“Kick a ball high!”  or, if he’s looking at the picture from a few days ago of him kicking, “Lewis kick a balll high!”

Lewis, Art and I went for a little walk after dinner and found the gaggle of kids that live on our block. Eight kids under the age of six who all ran around like maniacs together for a good hour and a half. Ben showed up later and took these photos. Here they all are climbing in and out and around one of the parent’s truck. On the way home Art said, “Yeah, but when it was night the action really started! It was like a show!”

After naps I biked the kids down to the woods near Minnehaha Creek. We threw rocks in the water, watched stuff float downstream and eventually spent most of our time overturning logs and looking for bugs. We saw many centipedes, some rolly pollys (that’s what we called them in Arkansas), spiders, ants, and some super tiny white bugs. It was fun to overturn logs and see what sort of goodies we’d find.

We weren’t sure if this spider was alive. Art covered his eyes and turned away as a prodded it with a leaf (it was alive). “I don’t want to see the spider move,” said Art. It was in fact a little scary.

Lew holds a worm.

Heading back through the words to our bike.

Every once in a while it’s fun to take the kids to a new park. We stopped by here after visiting Seward Montessori School for a tour this morning (we’re thinking of sending Art eventually).

This is the new screen on Jessica cell phone after Lew dropped it. It still works, but don’t text her…

Josh shows Art the amazing amount of hammers at Home Depot.

Lewis is TWO!  And he had his check-up on Friday.  He is 3' 1" tall.  He weighs 32lbs 12oz.  He's big for his age – 96th percentile – but growing in height and weight evenly so that's good.  And no developmental issues or delays.

Twin B

Twin A

No April fools joke here. Due in October! Click here for heartbeat(s).