| 15 February 2008 |
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While I was at home job-hunting Isaac took some photos of Lila at her ballet class.
This is the first time she's been properly outfitted with tights, shoes, and a tutu.
Thank you so very much, Isaac, for keeping me (virtually) right there!
Later that evening Isaac takes a photo of the fish at the Taipei Restaurant (in the Lakeshore neighborhood).
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| 14 February 2008 - Valentine's Day |
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Rose adorns our Valentine's Day breakfast plates with heart-shaped bread covered with chocolate-hazelnut spread, kiki, and mandarin oranges. Mmmmmm.
At the kids' school it's evidently asphalt hockey day. Here Lila waits for the puck to head her way.
Isaac races down the field toward the garbage can goal, ready for the slap-shot.
Lila & Eugenia in line, waiting their turn.
Hey, no high-sticking! That's Isaac in the green, Lila in the pink.
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| 13 February 2008 |
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Lila at ballet class.
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| 12 February 2008 |
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Lila's turn for a field trip, this time to a presentation by the San Francisco Orchestra.
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| 11 February 2008 |
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After many years of Angelina Ballerina Lila attends her first ballet class. It's a bit of a sprint across town, but we make it with a few minutes to spare.
Lila seems to be the only child with any martial arts experience, which seems to be helping her pick up the basics very quickly. After class she asks "is this all there is?" but decides to return to give it another go.
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| 10 February 2008 |
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We head into Golden Gate Park to visit with the cousins. Here's Isaac on the very high-speed slide at the Children's Playground.
Afterwards we dine in the newly-opened Pacific Catch restuarant at the corner of Lincoln and 9th. Here's Adam, Analie, Felicia, and Dziadziu, post-ordering. (The food was pretty good. The Hawai'ian poke salad was actually pretty pleasing, despite the tourist vibe of the place. Cautiously recommended.
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| 9 February 2008 |
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Isaac: Here is my plant. It has grown super tall! It is 6 inches tall & 1/3 inches long! I hope you like the picture of my plant.
Today we went to the Bernal Heights library closing party, a panorama of which is shown here. Sadly, our friends, who live near-by, weren't able to join us. The kids painted cloth bags (we're über-green here) and snacked on all sorts of savory and sweet goodies, and a good time was had by all.
My Mom was a teacher of French, German, and ESL. One of her running jokes was intentionally misusing the word "peanuts" for the French term prix fixe (fixed price), as she'd heard one of her students do many years before. So it was with some glee that I noticed this egregious mistake in a menu posted in a café window as I was strolling the neighborhood:
Isaac takes a photo of one of his goldfish.
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| 7 February 2008 |
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Lila & Isaac redeem one of their rewards for a summer of industrious reading: tickets to the Aquarium of the Bay. They petted damn near everything in this tide pool before they were done!
On the slidewalk they check out the sea-life swimming around them.
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| 2 February 2008 |
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Isaac took this photo of my Apple G4 PowerBook. It's about two-and-a-half years old. I'm waiting for the Penryn Intel updates to the MacBook Pro, due any day now, before upgrading. My rule of thumb is to wait until performance doubles; this jump, from PowerPC to Intel, will be much more than that. I can hardly wait.
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| 1 February 2008 |
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From the public library, one of his recent favorite haunts, Isaac got a book about braiding hair for Lila. She asked me to apply this six-braid style this morning.
Unfortunately, it was a bit too tight and it bothered her all day. These photo was taken at days end, when Lila wanted nothing more than to be rid of it all.
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