Our grandson Sidney has been a character in this narrative for the last five years as we watched him grow from a baby cutie to an articulate five year old. Each Thursday for most of those years the three of us visited parks and galleries and the kitchens of friends, we talked and shopped and […]
Life is complex. Complexity compounds upon itself when technology comes into play…you know the story: you get a new router and then your printer doesn’t work and the old range extender doesn’t work so you have to buy NEW extenders which, of course, won’t sync with the wifi…arggghhh (thanks for the help Robert). So Thursday […]
Thursday was “Sidney Day” which has now become “Sidney and Vivien day” since Vivien joined the group on December 3. When Sidney thought about a baby coming last summer it looked like this… which in reality isn’t too far off the way it is playing out… The event of being born is the same as […]
It WAS Sidney day but it began quietly on the deck doing my five 1-minute warmup drawings of my breakfast (Hi Katy)… then the dash to Portland to pick-up Sidney from Camp and grab some lunch for us… before heading off to the last swimming lesson with Sam who miraculously has taught this boy to […]
95 degrees here today friends. Yikes. We picked up Sidney at day camp and headed to the Singer Hill Cafe for lunch where Sidney and I did some “Maze” drawings…me following him… and after lunch a quick story (the book available was called “Bad Habits” which Sidney pronounced “enjoyable”… before heading across the street where […]
This week was Sidney’s spring vacation so we got to reprise our FAVORITE activity… “roaming the city.” First we headed to Cargo to see the kokeshi doll extravaganza (me) and the train (Sidney) a romp in Wilshire Park… lunch with Doug and Fin… then home for some puzzle working…Sidney likes easy ones and hard ones… […]
R, Sidney and I have a lot of “traditions” we’ve established in the last three years and one of those is “Conker Park” in the fall. It involves loading the top of a riding toy in the park with conkers and then making them fly off… we even went in late summer, even though we […]
Well it’s been two months since our last “Sidney Day” and the start of full time school. We’ve only managed one visit in that time, and I have been missing the weekly view into this energetic life. But…hooray…we’re back on track for our mostly-weekly visits. We picked Sidney up at school Monday and saw his […]
But for the first time in a few years we will not be heading up for “Sidney day” because he starts full-time preschool today. Last week we had our last of such days, and though Sidney will still be a delightful part of our lives, the weekly conversation about this and that is complete. Since […]
For three years R and I have spent one day a week with our grandson Sidney. In September Sidney will be in school everyday and our daycare days will end, so these last few “Sidney Days” are precious…this week we had coffee and bubbles on the deck then headed downtown to Blackfish gallery to see […]
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