Posted in oscar, stuff we like on May 25th, 2008
You’ve got to see what kind of art Oscar most enjoys. Sculptures? 3-D Art? I’m sure that some of you art school grads can help me with the proper terminology…
These are papers that were originally drawn on with crayons. After the coloring he rolls, then crumples the pieces. Finally, he’ll request a piece of tape [...]
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Posted in San Diego, stuff we like on May 6th, 2008
It has only been open for three days, but we’ve already checked out The New Children’s Museum. What a great place–we bought a membership. The museum’s tag line is “think play create” and Oscar did each of those things during our visit.
think Oscar contemplated his feelings about many of the pieces of art in the [...]
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Posted in stuff we like on May 3rd, 2008
My former boss, Walter Philips, at San Diego Youth & Community Services is doing something special that I wanted to help promote. He is riding his bike cross country to raise money for the kids supported by his agency. San Diego’s Fox 6 News is tracking Walter on his progress and daily videos from Walter [...]
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Posted in family, oscar, stuff we like on Apr 14th, 2008
Oscar is fascinated with warning signs and symbolic messages and has a particular interest in the circle-slash type signs. He sees these signs EVERYWHERE; on the road, on household products, at the playground, and he wants us to explain the signs to him. These signs usually make sense to him without a lot of explanation, [...]
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Posted in stuff we like on Apr 3rd, 2008
When Oscar was born I went out and bought a video camera with the notion that I’d be capturing every adorable thing he did and creating compelling, award-winning movies that would be the envy of families everywhere.
Well, somewhere along the road to the Academy Awards we discovered that, like most things with young kids, reality [...]
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