Everything is awesome

What did I like about the Lego Movie?

1. I liked watching it with you!

2. I liked the intensity of the graphics.

3. I liked the speed of the movement. certainly not boringly slow.

4. I liked the variety of characters, all using legos to make them.

5. I liked that they made different kinds of vehicles and animals all using legos.

6. I liked the speed with which they made these different things.

7. I liked the colorfulness of the people in the lego movie. A couple of different colors.

8. I liked that there was a blind character.

9. I did really like that they showed that sinful and very sinful characters can sweep in swiftly and lure, even the strongest and boldest, unsuspecting superhero into sin.

10. I liked that they quickly left that sinful environment and that the superhero was able to get out of that snare. {that is not always the case} Superheroes sometimes are never able to get out of snares that they get entangled into.

11. I liked that the fall of Emmett led him to meet the man upstairs. 12. And I liked that there was a real line between the reality of the family and the play of the legos. That made the story all that much more endearing to me. Because, parents and kids can play and talk about all kinds of things with legos and other kinds of play and learn some real lessons and not have to get entangled in real sin as they work out what is really expected of them in their real behavior. That is only if we can know the line between the real and the fictional!

Maybe, tomorrow I will write about what I didn't like about the Lego Movie. We'll see.

Tears and Tiers! peers and piers?

Oh, what a whirlwind weekend? I came home to tears in my Ezra's eyes. I opened the letter, you said. I am "unaccepted". Not quite the expectation that I had for a usual Friday commute home. The letter clearly said "to the parents of..." Ezra Walker. I rarely share those things with you, unless they have good things to say. Maybe, I am shielding you a bit much. Things can't always say good things about you. You are my treasure, but you got a 2 and you knew you did. What happened? We've been reading before we talked, just about. Maybe too much Wii? Maybe you took the test on a bad day? Whatever. The result took us on a dear and great adventure that I think we'd ever had. We've absolutely never gone, just you and me and your dad on a trip, just the 3 of us. Wasn't that nice. Maybe that is what this is all about. Maybe not going to Fries will give us time to be just a trio, for a minute or two? Imagine that?

Thank you Elizabeth! We went to the aquarium!

Middle School is in the fall---Here are the graduation photos

___________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________<>Ezra's little trip to the Strawberry Farm some years ago.Bluejays Don't Beg

Out came the tooth, Finally!

Oh my dear, what a stubborn tooth that was. I think you were afraid for that tooth to come out. It was the biggest baby tooth that I have seen come out of anyone's mouth and I have seen an awful lot of baby teeth. I said to myself, he is a real Walker! Mother Walker, Grandma Rosalee warned me about mirrors in the baby's crib and teething problems. I was watching. Little Danny was the first one of the Walker boys who I watched have the double tooth problem. I was still watching, all of the time.

This baby tooth was monumental for me. You knew it was and it was your decision to take it out. You had pain relief from a half an hour of tylenol and you were determined, because when I shook it, I felt very little movement of the tooth. You had to pull up on it and you did. You woke me up a couple of times in the night to give me a kiss and I felt like Samuel sensing the Lord's call on his life.

God said to me at each kiss, "Tell me this isn't the best thing ever?" I said Yes Lord it is the best thing ever. Those kisses are the greatest treasure and I am the recipient!

No More Baby Tooth, but we are working on something that is lasting, in our relationship. Wow, you are such a fabulous young man!