one-year round up

Favorite foods: Hummus and crackers, sunbutter and rice cake, meat, cheese. Bacon. Toast. Sometimes fish, sometimes oven-roasted broccoli ("trees"), sometimes smoothies. Sometimes yogurt, or bananas. Strawberries and blueberries for biting only. Maybe licking.

Favorite books: The Backyard Birdsong Guide, Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders (it has a character named after your dad!), The Little Engine that Could, Mother Goose, the Runaway Bunny, Baba Yaga and the Stolen Baby.

Favorite songs: Twinkle Twinkle, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Frere Jacque, Wheels on the Bus, and any of one-thousand lyrics inspired by daily minutiae set to those tunes. (Recently: "Moo sheep moo sheep that's a rainbow", "don't be scared, I love you" and "Dr. Truckee, Dr. Truck")

Favorite friends: Oddie (or Addy, or Audi, depending on who is spelling), Marsho, and any number of babies, all of whom are simply called "baby". Also Bear, Moose, Ladybug, Piggy, Chicken, and Other Chicken.

Favorite games: Pretend to sleep, change baby's diaper, and 'chase you'.

Number of Teeth/Pounds/Inches: All of them/30/almost 35.

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the summer of the picnic

Loves Coca Cola, picnics, and Vladmir Nabokov

The long Fourth of July officially kicked off the summer of the picnic.

It started out with some backyard shenanigans with Erin and Eddie and Ramona and friends, then two days in a row throwing out a blanket at Laurelhurst park, then last weekend we ended up at Jameson Park with our awesome neighbors and their same-age-as-Lucy son Luca.

Sunshine! Sandwiches! Tannies (graham cracker brownies)! Fountains! Plaid rompers! Heart glitter sunglasses! Does anyone doubt that this is the way to spend summer days?

If you live in Portland and have a kids and haven't yet spent an afternoon at Jameson Park in the Pearl, you are missing out. So you should plan a picnic. And you should invite us.

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friday cute shot