Category: parenting
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C.’s PTA meeting
Today I met with C’s French teachers. Some cool highlights Kate is the leader in the advance French group Kate is well liked by all her classmates Kate is like a flower while the others are bees around her. She doesn’t seek out friends, others seek her out She was very shy before, but she is…
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Kate’s PTA Meeting
Today I met with Kate’s French teachers. Some cool highlights Kate is the leader in the advance French group Kate is well liked by all her classmates Kate is like a flower while the others are bees around her. She doesn’t seek out friends, others seek her out She was very shy before, but she…
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Story Of 2 Girls
C. decided that she liked the name ‘K.’ and she wants her alias to be ‘clara’ so we actually changed her name officially in school to ‘C.’. She had me write out this story for her and she supplied the drawings and the words.
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Time With Mom
Weekend with mom was very fun, my mom just turned 65 this year. Pick her up from SF and drove to Oakland to have a facial together. Had a very nice nap. Mom: “my friends would like to go to Europe next year.. pause” Me: “Do you guys enjoy tour packages?” Mom: “No we hate…
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I Should Have 10 More Kate’s
I dropped off Kate at school and her teacher came up and we chatted a bit. She was telling me that Kate is expressing herself well in French and she wanted to find out how ‘deep’ Kate’s vocabulary was. Since I don’t know French, I couldn’t tell her 🙂 But I’m sure it’s good enough.…
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Keeping entertained during a flight
The flight back from Paris with Kate was very pleasant and we both looked forward to the end of the 2 week vacation. We came up with a few games to keep us entertained. The most fun one was a made up game of ask the 8-ball I wrote up 3 pieces of paper with…
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video: kate no lumps in my crepes
Kate loves crepes, almost every weekend she helps me make them and we talk about lumps <br> <br> http://www.youtube.com/v/avZdr8UxMA4
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single dad traveling with a kid in Paris
Eiffel Tower, Seine River, Louvre Museum: from 5 year old’s perpective, she can care less. Where’s the ice cream place, crepes? tired of walking, not the metro again, are we there yet? Kate is a pretty good traveler, but thinking from her perspective, I can understand. My days with her here in Paris is not…
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Warning
warning Dad! Apparently Kate has learned the meaning of warning from one of the poems in Where the Sidewalk Ends. Then she saw the warning signs about not putting your fingers between the doors in the Paris metro. The entire week, I’m getting warning drawings as I deny her a 2nd helping of ice cream. …