baby liam’s cake
below, you will find two pictures of the cake i made for chris’s baby shower, which i attended late this morning. we (lorena and i) tried desperately to match the colors of chris’s chosen “theme”, and i think we came relatively close. we had a lot of fun making the cake, too. and isaac and […]
belly scratching, by dad.
sometimes, we can get the boy to sit still for a couple minutes by scratching his belly. but, let my be clear, it’s only a couple minutes max.
two cakes
these are the two most recent cakes i’ve made. this is one i made for brie’s shower. it’s a devil’s food cake, with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream icing. learning to make roses has taken up a large chunk of my life. this is pooh. i’m taking a decorating class and our first […]
monster.
my normally independent and happy boy is gone.he has been replaced by a clingy, frustrated, shrieking, tantrum throwing boy. i feel tied to him like i did in the first three (miserable) months. what gives?
playroom
we’ve finally gotten our downstairs in good enough shape to take on the form of a playroom for the boy. his toys were getting too big, both in size and quantity, to occupy the living room any longer. we split the basement into two areas, an office and a playroom. the playroom has couches and […]
at the doc
the boy had his 15 month checkup on monday. thankfully, there were no shots. there was, however, a finger prick for a hemoglobin test. isaac was very tough for the actual prick. he didn’t even flinch. he was pretty unhappy about the finger squeezing to get the blood flowing. i don’t know if it hurt […]