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Star Horse

January 29, 2006 Kids

Tyler’s getting into the Star War movie series. Julia, who’s had enough of Luke Sykywalker and the gang and tells Tyler she’s sick & tired of his "star horse" movies. Izumi and I almost lost our morning coffee.

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Tyler hacks the pebble system

January 27, 2006 Kids

Tyler’s onto us. Izumi set up a little system with the kids to reward them for good behavior. The way it worked is that we had a jar of glass beads. Whenever they did something that we wanted to encourage, like make their bed without our asking them, clean up their room, or otherwise help [...]

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Hana-kuso

January 14, 2006 Kids

Sometimes are kids come blurt out the strangest things. Just tonight, out of the blue, Julia let us know that, "When I’m picking my nose. . .  I’m looking for diamonds."
Izumi and I looked each other just to make sure we heard the same thing then, busted out laughing.

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Our Italian Daughter

December 2, 2005 Kids

I think she’s been watching that character Kramer on Seinfeld too much.

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Deleted

November 15, 2005 Kids

Tyler told me yesterday that he learned a few new songs at school but couldn’t remember some of them because his brain "deleted" them.
I’m not sure if I should be more worried that he used a technical word out of it’s normal context or that he referred to his brain as something beyond his [...]

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500 pieces of candy in 90 minutes

November 1, 2005 Alameda

All the kids in Alameda have the day off from school on Halloween which just makes the waiting worse. Tyler woke up early, moaning that evening was hours away. It was 5:30am – I told him sleep makes time go by faster and convinced him to get back in his bed.
I got back from work [...]

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Burning Man Puppet Show

October 5, 2005 Kids

So Tyler & Julia are getting excited about Halloween – costumes are a big part of it. My sister also sent along some information about the Burning Man decompression party this weekend and while Izumi and I need to root around to find something interesting to wear, the kids already have their get up picked [...]

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The Walk to School

September 19, 2005 Education

Over on the work blog I’ve posted about switching jobs to work at Yahoo. I’ll be starting next week so I’m spending this week clearing the decks and getting ready. Tyler’s bummed because I will not be able to walk him to school anymore and it’s been the time of day when we get to [...]

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Sack Artist

September 14, 2005 Kids

Julia has taken to wearing an eyeshade when she goes to sleep at night. We have a couple of them from trips taken on Virgin Air. This one says “cat nap”

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First Day of School & Labor Day is surely mislabelled

September 3, 2005 Education

Tyler’s never been one to dread the classroom and despite having had only one month off for Summer because of his two months at Japanese public school (shhh, he still doesn’t know that the rest of his friends had three months off), he was eager to get back to see his friends and crack the [...]

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