Alex and Ben Go Camping

Making Faces

Grumpy Alex

Sad Ben

Mad Ben

Excited Ben ("Think of Christmas morning")

Cross Ben*

Mad (Disgusted?) Alex

*anachronistic British emotional vocabulary courtesy of Thomas the Tank Engine stories

Wichita Wonderment

A few pics, all taken by Grandpa, of our week in Wichita. Such letter geeks are the Yoder boys that they happily played with Scrabble tiles through the whole of the adults' Boggle game. (It only seems like they wore the same shirts all week, I swear).

Pool Time

Nothing special in here-- just a happy time of year: when the pool comes out.

Composer, Heal Thyself

This is a tiny piece of a long episode of visiting various Russian-composer and Thomas-train doctors. In this part, Ben visits Dr. Tchaikovsky. Some of the dialogue is hard to understand, so a brief transcript follows.
Alex: "Get on the scale for that," [says Dr. Tchaikovsky.]
Ben: So he [I] climbed up on the scale.
Alex: Oh. He [Dr. Tchaik] said you weigh pretty high.
Ben: Oh. I'm feeling pretty sick, Dr. Tchaikovsky.
...[cut], then:
Ben: I'm feeling a bit sick.
Alex: Oh, that's too bad, said Dr. Tchaikovsky.
Ben: You help me on the job. First, I'll fix you.
Alex: I can fix myself, said Dr. Tchaikovsky.

Even the composers are nesting this spring

Later Tchaikovsky went to the zoo on a plane, and Rachmaninoff put out fires:

Spring Green

We went to the wildlife area after dinner. It was at peak greenness.