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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Totally Visceral, Totally Viral

This is the best! I have no idea what they are saying, or what the ad is for, but it doesn't matter one bit - what a hoot!

Click here to watch the video.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Quincy @ One Month Old

Quincy-

I got to babysit for Grant and Quincy (and Nora too). I can't tell you how amazingly perfect Nora and Grant were. Truly. I got to pay full attention to Quincy - giving her a bottle, changing a poopy diaper, singing her a song, cuddling her up. I got a nice "infant fix".

The two preschoolers kept themselves busy with pretend play (saving the princess - Nora, of course - from a dragon), and lots of building blocks (they pretended they were bugs and they were roasting them up to eat them). There wasn't any hitting, pinching or hair-pulling! I think those two are turning a big corner in Cousin-hood.

View the photos on Flickr.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Teresa's Tubular Tablecloth

Teresa made this super fabulorific, amazingly spectabulous tablecloth for Nora this weekend. More importantly, she made the table under it! You have admired the lovely handmade piece of furniture in Nora's room, no?

We went over to Oakland, met Teresa at her house, headed over to "The Taj Mahal of Fabric Stores" - Poppy Fabric - and picked out the oilcloth fabric and dingleballs.

We spent the afternoon hanging at the Hardy's, and Teresa pretty much just threw this together for Nora.

We have already had one dinner picnic on it, and it works perfectly. Better, it cleans up in a snap, and looks divine.

Thanks Tess for your amazing handy work!

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Happy Birthday Lotus!

Click to enlargeClick to enlarge Miss Lotus (a former coworker at Mortar) had a little get together at Mars bar, and Nora and I stopped by...

It was a "rockstar" party, so Nora wore her "My mom is a rockstar" tee, but we pinned a Nora-hand-written note over the top replacing mom with Lotus, because Lotus truly IS a rockstar.

Nora didn't last too long, as it was pretty loud, and I gave her a Shirley Temple before giving her food. I should know by now... but I got her out of there pre-meltdown.

Unfortunately, I didn't avoid the meltdown -- it DID happen, once Nora realized we weren't going back to the party.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Lotus! We had fun at your party (while Nora lasted).

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Just Say YES!

I found myself laughing out loud to this article, "Just Say Yes" written By Sandra Tsing Loh (on the Wondertime website). It begins:

I'm not going to sugarcoat this, and anyway, I don't know the politically correct wording. The fact is, I have an impossible 4-year-old.
I can totally relate to her plight (too strong a word?), and think I will have to try her technique on Nora sometime soon!

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I just found this web site to deal with my huge junk mail problem: GreenDimes. For a dime a day they get your name off direct mailing lists and keep it off, and plant a tree for you every month. So if you want to stop your mailbox from overflowing, and save some trees, take a look at GreenDimes. Note: I have noticed a HUGE reduction in the amount of junk mail I have been getting!

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