Signed, Sealed , Delivered

Jack and I closed on our home this morning! Yay! The Greenmans have a new home! After we left our agent and the title company, we grabbed Grandma Happy and Walker and headed out to meet our play group. Here's a shot of all the ladies and their babes. Aren't we a good looking group?

Walker found a choo choo train.

After playing with friends, the title company called - our keys were ready. So we immediately headed to the house for our first walk through as owners!

Duck, Duck, Walker

We drove by our new house yesterday and spent some time with the ducks across the street. This little duck pond is directly across the street and Walker LOVES these scraggly looking ducks. He shows no fear, but like a true boy runs after them and yells, "Come here ducks!".

Sun Glasses

Jack picked up some sun glasses for Walker in Maine this summer. Here are the boys enjoying a sunny Dallas day in their cool shades. Thanks Grammie Betsy for the baseball uniform. Walker loves wearing this jumper!

Evening Conversation

Hi all. Every night before bedtime stories and lights out, Walker and I have a little conversation - a re-cap of the days events. Tonight, I thought I'd photograph our chat and share it with you! Walker began by watching the rain from his bedroom window:











Then we decided some self portraits were in order:

Favorites and Preferences

Walker has a bike! We got it second hand from a gal online and Walker is, as you can see, very happy! So today, I thought I'd share a bit of Walker's latest and greatest. You already know that Walker is a book fan of the umpteenth degree and while he enjoys a variety of literature, there are a few titles that we read no less than five times a day. The Giving Tree, which Walker calls "come boy" is numero uno on the list. When the tree is alone, Walker says, "Where he go?" and when the boy comes back he says, "good boy." Other favorites include Make Way for Ducklings, which Walker calls "The Man" in reference to Michael the Irish police man who helps the ducks make it safely home to the public garden. There's also Casey at the Bat ("baseball book"), A Mooose in the Hooose - a Scottish Counting Book, which Walker refers to as "aye talkin talkin" because of a scene with some chatty rabbits. And finally Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, which Walker calls "the alligator book".

Favorite foods remain the same. This boy will do anything for a box of raisins or a cup of yogurt. He also loves meatloaf, rice pilaf, broccoli (in a salad form - recipe below) and of course milk, milk, milk. When he's not eating or reading, which comprises most of his day, he spends his time making song requests. Jack is a big Peter Gabriel fan and a few weeks ago, Walker began reciting lines from Peter's songs. One in particular that Walker requests by name is called "Down Side Up". Sometimes, Walker will sing the lyrics in time with the music:

"Down side up, Up side down
Take my weight from the ground
Floating deep in the sky
Sinking into the unknown"

It's sort of crazy to hear a not-yet-two-year-old say, "sinking into the unknown". Does he say all of the words perfectly? No. But he says them clearly and sometimes even on pitch! I love it.

So, that's out little world in a nutshell. Hope you're enjoying this lovely Wednesday and I promise we'll be back with our usual photo programming soon. Cheers and enjoy this broccoli salad recipe that originated with my Aunt Sue.

SALAD:
1 head of broccoli chopped into bite sized pieces
5 or 6 strips of cooked chopped bacon
handful of golden raisins
handful of salted sunflower seeds

DRESSING:
1 cup mayonnaise
white wine vinegar
sugar

Whisk the dressing in a separate bowl adding sugar and vinegar to taste. Mix dressing and salad ingredients just before serving.

Walker's Favorite Chair

Done with the chair and onto a book.

Gymnastics Class

Walker is now in his fourth week of gymnastics class. He loves all the gym apparatuses and he especially likes his instructor, Coach Joe. Here are some shots from today's class!


Walker's favorite part of class is getting star stamps on his feet when instruction is over.

"Please Hold it?"

Walker's words today when asking that he be allowed to hold Mackey. Love it!

Soda Fountain

Walker, Jack and I stepped into an old pharmacy on Knox the other day. The Highland Park Pharmacy still has the old soda fountain lining the east wall. Walker had a water and Jack ordered a Lemonade. Aren't they a couple of cutie-patooties?

Rain and Penguins

Happy Friday! Walker and I started our morning sitting in the parking lot of the Dallas Zoo. Why were we in the car? We were waiting. Waiting for the crazy downpour to abate! 25 minutes later, we're still in the car. So - we got bored, took our pants off and shot some photos.





Finally, the rain gave way and we headed into the zoo to meet our friends. Here's Walker with James Charles - Walker calls him Jay-Cee. Later, driving home from the zoo, Walker pretended his shoe was a phone and kept saying, "Alrighty Jay-Cee" followed by a fake-ish laugh that went something like, "ha ha ha". Here they are watching the flamingos.


And our little penguin friends: by far Walker's favorite animal at the zoo today. It was feeding time and they were all out in full force.

Guy Noir

FYI: Any of these photos can be made larger by clicking on the image.

It was a dark and muggy day and Guy Starr Noir was on the scene.

Guy Noir's afternoon meeting with his secret contact, Lady M.

Then back to the office for some "research".

I'm having so much fun with our new camera. All of these black and whites were taken on the "grain film" setting. Gotta love a groovy digital camera!