inspiration (II), or the power of TV commercials

the TV was on in the background, playing "when Harry met Sally" or some other girls' movie. nobody was really paying attention. then this happened on the commercial break.

next thing you know, Ella goes "cupcake? cupcake? cupcake?" and "cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake!" walks over to her high chair and "cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake! cupcake!" well you get the idea.


so...

here she is helping with the cupcake liners:



...and about an hour later, satisfaction.

inspiration

i saw this flower on one of my walks back home last week.

i thought it could have been a good inspiration for the mobile that i crocheted for Mina (had i seen that flower prior to crafting). maybe a similar flower inspired the person who made up the pattern. who knows...
taking the picture with my phone inspired me to think about maybe getting a smarter phone. i like the phone i have, even though it's so old that they don't sell accessories for it anymore (e.g., an extra charger). the camera isn't great (but hey, i have a camera -- it's not that old) and getting the pictures off the phone is an operation.
i would buy an iPhone if it didn't come with a monkey on its back...

last of the fall

the last leaves are falling off the trees, and it smells like winter.

Bunny for Amit

one of my latest crafting projects:

for Amit's 3rd birthday!

18 months

growing growing growing!

Ella grew 2.5 inches since her last checkup. that's about 7mm a day or about half a cm a week!! yikes!

(Ben says: "i can't believe that doesn't hurt". i agree.)

she's back on her own growth curve (which is still way above everybody else who is her age).

Hebrew Fridays

It occurred to me that Ella realizes that "open/close" and לפתוח/לסגור mean the same things. I also realized that Ben is doing ALL the heavy lifting in hebrew.
so to force me to speak some hebrew at home, we're initiating a new house policy:

Hebrew Fridays

on fridays, we are allowed to speak only hebrew!
see how that goes.

(yes, that includes the scroogim, who were already cursed at in hebrew this morning)

latenight

ella was still awake in bed at 10pm tonight. any bets on when she wakes up in the morning? i take the 6:30-6:45 window.

Trick or Treat!

Oct 31, 2010

It was the first Trick or Treat-ing for both Ella and me! we had lots of fun chasing the dinosaurs (aka - Peter, Nicole and Dan) down the street and climbing all the stairs in their neighborhood. Ella was more into the stairs than the candy. She even said thank you to most people, and at dinner she said "theku kol" (=thank you Nicole) yayy!

tired kitty on the way home, after a long and busy day...

more pics here