Yesterday, Anthony attended the birthday party of his five-year-old honorary-cousin, Katie Patterson. (Katie's daddy has been a friend of our family for 30 years, so has acquired family-member status).

The party was at a fun-center with bowling and other games, and crazy lighting that changed colors every few seconds. You didn't really pay much attention to it... one quickly learned to tune it out... but the camera doesn't, of course, so the lighting is wild and different in every shot. We were near the wash of sunlight coming from some windows, so that helped even things out a bit, but [...]

Geese make a lot of poop on the lawn, but they sure are pretty in flight, and while landing. The full-sized version of the photo above (click on the photo or here) shows geese in various stages of landing, all pretty, so zoom up for best effect.

Past posts featuring geese in flight include Keeping the Geese In Line and Flying Feathers.

In the "Loose Tooth" post a couple of weeks ago, Anthony was wearing a T-Shirt he'd made with his Aunt Natalie. Natalie is an elementary-school art teacher, so is always full of fun ideas for kids. For the conflagration of cousins earlier this month, where all my folks' six grandkids got together for the first time, she made up personalized aprons for the kids, got blank T-shirts and fabric paint and stuff, and had an event the kids loved.

The letter stamps were actually pretty difficult to use, because (for reasons I can't quite imagine) the letter's mirror-image was shown [...]

While we've been on our trip to The States, Anthony heard that Mommy had progressed to a new level in her ballet dancing, so he wanted to send her a letter to congratulate her...

Anthony can write Hiragana fine (one of the three Japanese scripts), but he can't yet write kanji ("Chinese characters") except his name, so I wrote the address and had him copy it. It's not a good idea to do this very much, because the order that the strokes of each character are written is very important, so no experience is better than untrained experience. But doing [...]

I should have included this on yesterday's post about the herding-cats nature of photographing groups of kids and family photos. My mom took this picture two weeks ago, with my camera, but I hadn't gotten around to even looking at the shots until this evening.