change in my mind. He may not realize it but I love him a lot. I hope I've told him often enough. I love you, Dick Parker! And I STILL have the bear you gave me on my BIRTH day! Anyway, for a rare moment all the Minnesota cousins of the Parker clan were together with all their offspring. We got some pics! And then, just when we dispersed because of multiple crying babies we realized Hannah, our youngest Minnesota cousin was sitting in a patio chair 10 feet away! She thought it was for the mom cousins. Time to get out the clone tool, Dick! Look at all those beautiful ladies! And a few young gents, too...
Volition.
Lewis often runs inside while I'm still getting the girls out of the car and immediately starts doing something before I even get to the door. It's as if he's had some kind of idea and been itching to try it out those last few blocks home in the car. The other day he had raced in and jumped onto the couch, pulling a bunch of covers over himself to hide. And a week or so ago I could hear the toy electric guitar jamming as I neared the back door. When I finally got into the kitchen I found this: "Momma, don't I look like a rock star?"
Tadpole hunting.
We went to our local drainage pond (lovingly called the Egret's Nest) early yesterday morning before school. Jessica caught a few tadpoles to bring to her preschool class, one even had some tiny legs growing. Art and Lewis can be seen here with their capes.
Family photo.
A photographer friend of mine (Kathy Easthagen) took this fun photo of us at the May Day parade on Sunday.
Few photos from the May Day parade today.
Today was the May Day parade (it was postponed a week by rain). I won't try and describe what any of these photos mean cause I have no clue. The parade and play were great, although Jessica and I both agreed that somehow this year's celebration lacked the 'wow' factor. Easy to be a critic though. It's always an amazing event and we had a great time, minus a rock throwing incident an overtired boy (Lewis) crying all the way home and going to sleep 3 hours early. The sun travels across Powderhorn Lake to take part in the play. A sloth on wheels during the parade. This photo makes me really sad. Also feel like a lazy journalist who has to do more meaningful stories. This is a deer's heart of course.
Hurry up and see the objects of incorrect size!!!
Oh, how wonderful!!! An exhibit of things that look so real but are completely fabricated... and often the completely wrong size. I was originally going to try and see this exhibit with my sister today but she couldn't make it. We will go another time before it closes, but I realized the kids would probably have a great time so an hour before the museum closed we all arrived and hit the Life Like exhibit at Walker Art Center. Here is Art under the metal card table and chairs. There was a delightful while also giant detail of an extra chair folded and leaning against the opposite wall. So I wonder, do they actually fold? Notice how smooth and shiny our hair looks. We used a wide-tooth comb. I literally shook my fist at the kind guard who asked me not to get so close the the pieces. I was laughing while I growled at her but also genuinely frustrated. I wanted to touch almost everything in this exhibit! This may have been my favorite piece - tiny elevators. I could have s...
Playing outside the Walker Art Center.
Playing tag. Look closely and see a girl in mid-fall. Bailey Hippest changing table a round.
Bouncing in beautiful backyard light.
Uncle Josh bought this huge inner tube for the boys last winter thinking it would be good for sledding. It wasn't. It's just way too big. However, it's superb for bouncing. It's like a poor man's trampoline and has provided gobs of solid entertainment. Just today I re-inflated it and Art has all the sudden been able to bounce super high. And then I threw in a photo of Netta showing off her belly button.
From Art's school.
I spent a day last week photographing the principal at Art's school, Steve DeLapp (for a gift book thing some parents are putting together). He's retiring this year, and while I don't know him well, I'm sad he's going cause it's clear he cares deeply and has developed a great school and staff and environment for children. Here are a few photos from that day. This fellow, the head maintenance man, every day helps this little girl in Art's class get from room to room. She broke her leg. Arthur, right, having a good laugh with a couple other kindergartners.
