I’ve always been a little bit skeptical of the milk-carton approach to kids’ safety when they participate in the Web. And I have skin in the game; Laura spends a whole lot of time on social networking sites, and recently Lilly has been doing a fair amount of Web surfing too, albeit mostly for Flash [...]
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The good fight
Laura and I took a day off school and work to do election-day campaigning for Eric Quezada, an old friend who was running for Supervisor (kind of like city council member) for the district that includes both the neighborhood where our home is and the neighborhood where Laura’s school is. It was a lot of [...]
Lilly in the house
Lilly is a pretty good shot. Every picture in this set was done by her, except the first one.
It’s cool to be reminded of what a place looks like from a view four feet off the ground.
Halloween at Lilly’s school
Lilly was a dog for Halloween this year. Her school has the nice tradition of a Halloween parade around the playground.
Later that evening we walked at least four miles, starting at Kristin and Mark’s place near Guerrero, wending our way up into Bernal Heights and then back over to Glen Park. Our kids are in [...]
Lilly in the media
Lilly’s class was featured in this story in the SF Chronicle yesterday and in this CNN report last night.
The teacher, Angelica Chang, has been speaking exclusively in Chinese to the kids all year. She didn’t even talk to us parents when the kids were around, so they wouldn’t catch on. This afternoon Monika, the mom [...]
Rockets
Lilly’s classmate Xavier was talking about shooting off toy rockets with his dad, and Lilly decided she wanted to do that too. So last week we ordered a kit from Hobbylinc.com and put it together, and today we went out with Xavier, Dan (his dad) and his big sister Guadalupe to a softball field in [...]
Jump
Lilly has been participating in a heart health program at her school. She went from two consecutive jumps to 50 at a time in about a week. She’s also been skating, with and without a hockey stick, and has a fine-looking swing with a bat. She spends more time than ever on her living-room trapeze, [...]
Goong Goong teaches characters
We threw a party for Lilly’s birthday a week after her actual birthday. All the aunts and uncles and cousins came over. The best present was a tablet on which you paint in water and it shows up like black ink, but disappears when the water dries. Her grandfather showed her how to hold the [...]
Kinderbanjo
Well that was interesting. I was just at Lilly’s kindergarten class for a song-and-snack to mark her birthday. When I walked into the classroom, an African-American boy named Durrell took one look at my gig bag and said, “That’s a five-string.” A five-string what, I asked him. “I don’t know. A five-string.”
After the songs and [...]
Finger puppets
Lilly calls him “my uncle Peter.” He has certainly become accomplished at the uncle-ly arts, chief among them that of making mere dads look kind of stodgy and lame by comparison. Right, thanks for the clothes, dad. Now uncle Peter, he gave me this cool set of knitted finger puppets that will encourage my creativity [...]
New Lost City Ramblers
I should say something about the concert we saw last weekend. Mary, Laura and I went over to Berkeley to see the New Lost City Ramblers, who have been collecting and performing old-time, mostly Appalachian music since well before I was born. The leader is Mike Seeger, who is brother to Peggy Seeger and half-brother [...]
Lilly’s selected works
Did Rothko have MS Paint when he was a kid?
(Click picture for slideshow.)
Lilly at school
Lilly spent the last couple of weeks of the summer going to day camp at Starr King Elementary, getting ready to start Mandarin immersion kindergarten there. (Started now, and going well, thank you.) We had a couple of playground get-togethers to meet the other families in the program. It’s a nice mix of people from [...]
Santa Cruz
Catching up on some of the summer activities: In the middle of August, on an impulse, we grabbed the last empty spot at the Henry Cowell campground up in the hills above Santa Cruz. We spent the weekend there hiking and goofing off, and then descended on the beach boardwalk on Monday for some intensive [...]
More pics
On Thursday we took an easy (for some people, maybe, not for me) two-mile hike from Emerald Bay up to Eagle Lake. Here’s that, plus the remainder of the pics I came home with.
(Click the picture to see the rest of them.)
Stretching out the summer
We are up in the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe for the week, staying in a big house we rented with three other families we know from preschool. I have pictures, but I sent my camera out with Laura this morning on an all-day hike, so the pics will come later. One of the dads [...]
The forgiving season
Mary has been away at one of those professional training things since Friday (the 11th) and it’s not going so badly here, considering. Lilly got a little querulous a couple of times in the first 48 hours, but seems to believe me when I tell her Mom’s return is closer and closer. I think [...]
Carousel
Here’s a fine picture of Laura and Lilly taken by Mary. She has this knack for getting pretty pictures from unusual natural lighting.
Ambulatory
Lillian started walking (lunging, technically) a week before her first birthday. She has also acquired another skill that may prove just as important, viz., drinking through a straw. She showed it off to Laura and me at the neighborhood cafe this weekend, acting all casual like she’d known the trick all her life but just [...]