Felt Veggies from Umecrafts on Etsy
Leila can’t eat veggies yet. Not unless they’re pureed. I thought felt food toys might be a cute way to teach her the names of some foods.
It’s never too early to get my kid hooked on junk food.
The Cranberry Sauce kills me, and you’re selling a pattern?
wow lettuce!
I recently took a trip to Vashon Island to see Karen, one of my former coworkers. Karen offered to show us the best of the island, and I took her up on the offer.
I didn’t know much about Vashon, except for 3 things:
1) It’s very rural
2) You have to take a ferry to get on the island
3) Alex Borstein lives there
One of the highlights was a trip to the Monkey Tree Cafe, a vegetarian restaurant in the heart of Vashon’s small downtown. If you read the reviews on Yelp, there are lots of complaints about having to wait in order to get a table. This is true, but to be honest I find this to be a phenomenon with almost any good vegetarian restaurant, from East Coast to West. My theory is that there just aren’t a lot of really good vegetarian restaurants, which very simply leads to a bottleneck whenever it’s prime time for eating.
The waiter really cared about us. For example, I ordered the cherry soda. He said, I just want to warn you, it’s sweet. That’s cool, I said. He said, just checking, but it’s sweet, like cherry life savers sweet. OK, got it, I’ll take it! We had a theory that one other customer ordered it once and gave this poor guy a hard time.
I knew what I was going to order instantly. The fig and gorgonzola sandwich. Here it is:
Fig and gorgonzola sandwich
It was good. It showed thought on the part of the staff to try and come up with a good sandwich. However, there weren’t enough figs in the sandwich to balance out the cheese. (Could it be because fresh figs are expensive and were possibly out of season?) Gorgonzola is a very powerful cheese, so leaving it as the main flavor without other flavors to properly balance things out can be unpleasantly overpowering. But everything was very fresh, the salad crisp, and the soda sweet.
View from western edge of the island – thanks for the photo Mike!
My thoughts were going in a thousand directions, so when I found this page on How to Create a Personal Manifesto, all my ideas started to coalesce.
Halloween’s over, but check out Maggy Mason’s nautical-inspired costumes for her family: Masons of the Sea
Life with Leila can be difficult sometimes, but I’m nowhere near here yet. Is life with a toddler really that bad? I guess it puts troubles with a 3 month old in perspective.
Our daughter is only 2 months old, and she already has a boyfriend. His name is Rodrigo.
He’s near her changing area, and can make her smile almost instantly. Did I mention he’s a cartoon sticker? Sure, we feel a little jealous but we haven’t tried to make them break up.
I have a lot of affection for my little girl. She’s still tiny, cute, and cries a lot. Her name is Leila.
I also have a new appreciation for cooking. It can take a bit of practice to cook with a baby around, but I’m starting to get the knack of it. I’m starting off with very simple meals that don’t take more than about 10 or 15 total minutes to prepare. Well, and we’re getting a lot of Thai take-out from the place 2 blocks away. More to come soon!