The Holt's

Independance Day 09

2009-07-09T13:43:00.004-05:00

Per tradition, we went to Derek's Grandma Vesta's house for the Fourth of July. We have Black Angus hamburgers, homemade ice cream, and watch all the fireworks being shot-off in town. Vesta's house is on a high hill north of Savannah. I bought $6.25 worth of fireworks this year to introduce Wyatt to them; the poppers spooked him, fountains were boring but sparklers were the bomb! Enjoy the video of Wyatt with his first sparkler!

After 4 sparklers, it was a little smokey. But it drove a lot of the flies away!

Wyatt and Grandma Terri raided the toy box at Vesta's. This old mailbox was Aunt LouAnn's and still entertains a youngster. While looking at these pictures later, Derek and I discovered Wyatt and Joe Lyle were dressed alike! If only we had remembered Wyatt's cowboy hat, darn!

Yummm, Pa-pa Bill loves to feed his grandchildren ice cream! Watch out Janae!

Earlier in the day on the 4th, Wyatt and I drove up to Mound City to watch their parade. The Ryan's invited us to sit at their house on the parade route and many other school friends were there! The Quinlin's sat with us and their 2 kids (Andrew and Lauren) were very good with Wyatt! Which is good because they have a little sibling due very soon, but not soon enough for Landi! She was so sympathetic when I was pregnant with Wyatt and I try to return the favor now.

Here are Wyatt and Lauren patiently waiting for the tractor portion of the parade. The Quinlin kids were right on top of the candy being thrown out and would share it with Wyatt (who had no clue what was going on, he would go nuts if they were throwing out bananas!) We came home with a nice little stash of suckers and gum, thanks guys!

Tractors and a Wedding

2009-07-09T13:28:00.003-05:00

Okay, I am a little behind on updating my blog, bear with me. The last weekend in June was a busy one. I headed to Columbia (alone!) to attend the wedding of my childhood friend Laura Uptergrove and Jonathan Jones. We say we are each others' oldest friends because we, plus her sister Sarah and cousin Alaina, went to the same babysitters house (Nana's!) I had a great time and loved hanging out with Kristin and her guys, Sarah, Leslie, Holly, Emma and Hannah at the reception and hotel.

Bride and Groom with the cake. I was having so much fun I forgot to take many pictures.

Before I let NWMO, Wyatt and I got up early so we were ready to watch the Show-Me tractor cruise go through Savannah. We went to the Schweiser's house to play with Cole and Cooper. Their neighbors were nice enough to invite us to sit in their driveway to wait for the tractors. Over 270 tractors drove from Savannah to Helena to St. Joe and back that day to raise money for charity.

"Tractor, Tractor, Tractor!"

Cole and Wyatt kept Allison and I VERY BUSY!

Wyatt's 2 year pictures

2009-07-01T09:55:00.002-05:00

I took Wyatt to JCPenney's this week to get his 2 year old pictures taken. He did VERY good for the photos, but was a handful afterwards when I was trying to order the pictures. Penney's portrait studio takes good and inexpensive picture (with a coupon!) but I hate having to decide what I want right then. And then they push these multi-pics on you for big bucks. I picked out what I think I wanted and paid for the option to have digital copies to share with all of you! Enjoy!

Derek is 30!

2009-06-22T09:33:00.006-05:00

June 25th was Derek's 30th birthday. We went to a St. Joseph Mustangs ballgame on Thursday with some our friends. But the real party was the previous Saturday. Derek and his friend Greg Baumann have close birthdays so Megan and I planned a shindig for them. We had our friends and family over to Greg's parents farm to celebrate. There was a bit of rain earlier in the day but it stopped and was nice for their party. For Father's Day we went to the Royals-Cardinals game in KC with Cory and Allison Schweizer. It was fun and HOT! I did not take any pictures because we would all be sweaty.

Keeping Cool

2009-06-19T11:45:00.002-05:00

Who doesn't like a Popsicle on a hot day? But they are strictly outside food at our house, this strawberry Popsicle made my front porch look like a murder scene!

Our friends Allison, Cole and Cooper Schweizer came up on Thursday for some fun in the water! Here are Wyatt and Cooper enjoying the sprinkler. I figured out Wyatt didn't mind the sprinkler if it was turned on at half strength.

More sprinkler fun and they loved playing in the little plastic pool. Once we were done, Woodie the dog likes to get in the pool and drink.

