Oh, baby!
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168 hours of “where’s mommy?”
Nam left for Japan last night and will return in exactly one week. Mina slept like a log, but Max woke up a bunch of times and needed attention… I’m sure they’ll take turns throughout the week, but for today, Mina is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Max is eating and recharging slowly, and daddy needs a lot more sleep. Luckily, our favorite nanny (P’Kaew) is working for us again and comes every day to help out.
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Rain shower
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Fred Rogers, master of the old school
Spurred by the recent Garden of Your Mind video, I downloaded several dozen episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and showed a few to Max and Mina yesterday in the background as they played with legos and watercolors. Mina was indifferent, but Max was entranced for a good while. There’s a lot of talking on this show, and I seem to remember that being an annoyance to me when I was watching it thirty plus years ago. Max seemed to lose interest as Fred droned on and on about things, but perked up during psychedelic trolley scenes and horrifying puppet shows – just as I remember doing. So if you want…
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Roscoe’s Chicken, Long Beach
Roscoe’s – approved by the Yoshida Clan. 5 thighs for $6 (take out only) cannot be beat. We tried the chicken, fries, and waffles, and ate them in a huge park we passed by. Next time, we’ll try the mac n cheese, collard greens, and sweet potato pie. Please excuse the chicken-grease-on-cellphone-lens photos.
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A baby fell from the sky
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Mommy & Mina
@Somewhere, USA
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George’s Bird by Max
When we visited Monterey last month, both Max and Mina got to hold one of George’s birds during the Good Old Days festival in Pacific Grove. Max drew a very nice picture of a tropical bird today and when I asked him what kind of bird it was, he answered, “George’s bird.” Good memory, Max!
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bathtub punks
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Skating at HB State Beach / Easter Candy Hunt
There’s tons of vids on my drive but it takes a long time to get to those, ya know? Anyway, the community Easter egg hunt was cool except for the lack of eggs (Lack of funding? Envirobullshit? No one knew.).
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all made of stars / bit by a bad dog
We just got back to our house last night and it is all crazy unpacking, cleaning house (plus spontaneous furniture rearrangement) and getting ready for school (for Mina only) and work tomorrow, but I need to write this down lest I forget… We arrived here in the middle of a ferocious heatwave; the locals say it got so hot that water buffalo died because they got too hot and their livers burst (!). We took the kids to play at the big bounce house at Big C and basically sweated out their own body weight. Then I dropped off everybody at home because I had to change out a bad…
