Nathan’s first Upward basketball game of the season was this morning. Watching him is different now. Last year, he was on the tail end of goofy little boyness. I think this year he is at the very beginning of the purposeful and concentrated movement that will explode in adolescence. He’s beginning to develop something to … Read more
Tonight we’re camping out in the living room. We had hot dogs for dinner. We’re making s’mores later. Here’s Aaron winning dominoes, the first game of the night. Uno, Battleship, and Monopoly Junior are all potential candidates for later appearances. At the end of the evening, we’re going to build forts out of the couch … Read more
I had a particularly delicious bowl of pho with Melanie today, thereby inaugurating 2009 as the seventh different calendar year in which we’ve enjoyed Viet Huong together. Burned out on Vietnamese food? Who, us? Not yet. I threatened to tell a story on her today, and I don’t think she believed me, so here goes. … Read more