Saw a preying mantis at the kiddo’s during drop off today.
Morning hike with the kiddos at the “A” mountain in Tempe. Was super proud of the kiddos, especially the one with a broken arm who, less than a week ago, said he couldn’t do anything anymore.
It took an entire week but the kindergartner had a splendid day at school. He’d been apprehensive, worried, and scared. But today, it was an unqualified success. He was so proud of himself.
Pensive on his way to school.
He’s still a little scared and doesn’t go into the classroom right away, but today was a good day. He got a sticker, and the teacher had a pencil grip that helps him write with his cast.
We started kindergarten today!
I’d like to say it was a hit, but I can’t. First day jitters with the kiddo. We’ll do better on Monday.
A fasle start on post-pandemic date night.
So last Saturday we got a date night, courtesy of my wife’s sister who was in town. It was our first since the before times.
But less than hour into it, my sister in law called and gave us some bad news!
My oldest was doing a “trick” on the monkey bars for his uncle and fell.
To be honest, it was hard for me to see the kiddo in so much pain and to be uncomfortable these past few days, but we are rounding the bend. Update in 5 weeks, doc said.
Here’s a (possibly) mind-blowing fact: just about every time you load a web page on a browser, or click to a new experience inside an app, there’s code being run that sends your data to an ad exchange, which then broadcasts that data to hundreds of potential bidders (themselves connected to countless actual advertisers). For every click of yours, picture a dense bundle of data going into the cloud and instantly duplicating into hundreds of copies to thousands of servers, each one accessing millions of rows of data to figure out who you are. That’s the pulsing, arterial information flow of the modern mobile internet, and it beats billions of times a day.
Happy Independence Day, folks!
Reading with grandpa. . . . . . My Dad got his turn to come out and visit. Itâs been longer since weâve seen him than my mom, at nearly two years. He was very excited to have his grandkids read to him. Here, Paco picked a board book. #family #monochrome #iphone12promax
Reading with grandpa. 📷
My dad drove out to visit us; it’s been two years since we’ve seen him. The big kids were stoked to share their books with him. Dad was more stoked to read the books with them.
Dancing with Gram. . . . . . #shotoniphone #monochrome #iphone12promax #blackandwhite
Portrait of the missus and the baby. Took this quick snapshot while the three brothers were playing in the splash pad after we got hamburgers and went to the park. 📷
Morning smiles.
Finally got around to importing my CD (!) archive of old iPhotos libraries into Lightroom and came across this gem of an iPhone 3G screenshot.
On Friday, we got our first date night since the before times thanks to my mom who came to visit.
Date Night, the first since the Before Times.
Got some developed that has been sitting for a few months. This shot, cropped from 6x6 medium format, was among the gems.
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Playtime, Fall 2020.
My mom came into town this weekend and is enjoying every minute she can with her grandkids.
Oof. The 3yo just spilled cup of noodles on himself after insisting he could “do it himself.” Poor kiddo.