New Day, New Recipe

Begin with one aunt:

Add one spoon:

Gently stir!

This was Nora's second visit to The Kingfish Cafe but her first exposure to the joys of nibbling on a teaspoon.  To make up for being too young to slobber on utensils the first round, she teethed her way through two spoons this morning.

Delicious!

Starting the Day Out Right

Step One:

Step Two:


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Five Months Old

Not pictured: the two teeth she's been sporting for the last two weeks. Go, chompers!

Inadvertently pictured: my left foot.

Weekend heat

Oh Seattle weather, must you be so temperamental? Not that we didn't truly appreciate the return of the sun, but the hot hot heat? And the high high pollen count?

Yikes!

We so wanted to enjoy you instead of worrying about a mom with severe respiratory allergies not being able to breathe/sleep.

Or a dad with some kind of allergic sleeper cell inside his eyelid that made him look like he had pink-eye (it's not pink-eye).

Or a baby who spiked a fever because her poor little December-born body didn't know what to make of the sudden and extreme heat. 

She did look cute in her bonneted Sunday best, though.

This one's for you, dad and grandpa.

I give you Raspberry Serenade-

Apologies for the sideways-ness. Still figuring out the video feature on the camera phone. I believe the essence of the piece remains intact, however...

Have You Seen My Oar?

Please return it lest my Danish fist find its way to your "face."

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Nothing? What, I wasn't threatening enough? How about I drool on you and then you get sucked into my mother's gaping maw?

It's Fundamental!

As you might expect, we're fans of early reading and take every reasonable opportunity for some quality literary exposure. Current books in rotation include (in no particular order): P.D. Eastman's Go Dog. Go!, Matthew Porter's ABC, Bruce Degen's Jamberry, Nikki McClure's Awake to Nap, Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!, Margaret Wise Brown's The Runaway Bunny, Susan Meyers' Everywhere Babies, Alexandra Day's Carl Goes Shopping, Martin Waddell's Owl Babies, Phyllis Root's One Duck Stuck and Mark Alan Stamaty's Who Needs Donuts?. Clearly, it's a heavy rotation. (Like, heavy because that's a lot of stories, man.)

Right now, obvious favorites are books with sharply contrasting images or those featuring drawings of babies, but Nora's generally pretty into the entire reading experience. Ah, the no-place-like-home feelings fostered by a cozy lap, vocal shenanigans supplied by either parent and the turning of pages. What more could a girl ask?


Oh, right: book make out sessions. Sometimes you just have to get close to the art.


Really close.

What it's like around here: