Sunday, April 05, 2009

Third Birthday Party


Getting by with help with from Gruncle.


Just what Walter has been begging for for the past three weeks. Mack, the semi from "Cars."


Another gift that got very played with today, Gruncle and Kathy's front end loader.


But every boy knows that toys are better enjoyed when you get down eye to eye with them.










The famed naturalist approaches the two legged ape carefully.


Sensing his presence, the baby ape shows curiosity, but is wary.


Perhaps curious about the camera, he slowly approaches, but maintains a defensive posture.


The two engineers...




The second birthday wish.


First slice for the birthday boy.




The littles ape got into the cake action too.


Hey, where'd it all go?


I see what I have to look forward to in a couple of months!

THREE!


The conventional picture...


...and with Walter's two newest friends, Cookie and Pongo.

The Sport



Byron in his new spring and summer sporty ballcap! Complete with a big droolly grin!

The almost kind of pre-but not really pre-birthday party

In proper celebration of Walter's third birthday, we had a very small cake with three candles last night, the 4th. Walter may not know how lucky he is to have gotten two birthday wishes for one birthday.


And a one...


and a two...


and a three!


Mission accomplished!

The Sippy Cup


Byron is getting the knack of it... what a big boy moment!

Mid March...


...and it still snows...

Oh yeah, it was my birthday...


Even though the frosting ran a bit it was a bit hard to recognize that I was turning a young...


...eighty- thr... whoops!


Thirty- eight.

9 Months!





And Byron is so proud of it!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Biter Biscuits

The biter...


...and the biscuit.

ABC's

Following on the heels of the adventures with the ABC blocks, Walter and Melissa shared a Sesame Street book of letters...

The Blocks

Walter and I began building towers of blocks last week. I guess that it was in preparation to doing a firefighting rescue of the inhabitants as he had to dress up in his fireman gear.


They went up...


...and up...


...up...


...and up... but,



what goes up, must come down. So we had an impromptu exercise in Newtonian physics as well.


We got them built pretty high...


but eventually, they still came crashing down.


Brother was interested too...


and then even Poe came out to see what all the fuss was about.









Sunday, March 15, 2009

35 months!


One month shy of his third birthday, Puppy has to join Walter everywhere he goes.

Mmmm, blueberries!

All I want for my birthday...


...is a Tom Selleck mustache.

Trust...


What's he thinking?

So tired...



Byron gets so overtired that he's been known to fall asleep sitting up mashing his face into the netting of his bed.

Using utensils


Byron is a happy boy. He now has two teeth and he's getting to use a spoon and sometimes feed himself when he's lucky enough to get it into his mouth.






And he even gets it into his mouth, even though its the wrong end...


Usually...