Category: Harold

We were playing around with Google Translate after doing a few lessons of Duolingo. After lessons, Harold likes to put in different, funny phrases and then listen to how they sound in lots of different languages. It can be belly-laugh material! Here’s what Harold dropped in there today: Donald Trump is a big poopy head,…

We live about two miles away from Harold’s elementary school, where where have to cross a freeway and negotiate four traffic lights and three four-way stops. There are enough obstacles such that we give him a ride to school every day.<br />n<br />nSometimes, I wish we lived further from school. Some days, we end up…

We made a hand written card to Harold’s third grade teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week. Here is what we wrote:<br />n<br />n<em>Dear Miss Bethune,<br />nThank you for stepping in this year and being Nicholas’ third grade teacher. We were happy to hear you would remain with us through the end of the year. We consider…

I mentioned the other day that we were going to go to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk for Harold’s birthday weekend fun. Well, on Friday night, as I described, we made it to dinner and a movie with grandma Christina. But on Saturday, things took a turn for the worse.<br />n<br />nWe had everyone show up…

Harold turns eight today. I said goodbye to the seven year old last night, the little guy that has been so fun to hang out with. This morning, I woke an eight year old, who looked very much the same as the guy we left yesterday.<br />n<br />nI got the chance to wake him, informing…

<a data-flickr-embed=”true” href=”https://www.flickr.com/photos/theseanster93/861107013/” title=”baseball glove”><img src=”https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1034/861107013_798f740a01_n.jpg” width=”320″ height=”213″ alt=”baseball glove”></a><script async src=”//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js” charset=”utf-8″></script><br />n<br />nHarold has a big, fat, plastic bat. We’ve been using it to hit balls around the backyard and even at the park.<br />n<br />nHe also has a toy Spiderman baseball glove, which I’ve been using when pitching to him, though the…

Today, Harold went in for his first orthodontist appointment. So begins a next chapter in his life, the one that spans from little kid to adolescent.

Today is the second to the last day of Kindergarten for Harold. Bittersweet: Nice to see him moving on, developing, growing and all that good stuff. But at the same time, where is my Harwood Hills preschooler? (Answer: Long gone.)<br />n<br />nMama Rita was down sick with a tummy bug this morning, so I went…

Poor Harold. He was at a friend’s preschool graduation party on Sunday, and he had a blast. Until the very end, that is. You see, he really, really wanted the shiny balloon that said “Happy Graduation 2014”, and the parents of the grad graciously gave it to him. The dad even tied it to Harold’s…