Erin Go Bragh, 2009-style! 🙂 (See previous St. Paddy’s images & videos.)
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Author: The Nack Daddy
What happens when the Micronaxx take some Macronaxx to the Children’s Discovery Museum for some celebrations of the lunar new year? Why, a little trip through Saigon, of course. (More pics to come soon, I hope.)
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Hams by the Sea
Well someone is excited to visit the cliffs of Santa Cruz. 🙂
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A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog—plus a Grandpa
One of my favorite childhood possessions was & is a tiny boxed set of Mercer Mayer’s four books about “A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog.” Here my dad delights the boys—as he & my mom used to delight me—with a dramatic “reading” of one wordless tale. 🙂
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How To Stuff Your Dragon
Mom-O had the fun idea of celebrating Finn’s birthday with a trip to the nearby Build-A-Bear Workshop. Both lads got to pick out & create a new buddy—and both picked Toothless, scaly star of “How To Train Your Dragon.” Afterwards they introduced Grandma & Grandpa to the movie. Here’s a peek into the workshop:
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Happy Birthday, Big Finno!!
Somehow—to our absolute shock—we’ve done seven full laps of the sun since our once-wee man made his debut. (“The days are long but the years are short.”) Happy birthday, our blonde & dimpled treasure!
Stay tuned for more photos & videos from the celebration, but in the meantime check out a gallery of the marvelous Lego-themed cake Mom-O crafted & Finn decorated, on which each member of the fam + Grandma & Grandpa Nack appear. Here, let’s have Finn explain it; just don’t tell him I shared this clip with you. 🙂
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Brotherly Calisthenics
How does one work off a couple of delicious sliders & fries obtained at a Movable Feast truck? Like this, of course. And a 1 and a 2 and…
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Throwback Thursday: The Spatulists
Young Finnster (age 18 months) rocks out with Dad-O and a delicious, dough-clad spatula. See also more photos from that day with Grandma Nack.
We took advantage of President’s Day to make our first-ever visit to the San Francisco Zoo, meeting up with the guys’ longtime pal Magdalena & her family. Some fun bits:
- While there we learned that some rhinos prefer to file down their horns (like the guy we named “Stumpy”) and that some owls’ ears are positioned asymmetrically on their heads (one high, one low) to help them hear creatures above & below them.
- We cracked each other up by noting the absurdity of calling what amounts to a raccoon a “red panda” and then extending that “logic” to other animals. For example, we dubbed a house cat a “furry four-legged land octopus” and a flamingo a “soft-skinned pygmy rhino.” The more ludicrous, the better!
- After being thwarted in previous owl-quests (e.g. at the Oakland Zoo), Henry was thrilled to see some real live owls, one of which was named Athena. He happily trundled home with a little stuffed owl by that name.
Here’s a gallery from the outing.
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Lucky papa Valentines
I’m so charmed to have gotten some excellent loot for Valentine’s Day—from the lads a custom-made bowl, and from Margot a trio of Lego minifigures depicting the boys & me as a boombox-wielding band! I’m the guy with spiky hair & stubble. 🙂
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Turn that meat-frown upside down
Must be Guys’ Night. 🙂
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Private Aria
I came downstairs on Sunday morning to find this sign adoring a pillow-and-blanket fort the boys had constructed for their animals. Now I really want to hear this saber-toothed aria of which they speak! 🙂
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Nack, you’re a wreck!
Years ago in New York, I worked with a coder/heavy metal musician who sported butt-length blonde hair & leather pants at work. He had a charming habit of yelling things like “Nack, you’re a wreck!!” and then letting a falsetto phrase or two rip. For some reason Finn & his lion decided to channel him the other evening. :-p
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Throwback Thursday: A well-lit looen
I think I neglected to share Finn’s leonine antics from one year ago, so let me fix that now. 🙂
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His Cheetonic Majesty
You know those people (inevitably from Florida) who claim to see Jesus burned into their toast? Henry’s a bit like that, but he sees orange-clad Lego construction workers in his Cheetoes. 🙂
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Tooth Fairy Facts, by Finnegan Nack
I had no idea about all this—did you?—but according to the newly de-incisored Finnster:
- The tooth fairy lives in your heart.
- When you lose a tooth, she flies up out of your mouth to get it.
- Her husband is a strong dwarf who pries your mouth open.
- Once you run out of baby teeth, you don’t see her again.
- It’s unclear whether she reappears if you get old & lose teeth.
- Your fairy is as old as you are. When you’re 80 years old, she’s 80 years old.
- When she goes back into your mouth, a piece of money flies out of her pocket.
- She puts your teeth into a big bag so that when she loses a tooth, she can put in one of yours.
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Son & a Gun
“Sun’s out, guns out,” they say, but in foggy San Francisco, we have to go with “Sons out, guns out.” Here Henry explores the artillery at the Presidio.
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Retro sweetness: One sugared-up owl
Oh hi, don’t mind me—I’m just enjoying multiple suckers at once. Why, do I seem different? 🙂 — From Halloween 2013
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The Micronaxx ice bucket challenge
No one got doused with chilly water (frozen or otherwise) or lost a digit, I’m happy to report, during our Saturday visit to the San Jose Sharks practice ice rink with Finn’s pal Zach & his fam. The lads enjoyed tottering around on skates with the help of buckets on which they could lean. Check it out:
