Monthly Archives: June 2015

Class Pictures

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We’ve updated Julia and Joe’s school picture galleries to include their class photos from this past year. Interestingly, Julia’s teacher, Mrs. Kammann, left Booksin for another school at the end of the year. That makes four teachers that have been driven to make a career change immediately after having our kids in their classes. And if you count teachers who left within a couple years of exposure to Julia or Joe, the number increases to seven. I’m not sure how to interpret this data, but it seems as though drawing the assignment to teach one of our kids might be hazardous to one’s career prospects.

As an aside, I just noticed that I’m not able to locate the kids’ class pictures for the year before last. Either they both managed to miss school that day, or the photos have been lost in the chaos that is our home. We’ll do our best to track them down.

Christmas 2014

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Here at long last are our photos from Christmas of last year. I feel like I should have a few amusing anecdotes to share, but it’s been so long, and the intervening months have been so hectic, that I can barely remember what was happening last December.

There was a band concert—I remember that much. Joe was on better behavior in band during the spring semester, so he actually got to play with the advanced band this time. We’re definitely not out of the woods on that front yet, however: he continues to have intermittent (actually, that might be overly generous) problems managing his frustration when things don’t go just right, whether he’s having trouble with his clarinet, working on math problems, or playing baseball.

After Christmas proper, our college friend Mason swung through town with his wife Kathy and his kids Dylan and Ava. Joe and Dylan really clicked at our Rice get-together last summer in Texas, so Joe was really excited to see him again so soon. Dylan even asked his dad to buy a bag of barbecue potato chips to share with Joe on the way into town; if that’s not a real friend, I don’t know what is.

The Harts crashed at our place for the night, and we headed down to the Monterey Bay Aquarium the next day. The aquarium has added a number of computerized, interactive activities, so the kids were enthralled. They even seemed to enjoy the fish, as well.

Gallery: Christmas 2014.