John made this landscape in art class. Both the tree and house are made from paper bags. Considering that he really is not the artist in the family, the fact that he enjoyed making this and was proud to show it off is great. Way to go John!
Bike Shop Tour
John, along with his Cub Scout Den, took a tour of Cyclextreme today. He had a great time! He was very excited about his new water bottle. I love to see him so excited!
Keep Calm…
…and Leatherneck On! I got this great shirt in the mail from a friend, Karen McNeely Yocks, that I met at WIU’s 25th Anniversary of Sigma Chi Fraternity. It turns out that she lived next door to me when I lived on Chandler Blvd way back in the day. She was roommates with another Sigma Chi wife, Jill Cotte. Karen had two of these shirts made for her and Jill and they wore them to the Sigma Chi tailgate. I mentioned that I loved the shirt and, today, look what showed up! Karen is great and I love the shirt! Thanks so much!
Ah… Friday…
Off To Kansas City!
Today, I went to work while the family went to fun places.
John went to LEGOLAND in Kansas City with Brayden, one of our neighbors. They had a great time and also got to visit the Sea Life Aquarium. John was a tired boy when he got home!
Andy and Laura went to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Fortunately, Andy remembered to have Laura take her camera since I forgot to leave mine for them. This is their favorite picture.
Laura was so excited and told me all about the museum. She enjoyed looking at the African art the most. She was also very excited to see one of Monet’s “Water Lilies” panels in person. Since Laura was responsible for taking the pictures, the only one I have of her is when Andy took a picture of her while eating lunch. It will have to be enough. 🙂
Back to Work
It is always nice to know you are loved. I returned to work after a short vacation to discover some additional decorations to my office. I will leave some of the stuff up for a few days, but the picture on my computer monitor had to go. He is a bit scary. Oh yeah… And watch out Crystal Kroner. Your days are numbered! 😉
St. Louis Science Center
We visited the St. Louis Science Center for our last day of vacation. The Science Center is not that big, so we had plenty of time to look at all the exhibits, see “Live Sky Tonight” at the McDonnell Planetarium, and see “Journey to Space” at the Omnimax Theatre. We started out looking at the dinosaur exhibit. The kids thought this exhibit was particularly neat and got to learn about being an archaeologist.
John would have spent all day looking at this machine if we had let him! It was quite impressive and he could not get enough. Every time we got near the entrance to the Science Center, John would stop and watch the balls as they moved through the different parts of the machine.
John’s other favorite part was figuring out how to program this train so that it would actually move. He was so proud of himself when he got it moving backwards!
Laura’s favorite part was visiting the Life Science Gallery. She thought it was so cool that she had to wear a lab coat and protective eyewear to enter the Gallery. Her activity was analyzing isopods (roly-poly bugs) through a microscope. She LOVED it!
In case you are wondering, Andy’s favorite part was the Planetarium show and mine was the Omnimax movie. After a long day at the Science Center, we headed for home about 4:30. It was an uneventful, easy trip home. What a great trip, but it is *always* good to be home!