Funny

Two funny things from today:

This morning at breakfast Unity took her bottle and clinked it against my bowl of oatmeal and said "Cheers!"

This afternoon, after her nap, Unity was in a grumpy mood. She told Polly "Owwie!" When Polly asked "Where is the owwie?", Unity bit her hand and then said "I bit it!"

Side dressing the garlic

sicky sick sick

Unity has been having a rough time for the last couple of days. She's got some molars coming in which makes her grumpy and sick. Nothing seems to be the way she wants it to be. This photo captures the mood:













But things aren't all bad. Uncle Bruin is visiting from the Bay Area and hung out with Unity so we could go out to dinner for Valentines Day. Here's a serious photo and our modern take of American Gothic

it fits!

Thanks Joanna!

By self!

That's the key phrase these days, Unity wants to eat, wear, play everything BY SELF!(This includes taking pictures on the rare occasions she's allowed to touch the camera.)

She has also been able to get some good snuggles in with papa, despite his "sick leg." The fractured femur is doing it's healing thing, and we are doing lots of resting at home.

The Beach

These are old pictures, from a sunny day on the beach.

Party Dress Day

While she's no Michelle Obama, Unity likes to dress up for certain days. Yesterday we went back to Tougo, the neighborhood coffeeshop where we watched the election results, to watch in inauguration on the big screen. Unity got to wear her "christmas dress" again, and hang with Hiram, Zoren, Alexa and Sophie.

At the children's museum

With Hiram and Cooper.

Under the table...

Unity and Meridian seem to think that lunch tastes better when you eat it under the table.

at the toddler gym

We love the toddler time at the community center gym!

back to the usual

Hello. Our lives here are just not as exciting as they were in Chicago, so we have less photos lately. Sorry about that. Here are some shots of Unity dressing up and reading her new book "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed" with Papa. Oh and after more than a year of attending, I finally officially joined my Unitarian Universalist church this past Sunday. Here I am being ingathered.

turnip smells like good

We are back home in Seattle, having had a lovely time in Chicago with family and friends.

One of the first things we've done has been to see how the garden has survived the snowfall. Luckily it looks like the only casualty has been the leeks, which were pretty far along anyways. So we havested all the leeks, as well as some rutabegas and turnips for dinner tonight.

Oh, and Unity has pronounced: "Turnip smells like good!"

Here's a photo: