Monday, March 28, 2011

Love Town

Finley's reading material of choice in the bathroom is a craft book that she picks projects from as she whiles away the minutes... This is our "cardboard village."



Sunday, March 27, 2011

Dogs, Cat and Bird

The winter won't die. The sun was out the whole weekend though and that is something to be grateful for. Craig was in Sun Valley, Idaho and we were loose, free as birds.
Saturday found us at a local and free if kind of lame dog show. She loved it and that is all that matters sometimes. Sunday we went to Baby Loves Disco which is basically a dance party for those under 7. She was so "essited!" to go and dressed as a fairy. We danced a little, made a puppet and had her face painted. It was fun but I was hoping for a lot more dancing and had a hard time letting go of my preconceived expectations and then had a small mama tantrum;)
We walked home through the park (scary forest) pretending to be Little Miss Riding Hood (me) and Grandma (her). Then we lay on the ground and I cut our two ballons from their ribbons with my keys and we made wishes on them and sent them up into the sky with the kites. She tried to chase hers for a long way. We ended up on the giant hill and rolled down. Why, now that I am 40 am I not able to stomach going round and around? I used to love that feeling and now it is just nauseating! No more rides at Coney for me. The day ended with her telling me not to do anything to hurt her feelings like... say another kid is cute. I find jealousy repulsive, apparently unless it comes from my child. Is that wrong?

Sylvester and Tweety



Sunday, March 20, 2011

Big fish and a trip to the ER :(

Yesterday we went to the Aquarium at Coney Island with Lily and Paul but did not have the best time because just before they picked us up Finley jabbed herself in the eye with her thumb and scratched her cornea pretty good. I had no idea but every 20 minutes or so she would cry about her eye. We finally just had to leave and head to the doctor who then didn't have the drops needed to detect scratches so she sent us to the hospital. Luckily all this was a few blocks from the house. Craig had to work but brought great get well presents in the night. She's totally fine today - amazing how fast eyes heal. Ring pops are terrific at healing eyes too dontcha know!

Spring!!!!!!!!

Lord know it can't come soon enough around here. We were in the backyard today and all of the kick balls that normally live out there year round were totally flat because this winter was just too dang tough.

To quote my favorite little song from Willy Wonka... "In springtime the only pretty ring time, birds sing hey ding - a ding a ding. Sweet lovers love the spring!"

Purple flowers peeking! (new favorite color, btw) "I have summer in my mouth!!"

Scenes from an erratic blogger

The past couple weeks have been a blur with all this and more while my thoughts have been mostly with the tragedies in Japan and now another war (started on the same day as the endless Iraq war March 19, 2002.)

Sigh.

Our first Saint Patrick's Day Parade.
The leprechauns were out leaving gold coins and balls on the subway and the streets.

got her irish all up!

coupla limeys

she really wanted to see the tiny leprechauns marching in the parade - so did I!

Bird sitting Darla for a week for our neighbors. I love my groovy new camera app.


another casualty of modern life, our neighborhood video store ... so sad to see this place go. it was a meeting place with real characters playing their parts in my real life. netflix can never replace that.

a favorite pastime - browsing the aisles of places like this... no more! waaaaaa!

i happened to be in the city on the night of my 13 year anniversary of living in NYC and decided very impulsively to go see this documentary about fran lebowitz. it was great - then she showed up and talked and signed books. great nyc character. great night.

The GREAT Museum of Natural History. I will never forget her face when we walked in the door.



great view from the dinosaurs on the 4th floor

Finley and Craig checking out the bears... wait, is that Grandpops?

My current favorite picture.