Happy Halloween!

See, I have not been exaggerating about the eating dirt. She LOVEs it. 
She was an kitty this, her first, Halloween, and I don’t this she is going to wear white again till her wedding day (if she into that stuff.) By the end of our Halloween playdate extravaganza at the park, she [...]

Bird Brains

While Harper was helping herself to some dirt and fall leaves in the front yard this afternoon, I figured I start tiding up the yard.  I began getting the leaves out of the flower beds when I came across this bird skeleton.  I suspect it was not Trixie’s handy work, because the scull was in [...]

Chocolate Sugar Cookies (light)

I’ve had the biggest chocolate craving lately.  It must be my belly can sense Halloween is coming.  I didn’t want to buy candy early, though, for fear I’d eat it all before the tricker treaters came (like last year.)  So, I made this recipe for light chocolate sugar cookies.  I love love love them; crispy on [...]

Ice Cream for Voters

This is a video our buddy J.M. Finholt made staring Harper’s Godfather, Dave Leamey, reminding you to vote.
If war and the meltdown of our economy were not enough to get you to the polls, Ben & Jerry’s is giving you ice cream to vote!  I wish I had known, because I [...]

Rice and Lentils

This was a few weeks ago, but I just got around to posting it.  It was the first time I gave Harper homemade baby food.
It was a recipe I found in ‘What to Expect The First Year’ for rice and lentils.  I was so proud of myself, such a heath conscious, thrifty and well read [...]

Oh, Thanx. You Shouldn’t Have.

Trixie brought me a gift this morning.  
Last year, for Christmas, we got some very large bells for her collar, in an effort to save the birds.  They were very Christmasy sounding bells, and very loud.  Very very loud.  Every time she moved, which is often, the sound of slay bells would ring thought out [...]

Do You Like Crazies?

Skylar and I have been together almost four years now, and we still have a lot to learn about each other.  For instance, I did not know that when he says Crasins it sounds like he is saying Crazies until this weekend in the check out line at Target:
Skylar: (motioning to the display by the [...]

Who?

Would you like a hand full of dirt, little girl?

Yesterday I made cupcakes for Skylar’s work.
Today, I used the profits to get Harper Roll-a-Rounds.  She saw them at a play group, and she was all, “Mom!  We have to get these!  I LOVE them!  LOVE LOVE LOVE them!  Roll-a-Roundsssssssss!”  O.k., she can’t talk, but she did chase after them.  They seemed to hold her [...]

A Bad Day in Spanky and Baby’s Relationship

This is Harper’s alien baby doll.  It is really just a baby dressed up like an alien, not a baby alien…  At least not to my knowledge.
In other news, Spanky (our cat who was named Skanky before we had a baby) swatted Harper for the first time today.  She has been grabbing fist fulls of Spanky’s hair [...]