Olin discusses world affairs

As Olin grows up in the shadows of Max, he has developed a nuanced and complex world view... listen as he discusses the current political environment, using a lens cap as a metaphor:

You should (can) see the other guy...

We sent Max to school today armed with his new response to questions about his eye... and when he came home he couldn't stop saying it, thinking it was the funniest thing in the world. He probably got one laugh, and that was it. Seemed worth capturing on camera:

Slow down, Max...

So Max ended this Father's day quite nicely, with a little bump on the head, as he slipped on the kitchen floor and glanced his eye on the corner of our kitchen table (granite):

Luckily, an emergency room is literally across the street. I threw an unhappy Max over my shoulder, and took him into the waiting room, looking quite a mess.

The nurses and doctors loved him, especially when I goaded him into replying their questions about the cut with "you shoulda seen the other kid." But the doctor who cleaned up his eye, named Josh, wasn't responding to any of Max's jokes, and when Josh left Max turned to me and asked, quizzically, "why isn't Josh fun?" Good question, Max. Because everyone, really, should be.

Goodnight, Max

Well, it still hasn't been easy to get Max to sleep. But we do have some fun trying. Tonight I figured I would just stay in his room for a while, and let him babble on, thinking that he would get tired and shut his eyes, and fall into a relaxing sleep. Well, he's still talking in his room right now, but at least he is still calm.

Some highlights:

Max: Daddy why do you have hairs in your nose?

(I laugh)
Me: Because I'm an old man, Max.
Max: (laughing) You're not an old man, Daddy. You're a new man.
(I laugh)
Max: (laughing) You're not a new man, Daddy. You're a short man.
(I smile)
Max: No, no, no Daddy. I say You're a short man and then you laugh.
Me: Oh, Ok.
Max: You're a short man.
(I laugh)
(Max laughs, a lot).
Max: No, you're not a short man. You're a new man.
(I laugh)
Max: (snickering) No, no, no, you're not a new man, you're an old man.
(I pretend laugh, Max laughs and laughs and laughs, having completely cracked himself up).
(20 seconds of silence)
Max: Let me tell you a story. Max got up, and it was a beautiful day, and...

And he went on, for 30 minutes. Even though he was clearly playing me, sometimes it is those little moments that I just want to bottle up and keep forever.

tired men and puzzles

So after a night of Max not sleeping at all (long story), we struggled out of bed, and got Papa and Dickie over to the house again. Papa and Max spent about an hour doing a 100 piece puzzle, singing songs. Not the most exciting video, but the singing is worth a quick look...



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Run, boys, run!

Papa (Jim) and Dickie (Anne) were in town, so we picked Max up early from school and went for a beautiful walk along the edge of the Presidio, overlooking the ocean. Max was in rare form, and just kept running and running, pretending he was Lightning McQueen. Check him out in this video.



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Boys in the Bath

Tonight Max had barbeque chicken and Olin had a whole lot of prunes, so they both needed a bath. We decided to give Olin a full-size bath with his brother... he loved it!