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We played super heroes today. Nick said he was spiderman, I was iceman, and Jul was…Barbie. “Super Barbie,” she said. He thought for a second, “No, just Barbie.” I guess Barbie doesn’t need the super modifier. It just goes without saying.

Using Sketchbook Pro

If you haven’t watched OK Go’s latest video, I highly, highly, highly recommend it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w[/youtube] If you have children, I highly, highly recommend watching it with them over and over hundreds of times. Oh and dance. Dance like Niko and Elsie. Rube Goldberg and dancing, can you ask for more in life? [flickrvideo]http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyinwater/4427173404/[/flickrvideo]

Niko is only interested in “cylinders” or “space boulders” when it comes to play-doh. And you can only have so many snowmen vs. worms battles before it gets pretty boring. So I have been trying to step up my Play-doh skills. Here are some I’ve had luck with beyond my original forms: bowls of cereal […]

If we fell through the ice, I’m sure Sumo would have pulled us out.

Niko got a crazy amount of play-doh for christmas. When I see that many colors I think I should be able to build entire cities with it. Turns out my vision way exceeds my execution. Here is my entire repertoire of play-doh formations: Snake Pretzel (twist up the snake) Ball Snowman (three balls, stacked) Pancake […]

I’m a ski snob. There, I said it. A complete and total snob. This began at an early age. While I learned to ski on Michigan hills, I very quickly realized the glaciers had left us geographically challenged when it came to skiing. On the way home from our first ski trip to Colorado, I turned […]

For the 13 years we lived in the bay area, my wife refused to call San Francisco the city. “There is only one The City and it sure as heck isn’t San Francisco,” she would say. So now that we have dug in out here on the east coast, I can finally say, we took […]