Father's Day festivities

I had dinner with my parents on Father's Day. Visit my flickr site to see a few photos from the evening.
My mom and dad are back in the states for the summer and staying at an old farmhouse out off south Main not far from the airport. There's a strawberry patch on the property, so we had strawberry shortcake. Mmm-mmm. I wish I would've gotten a photo of that, but I ate mine too fast to think of it. And then I ate Nicholas' because, well, he left it sitting on the porch stairs.

Memorial Day pics

I posted photos of Nicholas at the Memorial Day parade on my Flickr site yesterday.
After about 45 minutes, we both got bored and decided to head back to the car. But first we stopped at Millenium Fountain. I ran into some friends who have four kids of their own, plus some stragglers. Seeing some kids was all it took for Nicholas to run right into the water and get soaked. The dad from the other family saw his kids run in and started to call out to stop them -- but caught himself. It's Memorial Day and you're only a kid once.

Playground photos

I just put up new photos of Nicholas on my Flickr site. They're from our trip to the "Castle Park" today. That's what he calls the old Project Playworks, a massive wooden playground that I played on as a kid. Come to think of it, I also made out with a girl there as a teenager.
It was moved from northeast Rockford out near the Speedway in Machesney Park.
Anyway, discerning viewers will notice that Nicholas is wearing the exact same shirt in both the playground shots and the bowling pics from February. That's because he chose his own clothes today.