Thursday, March 24th, 2011
After a long work day, I felt like a special dinner. A little while ago, we found a seafood market that sells some live sea creatures. So, we stopped there and I chose a dinner entrée. He was very cute and blew lots of bubbles while I was taking pictures of him. And he was delicious.
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
French toast for dinner = yummy. Also, we tested out the stroller with a stuffed elephant. It was a pretty slow day.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
31 days to go…
…so we thought we better try to assemble some of our baby gear. Here is the combo stroller/car seat we got from Ivan and Terry (Thanks, Ivan and Terry!). Dana figured out the most complicated design and only cheated to look at the instructions a few times. Now we just have to figure out where we’re going to keep this thing…
Monday, March 21st, 2011
We’ve had a lot of rain recently (spring in the Northwest – big surprise) and Salmon Creek is showing it. The creek is pretty swollen and has flooded its banks.
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Happy Vernal Equinox and First Day of Spring!
Just a little over a month to go! I am quite large, as you can see. The baby is becoming very good at lodging himself into uncomfortable corners I didn’t know he could reach. I guess this is just the beginning of him getting into places I’d rather he not…
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
The aftermath of the baby shower. It was small but pleasant and well stocked with tasty things to eat. Thank you, all for the the presents. Thanks to Else and Terry for throwing the shower! I’m sure our little Viking will appreciate all the nice stuff.
Friday, March 18th, 2011
In preparation for my baby shower the following day, I made some lemon bars and petit fours. The petit fours were a big hit at the shower, but with almond-flavored cake filled with jam and coated in frosting how could it not be good?
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Dana and I played “sound it out” Scrabble: a version of the game we invented and decided to try out. The main rule is that the other player has to be able to pronounce your played word as a real word. For example, for my first word I played “qlans” – pronounced as “clans.” At one point Dana played “xumed” and earned 46 points. He beat me by about 50 points. But I was suffering from English Major induced nausea from all the misspelling… so that’s my excuse.
