Art has a sort of fascination with guns (he calls them ‘shoots’, and we never correct him). Our neighbor Tsundi sees movies where guns are used and often pretends to shoot stuff. Just today I came down in the basement where they were playing and they had each made a ‘shoot’ out of a marble roll toy and were making shoot-like sounds. This photo is from a restaurant where they have a hunting video game.

Art has been enjoying scaring people lately, or at least trying to. This video captures his technique pretty well. Just jump into someones field of view and scream real loud.

Yesterday Josh, Art and I set out to canoe Minnehaha Creek. But the water was too low, so instead headed to Lake Calhoun only to realize it was still frozen! Only in parts, though. There was a enough melted on the edge to provide a little thoroughfare, and it was actually really fun to break the ice (see video below of Art). At one point we canoed north to Lake of the Isles and we had to literally plow through about a 40-foot long sheet of ice which was very satisfying (and impressive to those watching from shore…).

We saw this on the road near 42nd street and Nicollet today. A wild turkey! I asked a smaller bird to pose in back for scale…

At Willow, Art’s preschool, he came home with three dyed eggs. “They’re super beautiful,” he said when he showed them to me. We put them in the kitchen up high on a ledge and this morning first thing he climbed a chair to grab one. “Will you fix it if it breaks, Papa?” he said as he carefully admired the thing. He’s worried about them breaking. Thanks to Ms. Jen for these lovely photos.