Bunnies Bubbles Bouncing

Making Easter Eggs For Easter

Feel Toasty

4 Seconds A Day: April 2015

this month needs to shape up

Besides Brown

A familiar site come every spring. Now if only the yard could get some color. Any color besides brown.

Those Eggs Tho

Good Eggs

I've started making some killer eggs lately. Gotta have the feta cheese tho, and Laura can no eat that, so.....

this blog has just achieved a new low..

quick cuteness...

Pastured = Outside

we've been duped again...

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Holiday Duotone

Threw a little filter on for the day of love. Was an interesting little twist on the normal photos of Yuula wincing at the flash and the food I think is gourmet.

Happy Valentine's Day

Our Addle Brains Ensue

We had a breakthrough in home refurbishing this week that just couldn't wait another minute to make it down onto graph paper. It would've burned a hole in someones head. I can't believe we didn't think of this before. Maybe because we'd eradicate one of our favorite features on the entire house, but weighing the multitude of pros, it must be done. Now we have to decide which project to bite off this warm season. Could we fortunate to complete both? Would be able to finish one? Only the fall harvest will tell. And she ain't talking yet.

We celebrated how awesome we were at playing pretend and rewarded Yuula for hearing us say the words 'ice' and 'cream' too close in succession by heading out to the Gem & Keystone Brewpub at the foot of Shawnee slopes. We thought we deserved it. Laura & I did the sampler trio of beers, brière blanche, triple pale, and session porter, left to right, not the order we drank. Yuula had a decadent 'roni & cheese, I had the fish, Laura the steak, as we are wont to do, and finished up with some delicious desserts of a double brownie a la mode for her, a quite creative apple crisp for myself, and Yuula a toddler size bowl of some delicious chocolate ice cream. I only know it's delicious because she could not finish so... c'mon now. We were kind of stunned to hear it was Breyers. Was kind of hoping for a crunchy homebrew. We sat next to some delightful Long Islanders just in for the powders and their 2 year old Belinda, whom Yuula spent the later part of the evening running ragged thru and amongst the tables that had long been abandoned by earlier diners. That's how we do. 

Then we needed orange juice, but it's never that simple. A cartful and a blind swipe of the visa later and we were on our way home. She's brushing her own teeth and I am changing into my own pj's as I type. I'm good like that. No time to blog these days.

Probably Too Dumb For Reverse Psychology

Phone, Eggs, Dopey Face

immediately following what can be referred to as "her first actual phone conversation with mommy"

Blowouts, Baths & Burning Tongue

This was my day.

We spent the entire morning retracing Laura's steps from yesterday because she lost her check. Her very first live check after cancelling her direct deposit and it has disappeared. It could be at Nissan. It could be at the outlets. It could be in the kitchen somewhere. I think we'll never know. But that was a debacle.

Then in the last two twenty four hours both active sports teams I root for were demolished in heartbreaking and quite honestly, embarrassing losses. Mets by 9 to the Rockies last night and today the Knicks lost game one of the playoffs by 33 to Miami. This is going to sound like a bitter fan but LeBron James should be nominated for an Oscar. If that's how he has to do it to win, I hope he can convince himself it's legit.

So tonight I made some eggs and toast and gave Yuula a bath. I gooped on the new pepper jam I bought from Ross & Ross the other day. There should've been a "no-gooping" warning because I spent the next 15 minutes cooling my tongue with a glass of ice. Yuula had strawberry.

Now I wait for Laura to get home and we do it all over again.

M&M's Now! Goldfish Later

Quite The Eggs-peditioneer

Oh Easter and its eggs. Eggs, eggs and more eggs. Eggs for breakfast, hiding eggs, finding eggs, chocolate eggs, egg beer and peeps... no wonder I felt like I was gonna puke last night. But Yuula had a great time. She really enjoyed the hunt and found most of the eggs on her own. Of course once she knew that some of them contained M&M's she had some real incentive. Lots of photos so you can see more after the jump.

All The Hidden

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 eggs (some hard boiled, some soft plastic) the traditional Pepperidge goodies, some gardening tools, a bunch of books and enough bubbles to power a small fleet of Wonka-mobiles. That is what Yuula had in store for her Easter morning. And we had no idea if she'd even care. It was a risk we were willing to take. Here's a small peek at what she saw.

Thank You Everybody For Everything

We kept the party going Sunday morning and opened some gifts friends had brought for Yuula. Many new outfits, one cuter than the next and some great new cuddle buddies. Yuula's collection of stuffed animals is growing exponentially and some day she's gonna have a hell of a tea party. Loved all the new toys and baby gadgets. I think I enjoy some of them more than she does. All the handmade gifts are pretty awesome. She loves books and we got a bunch of those. Good thing I've been practicing my reading.








Thanks all for taking the time to give Yuula a magnificent first birthday.

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Also had some awesome eggs & potatoes for breakfast. Mmmm.

The Egg Hunt

Obviously Yuula was not much help in the overall search and rescue mission of the eggs, but it doesn't mean that we didn't have a hoot. I think I'm gonna start hiding things on a regular basis. Car keys, milk, toys... the spirit of Easter lives!









She wears that bonnet like a champ.