See Calvin's new page: Calvin's
Picture, Poem and Other Page
Watch a short video from Calvin's
recent (January 08) violin concert. Calvin is in the orange fleece center
right.
(This takes a few minutes to queue up before it starts streaming).
Known Aliases
the
person who never walked the seven seas
little bo pete
See Calvin's new artwork below.
Injury
Report
All of you probably
know that Calvin is prone to injury (as well as to melodrama). Here is a
list of recent injuries as told by him
(you can see documented evidence of those incidents that are shown as links
[underlined] below):
Updated July 2007
> scrapped
and bruised both knees (bike accident); with
the sad face (Fall 2007)
> bruised and cut knee
(Spring 2007, Hanover)
> scrapped face
(Summer 2007, Hanover)
> tripped and scrapped hand on pavement
(Pawtucket, RI, summer 06)
> scrapped wrist (close-up
-caution: not for the faint at heart)
Updated
May 2006
> cut on knuckle (can't remember where/how)
> bruise on forehead (slammed head on table
at restaurant)
> sprained foot (can't remember where/how)
> pulled 4 muscles (various mishaps)
> cut on finger
> Stomach and knee
scrapes while rock-climbing at camp (summer- 06)
> glass cut on hand (Dana and Shawn's house
at Thanksgiving- 06)
2005
> sprained ankle (which hurts really badly)
> hurt hand (Jenn and Jerry wedding
weekend- 05)
> cut/bruise below right eye (Jenn and
Jerry wedding weekend- 05)
> plantar wart on toe (not an injury but it still hurts- you really don't
want to see this)
> cut on foot (undocumented but witnessed)
> cut above right eye (DC Trip- Spring 05)
> cut on knee (DC Trip- Spring 05)
> scrapped finger (undocumented and un-witnessed)
> 3 scrapes on back (undocumented and un-witnessed)
Fun Quotes and Stories
(2/07)
I was talking with Calvin over lunch and he said that he did not think he had
tooken any video during our recent tip to Boston. I corrected him and
told him that he should have said that he had not taken any,,, and he
said that he knew that but that is how he says the word
"taken".
Before
school one morning, I told Calvin that I would pick him up for a dentist
appointment. He looked at me in shock, and said "this is totally
unexpected."
Calvin
is really in to creating stories. He recently wrote a story with
Steve. Check it out on his new story page.
We have been talking about New
Years resolutions around the new year. For some reason, Henry and Calvin
kept calling them New Years revolutions. Calvin said that his New Year revolutions
were to become better in basketball and reading.
Henry said that he wanted to make Two Year revolutions because they would last
longer.
___
I was recently pulling the kids in the toboggan.
The game is for me to run, twist, spin or otherwise try to knock them
off the sled. They fall off and
then I run and they try to catch up and jump back on.
And so on. The thing is,
this is very tiring, so I take breaks and just pull them along for periods.
During these times, they are always begging me to run and start the
game and I usually stall for time to catch my breath and hope that my lungs
stop burning. After begging to
start the game over and over, I told Calvin that I would start again when they
least expected it.
After a few minutes, Calvin said: “Dad, we are least
expecting it”
___
Calvin and I were setting up a game of checkers.
I told Calvin that I always forget which color goes first.
I said that I thought that it was white but that I would check the
directions. I looked at the
directions and said, yes, white starts first.
In classic Calvin fashion, he said: “but how do you know
you are right?”
I said: “I just read the directions.”
He said: “What if you read them wrong.”
___
I told Calvin that it was a good idea to know his phone number.
He said: “Yea, because when we are teenagers and you guys
are old and probably dead, we will need to know our phone number.
___
Calvin was upset about something and I said: “Its not the
end of the world.”
Calvin said: “Where is the end of the world?”
So, I told him what the “end of the world”
phrase
meant and he said: “yea, like that’s ever going to happen.”
___
On the way to school one morning, Calvin said that he was
really looking forward to art class (he loves art class).
He went on to say that art was like a combination of music and gym.
I asked him, how so and he said: “well, it is like music because you
do it sitting down and it is like gym because it is a workout for your
hand.”
___
I asked Calvin what he
wanted to be when he grows up. He
thought for a minute and said: a pizza guy (the guy who delivers pizza).
At the dinner table that night, I asked him to tell Denise what he told
me. He was afraid that we were
going to laugh so he made us all pinkie promise not to.
Denise and I were both worried that Henry would laugh anyway.
When Calvin told us he wanted to be a pizza guy, Henry, completely
serious, said that he didn’t think it was funny at all - he thought it was a
great idea. Denise, meanwhile, burst out
laughing because anyone who knows Calvin knows how unlikely it is that he will
be a pizza guy! Check out the poem
Calvin wrote with Steve and Henry.
Artwork
Calvin draws all the time and although he did
Cowboy Twinkie on a whim (and it does show off his real drawing skills), I
thought it was a great little character.
Calvin has been
tracing with a new art set he received for Christmas- check these out:
Favorite
Web Sites
Spiderman
- this is definitely Calvin's favorite site right now.
really
new - Favorite
Animals
Calvin's current favorite
animals are:
> sperm whale
> duck (mallard)
> turkey
> monkey (gibbon)
> buffalo
