Some great sunset shots & painting

We have a glorious sunset on Sunday night so Chad took some pictures!

Sunday, Hux and Chad did some watercolor painting-a new favorite past time.  Thanks to Katie and Oliver for the set of watercolors; I had no idea how into painting the boys were going to get!

Laumeier Sculpture Garden

So this Saturday, Chad had to work in the morning, so Hux and I headed to the Laumeier Sculpture Gardens.  This had been highly recommended by Rikki Uppstrom (my friend & fellow teacher Ariel Uppstrom's aunt), and I had read about it several times in various 'what to do in St. Louis' publications-so off we went for a picnic (Hux was most excited about the Girl Scout cookies we were taking for the picnic).

Hux, hiding after our picnic on the bench (the grass was too wet).  Note that Hux was a bit confused about Mama taking the Tarjey bag (he insists on saying Tar-jey as Daddy taught him rather than Target) for the picnic as it was the Tar-jey bag, not the picnic bag (whichever one that is...?).

The first sculpture, right by the parking lot-rather fun mosaic!

A quaint little bridge that I was not going to climb down the steep slope to see...

The back of the administrative offices/gift shop (alas-closed for renovations).

The lawn behind the admin/gift shop building-tons of sculptures and wide open space!

The awesome eyeball sculpture I told Hux to go touch...

 ....and after he did, I read the sign that said "please don't touch the sculpture."  Whoops!

Hux is far away in blue running towards the sculptures...

 ...this one he said looked like mermaids.  Great interpretation I think!

Hux, refusing to go any further, having run for 5 minutes.  I made him walk some more (mean Mama!)

 I loved that the red sculpture is 18 salvaged steel oil tanks and entitled "The Way" by Alexander Liberman.  It was created between 1972 and 1980 with gifts from the National Endowment from the Arts.  It's awesome-but Hux had no desire to run through it...alas...he was cranky and hot!

Here are the other cool sculptures we could just see in the distance.  I wanted to head down the path to the Children's Sculpture Garden part, but Hux was having none of it.  So check out the silver tree on the far left and the black cannonball sculpture at the very back of the picture if you can.

Everything is in bloom-in the middle of March-crazy!

Hux liked the triangle sculpture on our way back.

Another awesome sculpture.

A lovely bench framed by lovely petals-what a great wedding location!

Hux said this sculpture looks like a finger.  I think he's right on!

Wednesday-Irish Stories, Irish Craft, Italian Pizza--we don't discriminate!

So this past Wed (March 14th), Hux and I hit the Kirkwood Library Story & Craft Time with the WUMCHA moms...

Hux and Will had a great time beforehand playing with puppets.

Hux really got into being a puppet himself!

Once storytime started, Hux was very attentive, however.  Here he is, with friend Oliver, paying rapt attention to the detailed story of St. Patrick.

 After the story, the kids got up to find hidden golden coins.  Hux and I thought we had found one...

 ....but it turned out to be an easter egg??  Not sure why it was hiding behind the book, but we were both a little sad not to find a coin ourselves (Oliver later found one to gave to Hux-thanks!).

 After two more stories it was craft time!  The finished creation is a pot of 'gold' with a shamrock in the middle and a rainbow up above.

 Hux is over the craft already Mommy...just let him play with his friends already!

We headed to Dewey's pizza two doors down for lunch-here are the silly boys
Hux, Will, Oliver and Hakon at the end-not so happy to have his picture taken...

 Hux loves to clown for the camera/friends!

Feeding Fishes at the MOBOT

Last Wednesday, it was such a nice day that we went to the Botanical Gardens after getting our haircuts.  After doing the scavenger hunt in the Orchid display and eating our World's Fair Donuts (great donut place right by the MOBOT that was our reward for doing well while getting our haircuts), we headed out to the Japanese gardens to feed the coy.

Alas, the geese were wise to what Hux's pellets were...FOOD!

 Finally Hux moved to higher ground!

At the end of our 3 hour odyssey, Hux, of course, had to ride the sheep.

Playtime for Hux!

Back on Feb 25th, Hux and I went to a Gymboree playgroup sponsored by WUMCHA.  I forgot my camera, but luckily our friend Katie took a few pictures of Hux getting into the parachute act--always my favorite part!

That following Friday, March 2nd, we went to the WUMCHA playgroup at the Ladue Early Childhood Center (just completed last year) where there is an open playtime on Fridays.  Talk about AWESOME!

Upstairs "firehouse" that Hux looked out of and waved to me!

Poor Hux, no water in the watertable.

Hux is the only one in the family who would care about March Madness, if he really understood what was going on :).

Hux loved the connected row of blue 'waves' to the flowers...he was hopping from flower to flower when they were grouped together, and walking the 'planks' of 'waves' around.

Here-Hux is pulling on the string to make the fake bird outside the fake treehouse rise and fall.  Good times!

Thanks goodness for John Deere!

I love this place-notice that it says "Firehouse" on the right and "School" on the left-a multi purpose playhouse!