Monday at the Splash Park

Daddy Chats

It's a brave new world and there are all manner of ways in which to stay connected. The phone is a weird, abstract thing for Charlie, but a big talking visual of Daddy? Now that's something he can wrap his head around!

Walker also enjoys these real time chats and has recently discovered a program for outfitting your partner with different hats, glasses and facial hair. Here's a look at the fun:

Day Camper

Walker is loving his day camp at the Dallas Arboretum! Thank you family for the scholarship. Yesterday he and a team of mini engineers built a dam and today, they built foundations for model buildings. Plus there was also a bunch of running around, tree climbing and snacks. Here's our little day camper:

Afternoon Lull

Walker had a marvelous time at day one of his "Eureka" inventor's camp at the Dallas Arboretum. He came home, plopped on the sofa with Charlie and took in an hour of Sesame Street. Now we're off to our Monday night piano lesson and the beat goes on!

She Really Is Martha Poppins

She's even got an umbrella.

Last night, while we were watching "Sound of Music", during the "favorite things" section which is accompanied by an on-screen thunder storm, we heard a thunderstorm of our own roll in. And being the wriggly, antsy little boy that Walker is, he couldn't sit still with all of that electrical energy swirling around just outside of the window. So Martha Popins raced Walker to the doorway for a run in the rain to, as she put it, "get all the wiggles out". Here are photos of their rainy night romp just before nightfall.

The Pirates of Monkey Bay

Today, we took a slew of old books to the used book store in hopes of selling them. We were very successful and Walker came home with a pirate book that came with a paper pirate ship. The packaging promised "easy assembly" and "no glue needed" and "fun for the whole family".

After five hours of painstaking piecing together and lots of peering at instructions and saying "read that bit again" and "Gosh honey, I'm not sure either", Walker and I managed to create a pirate ship. It's a little wobbly as you might imagine. It was not easy, but it was certainly fun. So may we present the Pirate Ship of Monkey Bay!

Friday at the Arboretum

Okay, Jack... I don't want to hear about how it was 68 degrees in LaLaLand today. So instead, I'll tell you about our day because it's all about the Greenman boys on this blog. Today, Dallas reached 99 degrees, so we thought a little Arboretum outing was in order. We hit the garden, sweated it out and had a great time. My favorite thing was the wind tunnel in the alternative energy area. Walker's favorite was climbing the netting around the central tree. And Charlie's favorite was standing at the cafe tables in the waterfall area. And Martha? This was her first time to the Children's Adventure Garden, so she loved it all! Here are some photos from our day.

Once we were home, we had a little cuddle time with Griffin.