Tag Archives: Sophie

The hydra was vanquished…

…and its delicious guts were enjoyed by all. Sophie’s birthday party — with a Greek mythology/Camp Half-Blood theme, since that’s been her most recent obsession — went off fairly well this weekend, after pretty much a full week and a half of preparation; Christy and I are thoroughly wiped and the kids (since it was […]

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On hobbies of all kinds

So that “Bones” Kickstarter I pledged a while back finally arrived, and I’m realizing that it’s going to take me about three and a half years at the current pace to finish painting them. (On the other hand, my kids seem perfectly capable of “finishing” two minis in about fifteen minutes, so we could be […]

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And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest…

My beloved cat — mostly named Cat, although his given name as a kitten (passed down to us from my wife’s college roommate, who gave him to us) was Ignatius, and who spent a year or two being called Mr. Twinkle when Sophie was a toddler — died on my kitchen table this evening, while […]

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A pleasant evening on Lake Wingra…

We spent last evening at a small exhibition of watercraft, where Sophie bravely sampled everything they had to offer — from canoes and kayaks to standing paddleboards — despite her own fairly extreme reluctance to get her face wet, and Christy even managed to talk Haley into a tandem kayak. This was a bit of […]

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Irish eyes are smiling

The girls have really taken to St. Patrick’s Day and after some online browsing of leprechaun trap photos, Haley spent an entire evening turning a cardboard box into a St. Patrick’s themed wonder.  Sophia added the ladder and sign (and had hoped for a trickier trap) and crafted a note in code, mentioning that she’d […]

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