Spring brings

Rainbow pants, playground swings, and a troupe of invisible Muppets.

I wish I could see the Muppets.

Easter dichotomy

PEEEEEEPS!

Portrait.

The evolution of Dr. Eva

Back in November, for no particular reason, Matt ordered a set of Muppet Babies books off of Ebay, and we gave Eva the books for Christmas. They were the first gift she opened, and as soon as she saw “Piggy Visits the Doctor,” Christmas was essentially over. Why did we think she would want any [...]

Beware of the truthful toddler

Are you worried your ego might be overly inflated? Do you feel you need to be taken down a notch? I have the solution – spend some time with a two-year-old.

In January, my kind friend visited us at the beginning of her third trimester. About the second day into her trip, Eva made the [...]

What are you reading?

The other night Matt asked, “So what are you reading right now?”

“Well,” I said, “I’m trying to decide between two books. A futuristic Cinderella story about a cyborg or a historical fiction novel about Japanese-Americans in 1940′s Seattle.”

“I know what I would pick,” said Matt. Cyborgs, obviously. If you look at my Library [...]

Toddler street style

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Sometimes: when you haven’t updated your pictures in a month… and your holiday cards went out in January… and you spend all your time working on other people’s WordPress websites… it’s just too much to get caught up.

So forget the holidays and look at these pictures I took yesterday!

It cracks me up that [...]

Family of Muppets

Two weeks ago we purchased the new Muppets movie soundtrack. I already have most of it committed to memory. One week ago we took Eva to see her very first movie. Guess what that was? This week we are having dance parties to “Me Party” and we have a new topic of conversation:

ALLEGRA: Eva, [...]

Remodel week

To be exact, it’s been more like “remodeling three months” or (as it feels) “forever remodeling,” but we’re just now getting to the big, exciting things.

If you looked closely around the house, you could see it was coming. Like the other day when I walked by the fruit bowl and thought, “That’s strange, there’s [...]

Halloween in Wonderland

If you asked Eva any time in the last month, “What do you want to be for Halloween?” Her answer was, “A queen.” Said with grave solemnity.

Now, Eva did not understand this question at all. She probably still doesn’t know what happened last night, except that our street was filled with kids in costume, [...]

Pumpkin and olive oil

Is baking with olive oil trendy? I’m coming across the most amazing recipes this fall that use olive oil instead of butter or vegetable oil.

First, you must go make Fine Cooking’s Olive Oil Pumpkin Bread. I’ve been looking for a standby pumpkin bread recipe for years, and this is it. I’ve made it three [...]