Listen in as Henry & his classmates sing about muñecos (dolls), being pizzas (without anchovies), and more. 🙂
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Signing Things is Awesome
During WGE’s recent Family Fun Night, Finn & pals showed off their budding Sign Language skills via The Lego Movie’s iconic jam, Everything is Awesome:
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School’s Out!
Summer’s officially here at last, and the Micronaxx are thrilled! Margot & I were able to catch Henry’s kindergarten graduation ceremony on Thursday, enjoying some cupcakes & a mini concert (stay tuned for videos). Meanwhile check out our man celebrating.
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T-Ball Boogie
Who’s got four thumbs and loves their T-ball trophies? These guuuuuys. 🙂
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Bros Behold Lowe’s
Awesome parenting technique:
- Take dudes to In-n-Out Burger.
- Take their calorie-amped little bods to Lowe’s to burn off energy.
- Delight them by buying four bucks’ worth of “treats” (e.g. paint funnel, bucket).
Witness the results!
“Punch it, Dad-O!”
“Watch That Child”? I’d rather not. :-p
Portrait of Hannibal Lecter as a Young Man.
No tears in a bucket…
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Sweet Hen o’ Mine
This is your son.
This is your son jacked up on a *lot* of frozen yogurt.
🙂
Axl Rose, take it away:
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Air Show
Grandma Nack & I took the lads to Half Moon Bay’s Dream Machines car & air show a couple of weeks ago, then cruised down picturesque Highway 1, stopping off to buy fresh strawberries at a roadside farm. Check out our little gallery of the lads zip lining, battling one another in giant hamster balls, and more!
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Game Day
A couple weekends ago the Oakland A’s hosted a “Little League Day” at the Coliseum. We got to walk around the baseball field on the warning track, see the players up-close, warming up, and enjoy a game against the Chicago White Sox. We all had a blast. Here’s a fun little collage from the day:
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Día Multicultural
Check out our little song-and-dance men celebrating Multicultural Day at school. (You’d never know what a turbo-powered ham Finn can be while performing at home for a more limited audience. :-))
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School-sanctioned Mothers Day Goofiness
This is what happens when your first grader’s class invites moms to come in for a Mother’s Day breakfast & pictures. 🙂
Yesterday I sprung the guys a bit early from school so that they could enjoy Google’s spring carnival, an outing full of bouncy houses, carnival rides, and free food. In this little gallery you can see them going head-to-head on a bungee-cord race & sliding down the “Epic Journey,” plus Henry “defeating” my teammate Clement on the blow-up obstacle course.
Here’s a quick video of the shenanigans:
After the festivities, the guys swung by my office to visit their kid-app-making pals in the Imaginarium. Even though the kids’ lab was locked, Henry made an immediate bee line & squeezed in through a hole in the wall! Later he left a little message to Googlers: “Hola, nerds.” 🙂
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Cinco de G-Man
During last week’s Cinco de Mayo celebrations at school, Henry & his little chums cut a lot of rugs, gleefully clapping & executing “gancho” (hook) maneuvers. Here’s a little vid that Margot captured:
The boys delighted in doing tons of reading with Grandma Nack during her visit last week, chewing through all of How to Eat Fried Worms plus big chunks of other books. Here’s a glimpse of them cackling at some Frog & Toad:
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G-Man the Bike-man
Guess who’s getting that two-wheelin’ feelin’? 🙂
The boys & I recently had a ball attending Google’s Take Your Child To Work Day. I’ll hopefully have more photos to share soon, but in the meantime here’s a peek at Finn holding forth with some friends who were seeking his & Henry’s input on a new app for kids. I left a meeting expecting to find them quietly buried in Legos in the kids’ lab, but instead they were recording presentations in front of a whiteboard. Are they my boys or what? 🙂
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When life gives you snow…
…make a snowman. That’s what our G-Man did during our snow-extended stay in Leadville. Special thanks go to Auntie Laura for furnishing the great snowman-decorating kit! I’m just a tad surprised that the boys didn’t fashion a gory snow-scene after enjoying similar ones in Calvin & Hobbes. 😛 Here’s a handful of pics.
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The Hen from Snowy River
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Vanilla Icicle
Frozen Finny rawks out with the giant icicles he pried from Leadville eaves:
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Today’s Tom Sawyer
Amidst our snowy explorations on Thursday, Margot & I took Henry out for a restorative donut. While chowing down he noticed a lady shoveling out front. Luckily I caught his expression of bonkers delight the moment I suggested that he could join her. (Here’s the tiny gallery.) Back on went the boots & out he went. I told the owner that like Tom Sawyer’s friends whitewashing his fence, Henry would likely pay her for the chore privilege!
As it happens the bakery sits adjacent to the town newspaper, and upon hearing our story (San Jose Shorty Slings Snow?), the editor said that she might find a way to feature Henry in print. Stay tuned for the late edition!
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Snowbound!
This year for spring break we traveled back to our favorite mountain town, Leadville, Colorado. We’ve spent the week up here enjoying time with my folks in the high mountain air. The first couple of days were sunny, summery, and dry as a bone—spent in shirtsleeves at the park, tossing rocks into the river, and galavanting around town. The boys, especially Henry, were a bit bummed that the snow tubing and skiing opportunities were slim: it’s late in the season, many of the resorts are closed, and the only snow left was in shadowy, unmelted, crunchy drifts.
They still managed to goof around in the snow and even get a little tubing in on the hill across town. Then, much to our delight, Leadville got smacked with an enormous spring blizzard that started yesterday and has carried through today. We’ve gotten at least 18 inches of snow so far, and it’s still coming down. The boys, to put it mildly, are thrilled to see all that snow! Here’s a gallery of our snowbound antics.
We were actually supposed to leave for California today, but the interstate between here and Denver was closed, and driving conditions were so bad we decided against even trying to drive down the mountains. We’ll be here another full day so the boys can get their fill of powdery good times.
