Childrens!

Here are some pictures of the kids from the preschool I used to work for. There are more at the Flickr site.

Ms. Kristin teaching while Gabe... stares at a wall?

Here we have one of the afternoon classes sitting by the tree behind the play house. Our classes were ten to twelve kids, and there were two classes a day: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This class had a big range of ages. A couple of the girls were five, and the little boy Ms. Deb is holding was two.

Kristin and Elizah

Her daughter, not a student.

Hey everybody! Welcome. I'm Diego and I'll be your host today

This guy...aw man. This guy cracked me up constantly.

Claira Beara Curly Haira

At the beginning of class we'd play a bit, and then gather around for Circle Time. We'd talk about letters, colors, numbers, and the date. Then I'd read a story.

I know not mercy! Only rage!

After Circle Time we would have snack, and then Play Time. Ian here was actually being, believe it or not, a worm.

Probably a dinosaur

Eric (the guy on the left) drew a turtle for me one time.

There is paper in my hand!

It's true. After some time to play we'd have Project Time. It usually involved glue. Or paint. And of course, paper.

Seriously kids, shut it up.

Sometimes we'd listen to songs, or try to identify certain sounds, maybe from an animal, or vehicle.

I will support you my friend

If the weather was nice we'd go outside. The kids in one of the afternoon classes would play a game called Rocky. This was essentially Tag, but who ever was 'It' was called Rocky and those being chased would taunt 'It' by shouting, "Rocky!" I actually witnessed the evolution of this game, from the beginning of the year, and as far as I could tell they were initially trying to pretend to be the characters from Rocky and Bullwinkle but got bored with that and began to chase each other.

Blake


As previously mentioned; there are more pictures at my Flickr site.

House on Vine St.

We have no pictures of our current place or surroundings but will post them as soon as we do. In the meantime we are testing this new blog here. Let us know how you like it.

These are some pictures we took before we left Kansas. They are already full size, but clicking on them will take you to my Flickr account where you will find the other photos posted in this blog as well as some of my older comics.

Last, I'd like to apologize for the dates and times on the pictures. I forgot to change the settings on my dad's camera.

The grass will soon overwhelm the wife

When we first moved into our little house on Vine St. we had no lawnmower (or ambition to groom the yard) and therefore let the grass grow for weeks before finally succumbing to the dirty looks of our neighbors and mowing.


House Front
The Front of our house shown actual size! There's our plants Harvarton, and Blendermin. I didn't just make those names up...


House Back

Two-pots-and-flaps-of-siding-missing-from-the-wall seems to be the design theme of the front and back of our house. I think this was the one and only time I ever went outside. We had a red back door?


Fungus Amongus

The yard left uncut and flourishing on its own suprised Bec and I by producing some big'ol mushrooms right there in the front yard, close to the mailbox. As you can see, the biggest of them are as big as the house. It was a pain to try and park between them, but they sure did keep the bird crap off of the car - though - I'm not sure what creatures thrive on mushrooms, but that crap never did come off.


Bec - Pre leap into drainage ditch

If you close your eyes; it's almost like beach side property.