Jan 25 2014
Chess tournament at Medina Elementary on the east side. This was Alton’s first tournament so Nikola was very supportive. The kids did well with a couple of wins, although there were so many students from the chess-heavy schools that attend these tournaments that West Woodland tends to be edged out just by sheer numbers. Alton …
Jan 21 2014
Nikola did her first public poetry reading tonight. Robert Parks is one of the teaching assistants in the school. He’s been very helpful for Nikola, supervising her daily temperature checks and tutoring the students in math. He also gives music lessons. From time to time, he has hosted performance nights for the West Woodland kids …
Jan 21 2014
Alton has decided that he loves the Finnish metal cover version of Happy Together as played by the Leningrad Cowboys.
Jan 21 2014
For some reason, Alton has glommed on to soundtrack music from fight movies through the decades. His current favorites are: Eye of the tiger – Survivor. From Rocky III (1982). Apollo Creed: “See that look in their eyes, Rock? You gotta get that look back, Rock. Eye of the tiger, man.” You’re the best (Joe …
Dec 29 2013
Whereupon we find a great parking spot, ride the monorail downtown, check out the gingerbread houses at the Sheraton, and watch a break dance performance by the Massive Monkees in The Armory (formerly called Center House). Nikola decides that she would like to learn to break dance.
Dec 23 2013
Nutcracker season has finally finished. 2 rehearsals per week for 2 months (which ended up conflicting with gymnastics Star League) culminating in 5 performances in the Arc School dance auditorium and 2 performances in the Leo K Theatre at the Seattle Center.
Dec 14 2013
Alton’s new favorite songs are the music from the “Mortal Kombat” movie and the title music from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, which happened to come up on random playlist in the car. As usual, he was full of questions about the Mortal Kombat universe, about which I was intentionally vague. “Why were the humans taken …
Dec 08 2013
Skating (or rather, scooting) party for Connor’s birthday at the All Together Skatepark. I don’t think that our kids will be diving into any extreme sports any time soon. Alton did ask about parkour once (which I imagine he would really enjoy), but that may have only been because we had just watched a “jedi …
Dec 01 2013
Just as our tummies were packed full of turkey and cranberry jelly, this weekend was packed full of holiday activity. Nikola and Shaynee ran in the Seattle Kid’s Marathon along with Monse and lots of other kids from West Woodland (and Seattle, for that matter). Meanwhile, in the forest… Alton and Popo & Gung gung …
Nov 29 2013
We convened on Camano Island for Thanksgiving dinner this year. Popo and Gung gung have been were staying for the week. Also joining us were our friends the Richardsons (Grace, Anna, Laura, and David) and Eckert-Sidman-Mariscals (Susan & Monse). The kids had a great time playing together, even though the ratio was 4:1 girls to …
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