Here are Wyatt and Cole banging on the table and screaming! Poor little Cooper had a hard time sleeping. Wyatt kept wanting to give him a hug and picking him up out of the car seat. Thanks for coming up Allison, we had a great time!

The weather is all over the place!

2009-06-09T10:10:00.002-05:00

Last week I was at FFA Camp at the Lake Of the Ozarks, we had a great time! The weather started off hot, then rain and then cool nights the rest of the week. Before I left Wyatt and I had fun in the hot sun! I have a sprinkler to water the grass and thought Wyatt would like to play in it.

Watching the sprinkler and not really liking it. Look at that big gut on Wyatt!

After trying out the sprinkler and freaking out, we were happy to play on the front porch with his chalk. I bought this old table and chairs at a flea market last fall and Wyatt loves it! I hit the Savannah garage sales and bought several cars to play with outside; Wyatt likes to sit at the table and line up all the cars.

Sunday night (6-7-09) there was a big storm that went through Oregon, Savannah and over to Gallatin where Lake Viking got softball sized hail for 20 minutes! There was also a tornado warning so we headed to our cellar. Wyatt thought it was a blast, but I hate that place! All the spiders and bugs! We always find at least one snake down there, but this time it was frogs. No tornado, no hail damage at our house, but Oregon was not as lucky....

This is the roof of my greenhouse at school. Those large holes are as big as a softball! The whole roof was riddled with hail damage. Many cars in Oregon lost windows or suffered other hail damage. You know its bad when the Weather Channel Vortex 2 team was broadcasting live from Oregon, MO! There were a bunch of tornado chasers in Holt and Andrew county on Sunday night but the only tornado was over by Maysville. Here is a news report from a Kansas City station... http://www.fox4kc.com/wdaf-storm-damage-story-6809,0,4777098.story

Memorial Day Weekend

2009-05-25T12:18:00.004-05:00

Derek and I loaded up Wyatt and headed to Tipton on Saturday night for Memorial Day. Most importantly was my cousin Tanner's graduation from Tipton H.S. He had been busy competing in the State Track meet earlier that weekend where he finished 2nd in the 2oom, 3rd in the 100m, 5th in the 4x100m, and 6th in the 200m.

At Tanner's graduation dinner, he opened one of his presents early (by request of his dad, Archie). It was the toilet seat!!! This is a rotating gift, received at big events in your life like weddings, graduations, and 0 birthdays, like 30 40 or 50.) Last time I got the toilet seat was when Derek and I got married (Kit got it when we graduated from THS). It was sort of hard to explain to Derek's family! Tanner, Derek is turning 30 in June, it would be a good time to pass it off!

If you are still confused about the reason why we pass around a toilet seat, just come spend some time with my family and then all your questions will be answered.

The other big even of the weekend was the 33rd Lone Elm Turtle Race, held at the Zion Lutheran school grounds. Turtles are placed in the middle bucket and released at the same time. The fist one to reach the outer ring wins their race! This is kind of a big deal around Southern Cooper County! The youth group from my church had a concession stand and there are a LOT of people there as you can see by this picture.

Kind of hard to see the turtles in the middle, not because they are moving so fast (Ha!) but because they match the grass, something about survival I guess. If they were so worried about survival, they should stay of the blacktops.

Wyatt and I just placed his turtle in the ring for our race. There are a lot of extra turtles brought to the race for people like us, visiting and without shell. They raced 5 at a time and had 37 races (5x37= 185 turtles!!!) We didn't win but we had fun!

Here is our turtle #99. Wyatt wasn't real hip on the closeup he is getting here. Why are the turtles in books so much cuter than real ones?

Laura's shower

2009-05-21T12:57:00.002-05:00

Wyatt loves to go to the Tipton City Park. He climbed all over this boat on the playground.

A very brave Wyatt can go down the tall slide on a hill at the park. My Mom is waiting for him at the bottom.

Our main reason for going home was to attend my friend Laura's wedding shower. Her and her sister Sarah (above taking notes) and Alaina are my oldest friends, we all went to the babysitters together when we were little. It was a great shower and my Mom and I enjoyed seeing all the Tuttles and other friends there.

Laura received this quilt as a gift, it includes bits of fabric from her life, old clothes, old curtains, ect. It was VERY neat and beautiful! Pictured right to left: Mother of the bride Judy, Bride Laura, sister Sarah and Grandma Leola (who helped teach my kindergarten class!) I am looking forward to the wedding and the bachelorette float trip!

Name that mess!

