Happy Halloween!
Posted October 31, 2009
on:Clara’s 3rd Halloween — and she definitely got the concept this year (she even practiced trick-or-treating on our door yesterday). We went to the big downtown safe trick-or-treat extravaganza/mob scene and then tried out the other houses on our new street — only one of which had even bought any candy since apparently no one ever comes trick-or-treating there (one of the others gave us a persimmon, and the third with people home gave us a full-size candy bar out of their freezer.) Then we went up to Lisa’s (and probably was one of their only trick-or-treaters for the night there too.) Last weekend Clara went to a Halloween party and yesterday was the parade at daycare and a party at the Little Gym, so I think she definitely has had a full Halloween experience.
Here’s our little construction family — appropriate, we thought, after all the house renovations we’ve been doing!
Here she is in the parade at daycare:
Happy Birthday Clara!
Posted October 25, 2009
on:Clara turned 2 today! With the impending move (we’re about half way packed and the house should be ready to move into in about 2 more weeks of fix-ups) we didn’t manage to throw her a party or anything, but tried to fill the day with some of her favorite things and will be bringing lots of cupcakes to her daycare class tomorrow.
She’s talking up a storm these days — our current favorite is when she comes over and asks “whacha doing mommy?” and then when you answer says “oh” like it’s something profound. She parrots back pretty much everything so we’re trying to be careful with what we say. She talks a lot about her best friend Camryn at school and we’re all very sad that Camryn and her family are moving to Texas in 2 weeks! The two of them have been together at daycare since Clara was 3 months old and just love each other. Clara talks about her all the time — “Camryn is a busy bee” (their 2’s class at daycare) — and Camryn is incredibly useful for positive peer pressure (look, Camryn’s doing that, why don’t you try it?) She still loves to color and paint, to hang on any parallel bar she can find (especially at her weekly Little Gym class), to go on the swings and slide at the park over and over and over again, to watch Curious George (part of our nightly bedtime routine) or read her Curious George books, to watch Elmo, jumping (which she really wants to do but can’t quite get both feet to time it right yet), to dance (especially in the bed of “Abba’s white truck”), to sing the “spaghetti song” (on top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese…), to help with the laundry, to scold the cats (“No sitting on the table Mitzy!”), to push her baby doll around the house in the toy stroller, to make cookies (real with me and the ones in her toy kitchen). She’s also very into throwing food and pretty much everything else she gets her hands on onto the floor, especially when she’s done eating.
And, after all the fun (and chocolate) today, her birthday present to us was going to bed early tonight!!!
links for 2009-10-09
Posted October 9, 2009
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Brian's joining an impressive group of folks for a 1-day event in San Fran.
links for 2009-09-29
Posted September 29, 2009
on:Happy Birthday Grandma
Posted September 24, 2009
on:Clara (and me) wishing my mom and very happy birthday!!!
links for 2009-09-24
Posted September 24, 2009
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Clara would love this exhibit made of cardboard boxes. She's been making tunnels out of the ones we have at home.
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Bill's car show was in this NY Times article talking about the Packards that were going to the show.
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Missed this press release a few days ago about my friend Greg. Happy birthday and congrats to him!
links for 2009-09-22
Posted September 22, 2009
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Congrats to S for a paper he co-authored appearing in the October issue of the journal Plant Disease (almost 2 years after he left that position)
links for 2009-09-18
Posted September 18, 2009
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Through the project, overseen by M.I.T.’s Senseable City Laboratory, 3,000 common pieces of garbage, mostly from Seattle, are to be tracked through the waste disposal system over the next three months. The researchers will display the routes in real time online and in exhibitions opening at the Architectural League of New York on Thursday and the Seattle Public Library on Saturday.
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Wow – stress may keep away mosquitos?
links for 2009-09-16
Posted September 16, 2009
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Brian's article for Nieman Reports
links for 2009-09-15
Posted September 15, 2009
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Puzzle Day got a mention in this write-up of this past week's tournament in Alameda. Clara and I made a quick appearance after lunch to promote our Feb 20-21 event.
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