Monday, April 15, 2024
'74 Crownies
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Frank and the eclipse
Bloomington was in full totality during the eclipse. Ilana and her visiting friend Emily went to a special show at the stadium. Matt stayed home with Frank and Simon. Picture of Frank during the eclipse pointing towards the sky. He's proudly wearing the birthday gift we sent to him, the kid watch. He's very pleased with it, likes to wear it and put it on and off. It has a beeper/alarm that he enjoys a lot. He really can't tell time but, as Ilana puts it, there's a lot of imaginative time-based play going on.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Tiny Simon
How about a nice picture of Tiny Simon born Feb 13. I know that we're not always going to call him Tiny Simon because he's going to grow up into a big boy before we know it. But a nice picture and a lovely smile. Miss you Tiny Simon!
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Big time birthday party
These days, you have to have a theme for a child's birthday party. For Frank's 3rd birthday, Ilana chose "First Responders" as a theme. Even when I was there last month, I suggested that maybe a policeman might come for a visit to Frank's birthday party which was at a community center. To her delight, they told her that a policeman would come.
So Ilana and Matt carefully let Frank and all his day care buddies that a policeman might come. Frankie was worried he would be arrested. No, no three year olds would be arrested.
Also the fire dept came, can you believe it?
So the when the policeman arrived, it was not just one policeman, it was the entire shift! 8 police cars; 21 people showed up for a 3 year old's birthday party at the community center. True story! Here's the picture to prove it. I think people in the minority neighborhood were concerned, 8 police cars showing up? Some neighbors asked 'everything ok up there?"
Ilana thought maybe they were heavily staffed because they are on the full eclipse path. Everything is closed down on Monday. Maybe there was nothing else else going on at 10 am on a Saturday morning in Bloomington IN.
But, they are NEVER going to beat this party, no way!
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Genius Meal Train
Somebody had a genius idea for a meal train dessert. This family has an almost 3 year old and a new baby. She sent over a small frosted cake. But the sprinkles were in an attached separate bag. So the three year old could put the sprinkles on the cake.
Of course he loved it! Genius! A very good idea, one of the best!
Frankie (in his trademark leopard shirt) demonstrates.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Giving our Archives presentation
On Friday night, the six of us in our Archives Hearth Group presented our projects at Temple. These groups are designed to help people get to know each other. Supposed to last six weeks, we're almost a year. These art projects address the problem of how to construct something that will communicate some of our family information to others, especially the younger generations. So we all made one. They are mounted on the walls in a hall off the main lobby. We all made a two minute speech introducing our work. Here I am, doing it.
I think I need images of all of them.
I was nervous at first thinking of producing an art piece. But not so bad! Many thanks to our leader Ken and our (accidental) artist in residence Mercer.
Monday, March 4, 2024
Great day in San Francisco
I traveled to San Francisco for the day yesterday. Only problem was the logistics of getting back, we didn't get home until 2:30 am.
I went by myself. The main event was the Chopin Birthday concert played by Robert Schwartz. Fabulous! He does such a wonderful dramatic job with Chopin pieces. And everything else. We all were entranced from the very start. He treated us warmly after the concert. So worth it!
We also went to Mandalay Burmese restaurant. I definitely need to go there again. I will post pictures next time. JJ and I had a wonderful time. Prior to the restaurant we went to the tower at the de Young museum.
San Francisco, such a beautiful city.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Introducing Simon Arthur
You can see that no blog entries since Feb 13; that's why.