Nicholas got his first note from school last Friday for not having heeded various warnings about not rocking his chair at table time. The teacher said that he does very good work at table time but has had problems keeping his chair on all fours. I guess at home, Nicholas always used a Stokke chair […]

Wesley was just aces in his new preschool class until last week. He’s had terrible mood swings (both at home and at school), and he was just off kilter basically the entire week. I guess beside his defiance with the teachers, he’s also been more aggressive with his friends as well. We have started working […]

So after a few phone calls back and forth with Total Golf Adventures (TGA), I managed to get Nicholas into this after school program. Thanks again to Auntie Sandra for the recommendation. Nicholas missed the first session already, but looks like they were willing to let him catch up.  He had a great time yesterday […]

Be visual
Defer Judgement
Encourage Wild Ideas
Build on the ideas of others
I was in a meeting room of a top-notch design firm earlier last week and noticed these saying bordered across the top of the conference room walls. There were more, but these few stood out as most inspiring/intriguing. The meeting facilitator did look at me strangely […]

Today, Alex skipped a team get-together at work to join me in watching the boys at their lessons. Alex brought in the day’s newspaper and I told him that he certainly wasn’t gonna have time to read that with the excitement going on and all.
Wesley had such a great time last week, but […]

So I finally enrolled both kids in swim classes at an Athletic Club a distance away from our home. This place was highly recommended by my friend Sandra, and we are equally impressed by the facilities and instruction. I actually bumped into our friend Elizabeth and her two sons at our first day of class […]

Nicholas has been in Kindergarten for 2.5 weeks now, and so far he seems to enjoy his class. His teachers are Ms. Vajdos (who’s in her 3rd year of teaching) and Mrs. Wani (who only recently became a teacher after raising her son — interesting, she has a BS in Architecture and an MS in […]