Tadhg Learning to Crawl
Oh now we’re in for it . . .
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Concord Japanese American Food Festival
So today the wife introduced me to an area I had never really visited before: Concord. The reason for our foray was the annual Japanese American Food Festival. Nestled right in the middle of a residential neighborhood, the festival is primarily a culinary affair (of course), with makeshift wooden booths and a sheltered seating area surrounding a pagoda-style pavilion structure in the middle.
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Riley on the Radio
Her performing parents are so proud. Last Friday the munchkin and I caught BART out to the city to check out the open mic at Pirate Cat Radio in the Mission. BART is always exciting, but the walk from 24th street to the Pirate Cat Radio Cafe on 21st street was a little bit too far for the munchkin, she ended up riding the last bit on daddy’s shoulders.
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Clouds for Breakfast
So this morning, just after we awoke, the munchkin stood at the sliding glass doors in the living room, looked out at the sky in the backyard and said,
“Daddy, there aren’t any clouds!”
My half-awake self, confused, suggested, “Oh honey, I’m sure there are some clouds out there.”
“No, Daddy, there’s not!” with genuine dismay, “There’s NOT!!”
Uh. Come on, brain. “Why don’t we look out front?”
Her face lights up, “Yeah!!”
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The logistics of feeding
“Where’s baby Tadhg?” munchkin asked.
“Oh, he’s eating,” I explained.
In typical 3-year-old insistence on being involved, she volunteers,
“I can help feed him!”
Eyeing the big armchair where mommy was busy breastfeeding, Daddy thought fast. “Hey! Isn’t your baby hungry too?”
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