This is what happens when you let a couple of high-energy chicos pro-wrestle one another at a beach house…
…and then go hiking in the woods.
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Despite freezing our butts off last weekend (seriously, the temperature dropped 40º en route from San Jose to our Sunset Beach campsite), we had a ball as usual hanging out with tons of friends large & small. Henry, having fallen head over heels last year for our friend Jake’s shovel, was delighted to bring his own shovel this year. To tell the tools apart, the boys dubbed them “Seymour El Macho” and “Seymour Junior.”
Here’s a gallery of some of the first-kite-flying, kid-burying, craft-making, surf-jumping, s’more-toasting good times. 🙂
If there’s one thing I’ve taught my sons, it’s respect for their elders. 😉
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
