Enter our house in the past few days and you’d see two masked spidermans whizzing around non stop doing all sorta of cool tricks! Swinging on stuff, running super fast, just generally being super cool. The wait for them costumes to get here in the mail was excruciating at times for Arthur, be he endured. Here he is opening his costume:

Getting suited up. It’s too bad we can’t see Art’s crazy big smile.

He immediately started running around the house to demonstrate house fast he could now move.

“Look how high I can jump!!!”

Eventually Lewis woke up from his nap and joined Arthur in the Spiderman costume celebration. Here Lewis (left) and Arthur raise their fists and admire their new look.

This is a little, “holy-shit-we-actually-look-like-Spiderman!” dance.

Today Art came home with a bag o' treats from his 26 classmates.   Valentines treats!  And when he was looking at the bag he voluntarily exclaimed, "And of course I'm going to share them with Lewis… and everybody, of course…"  I think he was feeling very high on the hog with all those treats.  Later he sorted his message hearts in a bowl for everyone to have some with dessert.  Happy Valentines Day! 

Art pushes Lew today at Centennial Lakes in Edina. Free if you bring your own skates or a brother pay for the rental.

Josh pushes the boys.

Bailey (photos by Jessica)

Netta

It’s true. I was profiled by the local PBS station TPT. I had a good run of political photographs lately and their reporter called me up to do a mini profile. You want watch it here.

Bailey insisted on trying a helmet after seeing Lewis wear it.

In his gym class at Barton.

Jessica and I aren’t religious people, but we still want some of it in our lives. Not religion necessarily, but something spiritual and centering, a place to reflect and sing and be together as a family with others who share our values. We’ve been to a couple church’s over the past couple weeks, the Unitarian Universalist church and Walker Methodist, a super liberal and open church full lovely and loving people. But we’re still shopping. Anyone have a church to suggest in s. mpls?
The past two Sunday’s we went to the UU and brought the kids. After Sunday school we all went to find Netta and Bailey in their class for young kids. Arthur was so excited to find them.

Jessica took the boys to Ax-Man surplus in St. Paul the other day. It a super cool store full of random tubes and pieces of machinery and nuts and bolts and doll arms and marbles and on and on. They came home with, among other things, tubes and huge rubber bands. Both boys strapped themselves with ‘jet packs’ as seen in this photo taken by Jessica.

(Child and Family Services, best time to stop by is evenings after 7…)