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Tag: Family

  • MSU 4-H Children’s Garden

    On Sunday morning, Lila, Eva and I visited the 4-H Children’s Garden at MSU. It was a beautiful day, and there were a few other small groups of people strolling around. In the back corner of the garden, obscured by the large tree in this photo, there is a play train. On the other side…

  • Lila and Eva posing while decorating cookies, Easter 2008

    Thank you Richardsons for having us over for egg-painting and cookie decorating! We had a great time!

  • Ye Olde Man

    On the same night as the Eastman Party Store commentary, Lila, Eva and I were at a restaurant. I have Lila bring her homework in to work on after dinner. She had some books to read, so she read to us. The story was a fairy tale and there was an inn and an innkeeper…

  • What do you look for at a party store?

    My daughter Lila has learned to read, and so when we’re driving, she comments on signs she reads. Yesterday evening I was driving Lila and Eva by the Eastman Party Store, and Lila asks, “Daddy, you see the Eastman Party Store?” “Yes,” I replied. “So, what do you think you’d see in there?” she asked.…

  • Child-like logic

    My friend Adam has been delving into philosophy of science lately, and re-honing his formal logic skills. So, to bring some contrast, here is a conversation with my daughters this evening. Scene: It’s a hot day, and we’re pulling away from the drive through at Wendy’s, having just picked up a lemonade for Lila, 6,…

  • Photos from Christmas up in Chassell

    The girls and I spent Christmas at my parents’ house. Here are some pictures!

  • Where does chicken come from?

    We were just eating our dinner of mac and cheese and baked beans, and Lila saw the piece of pork in the beans. “What’s that?” she asked. “Pork,” I said. “Do you know where pork comes from?” So ensued a conversation of how ham and pork are meat from a pig and how hamburger is…

  • Lila painted this in Photoshop CS 2

    Lila (my five year old daughter) painted this line art using Photoshop CS 2 on the Mac laptop I have from work. Yes, I I’m bragging a little. She used the color-picker, paint bucket, eraser, swapped the foreground and background colors a few times, used the Undo command and generally used the basics of the…

  • Swimming in Superior

  • I miss my girls

    I was walking through campus back to my apartment yesterday afternoon. Children and parents were playing near the ducks by the Administration Building. I found myself scanning the crowd for my girls, hoping they would be there so I could see them. Of course they were not there. They would not be. After work today,…