Slime

Most of the posts lately seem to be of walt getting messy, I think that is just about right for an almost 2 1/2 year old. Here are some pictures from school of walt and slime, and then the aftermath on the clothes (luckily the stains came all out!)

Day Off

So Walt has the day off today (as did his mother) for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and so he's spending it playing at home. Here's a picture of him having breakfast. A shiny nickel to the first viewer to identify the substance he's wearing....

Back to School

Today was Walt's first day back to school after his holiday break. They're working on a unit on the 5 senses, so these pictures are probably about light (or something like that).

jr. blue

Nanny and Poppie were so nice to make walt a member of the Jr. Blues Club. Tonight he got his bag of goodies. Check out that hair.

Um, OK, so it snowed a bit....

There was already over a foot of snow on the ground here in Des Moines, and in the past 24 hours, we received quite a bit more. We played in the front yard until Walt got too cold. Here are some pictures and videos of the fun. Some of the pictures were taken by Jessica with her new camera.













In these pictures, someone is throwing snow on Walt with a shovel - I'm not sure who it was....

Christmas Morning

We awoke somewhat late on Christmas morning, but it was fun for Walt for sure. This was one of the first things that he opened. It's a Black and Decker weed-eater (complete with safety goggles). He had fun playing with it all day long (even though there weren't too many weeds to "eat".









Here are some pictures of Walt reading some of his books. Among those are some books about Thomas, a Space Shuttle book, as well as a Where's Waldo book.

Transportation Museum

Here are some pictures from the Transportation Museum in Southwest St. Louis County. I wasn't there, but I believe that Walt really enjoyed playing with the trains....

G-ma and Papa's house

We're in Des Moines for Christmas, and here are some pictures of Walt having fun at the piano and with Mommy and Daddy.

Rams Game

Last Sunday, our good friend Bill had some extra tickets to the Rams game against the Texans. The seats were phenomenal (in the club section), and it was even an exciting game (even if it didn't work out for Sara's fantasy team...). Here's a picture of Walt enjoying the action (as well as some popcorn).

Camera problems

In my last blog post, I mentioned how some of the pictures that I'm taking have been a bit blurry. They're pictures taken from my phone, and I had originally attributed the poor quality to the lighting in the Scottrade center (as most of them had been taken at Blues games). Anyway, for all of the years I watched my mother as a semi-professional photographer, and all of the time I spent in the dark in her darkroom, I missed a VERY important piece of taking good pictures - keep your lens clean. Here's a before and after:






That's only a slight difference eh? Well, consider that a lesson learned. When you keep your "camera" in your dingy pocket all the time, it doesn't hurt to take a cloth to the lens every once in a while...