beach boys in the hood

EM's favorite song, barbara-ann. please do your best to ignore the very long, white and unclothed leg which appears briefly at the beginning.

bye bye baby

well, lela and EM's playdates have come a long way since their humble beginnings (here and here). still the same, lela is still petite, sweet and easy going while esther margaret is still sensitive, enthusiastic and tall for her age. other things have changed, like lela is a little more assertive, and EM thinks that walking and knowing seven words means that she is lela's mom.

mini eme

esther margaret is fond of her baby. she carries it around, sometimes she puts a blanket over it and more recently, began to feed it.

i think she is learning this from watching others and also being fed herself. however, after she finished feeding it, she did throw it on the floor, on its back, naked. i didn't teach her that.

you are about to enter the no spin zone

a fun weekend for the cousins in austin, EM followed evan around everywhere and he obliged by sharing his toys and his snacks.

ways my house might be different from yours

the dish rack consistently has a mix of something like this. pyrex, coffee mugs, parts to a masticating juicer, cow booty syringes, water bottles, baby cup and bottle paraphernalia.

 spode blue italian holding a pellet gun and measuring tape.

 bookshelf containing titles like "the prophet", "canterbury tales", "a cowboy in the kitchen" and "how to survive the end of the world as we know it".

the big applesauce

jeremy and i spent the weekend in new york. some work, some play, great weather.

this little girl stayed with her grandparents.

 we ate at talde, peasant, shake shack and taim, the best falafel in ny.

 the first night, we happened to stay at a hotel directly beside the 9/11 memorial. this was the view outside our window.

among other activities (i went to a rare book store, where i saw a first edition of whitman's leaves of grass as well as a first edition of ulysses signed by matisse) we went to the intrepid museum along the west side highway. jeremy really loves all things military, history and military history, so he really enjoyed himself.

please don't alert cps

this is voluntary confinement.