Details

Burmy and I worked through some details today of the studio project. We went to Costco first. You can buy six pounds of gummy bears there. Burmy did and they weren't as magical as I remember them. Do you know what is magical? Mo's chocolate bacon bar. Wow. Magic. Magic with diced bacon pieces. I am afraid of going to go get the permit for the studio. It will be expensive. They will want more information than I have. I will have to return and pay more money. It will be worth it though because I will have somewhere to store the equipment I plan to procure to make my own bacon chocolate.
I have an ice cream maker. Hmmmm........

Dinner and Games

We played games over at the McBride estate. The spinach hummus turned out rad but the blueberry pork chops were disappointing. Whit and I have decided to cook every Monday at noon. Lovely.
Kendra redeemed herself with a strong showing in the Wyet Erp game.

Hidden donuts

Mary Ellen came over today from the Boyer clinic. She comes every other week now until Finn turns 18 months and then he will go to classes at the clinic. She says he is doing great and may be in the class as a 'typical' Because of his nystagmis he may be eligible to free college tuition. So life may always be a plump blur past a couple feet but you might get to learn about other blurry things for free which is really kind of great.
He spent ten minutes this afternoon moving his stacking rings to under the couch.

Science Center

Finn and I went to the Science Center today with Finn and Henry. It is sort of a child paradise with a hundred things to hit and climb on. I was excited about seeing the naked mole rats. They also have animitronic dinosaurs and even a butterfly park. There was a kid who's shirt said troublemaker is my middle name. Are you setting up a child by this shirt or is it just a shirt? His mom read her book and ignored him while he teared around the babes. I didn't catch her middle name.

Samples at Trader Joe's are the perfect size for a baby meal. Okay, two.

Cat is the winner

Finn and I went to the library today and we found this great children's story called "I want to eat a child". A baby alligator refuses to eat his normal breakfast of bananas because he wants to eat a child. When he gets his chance the child tickles him and throws him in the river. That is when the moral is learned about eating what you have. The last line is "Then I will get Big so I can eat a child." It is pretty great. There was a mother there with her son and I told her the plot and she said her son likes bananas. I told her if he keeps eating them then he will get big enough to eat a child too....you know....like the book....Is this thing on......just flew in and boy are my arms tired?

Finn said his first word and the winner is......Cat. I asked him if he said cat. I said it a few times and then he said it once more in a sort of experimental way. He was petting Nadia and said cat. Rad.

Walking without mittens

I heard something interesting on NPR last night about how people who have short term memory problems benefit greatly by taking photos of important events in the day. This seems obvious but it made profound differences in there lives. I suppose we lose so much of what we don't document. Especially if we really are just our memories. Then again, we are also what we forget.

Finn won't keep his mittens on. This makes walks shorter. I met Stewart's Dad today and he told me about all these projects from how to display a missle being launched to making truckers go without sleep. He also watched over 400 movies last year. He is pretty neat. To top it off he is English. Finn got cold on the walk and I had to carry him all snuggled in. He is getting so big for this.