glasses

he wears contacts now. he uses the little circles of paper out of the paper punch.

another cute get-up

always inventing interesting accessories

fun in the snow

two more shots that show him wearing hoodies in the winter. i guess i was the one who just put him in a hoodie and figured he would be warm enough. maybe i cultivated a cold climate kid. he is so young in that top shot, he certainly would not have been telling me what he wanted to wear. but maybe he did. i only remember him having one really heavy parka.

frequent meal time pose

the kids ate a lot of meals in front of the tv with their food in a bowl which was in a larger bowl and there was a dish towel on their lap to catch spills. note the pink plastic spoon from baskin robbin's...our favorite cutlery.

the other great one

you cannot imagine how excited i was to find this photo and be able to upload it to the blog. this photo validates skip's mullet.

nice knees

love those knees. i'm surprised to see him with a bottle. i hardly ever let him have one. it was so hard getting the bottle away from ellen, that i tried to not let him have one. but, that is probably why he was so attached to his binkies.

lunch time

lunch time...holiday hair...mr. silly

all smiles

good morning

don't you love that just-woke-up look?

the cabinets are all tied shut because he would get out all the pots and pans to play *cook*

fixing breakfast

at a very early age, he wanted to fix his own meals

surfing

one of the best shots of his hair showing how it stood up. also very good detail on just exactly how chubby he was. and those cheeks.

the little rock star

adorable

back to when he was a little younger. such a cutie!!!

1993

the year of the big flood in des moines. we went out to montana on a trip while des moines fixed the water system. here the boys are sitting in buckets of water...just for fun. later there will be photos of shooting off firecrackers. they probably enjoyed the firecrackers more than sitting in buckets of water. i think hunter has the most perfect dead-pan look.

first sculptural cut

i think this was the first time he went with a sculptural cut.
notice the old school video game. i think it was even before they invented batteries. probably powered with coal.

okoboji

hi skip. i don't know if you are looking at the blog, but this was taken up at okoboji

gel

he hardly ever used hair gel

the greatest

the greatest little hockey player. ask him about why he ate garlic toast before games. and ask him about locker boxing.

only once

he only let me comb his hair like this once

bulls eye

this is a fun one where there were concentric circles. he also had one that was a checkerboard, but i don't know if we ever took a good picture of that one. or maybe this is the checkerboard. i can't tell. it was taken at wall drug store in wall south dakota.

up side down

this was taken with him hanging upside down, but grandma scanned it the other way. i'll see if i can turn it around

at the science center

this was at the science center in st louis. the machine was supposed to make your hair stand on end with static electricity, but his already was standing on end.

st patricks day

we were trying for green and it came out blue

uncle donald

see...he was *into* groceries at an early age

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dad's hat and coat

the little blue bunting

this was ellen's when she was born and then the boys used it.

fun hair

we have lots more funny hair pictures. keep checking back.

taking pictures

it doesn't matter that he has the camera pointed the wrong direction.

foreshadowing

winter jacket

i guess he wore a winter jacket when the hockey coach handed them out and told the guys they had to wear them. love that snappy beret. i don't think he wore it very often, but it looks great on him.

christmas

this was the year he wanted a mower for christmas. and notice that he only wore a hoodie. no winter jacket. amazing that even at two years old, he would not let anyone push him around...and into a winter jacket

mom, i can't hear you

and you can see he is studying the transformer catalogue to see which one he should get next

the mackenzie brothers

if you do not know the movie *strange brew*...you should check it out.

the young foodie

he liked cooking as much as playing with toys. in fact, he watched cooking programs on TV rather than any of the kids programing. he did not even know the names of the characters on sesame street.

down time

once in a while he'd take a break. the bottom one is after brunch at aunt allison's house

small spaces

he always liked to hide in small places like grandma's cupboard.

3 georges

skip, his dad (george) and his grandpa (george)at the open house for skip's graduation from high school

cute clothes

he is wearing my vest and george's shoes

davey crockett

what a cute cowboy. those were ellen's cowboy boots. she was in love with a movie about a cowgirl and had to have cowboy boots.

binkies

there is an earlier photo with his 5 binkies. here he is getting things all set up for the photo. the photo on the right came first. he is pushing his little foot stool into place. the cubbie hole is what we called the penalty box. when the boys played kitchen-hockey, it was the goal.

blocks..

...and a box on his head. not sure what he was doing, but it was cute enough to make me get the camera.

always trying something

he put his blanket sleeper on up-side-down. those are the sleeves that are on his legs and he has his arms in the feety part. i remember that in high school he mentioned that he still wished he had feety pajamas to wear