2009-05-12T13:05:00.004-05:00

If you guessed mud, you are correct! This is me catching Wyatt red-handed, or should I say dirty-handed?!

Playing Outside

2009-05-04T15:28:00.003-05:00

Wyatt likes to play with the kittens, but also likes to copy his Dad. Derek threw an adult cat off the porch and now Wyatt likes to throw the kittens too. Yikes! Well, they are also tormented by Woody the dog. If I could just get them to stay off the back step we would ALL be a little happier.

We went mushroom hunting last Friday and found some! Wyatt had a pretty good time but was tired when we got back to the truck. Can you tell he is not happy in this picture?

Wyatt has all of a sudden started insisting on wearing his Cardinals hats outside. Granted this is the only hat he has so Derek is determined to buy him a Royals one, I am not really helping with this task. ;)

Easter - 2009

2009-04-19T15:24:00.004-05:00

It was a cold day this Easter, so we held our egg-hunting festivities inside! Here are the kiddos rushing upstairs at Great-Grandma Vesta's house to look for the eggs hidden in her playroom.

Emma and Alyssa (Derek's sister's kids) were pretty hyped for the hunt. Emma wanted to open each egg she found and check out its contents.

I had been practicing with Wyatt his egg-hunting skills. I would hide eggs around the living room and he would follow me and put them in his basket. He did pretty good if the eggs were in plain sight.

We can still have fun inside!

Wyatt liked the eggs colored like sports balls (basketball, baseball, ect.)

The day before Easter we went to the Patee House Museum in St. Joseph. Janae and Adrain always go down there when they are back from Australia for the girls to ride the carousel. Wyatt and I joined them this time, here they are on the back of a train caboose in the museum.

Alyssa on a small horse getting pumped for her ride.

Wyatt liked this horse better than the actual carousel, it freaked him out a bit.

When does this ride end?

I think Wyatt's favorite part of the Patee House museum was this ramp. He liked to walk up and down on it. There was also a real train engine you could climb on. he kept pointing at it and saying "too-too", which means choo-choo!

Birthdays and crazy weather

2009-04-05T13:33:00.002-05:00

Last weekend I wrote that it had snowed all day Saturday, well Sunday was a peach of a day! A little chilly, but we did get outside for a while before going up to Derek's parents' house for a birthday dinner.

During a trip to Orscheln's, Wyatt and I found these kids cowboy hats. I had him try one on and that was it, he wasn't taking it off! This boy always took off baseball caps but he walked around the store holding this hat on! Well of course I bought it and he wore it all weekend! Here are Derek and Wyatt checking cattle.

Wyatt loves to ride in the truck with Derek and he had to take his hat off to get in the seat.

Last Sunday night we celebrated Derek's Dad's and Brother-in-law Jon's birthdays. Aunt Keri loves to get Wyatt all riled up.

Jon was very good to let Wyatt open some of his gifts, Wyatt loved the ribbon!

Wyatt and Papa Bill, Wyatt loves to waller anyone sitting on the couch.

Yucky Weekend

2009-03-29T13:29:00.002-05:00

Okay, it seems like every weekend is one extreme in weather or the other. Last weekend was warm and sunny. This weekend's forecast was cold and 3-6" of snow, SNOW!!!! Well, it did snow and sleet and rain but nothing really accumulated. Today (Sunday) it is warmer, if 45 degrees is warmer. Derek tied our bottle calf Smokey up out in the sun since it had been in the barn for several days. She is doing really well and sucks the milk out of the bottle rather fast. We now have a bottle holder we clamp on the gate and can go about other chores. She has a lot more energy and was not real happy about the halter.

Smokey at about 2 weeks old. Since she is a heifer should it be "Smokie"?

I bought this ride on tractor for Wyatt to ride outside, and as soon as we got it together the weather turned off bad. He has enjoyed riding it around the house this week. The first couple days we had to pry him off it to take a bath. I even hid it one morning so we didn't have a melt-down as we left for school.

Wyatt found the screwdriver and is trying to "fix" it like we were doing when we put it together. There are stickers that go on it to make it look more like a tractor, but the screws are stripped out and I am going to have to glue it together (it WAS pretty cheap for a JD toy).

Getting the yard-work done

2009-03-24T15:37:00.002-05:00

This weekend my parents came up to rural Andrew County and helped with a little yard work. The weather was beautiful and with a couple extra eyes we could get stuff done and Wyatt was well-watched over. Derek and I also gained possession of a heifer calf (rejected twin) that had trouble taking a bottle. After many days of working with her and the bottle and tube feeding we are glad to say she started taking the bottle! Derek wants to call her "Smokey", several people in the area burned off their fields this weekend, so the air was a bit smokey. Stay tuned.....

