It’s 90 minutes until Earth Hour here on the West Coast. Join millions in giving our planet a break – power down between 8:00-9:00pm tonight . — We’ve experienced unique weather during the first week of Spring. Yesterday and the day before last we had rain, snow, sleet and hail, plus clear blue skies intermingled at various times of the day. Much of the same today — it’s snowing as I type this. Here are some pics of Dutch and me on some adventures. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Adventures a week into Spring", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/03/29/adventures-a-week-into-spring/"...

It snowed yesterday morning (and this morning too) but only a little bit; yep, it’s a week into Spring, and we live in a part of Oregon that rare sees snow. In one day we truly saw all four seasons. Even still Dutch enjoyed his slide during the break in the weather… He also enjoyed roaming around the grass with his Daddy… can you tell there’s something in my hand he wants? SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dutch enjoying his slide", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/03/28/dutch-enjoying-his-slide/" });

Dutch is a walking billboard for his student parents Pray for us as we persevere in the joyful seminary journey. — You can join in a community of those attending seminary, those curious about it, and those praying for students and professors at GoingtoSeminary.com. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My Ma + Pa are Going to Seminary", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/03/12/my-ma-pa-are-going-to-seminary/" });

Saturday three generations of “boys” went to the OSU hoops game Saturday (the Beavers lost their record 18th consecutive conference game, ending the season 0-18 in the Pac-10 — but I must say they fought hard!). Papa had connections to some tickets in the best possible seats for bringing a 14-month-old boy — and Dutch loved every minute of it (see video at bottom). Dutch was so attentive to the game… All smiles with Daddy… He was rockin’ to the band… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Some O S U hoops with the boys", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/03/09/some-osu-hoops-with-the-boys/"...

Dutch was singing the other day. Click to listen to his sweet tones…  Dutch singing 3/4/08 [0:24m]: Download SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dutch singing a little jingle", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/03/06/dutch-singing-a-little-jingle/" });

God has graced us so much recently with great weather. Dutch took advantage of the sunshine on his new slide and playground equipment. Many more adventures await him! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Joyful outdoor boy", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/03/02/joyful-outdoor-boy/" });

Dutch now has a little red Tonka truck sort of like the one his dad had as a kid. He’s enjoying it to the fullest! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dutch and his Tonka truck", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/02/27/dutch-and-his-tonka-truck/" });

Guess who’s excited for the Daytona 500 today? Notice what’s left of his car … he so content to play with a little flat car with four wheels but no body. What a creative little boy! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dutch + his racecar sounds", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/02/17/dutch-his-racecar-sounds/" });

The snow is almost gone here (okay, it’s all gone, except for four really small patches — see right), and we had the rare Oregon winter day occurrence of blue sky and no rain. (Yippee!) While I (Jeff) was upstairs much of the day working on some seminary homework, there were breaks here and there to enjoy our precious son Dutch, and later to go for a (short) run with my beautiful wife. Dutch has become quite the walker you know, and loves to strut his stuff. With a clear day, Dutch took his walking show on the road… — For those interested, the following video was from...

Dutch loved the snow in the past few days. While there are still traces outside today, he was content to work on his motor skills walking and talking and learning new tricks. The other day we backpacked around the yard and driveway, trudging through the snow… Dutch’s newest skill is to walk, then sit down and then get back up on his feet without help or using any object for leverage. This morning was the first time I’d seen him do it, and then tonight he let us watch him do it over and over… Perhaps we should call him a walker who can crawl, rather than a crawler...