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Jessica took this photo the other day after she got all the kids a yogurt. After realizing they had no way to eat them, Jessica fashioned spoons from sticks and the foil lid. INDUSTRIOUS!

Just now Netta (4), more than a half hour after the other children went to sleep, was close to tears as she called me up to her room. "Papa," she said. "I not want to be die, I just want be alive." My heart melted. I can understand that fear! We all can. I told her (with fake certainty) that she will not die for a super long time. And then I pretended to be 'die' as a flopped on top of her which got some solid laughter. Of course she's right to realize she'll die and it is a super scary thought to have. I'm feeling especially grateful right now for Netta and her thinking and her aliveness.

From Follow Art 13

It's been a weeklong fun thing for him, I stopped by on the last day.

While this was happening I was shooting this super slow motion video for work (learn more about it here ): Twin Cities Marathon: The finish line – in slow motion from Ben Garvin on Vimeo .

She's healthy!

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nan Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:28 PM Subject: Nap time To: Ben Garvin

Not easy to go outside in Minnesota...

Arthur has been getting some extra time with his great teacher Jaci after school twice a week. It's been so valuable for him. His class, like most public school classes, is way too big. He's gained confidence and gotten much more work done with the smaller amount of kids after school.

Ms. Jen has taught Arthur, Lewis and now Bailey and Netta in Willow preschool. They make some pretty fun creative stuff, including this telephone pole monster. AHHHH!

The other day we were all in the backyard playing except for Netta. She was inside doing something, nobody really knew. And then out she walked with 'ice skates' strapped to her feet and a cape to her back. She carefully taped strips of foam stuff to her feet and waddled outside with a great deal of pride. They didn't last long but they were inspirational while they lasted. Behold, Netta's Ice Skates!

An hour will pass and we'll wonder, "Where's Lewis?" We nearly always find him queitly working away in his 'Lego room', the closet in his and Art's bedroom. Many of the Legos are the same Josh and I played with growing up. He builds dragons, cars, spaceships, all kinds of wonderful things. Jessica, being a generous mama, will go up and 'play Legos' with him, just sitting there working on something.

I just love this. He wrote this for a thing at school.

About a week ago Bailey pulled a glow-in-the-dark "moon" off the ceiling and put it in her hair. On her daily insentience it's been there ever since. Take a bath, put it back in. It's terrifically endearing and also a little weird. The other day she came up screaming from the basement -- Lewis had taken the moon out of her hair in a moment of frustration. "It's just trash, Papa!" pleaded Lewis. No, it's actually super important to Bailey. Lewis begrudgingly showed me where he hid the moon and I put it back into her hair as she wiped her tears away. We've all learned not to mess with or question Bailey's moon.

Arthur and his longtime friend archer are right now having their first ever sleepover. Here's a picture Jessica just sent me of them stuffed in Arthur's bed. Makes me real happy! -- --sent from my handheld device--

This morning Arthur and other 3rd adn 4th graders at his school sang a little song to promote the upcoming bookfair. Based on the hit 'All about that Bass'. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2mt1QGQGN8&w=640&h=480]

from left you have Netta as a leopard, Arthur as an all purple "skater dude", Bailey as a lion and Lewis as Hiccup from the movie how to train your Dragon. Arthur's outfit is this weird hodgepodge of stuff he wanted to do, he even drew some sort of symbol and taped it onto his front. He was so proud of his outfit. We had a lovely time at Jessica's cousin's house with their cute kids trick-or-treating in a fancier your neighborhood. Happy Halloween!