This book has taken me a shamefully long time to read. It is so good that everytime I pick it up, I don't want to put it down!! There is a pile of books to move on to, yet I am reading at the pace of a snail.
Also, I got my first library card since high school. I took OMD last week and she checked out two books. I hope to spend many many more hours there reading to my girls. This first trip, however, she was more interested in the Legos.
I have been baking/cooking a lot. I made the Bee Sting Cake by Smitten Kitchen twice in one test run (and really want to make it again) and Dorie Greenspan's Lemon Spice Visiting Cake (which is very forgiving and can be changed up many ways). The texture of both cakes are to die for. I find myself buying piles of banana and trying out all kids of recipes. Next up, this!
ALSO... little Isla turned five months on 7/5.
Isla started trying foods a couple weeks after turning four months old. She is loving everything we put in her mouth, and eagerly gobbles it all up! There followed are some constipated days, but a regimen of peach, prunes, and spinach seems to get things moving along.
Still sleeping through the night (mostly), still smiling at everyone, still chubby little rolls everywhere, and still making noises that are somewhere between a baby and a bird.
These moments are not spontaneous... O isn't too interested in cuddling up to Isla just yet. But the love you see here, a hundred percent real.
A haircut for the summer! When she walks into a room S and I do a double take. Who is this little beauty?! Where did my baby go...
Ice cream cone only please. May she always know exactly what she wants and boldly asks for it.
A weekend on the lake of Co Vien, uncle David, and Natalie... all by herself!
