pea harvest

He helped me harvest the sugar snap peas which he sowed himself back in march, and then thoroughly enjoyed them in a cold soba noodle salad. And it allowed the easiest answer to date to the inevitable "where does this food come from" question. (A question that he's been repeatedly asking about every single thing on the table.)

memorial day hat

His sailor hat. One of many many paper hats being made on request these days. Wearing is frequently accompanied by a dash for the story book in which he first saw the likeness of said hat (to check for artistic fidelity, I guess). This particular order was inspired by the eleven hundredth reading of:
 A ship who holds her place.

the baby in the boy

Cleaning off my desktop today I stumbled across this: A 2 month old's sense of wonder on the face of a 2 year old. (With a definite dose of camera-awareness [self awareness?] evident in the latter frame.)

Eve's animals

A delightful surprise that arrived in the mail yesterday, all the way from San Francisco, yielded this one: "Ant ear. Ant ear! Where ant ear home?" Luckily, an explanatory book came in the box. Thanks Emily, Jeevan and Eve for making me look smart in front of my kid. And for making him smile for a good chunk of the evening. (He immediately put it together and took it apart 4,562 times.)