What's this? An update? Not a virus! Honest!
Jolee and Shayna spent the first warm weekend of the pre-summer season
skinning their knees. (Great, he comes back from a 3-month update hiatus and
starts off with an injury report). Shayna could care less, but Jolee, when
she remembers, limps about and points to the scrape on her knee as if it were
a major trauma.
We all went to the park on Saturday and played with Jolee's new pal Emma and
Melanie and Bill's new pal Kelly (Emma's mom). Emma and Jolee are quite a
pair of blonde amazon three-year olds who learned a very valuable lesson by
befriending a young boy named Edward, and quickly appropriating his toy cars
(two apiece). Shayna meanwhile ran around and looked cute, fearlessly talking
to a giant yellow lab named Dooley (Edward's doggy). It was quite fun, though
we had to first tell the girls not to play in the standing water of the
fountain (not yet turned on). They ignored us of course, and splashed merrily
about. We drew the line after Dooley had a drink from the puddle at the top
of the fountain and Jolee and Emma bent their heads down too to lap up some
water. I believe our screams stopped them in time.
Yesterday, Jolee went shopping with Melanie. Shayna would have gone too, but
she asked for some intellectual stimulation, so I took her to the New Yorker
festival poetry in the park. She elicited a smile from Nobel Prize winner
Derek Walcott and National Book Critics Circle winner Marie Ponsot, but was
unable to charm the great poet John Ashbery who almost drove me to tears by
refusing to sign a few books for me. Shayna said she wanted poetry, but
seemed more interested in the balloons, the pigeons and a few dogs. She can
say she was present for a poetry reading of a Nobel-winner and 7 Pulitzer
prize winners, not a claim many 14 month olds can make.
We did miss some key moments in the past few months (Shayna turning 1,
Melanie turning 30 and a big surprise party, Jolee's attempted rescue of
Elian Gonzalez, and Goblin's failed bid to win the New York State Green
party's nomination for a congressional seat.
I'm sure there's more to fill you all in on, and I pledge to be more prolific.
Ciao for now.
skinning their knees. (Great, he comes back from a 3-month update hiatus and
starts off with an injury report). Shayna could care less, but Jolee, when
she remembers, limps about and points to the scrape on her knee as if it were
a major trauma.
We all went to the park on Saturday and played with Jolee's new pal Emma and
Melanie and Bill's new pal Kelly (Emma's mom). Emma and Jolee are quite a
pair of blonde amazon three-year olds who learned a very valuable lesson by
befriending a young boy named Edward, and quickly appropriating his toy cars
(two apiece). Shayna meanwhile ran around and looked cute, fearlessly talking
to a giant yellow lab named Dooley (Edward's doggy). It was quite fun, though
we had to first tell the girls not to play in the standing water of the
fountain (not yet turned on). They ignored us of course, and splashed merrily
about. We drew the line after Dooley had a drink from the puddle at the top
of the fountain and Jolee and Emma bent their heads down too to lap up some
water. I believe our screams stopped them in time.
Yesterday, Jolee went shopping with Melanie. Shayna would have gone too, but
she asked for some intellectual stimulation, so I took her to the New Yorker
festival poetry in the park. She elicited a smile from Nobel Prize winner
Derek Walcott and National Book Critics Circle winner Marie Ponsot, but was
unable to charm the great poet John Ashbery who almost drove me to tears by
refusing to sign a few books for me. Shayna said she wanted poetry, but
seemed more interested in the balloons, the pigeons and a few dogs. She can
say she was present for a poetry reading of a Nobel-winner and 7 Pulitzer
prize winners, not a claim many 14 month olds can make.
We did miss some key moments in the past few months (Shayna turning 1,
Melanie turning 30 and a big surprise party, Jolee's attempted rescue of
Elian Gonzalez, and Goblin's failed bid to win the New York State Green
party's nomination for a congressional seat.
I'm sure there's more to fill you all in on, and I pledge to be more prolific.
Ciao for now.
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