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:
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Author: The Nack Daddy
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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Of Eddies & Yetis
At noon yesterday we were in shirtsleeves, happily tossing rocks into Arkansas River rapids. This morning we’re in a whiteout, pulling on boots before more sledding. What a great trip!
“Did you say ‘eddy’ or ‘yeti’?” asks Henry, below. I’m just proud that he knows both terms. 🙂
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Slide of the Happy Idiots
Two squirrels, one tube—”and now Finn’s glasses are bifurcated!!” declares Hen. Check out some big, if somewhat destructive, fun we had yesterday:
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Leadvillans 2015
We arrived in Leadville yesterday to find amazingly warm weather yet enough patches of snow to keep the guys constantly entertained. In this gallery you can see them drawing with Grandma, firing snowballs at me & Grandpa, enjoying some root beer floats, and horsing around in rusty old mining equipment (“I didn’t get lockjaw!!” declares Henry with great pride 🙂 ).
The boys are raring to go visit the fam in Colorado next week. In anticipation of that, here’s Skiier Hen hitting the slopes two (!!) years ago (man, can it have been that long already?).
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Cable Cars!
Somehow despite living so close to San Francisco, we’d never actually gotten the lads aboard the famous cable cars. Today, following a fun visit to the Exploratorium, we put that bit of bad parenting to rest. 🙂 Check it out:
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The Cat in the Hat
Finn’s been reading up a storm lately, and the other day I heard him, Margot, and Henry cackling as he blazed through an out-loud reading of The Cat In The Hat. Naturally as soon as I tried to take a video he clammed up & they boys started clowning around, but I was able to capture a few shots of the proceedings.
I never quite got around to posting this footage last summer after we enjoyed a thrilling ride in a vintage powerboat own by our friend Pauline’s friend John. Now, courtesy of the video-making technology I’ve been working on at Google, here’s a brief peek at Micronaxx on the waves:
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Throwback Tuesday: Hearts Aflutter
From the days when El Finnster didn’t fight off a good smooch. 🙂
Seven years ago today: Four “Jeeps” (GP’s, i.e. grandparents) + one very micro Finnster. 🙂 Not shown: the part where, if I recall correctly, Finn then peed on my dad. More photos from that day.
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Sunset Beach
“The best thing about San Jose,” I always tell people, “is that you can easily escape & quickly go somewhere more interesting.” We did just that last Sunday, taking the boys to horse around with sand crabs & each other at Sunset Beach (a bit south of Santa Cruz). Here’s our gallery.
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Home Run Hitters
The Bash Brothers’ mini-slugfest continues at T-ball. 🙂 Note the moment where Henry decides that a missed high-five is reason enough to reverse course.
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Choco-boca
Glug glug glug glug. — Son #1 🙂
