xoxo

I love Abigail!

words update

Bath, bye-bye, boot, more, hat, knock-knock, boat, and your current favorite: Nanno!

famous!

Abigail sent me this link.

favorite

One of my all-time favorite pictures of you, Jackson. From October 2007.

baby

Starting to feel baby moving around a bit!

{little felt baby shoes from Martha}

sucker

I am a sucker for patterned wallpaper in kids bedrooms. Remember?

How about these from Secondhand Rose?




{top map picture from Cookie, I THINK!}
{second picture from frolic, from Skona Hem}
{third picture from I don't know where :(}

i'm tired

I swear I spend all day putting legos back in the lego bin, blocks back with the blocks, train tracks back with the trainset, and books back on the bookshelf. And it's obvious you take great delight in ripping them all apart, carrying them around, and leaving them everywhere. Today I found a plastic elephant on the shelf where I keep my sweaters.

ashtanga or vinyasa?

Jackson and Sammy do yoga with Jon in Florida.

oh, happy day

We just watched Obama being sworn in as 44th President of the United States. Yay! We tried to go to BAM to watch it with the rest of Brooklyn, but the theater filled up in 3 minutes. So Jamie and his friend Andy came over and we watched it at home.

{Top t-shirt from Print Liberation via even*cleveland}
{Run t-shirt from Boing Boing via Gus & Other Things-- Abigail, I hope you're staying warm in Washington!}

ah, those were the days

When you took TWO naps.

baking bread together

Remember when I mentioned that recipe for raisin bread from the River Family Cookbook? Well, last weekend we made it together. You got a little bit of dough and a few raisins to stick in the dough, but you pretty much just kept eating the raisins.

The bread was good (toasted, with lots of butter and jam) but I think could've been a lot better if I hadn't used the whole wheat flour (had run out of white flour).

curtains

The curtains in your room are entirely too long. I originally thought I would just whip-stitch them shorter, but that never happened. Ideally, they would look like this. I also love the built-in bookcase. Someday....

{image from here}

superstar!

Sooo, Ruth registered at Giggle, and while we were clicking around on the site the other day, I saw this. Guess who. It's Jackson, in the bathtub, with SkipHop's new bath toy holder.

monthly photos

For one year, we took a picture of you every month, in your crib, with a sign with the date. It was really easy in the beginning when you would just lie there and smile. Then you refused to lie down, which is why you are sitting up in the crib in the last picture. Oh yes, and there were a few months (October, November, December, January, February - see below) when you just wanted to eat the sign every time I would put it near you. 

I put them all in an accordion journal, and now we can enjoy this little record of your growth.

your favorite

Eliciting a big MMMMM! every time you see them.

{poloroids from here!}

tablecloth

The other day I got a giant roll of drawing paper at IKEA and it's been unfurled across our coffee table ever since. We draw on it all day, change it in the morning, and at night have a beautiful handmade tablecloth to dine on (yes, I know, we eat the majority of our meals on the sofa). The biggest challenge is teaching you NO CRAYONS ON THE SOFA!!! because once you get one in your clutches, you don't want to put it down.

pregnancy

Root beer float time!

{photo here}

sweet dreams

Ruth picked out this beautiful bedding for Baby Boy Jurgensen. It is so sweet.

{From Q Collection, which is where my friend and former co-worker Jonsara works!}

dona contest

One of the songs I sometimes sing to you at bedtime is Dona nobis pacem.

I just heard a thing on NPR about Yo-Yo Ma and a version he recorded of the song. He put it on the internet, and asked people to collaborate with him. He choose two winners, and will meet with them and record their versions with him. One winner was a hand-bell chorus, the other was a heavy metal band from Vancouver. Cool, right?

{cello picture from here}

molten goodness

This freezing cold weather just makes me want to turn the oven on and bake something. I've got my eye on this Molten Chocolate Cupcake recipe, but we only have one egg in the fridge. Jon, can you bring home two eggs please? Jackson refuses to put his coat on to go and get them - it's just too cold out.

*update: February 2, 2009 - - finally made it:

it is freezing here

My cheeks are still numb from the walk back from the store.This image, from ben124. on flickr sums it up. She writes, "It was freezing cold and the sheep refused to move. The frost was covering the ground and the mist was building up."

sky blue

That middle ribbon is like the color of your eyes today.

{Lovely vintage ribbon from here}

field trip

Today we're going on a field trip into the City. We'll meet Barbara at the New Museum (which I haven't been to since they moved), then go to Freeman's for dinner. Jon and I went there for our (5th) anniversary and it was great. Except I ordered the wrong drink -- remind me never to order something with gin in it! Remember? Eh! What was I thinking?!

{pictures from NY Magazine}

happy birthday, Papi Ev!

Have a great birthday, Papi Ev! We love you!

begone already!

We got rid of our Christmas tree over a week ago. Why am I still finding needles everywhere? Like in your crib......and in the bathtub??!

{picture from here}

creatures

Look at these wonderful animal creatures by the artist Elaine Bradford. Aren't they fantastical? I like the push-me-pull-you. Reminds me of the one I had when I was little.

{found on fffound}

message for jon

little guy

New doctor today. More shots. Poor buddy.

The good news is you are no longer in the 10th percentile for weight. You have grown your way up into the 24th percentile! Good job.

I will no longer consider you a little runt.

Not that I ever really did.

Some other runts in literature:

• Wilbur the pig from Charlotte's Web is a runt.

• Fiver from Watership Down is a runt.

• Clifford the Big Red Dog is a runt when he is born, but he eventually grows to be 25 feet tall.

• Jock was the runt of a litter of Staffordshire Bull Terriers who was saved from drowning by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, who later wrote about his life with the dog in Jock of the Bushveld.

• Cadpig, a female Dalmatian puppy in Dodie Smith's children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, is the runt of her litter. Thought at first to be stillborn, she is revived by Mr. Dearly.

• Babe, the titular piglet hero of Dick King-Smith's book (and the popular film based on the novel), is a runt. In fact, he was chosen for the competition at which Farmer Hoggett won him essentially because he was a runt - his runt status therefore saving his life and shaping his destiny.

{indentation from Wikipedia, image from Life}

carpe peacock

I like this print from Studio Mela. It would look nice in your room. The room that you're supposed to be napping in right now. But you're not. You are moaning. And have been for the past 45 minutes.

{seen on decor8}

two in a room

Now that I'm starting to think about two babies in one room, this great kids room caught my eye. I love the bright colors, the Jenny Lind beds, and the eclectic mix of neat things on the wall.

{Image from domino via katy elliot.}

blue sky

Yesterday, despite the cold, we bundled up and went to Blue Sky Bakery on 5th Ave, for your favorite blueberry muffins. It was about 30 degrees out. Today is colder. 26 but feels like 18. We haven't left the house today.

{Photo from here.}

baby's first word

I am officially entering, for the record, that your first word is LION. Pretty impressive, no? You can also say Mama, Dada, owl, off, up and eat.

Yes, you really did say Dada first, but I prefer to remember it this way.

{Photo from flickr. There is a whole pool called "retro lions," believe it or not!}