Grandpa Tom giving Wyatt a ride in the wheelbarrow.

I bought Wyatt this little watering can so he can help me with the flowers and the garden. Being the classic boy, he would pour the water in the dirt and then put his hands in the mud it created.

This bucket of water was pumped out of the well, Wyatt got good at filling his watering can with water and then he started putting handfuls of dirt back in the water. He last bit of action was putting his entire arm in the water and splashing it everywhere!

More snow and a circus

2009-03-08T16:46:00.003-05:00

Not much to report from NW MO, the weather has not been great so we have been hunkered down in the house waiting patiently for Spring! Last weekend we got 5 inches of snow and this weekend is has rained and turned cold again after a fairly warm week.

Allison and Cole Schweiser took us to the Shriner Circus this weekend. We had a great time but were tired puppies all afternoon.

This circus was legit, it had elephants, trick dogs, acrobats and clowns. Very entertaining!

Last weekend we got a bunch of snow, luckily all of Derek's cattle had calved and the calves were up and kicking. Derek tried to get Wyatt a ride on this calf, it wasn't as enthused!

This calf was as curious of Wyatt as Wyatt was of him.

Good calf, my camera was slow and I was too late to get a picture of these two touching noses!

Happy Valentine's Day!

2009-02-17T13:09:00.002-06:00

"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!"

I guess we now have a "collection" of silly little kid sunglasses.

Trivia Night champions! We squeaked by in the final round for our 2nd win in a row. We attend these trivia night fundraisers in St. Joseph for fun and because we are pretty competitive. Our group consists of a librarian, English teacher, History teacher, SpEd teacher, Ag teacher, a music and car junkie and my husband, the sports junkie. We were missing two more, a science teacher and English professor - we have our bases covered!

A warm weekend

2009-02-10T14:42:00.002-06:00

Wyatt LOVES to be outside (even if it is freezing). Saturday's weather was warm and we hitched up the chore boots and went outside! Wyatt immediately heads for the Quonset hut because that is where all the action is (cows and tractors).

Fortunately for us, Papa and Uncle Terry left the 4-wheeler up at our place over the weekend. Wyatt already knows how to drive it (sort of) and Derek and I both gave him rides around the yard and farm.

Wyatt loves to go with Derek anywhere. I don't know if it is because his car seat is in the front of the truck (as opposed to the backseat of my car) or it is some boy-gene that causes an affinity for trucks and farm work. Derek had gotten home and Wyatt "ran" over to the truck and tried to open the door.

Feeling bad he wasn't going anywhere to take Wyatt, Derek took him out in the lot to run water for his cows.

M-I-Z! The Big Monday MU-KU game was last night (yawn, tired today). MU came away with a win after a pretty good game, not really the first half though. While watching the post-game celebrations, Derek started yelling "There's Ethan, there's Ethan!" One of my past students had made it to the floor and gave Zaire Taylor a high-five! He is wearing the yellow shirt with dark hair. Way to go Big E! Are you wondering how I got this picture? We have DVR and rewound the game and paused it at this point. I then took pictures with my digital camera so I could email them to his Mom (Jenita had already gone to bed.) Z-O-U!!!

Super Party Weekend

2009-02-02T13:39:00.006-06:00

The Holt household has a very busy weekend. Wyatt and I went to Tipton on Friday and then I went to Columbia to hang-out with my Sigma Kappa friends. We went to the MU-Baylor ballgame and then to our old haunts (B&G!). On Sunday we went over the the Schweizer's for the Super Bowl, apparently is was a good game but we were busy watching the boys!

Wyatt Holt and Cole Schweizer - having a blast at the Super Bowl party.

Lindy and Wyatt, Cole and Allison - this was a fleeting moment with both boys sitting still (sort of).

Megan Baumann and M.J.

Cole has all of these awesome toys he shared with Wyatt. They played along pretty good.

Cory and Cole teasing Greg and Madison - she will rule these boys when she is older.

Wyatt and Derek

Kelly Vogt, Kate Winker and Jessica Uhlmeyer at the Mizzou ballgame. I was really bad about taking pictures, or lack of.

Mizzou warming up for the game against Baylor. They won and very good game! It was the first sold out game of the year!

Winter, yuck...

