It turns out that even the American elementary tradition of the “diorama” has evolved over the years. This morning, Jocelyn is submitting her Book Report “Quadrarama” to her third grade teacher. It’s a pyramid-shaped 3-D portrayal of scenes from three different books, plus a fourth autobiographical corner.
Last night, we took pictures of the project, and even some video of Jocelyn explaining the work she did to complete the project. For the moment, let’s just say that her entire project could qualify as a float for the Rose Parade … more on that in a later post.
The three books were The Indian Paintbrush, Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock, and the Korean Cinderella.
If you want to see all of the pictures, checkout our Flickr pictures tagged with “quadrarama” (requires Flickr privileges to see all of them).
While celebrating Grandee’s birthday on Friday, everyone got a little bit of what they needed …
I got to sneak in one last day of snowboarding at SugarBowl for the season, Grandee got to spend her birthday with Felicia, Grandpa got the day off, and Felicia got to go to Jamba Juice afterall.
Although no photos were taken (?!), the highlight of the day was probably Felicia’s visit to Jamba Juice. Early this morning — almost simultaneously — many of Felicia’s SJPPNS preschool friends were visiting a local San Jose Jamba Juice as a “field trip” for the class. Since my selfishly snowboarding prevented her from the official visit, I asked Grandee to take her for a special visit in Roseville. Not only did they have a Jamba, but upon hearing the sob story, the staff in RV gave Felicia the royal treatment during her visit, including her own trip behind the counter to see the loading of the blender and pushing of the buttons.
As an extra bonus, Felicia got to ride in a car driven by Grandee for the first time. With Grandpa’s back hurting from too much fun recently, Grandee had to drive the cars all day. Felicia both recognized the abnormality and appreciated the variety!
It’s been called the greatest moment in sport, and everyone dreams of scoring the winning goal in the mythical Seventh Game. While no one from our family would be on the ice for yesterday’s Game Seven, I was plenty nervous enough. I did everything I could to help the team.
Jocelyn’s lunch time banana celebrated the day. I tracked buses with “Go Sharks” messages. I wore my original Sharks t-shirt from 1991. And I found a babysitter. I also Twittered a lot, just to see what that might be like. Read the rest of this entry »
Ssshhhh … Actually, it was fairly low-key this past weekend – if you don’t count all of the Twitters I kept sending – but Karen is 40. It happened quietly on Friday, and we had a number of fun activities, including brunch on Saturday, a visit from Grandpapa & Grandmama, and dessert at Willow Glen Frozen Yogurt.
Friday featured a preschool field trip to the SJPD Horse Stables, which are located right in the middle of town, about ten minutes from our house.
This is a picture of Felicia feeding Officer Ernie’s horse Little Bob. In an amusing coincidence, both Officer Ernie and ‘Bob Jr’ – same horse, two names – were also at the SJ Sharks playoff game on Thursday night, where Jocelyn got to pet the horse on our way in. There is no photographic proof, but Officer Ernie confirmed that both sisters had interacted with the same horse within 24 hours of each other.
Here’s something new: Video! I don’t know if it’s exactly what I want, but Flickr has added video uploads and sharing this week. By coincidence, I have recently acquired a Sony SR11 HD HDD camcorder. Then Jocelyn had her bridging ceremony from Brownies to Junior Girl Scouts on Monday.
The cosmic alignment is hard to ignore, so here’s an unedited video of the big moment:
Felicia was one of the featured models in her preschool’s 2007-08 program brochure, which was released last Fall, but it took us a while to get our hands on the PDF. To be honest, you have to look closely. She’s riding a tricycle, looking over her shoulder in the lower left image on the front page. That’s her good friend Luca in hot pursuit.
Luca’s mom took the pictures — actually took a bunch — and designed the brochure. Our appearance at the photo shoot was really a completely accidental coincidence during our Summer of Luca. Enjoy!
Felicia’s modeling career is also reminiscent of Jocelyn’s appearance in a variety of ads and brochures for St. Elizabeth’s Day Home back when I was the director. Hey! … it was a non-profit … I needed a picture of a kid …. and I had a kid, too!
