Speaking of baseball. Lillian went to her first ballgame last night with Mary and me, using our neighbor Cy’s season tickets. Lillian was able to stay awake until about 10, not a record but an impressive performance anyway. Sadly, she fell asleep just before the streaker, so she missed out on the most exciting on-field [...]
Archive for May, 2001
Roughing it
We’ve had a little bit of a campathon, going out the last two weekends in a row after not camping for years. The weekend before last we were up in Marin, in a redwood forest about 10 miles from the ocean, with a bunch of families from Laura’s preschool. Last weekend we were in the [...]
Dino links
Not a dinosaur. It is a pterasaur, which has a common ancestor with the dinosaurs but isn’t one of them. It also is not an ancestor of birds, which are a kind of dinosaur more closely related to Allosaurus and T. Rex and so on. We have been learning a whole lot about dinos, under [...]
Strong stuff
Auntie Frances just got out of the hospital the other day, and is still required to take it easy. In the meantime Gerry (Mary’s brother) has been having to run things himself, making sure James and Oliver get fed, changed and held and comforted and so on. These are of course the conditions — sleep [...]
It’s a boy It’s a boy
Lillian and Laura and Mary and I went to inspect their new twin cousins this weekend, on the same floor of the same hospital where Laura was born, and they (the cousins) look great. Oliver and Jack. Auntie Frances needed some rest after the delivery but was doing quite well when we saw her and [...]
Bob
I knew a guy in college who was in love with Stevie Wonder. He could name any tune after the first note or two; he would perk up and say, “That’s a Wonder.” Any little incident in everyday life could remind him of one Wonder or another, which we would go ahead and sing to [...]
Bad guys
In Peru, where things can always be counted on to go from worse to even worse without stopping at bad, people are happy today because one of the lesser links in a long chain of public crooks was brought back from Venezuela for his putative comeuppance yesterday. Here’s hoping this show trial goes better than [...]
Watermelon Sugar
You liked the book, you’ll love the band. Thanks to my connections in the Judicial Branch, I am now the president of the Jue-Kuster Household Chapter of the Trout Fishing in America Fan Club. Laura is the vice-president and power behind the throne, and Mary, because she’s not quite as crazy about them as me [...]
Science
Here is a cool science site. It’s for an age group a little over Laura’s, but she likes this kind of thing anyway.
Lullabies
I vaguely remember spending a lot of nights rocking Laura to sleep when she was a baby. I don’t do it nearly as much with Lillian. Either she sleeps more soundly, or we are better at figuring out what she needs. Still, there are some nights when I do need to walk her. It usually [...]
Kites
There is that famous scene in Stuart Little when Stuart puts on his sailor suit and goes down to the sailboat pond in Central Park, where he has a very salty time racing a stranger’s toy sailboat. Ten years ago I lived very near Central Park and I used to go down to that same [...]
Play
Here is a small collection of articles some guy put together on what the experts have been saying about play lately. Fun stuff. It made me think of the way Laura’s whole life is one big Pretend game. Fantasy play is of course a pretty big deal when you are five years old. Laura can [...]