2009-01-28T15:01:00.002-06:00

All I have to say is that darn groundhog better not see his shadow on Monday or I will shoot him!

We got about 3-4" if snow this weekend and overnight (1-27) it had snowed a bit again. But this snow was the cool kind that sticks to all the branches and stuff - making our backyard and land very pretty!

Wyatt can be very demanding sometimes, like when he is hungry. He will drag out the high-chair and try to climb up in it. He has also climbed up on the changing table when he had a dirty diaper (so Derek claims.) The beer box is there because the recycling was full from our trivia-season warm-up party the night before. Wyatt is not a fan of the Boulevard, but Mommy's friends are! There is a group of us that play in trivia tournaments in St. Joseph that are held as fundraisers. We won one last year and we always have a great time!

Things were too quite in the Holt household on Sunday morning, this is what Wyatt was entertaining himself with.

We love to draw! Wyatt started drawing on all of our important paperwork lately, so I dug out an old notebook in my college box (where do you put that stuff?). We have collected crayons from various restaurants and keep them in a tin for drawing time. I tried those toddler egg-shaped markers from Crayola but Wyatt just wanted to put his hands in the ink, very messy!

18 months old!

2009-01-19T10:14:00.002-06:00

Where has the time gone? Wyatt reached the ripe old age of 18 months on January 11th (this post is about a week late). Just like all toddlers, his is on the go and into everything. He gains more and more words everyday but sticks to the standbys of Mom-ee, Dad-ee, Pa-pa, ball, No-No (usually at the dog), a-duh (all done) and Dis-ee (Dixie). Today while Derek was outside Wyatt said "Bye-bye Dad-ee" while looking out the kitchen window! He will repeat words like water, banana, Booker, and kitty but doesn't use them independently yet. Even though he isn't a chatterbox yet, his physical properties aren't too shabby. He launched a cup from the bathtub the other day and very nearly clocked me in the face! He loves his basketball goal and dunking the ball. The other day I caught him throwing golf balls at the goal (where did he find golf balls?!) Those were quickly confiscated. Here are some pictures of how we have been filling the cold dreary days of January....

It was decently warm this Saturday so Wyatt and I went to St. Joseph to the new Nature Center. Next to it is the Riverwalk trail that goes along the Missouri River up to downtown St. Joe. It is paved and very scenic. There was ice on the river but it was in the high 40's!

In the Nature Center there is a exhibit on the history of St. Joseph. It was a cow-town and on the edge of the unsettled west. By this display, saloons were a big thing in Old Joe Town. Wyatt liked going through the doors, in-out-in-out-in-out.

Here is a stuffed wolf that howled when you pushed a button. Wyatt was not liking this display. When you first walk in there is a life-sized model of a woolly mammoth. I think it was a lot for a toddler to take in at first. But when we got to the displays with buttons he could push, he had a good time!

Another thing we have been keeping busy with is South Holt Basketball, we went to the South Holt-Mound City game for a bit. Sitting in the stands is okay for about 15 minutes and then we are on the move. Wyatt likes to go down to the practice gym and play ball himself.

Here is Wyatt with his friend Katie Mendenhall, they go to the same daycare. She had on an adorable cheerleader outfit! They sat on the steps for a few minutes of the game. Wyatt likes to cheer along with the crowd!

Holiday recovery

2009-01-05T13:29:00.003-06:00

Despite all the awesome toys Wyatt got for Christmas, this is what I see on the kitchen floor one night - Wyatt playing with a calculator!

New thing at our house, Wyatt likes to pull the lever for the foot-rest of the recliner. He then will climb up it and into the chair. He has enjoyed watching "Bob the Builder" from this vantage point.

6th annual New Year's Eve party at our house. Of course due to tradition, we don't take any pictures, but I had to get this one of Cole Schweizer "spending the night" with Wyatt. The party broke up around 1 am (yeah, we still got it!) and it was a blast. Consensus of the night - Fox's coverage of New Year's is a whole lot colorful than Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve.

Picture from Grandma Vesta Holt's house. Here is Clayton Townsend showing Wyatt how to use his new tractor - it makes noise!

Terri and Keri with her puppies calendar (Derek and I got the matching cats calendar)

Wyatt with a little help from Mommy opening his gift from Great Grandma Vesta - a noisy guitar but it does play cool songs (a la Guitar Hero)

Christmas 2008

2008-12-27T09:36:00.004-06:00

Wyatt did wake up pretty early this Christmas, not because he was excited about Santa, but because Derek was up getting ready to go out and chore. Here was his gift from us, a toy tool set.

In Wyatt's stocking were some cool things, a "Momo" or Elmo doll and this neat ball.

Here Wyatt is helping his Daddy unload his stocking.

Our first stop on Christmas was Derek's parents house. Wyatt got to wear his Christmas pjs up there. Here he is with his Uncle Jon watching others open their gifts.

Wyatt likes crawling under and through things now, he was crawling under Grandma Terri's chair.

Wyatt watching Grandpa Bill open a gift of M&M's - I am sure Wyatt hopes that Papa will share them with him.

One of Wyatt's gifts, a little hoop. He immediately grabbed the ball and dropped it in the basket. I know I am biased, but I think he is a natural ball player!!!

Our second stop for the day was 3 hours away in Tipton to my parents house. Here is Wy with Aunt Stacey who is trying to help him open his gift.

Wy and Grandma Jeanne and Grandpa Tom. Wyatt wanted a little help reading one of his new books.

The Edwards gals, it was a long day and in this picture I have already changed into comfortable clothes - that is why I am dressed in an old sweatshirt that stays at my Mom and Dad's.

Wyatt in front of my parent's Christmas tree. Not cooperating on the smiling request

Chicklits Christmas Party

2008-12-23T12:45:00.002-06:00

Hello, my name is Lindy Holt and I am in a book club. For those of you who do read for enjoyment (like myself, thanks Mom!) will understand this group. If you left chapter book reading behind in school, you will think we are weird. Several of us organized this group about 4 years ago - last year we decided to NOT read a book in December but just have a party. For those of you who think a book club is dorky, you haven't seen the drinks we have concocted and consumed! So this year we had our second annual Chicklits Christmas Party - rescheduled due to last week's snow. We do give out awards (named Chicklitzers, like Pulitzer.) This year I received the Chicklitzer for the book you were most surprised you liked. The book I chose was Snowflower and the Secret Fan . I have added a widget on the right side of this blog to Goodreads.com It is a website you can post what books you have read and your review. We post the book club book there too.

back row: Keri Pray, Chris Wheeler, Beth Gregory, Megan Baumann and Baby Madison

Front: Cara Weise and Lindy Holt

It was a small group due to the rescheduling - we missed you Allison, Sara and Janelle!

I made the awards and am giving Megan her Chicklitzer, "Book you would most like to see made into a movie" Her book was Marley and Me and is opening Christmas Day!

Here is a close up of the 2008 Chicklitzer awards. The "Easy Reader" award was for the book you would most likely read more than once. The book that won was "Twilight" and was a group pick. Yes, it is about teen vampires but it was a pretty good book and there are sequels!

The weather outside is frightful!

2008-12-23T12:29:00.002-06:00

Wyatt had his first introduction to eggnog this weekend - and he loved it! You can sort of see his nog-stash. Derek mistakenly put the drink in his coffee mug and for a while afterwards, Wyatt wanted to drink out of it (even when it was coffee!)

Wyatt was very enthusiastic about the eggnog, as you can see by this picture. Derek is trying to get him to tilt his head back - a battle of wills!

Last week we got about 4 in. of snow on Tuesday (12-16) and then some ice on Thursday night to top it off. We got out of school early on Thursday and no school on Friday. The weathermen were predicting a worse ice storm and everyone was anxious after last year's doozie. It didn't amount to what they claimed, bu the freezing temps haven't helped either.

Scene from our bedroom window.

Since we got to stay home on Friday, I tried to get all my Christmas packages wrapped and Wyatt played with his window clings. These were a great buy ($1) and he was entertained for a good while. Some of the bigger ones he tore into pieces, so I picked them up and put them in the trash can. Wyatt witnessed this and proceeded to pick up the rest and threw them in the trash too - and then clapped for himself! What a great helper! We did leave them in the trash since they were getting pretty yucky or "ucky" in Wyattese. I did buy a couple set of these clings and will bust out a new package someday when he is bothering me. :)

Pictures from Grandma's camera

2008-12-20T13:54:00.002-06:00

I have been slacking lately on the picture taking. So I am using some of Grandma Terri's picture for this post. This picture is of Wyatt and a singing holiday bear.

How cute are we?!

What does this thing do?

He, he, he. Wyatt likes to try and "hide" in the cabinets in Grandma's kitchen.

Wyatt is a little climber right now, trying to get up on the chair with you or on a table. Here, I think he is trying to climb in the chair with Grandpa Bill.