Holding it himself

He was very hungry, cried and had no patience. He grabbed the bottle from me and started drinking. 

Espens First Avocado

Will he like it or not?

Afternoon snack

Bruised breakfast - UPDATED

Enjoying a clementine for breakfast. She launched herself off the chair she is sitting in right there in a rage only a 2 year old can muster and hit her head on the table.

Here is another picture of her tonight, showing last mornings little goose egg in all its glory :

Hitting the bars

We went out for dinner with our friend Jonathan Friday night. Lucia was pretty well behaved, but even more so when we let her watch sesame street on my phone. Here she is pre-crankster.

The Hungry Little Lucia

When she was sick recently, Lucia dropped 10% of her body weight. I know this because when I'm getting ready in the mornings in the bathroom, she insists on playing with the scale. She's typically 24-25 lbs, and this week she dropped down to 22 lbs. Not a big deal, we know, but it looks like her appetite is back. Hooray! Here's what she ate yesterday:


3/4 of an apple
bread
section of a banana
3 clementines
6 spoonfuls of peanut butter
steak
corn
a few bites of meatballs with marinara
a whole avocado
a cup of cheerios
raisins
dried apricots
almonds

Hooray Lucia!

Weekly Things

Rituals, traditions, whatever you want to call them. We have make-your-own pizza night every week. We've started making our own dough, courtesy of this recipe. We buy the nicer olive oil, and skip the marinara sauce. We don't do tons of cheese, just enought to cover the dough. Must haves: Penzeys pizza spice, fresh ground black pepper, freshly grated parmesan and lemon zest. My favorite pizzas thought have Norwegian chevre with fresh tomatoes.

Pete likes fresh basil, which we crush to bring out the best flavor. Sometimes we get prosciutto, which is heavenly with the lemon. He rolls out the dough, then we bake them in the oven, then top them, then grill them with this handy griller which apparently is very hard to find anymore.

The best part about the night is we set aside time for each other. Yay pizza night.

Happy Anniversary to Us!!

We "celebrated" our third wedding anniversary on Friday. Why is it in quotes? Well, I've got bronchitis, again, so I was down for the count and stayed home from work. We hugged and said Happy Anniversary to each other.

We had made reservations two months ago to go to Gary Danko on Saturday night. We went here the night we got married, so it has special memories for us. Our friends Chris and Mandy, who we love dearly, are chefs, and had never been there, so we were all really excited.

The food and dinner experience was to die for. The service is amaing, Here's the menu. You choose 3, 4 or 5 courses. The two times we've gone prior we both got 5 courses and were sorry. Last night I ordered four, but we split one of them. It was heavenly, heavenly food. Being sick made some things taste weird, but everyone loved their meals, and Pete branched out and asked for the wine pairing, which involved him actually drinking red wine. RED WINE. It was a big night!! The winner was the pork belly, followed by the blue cheese Mandy ordered. Here are some pictures.

New rubber, more fruit

Went to Costco yesterday to install the new tires we got from Heathers parents for Christmas. What a difference! We haven't had rain yet, but they make the car feel very different, much smoother and quieter. Tusen takk!
I also picked up more fruit. Lucia will eat this $9 tray in a 2-3 days:

More birthday pictures

Lucia was running low on fuel by the time we brought out her cup cake. She didn't like it. She quickly ate the raspberry off the top and didn't really know what to do next.

Strawberries are hot

I am amazed how quickly she can devour a couple of strawberries. I gave her the first berry this morning and after an initial skepticism I think she's had about 5 average size berries thus far today. I just slice them in two down the middle and give it to her and they are gone. Green leaves and all.

Allergies

Milk allergies are no fun, there are so many delicious things made with milk; cheeses, yogurts, chocolate, even pizza!

UPDATE: She may not be full-blown allergic to milk, she has no apparent discomfort other than the hives. It may be that only her skin is reacting to it, and thats it.

Lunchtime

Heather invited the clan to visit her at work for lunch. We had a great time and was a little jealous of how great her canteen is.
Lucia surprised us by grabbing her own lunch out of the dish; a cracker that she started biting off.

Chillin

It's Sunday a.m., Pete's in Pasadena for a car show and I'm handling things just fine, thankyouverymuch. We got a new high chair yesterday, courtesy of Craigslist (whoo-hoo!). Here's are the full specs on it, in case you care (three reclining positions??).

Little Miss has decided that puffs trump everything, and bananas are no longer interesting. Or avocados. She ate puffs for a good hour this morning, and I was so impressed with how many she was eating and figured, hey at least she's eating. Then I removed the tray and realized where at least one-third the puffs had gone, all over her lap.

I have had some challenges putting her down for naps; she wants me to pick her up and in the past I have; I've created a monster! I'm getting better at it, and though she cries everytime, it's getting easier each time.

We're headed up to the city to see my girlfriends, and I've packed banana and oats with me for her. She'll be eating it, for sure.

I hope Pete is having fun -- it was his birthday yesterday!

Practicing eating

We had an eventful first meal here. I videotaped the first part where she doesn't understand what that food thing in her mouth is and is hating it - a lot. Seconds after the tape ran out, while I was going to get a new one, she has a geyser puke-out!
We're going to practice this some more!